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I disagree with the premise. "Organic" search will not exist, barring a radically new business model. Any search engine with the resources to produce good search results must carry auction-based advertising in order to fund the quality of their results.

Good luck finding that business model, and being able to reap the profits from it.
That's an unexpectedly forthright explanation of how the situation played out (even if you think he's been leaned on by US diplomats).
You suggested (paraphrasing) that if it was such a good model, surely others would be doing the same thing and making a killing doing it. What you effectively said there, is that you believe that the market for company management is an efficient market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

There is a joke that says an efficient market economist is walking down the street, sees a $100 bill on the sidewalk and doesn't stoop to pick it up. If it were real, he says to himself, someone would have picked it up already.

I don't believe that there is necessarily an efficient market in management. Nor do I believe that VCs, press coverage, parties, etc have no effect on many company's strategies. The VC business model relies entirely on their ability to purchase a certain distribution of company outcomes, what some might call a "go big or go home" type of management. That's fine, I have no problem with it.

But that doesn't mean it's the only way to run a company successfully. And the author is trying to point that out.
Seriously this. And if people don't think prism has already been used to stalk people with dissident viewpoints in America they might have missed a few years of news about targeting 3rd parties, the tea party, the occupy movement, etc.
I have viewed the video more than once, and it appears that the man is antagonizing the police.

Not a good idea in today's police state.

He knew that he was antagonizing the police, and this is why he placed the dog inside the vehicle.

The man is obviously not blind, and even a partially blind man (me) is able to see that the rear driver side window ot the car is opened enough to permit the dog's exit from the vehicle.

That the dog exited the vehicle from the passenger side rear window illustrates the extent of the dog owner's negligence.
The dog had more than one choice of egress from the vehicle, which the dog owner failed to act upon.

I don't like this story any more than you do, but the death of the dog is the owner's fault.
seems stackoverflow though this question was too fowl for them and asked me to push it over to codereview -> http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/28015/how-does...
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Strangely enough "hipster" doesn't quite line up with heat maps for other words in SF, NYC, and Philly.
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I was in the military and I couldn't stand getting up early. At one point, I was consuming close to a dozen cups of coffee (including the NoDoze) per day to stay awake and try to be productive, in my 20's. It didn't work well and I have stomach problems as a result.

My peak is 2:30 PM to midnight. On days when my company lets me work from home, that works out great. So a couple days a week I get stuff done, the other three days I'm drinking 4 cups of coffee to deal with getting in at a reasonable hour (fortunately they aren't too bad about this) and to deal with morning and afternoon traffic.
This, the US gov't has plenty of backdoors and sleazy dealings to circumvent a speedy trial by ones peers. It is why most criminal sentences aren't heard by juries, because the system is rigged and intentionally bullies the accused into taking plea bargains.
I think he's saying that some people just happen to trip over a successful idea and become successful despite themselves - completely by luck.

Personally, I favor the old adage "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
It's easy to do the right thing using arbitrary-precision arithmetic and a random-bit generator. Basically, generate bits after the decimal point until the possible range for the final random number does not include 1/n. The number of bits you have to generate doesn't depend on n: the expected number is 2 bits[1]. If your random bits are biased, that's easy to correct too[2].

[1] You always need at least one bit. After the first, each additional bit divides the space in which 1/n can lie in half, so it's just 1 + (1/2 + 1/2(1/2 + 1/2(...))) = 1+1/2+1/4+... = 2. It's a lot like arithmetic coding[3]

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin#Fair_results_from_a_b...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding
> None of this stuff matters at all and the fact that anyone was surprised by PRISM's existence is nothing but foolish, in my opinion.

I think that is a mistaken position to be in. It assumes a couple of things -- that people who disagree with the program do so because they are doing hidden illegal things and now those would come to light.

Another assumption is that the government makes no mistakes, is not malicious, can be trusted with such information, and now or in the future it will not misuse it.

This is all coming from the same entity that tortured people while talking about human right and freedom. I am not sure trusting it to "not do the wrong thing" this your history is a rational choice.

At this point trusting it with all this information is no better than trusting a toddler with a box of matches and a can of gasoline.
Apps are much less complex than websites that need to work on many different browsers, especially with iOS

I can't really agree with this. I did web dev for ten years before I got into iOS and iOS development is far more difficult. You have to deal with threading, pointers, tight resource limits, crufty persistence APIs, flaky network connections, etc etc. A typical web app is far easier to build and maintain.
As Yakko Warner of the animaniacs put it "Early to rise and early to bed…Makes a man healthy, but socially dead"
Let's hope for your sake that the government does not ever decide to criminalize the viewing of porn.
You must have missed the law in Germany that went into effect.
You provide payment using the card. The card expires and can't - supposedly - be used beyond the expiry date to make a payment. There is no expectation of continued payment beyond the expiry date.

Guessing the new expiry date in order to exact a payment is taking an unauthorised payment. It can't be authorised because the card-holder can't authorise payments beyond the expiry date.

Taking a payment that isn't authorised by the card-holder by guessing some of the details of a card against the expectations of the card-holder appears to be fraudulent to me.
Even better 'Quantopian wants to make money by driving investors to use its service'
Still up on /r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut - http://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/1hg9xa/haw... - and probably loads of other places. Memes will surface about it, etc. I agree that it is bad; I just think that Reddit is the perfect forum for such expositions. HN will just turn into Reddit if it goes down the "high emotional content" route, imo.
I'm neutral on Feedly but am amused to note that Reader is a) still working and b) has stopped giving me a daily warning. Either it will implode later tonight or Google has made the most discreet u-turn ever :-J
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We've just launched the open beta for Adventurize, which is a new advertising platform for Minecraft that allows advertisers to display ads on servers through a plugin. The website is built with MeteorJS, and is currently open for server owners only during the 1-2 month testing period.

You can read more in the official launch post: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1874092-adventurize-laun...
While technically still possible... unions don't really work like that any more. But even if I did, I would be adding to the problem not helping. No group should have the power the unions hold over their "members" and the companies. Many people are only in a union because they are required to be in order to perform the job they do. Some of them would rather work than strike. But they don't really have a choice. If the union members have a majority vote to strike, then they strike. And the strike is little more than extortion. For those BART riders that didn't have other means to get to work... they suffered. For BART riders that were able to drive, traffic was a complete and total cluster fuck this morning. This also effected everyone else that doesn't even ride BART but had their otherwise normal commute turned upside down. The union knows this so they have no problem being unreasonable pricks until BART finally gives in to the compromised extortion. I would never be in a union. We don't need them any more. (assuming the were ever needed... which is probably debatable)
I think you may be mistaken. High-frequency trading is becoming less profitable as an industry, but algorithmic trading in general is most definitely not.
Most of the time I find people who miss TA miss nuclear arms races. That glorious 10 minutes of screen shaking in the late game when hundreds of nuclear missiles fly back and forth and we get to see who built enough strategic defence.

(None of which is relevant to your job posting. Sorry.)
While I don't disagree The correlation between a higher income and having a more flexible schedule to allow you to keep to the night-owl schedule is easily explained on the job traits front rather than the personal traits front.
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Fuckin' H street man.
Hong Kong is part of China.
The repo on my local box goes by the name of "Sledge". The name is still TBD, hoping for an inspirational moment.

Its a specialized 'cloud in a box' type stack. Primary goal is to allow for scale applications that don't normally scale well inside a single machine, and scale them out until you hit the limits of your machine. Perfect examples are third party binary programs that assume you can only run one instance, or processes that need a lock on some kind of interface or file in order to function. I've had a few interested parties that want to see how it pans out.

Release... well i plan to demo it out in public for the first time while I'm at Pycon AU in Hobart (not a presenter just going to be there & showing anyone who's interested)
Not to mention the sheer convenience of one less thing to type--especially helpful if you are on a mobile device, where typing is still a pain vs. on a full keyboard.
As far as I know, that is normal. Putting month first is illogical.
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Are you aware that refusing to engage with children undergoing temper tantrums is a standard technique for avoiding having them become more intense? (The calm you're frustrated at could well have been a deliberate act.) Have you also considered that tantrums are a phase that can last some time? (Think months. If you're lucky.) And finally, being on an airplane is going to present a lot for a kid to get frustrated about, and therefore many opportunities for unexpected tantrums even in kids who might be beyond them in other contexts.

Having been on both sides of this equation (with kids who were, luckily for me, better behaved than most), I have far more sympathy for the plight of the parents than I once did. Yes, I know it is painful and frustrating. It is for the parents as well.

Is it better to let the kid do things that might annoy others for the purpose of trying to avoid a worse tantrum? Or try to control the kid at the risk of having an explosion. If the worst happens, you know you can't realistically try to explain the basics of tantrums to all of the non-parents trapped in the plane with your screaming child. Or, even worse, the parents who were lucky with the genetic draw and wrongly credit their child's good behavior to their wonderful parenting skills. (I have a sister who learned this one first hand. Her third was by a different father than her first two, and she quickly lost all of her inner smugness about how wonderfully behaved her kids were.) You are going to be as trapped as they are, with the knowledge that they blame you and have no clue.

I understand if you've not been there. But it is not as simple as you think. Really.
Nothing less expected from Reddit.
He will be respected by his technical employees if he does. Its not compulsory though.
Wow, now I really want to know what Biden said to Correa.
You are misunderstanding my argument, but it's late and I'm not getting into a Mac vs Windows debate in 2013, though you get points for making me almost consider it for a second.
Oops! I stand corrected. I just asked my city engineer acquaintance about the APC and I have it backwards. The APC destroyed the road buttons by crushing them just by driving over them especially when the vehicle turns. Apparently this button destruction kept happening repeatedly and was expensive to fix. He did say that the police and fire departments in Redmond have absolutely the best of everything and that their budgets are incredible.
I'm not sure why you'd ever want to put something password-derived in a cookie--even if its sha256'd 8 dozen times, then scrypted, etc.

There's just no value in using the password as a basis. Why not instead just generate a random, unique token?
I'm curious about the submission throttling that you have experienced. You have 4 submissions from the last month (last 30 days) and 9 submissions for the two previous months. What is being throttled?
A friend of mine is working on something remarkably similar at http://QuantConnect.com
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The bitcoin market cap is still only ~1.5 billion? Good thing there aren't any eccentric billionaires out there with spare change and a good reason to want to mess with "the Winkelvii"
How is it better than sleeping late at night? The atmosphere is serene, you don't get disturbed, and the sky doesn't turn lighter... which to me is an indication that chaos is going to begin now.
All true except that you are greatly underestimating the risk of private companies collecting data that ends up affecting your life.

Start by thinking of FICO scores or credit histories. Similar concepts can be applied to eligibility for all kinds of 'privately' provided parts of society - job screenings, auto insurance.

Imagine vacation rentals where the owner can screen people out based on political affiliation... the are any number of ways in which private institutions can quietly 'hurt your life' using all this personal data.
i've had my ass grabbed hard before too, by women. the first time it happened i was 14 years old, in high school. i remember it vividly - one of the senior girls grabbed my ass and said i was cute, and then ran off. it happens routinely when you go out to bars. someone will grab your ass in the crowd. you don't have to be a woman for this to happen to you.

i've also had my penis grabbed and fondled by women. female fingers run through my hair against my will (i have long black hair), and physically harangued by a mob of women.

i'm not a classically attractive person - it's just that being 'fun' opens you up to this sort of thing from ALL people.
Though there is no need for dissonance. Openness comes in degrees: Android is pretty open compared to IOS. Firefox OS seems more open than Android. The FSF would point out something like that the Firefox OS devices still use binary blob video drivers.

Without the basic hardware/software ecosystem that android has supported it isn't clear that Firefox OS could (so easily) exist. Modern smartphones have substantially reduced platform openeness and freedom compared to the desktops of old, but the ratchet doesn't only click one way.
>Why We Spy on Our Allies (2000)

>>your economic patron saint is still Jean Baptiste Colbert, whereas ours is Adam Smith.

We Are All Mercantilists Now (2008)

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/09/we_are_all_mercantili...
The problem is that Europeans today feel as though they are under the US's economic bootheel. They see their leaders pushing austerity policies at the behest of US headquartered financial firms and they see their markets opened to the US and perceive that US markets are obstacle laden so far as their access is concerned.

These perceptions may be entirely factitious; but they are substantive in that they are shaping the political discourse sub rosa across the EU.
And don't forget the red blotch of shame where Ballard has been getting gentrified into the ground. Hipsters here have more overlap with yuppies than most places I've lived.
What you call brutal torture is certainly nothing anybody wants to experience, but the implication that it is legally unprecedented or obviously illegal is not correct, particularly for someone who is both subject to UCMJ and is reasonably deemed a suicide risk.
It's clear that many folks don't understand how the price dynamics of ETFs with underlying securities operate.

A share in an ETF is a fixed basket of securities. If the price of the ETF differs from the basket, the ETF share creation/redemption mechanism drives the price back to the fair-market value of the basket.

If the price of the ETF share is too high: Market participants will short the ETF and buy the underlying. They will then take the underlying to the ETF admin, who will then create shares thus closing out the short.

If the price of the ETF share is too low: Market participants will buy the ETF and short the underlying. They will then take the shares to the ETF admin, who will then redeem the ETF share for the underlying, thus closing out the short.

Without the ability to short the underlying, there is no mechanism to maintain equilibrium in the share price of the ETF.
Oh you're welcome. I always thought solitary was given for maybe two weeks for really bad behavior or something. I didn't get the impression you thought it was good. If anything, I thought perhaps you were a bit optimistic about our judicial system; on the other hand, perhaps I'm a bit cynical. Either way, if he ends up in the US, I certainly hope you're right.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5975704
"If I violated US law and I had means to apply pressure in a way that would reduce the risk of getting imprisoned and convicted in the US, I would apply that pressure in any way possible."

Works either way.
I think social confidence has a lot more to do with personality than it does with school experience. By all means consider public school, but don't think of it as a panacea for social problems, especially if your kids aren't on board with the idea. The benefits it provides are available elsewhere, without the bitter fruits of tedium and frustration.
Ask HN: Do degrees really matter?
When going into the tech/startup scene do degrees really matter?

I'm about to get my BBA but have the opportunity to stay an extra year and get my CS degree at the same time. Some have said for me to pursue it as it helps get a foot in the door, while others recommend to setup a GitHub or a personal site and show off things that I have built.
Maybe, but i'm excited by http://www.typography.com/cloud/the-fonts/, where they mention that all their fonts have: real small caps; old-style (text) figures; full range of individually drawn (not interpolated) weights; ligatures; even some old-style non-lining symbols like dollar signs.

If there are free web fonts that have all those, they are hard to find. (I don't even know how to use old-style figures ordinarily, although I'm not an expert in these things. But they imply that they have some custom (probably hacky cause that's what it would take) solution to some special glyphs "Cloud-typography includes tools for implementing advanced typographic features, and delivering them even to browsers that aren't designed to support advanced typography"; )

But yeah, clearly the market is people who care about things like in that list. Some of which are _very_ rarely seen on the web right now; if this leads to them being seen on the web more, it may increase the number of people who know what a 'non-lining figure' is, and then increase the market of people who want such things. And hopefully increase the number of free fonts that have em too (although you can have all those features and still be a poorly-designed font), as well as lead to actual standard ways to do things like text figures on the web.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures
This is just....sad. Sad as an abused monkey without friends.
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The author should really check out saltstack (with or without vagrant).
> Yes, and people have called making a lot of money "killing it" before, too, but that doesn't suddenly make murder okay. How's that for a simple exercise in logic.

i can't even follow your logic here.