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retirees, regardless of position, should get a set amount. It really should not be more than they made per year while an employee - many systems let them game it by popping overtime on it, unpaid vacation, and the like. There are cops with 100k+ pensions who retired at 50!. There are politicians with even bigger payouts, judges making over 200k in retirement.

There needs to be a "retirement" value for government employment that results in a good retirement but not extravagant. Sorry, but once you start passing the fifty thousand in retirement your getting a bit much. I would cap any retirement at median for your region, with minor and I mean MINOR boosts to cover medical for special circumstances, like really hurt in line of duty.

Go look at the bad retirements that people are paying.
Expelled after finding security flaw student leading new startup Outpost Travel
The problem with having a niche market of people who buy your system because it is cheap is that it's not a particularly profitable thing for developers to target compared to a more serious console where you can charge $50 for a game or a smartphone/tablet where you make your money by selling many copies. So all of the best games end up being ported to other platforms anyway, which reduces the incentive to buy an Ouya unless you have the might to lock developers into exclusive deals.
That might help now, though I suspect it won't help much, but at release, and for a long time afterwards, the Surface was $599.
and... the 8" win8 tablet is here. The first reviews are... consistent!

http://www.seattlepi.com/technology/businessinsider/article/...
Anyone else habitually clean off &utm_* query strings before sharing a link anywhere? Feels so dirty leaving them on.
No,you can't. I assure you as someone who lives down here than downtown PA is very expensive, as is Mountain view - a decent 1b is 1,700 at least if not more.the peninsula is cheaper in our places - not PA/ MV
Functional Programming and Stupid Examples
Downloading executables remains a blessed way of downloading stuff for the Mac; I use Audacity.

I wish more free software developers would pay the $99 tithe to get their stuff added to the Mac App Store though. (Any free software guys here? I'll pay the $99 for the first one to email me at cjensen@acm.org)
Hackers use Microsoft Office vulnerability to sneak into government networks
http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#deleteaccou...

Rumor has it that you can make an appeal to PG.
I knew a veterinarian who gave herself the vaccine. She claimed to have done research before doing so, so I think the answer is yes.
I own a Surface RT and don't particular like it. I could list all of the reasons (it's slow, most of the software is bad, the corners are sharp, etc) but I don't think they have anything to with why it didn't sell well.

Probably price is the only thing that matters here. Price and exposure. You can't compete with name brand -- no matter the merit -- if you can't beat them in price.
Hi derefr!

That's exactly how we operate, and we're working more on the "analysis" end of things now (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/jun/25/booz-alle...). Would love suggestions on how we can do it better.
You're probably going to have to go a step further; something like Sift Science or MaxMind MinFraud along with automated SMS/voice verification of a unique phone number per trial. There isn't a carder in the world that wouldn't love to use a VPN service that offers free trials. They want the VPN to use as a proxy when testing stolen credit card numbers on other ecommerce sites... and they have plenty of cards to use to sign up for free trials with you first.
No one buys tablets for office productivity. The only audience where that is an issue is salespeople, but that's a sliver of the tablet buying market.
Office 2013 is touch optimized.
GitHub Helps Clueless Coders Go Open Source
Fidelity is mostly actively-managed, as is T. Rowe Price. They may still be owned by small investors, but they are not index funds. Rather, they're "mutual" funds.

State Street and BGI are 100% indexed, and Vanguard is 90% indexed.
iKnife: Knife that sniffs out cancer cells could be ‘game-changer’
From the article: "But it’s worth noting that names of third parties are already redacted from documents produced under FOIA."

So it would appear that the names are already redacted
CloudBees intros Eclipse Toolkit 2.0 for developers
Well the good news are that now we could get a SurfaceRT really cheap considering that sooner or later all the retailers would try to dump their stock.
That would be another variable to account for and isn't the a standard test for viscosity. Also with pitch being this viscous having a centrifuge capable of spinning fast enough and long enough would be troublesome.
Office 2013 (desktop mode in general) is most certainly not optimized for touch. Its touch targets in menus, dialog choices, radio buttons and ribbon items are teeny tiny on my Surface Pro.
Eh, I think you have to separate the students and faculty from the admins. I don't think many MIT students have ever been proud to be associated with the admins, because they do boneheaded things pretty regularly.
The Skyrim mod that's also a job application
This is the type of advice I have encountered so far, and it isn't helpful to me, no offense. I have been doing these things for the past 13 months, and I don't know what I want to do. My parents told me they are taking me out of their will, and all I get is threatening messages from them when I talk to them. They want me to go back to what I was doing before and be miserable. I left because I felt I wasn't good at it, the work bored me to fucking death, and I didn't admire anyone I worked with. I looked at the CEO, president, and VP's, and I was terrified of ever ending up as that type of person. I would be miserable.

I have dreams of being wealthy because I do. I want to have things, I want to have complete freedom and control of everything around me. I don't like flying on commercial airlines, I don't like having to live in places I don't want to live in, or locales that I don't want to live in.

I know that if I could start a business, I could make it successful. Hell, I've already managed to live a hell of a life, do things most people will never get to do, and still have over a million dollars in my accounts with no debt or obligations. But now I want more, a lot more. I made all this and did all this while working at my old job. I don't want to do work that I don't enjoy anymore. I don't HAVE to. I want to find something amazing that will make money and be fun. I'm just not sure how. I've been searching, and maybe I'm doing it wrong. I know there is someone out there who can give me a little guidance while I get my feet under me. I am trying to find him/her.
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It doesn't have the same "install and scaffold quickly" effect that Foundation offers, but I've recently been using Bourbon Lite.

http://neat.bourbon.io/

It's along the same lines as what you suggested above.
How much sympathy do you have to parents whose homes get broken into who used poor-quality locks on their front doors. After all is it not their responsibility to provide for a safe home for their kids?

Sigh... I suppose the victim blaming is a necessary consequence of a community that actually thinks about how to defend against attacks...
I recall a wise man once said, "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."
The Bitcoin Foundation Takes a Nap
The Importance of Open Source Licensing Realized by GitHub
Valgrind is still working on getting OS X 10.8 support working.

Each platform will have strengths and weaknesses. For example, the upcoming stuff in XCode which will let you see power usage have no parallel in Linux. If your stuff is portable to Mac and Linux, you get to use both Valgrind and XCode to improve your code.
I'd expect Detroit pension funds to be the bigger bond holders of Detroit bonds... No bank of note will have much exposure, the banks aren't stupid.

Any one know what kinds of perks Michigan as for state munis? In colorado you get a tax break on them.
Not that you are wrong about the writing, but the writing on the article is on par with similar content churn based sites, which has more to say about the collective reader base than the writer, in my opinion. They shouldn't be ashamed, they are writing exactly what they were asked for by their editor.

I turn off adblocking on long form well-written articles in order to support real writing for just this reason, though I wish there was an automatic way to do that.

edit: yes than, not then, and also churn, not church. That's what I get for writing on my phone.
Is it bashing if its deserved?
Why should unions have any political zorch? Why must collective bargaining require any amount of state intervention (besides, obviously, protecting individual liberty and property)?
There is no evidence of death threats in that link.

Equating them to the leaders of the hitler youth may be an extreme interpretation but is not threatening.

My understanding is that the two prosecutors in the Aaron Schwartz case have reported receiving threats -- One email gloating at doxing him, one postcard of a guillotine and one of them had their facebook account hacked. I've always assumed that people in high profile jobs like that receive threats on a regular basis, and that given the unpredictability of 4chan / anonymous that the number and types of threats were unexpectedly tame.

http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-swartz-prosecutors-thre...
Rental markets tend to be highly sensitive to the rate of occupancy. When markets become tight, the wealthiest renters bid up the available units. Then other landlords raise their rates because "that's the going rate".
Surely you mean "than." I blame the collective reader base of your comments though, so don't sweat it.
That seems likely, but I'm very disappointed that we haven't heard anything at all.

I remember that Hal Abelson was in charge of preparing the report, and he has taught ethics classes at MIT. I'm hoping that he makes some statement about the report at least.
foiamachine developer here. this is a great idea. thanks so much!
How does this get on hacker news -_-
FYI LiMnO2 is the chemistry used in a lot of coin cells (any battery that starts with "CR" is one, such as the CR2032 used for BIOS RTC/SRAM)

It's commonly used for items that will use very low-power for a very long time, with possible high-current pulses, which makes it great for alarms (it's also a common chemistry in "lifetime battery" smoke alarms, for example).

Larger lithium primary cells are a fire-risk (and are not permitted for passenger carry unless installed in a device).
I think the distinction is not about "VC-funded IPO-or-bust" startups, but rather whether the startup creates significant value add

Low-value-add businesses are affected strongly by those factors. If value add is high, those factors matter much less.
Thanks for the clarification –- I misspoke. The distinction I was trying to draw is that this is most likely not prop trading.
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TSA searching valet-parked cars at airport carparks
It's why Anonymous is ill-suited to go after government and intelligence agencies: it's trivial to infiltrate, and there is effectively zero way to tell who is actually behind any particular action.
Anyway, I went to a recruitment event for Yahoo Mail recently. They had a lot of people from Oracle who came, ancedotally, but their back-end is Java, so that isn't hugely surprising.
Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8
Rent was amongst the highest in the country at the time. Almost everywhere else was cheaper.
What Philz Coffee Can Teach Us About Product Design
Would the university really be considered a separate third party given they usually hold and administer the funds for a grant and the researchers tend to be affiliated with them?
It has to do with competition for scarce grant resources, and some researchers being cutthroats. Some of them are surprisingly petty, too.
nvidia's supported xrandr for some time now.

I can attest, monitors used to be my worst nightmare in Linux and now I laugh when people haul that lame excuse out right after "But DRIVERS!? and GAMES?!". I can't remember the last time I had issues - in fact, the only issue I had was easily worked around in Linux because of bad monitor EDID data.
My spacious 28th floor 1BR apartment (~600 square feet) in a highrise in downtown Chicago cost about as much as my studio (~430 square feet) in a satellite city 15 miles away from Manhattan.
Oh that's neat, thank you! (although I may pay the Ouya premium because Towerfall looks really fun)
What gives you the impression that it is childish rather then just working with a system they can not change?
> Can someone actually explain to me what Cygwin does internally? Doesn't Windows already implement POSIX?.

Used to. Subsystem for UNIX Applications is now deprecated.

Cygwin runs on top of Win32, and its library functions call into Win32. Thus, it is strictly a compatibility layer.

Whereas SUA runs alongside Win32 and does not depend on Win32 APIs. Thus, it is theoretically a replacement for Win32, for people who wanted to run a UNIX environment on top of the NT kernel. Practically, however, it was used primarily for application porting.
If Apple's claims about iMessage and FaceTime are true, Apple is to be commended. And far be it for me to be one of the naysayers. But it's a bit of a joke to store the messages in the clear in iCloud.

As for Google, I expect them to charge a fee to make up for lost ad revenue. I already pay for several Google services.
> They shouldn't be ashamed, they are writing exactly what they were asked for by their editor.

By the same logic, Yahoo employees shouldn't be ashamed either; they were just doing what management asked them to do!
I, for one, have zero moral qualms about pirating something that isn't being produced any more. I'd even argue that pirating abandonware is a net-positive to society--it keeps the past intact (much like a museum or a library) and as a bonus, the people that work on the (usually open source) emulators get to dig in and understand yesterdays technology.

There's pretty much zero downside.
Living in Austin sprawl is equivalent to living in Mountain View and commuting to San Francisco. The only portion of Austin that really reminds me of SF is downtown, otherwise, particularly north of 183, you might as well be in LA or Houston.
Nvidia's drivers now support xrandr.
This particular battery is a somewhat old battery technology commercial LiMnO2 batteries date to the 70s
Oh, then fuck FSF and drop LGPL. It's their product after all. If they can get a license change, they can get another, can't they?
It's not super cheap, unfortunately (well, apart from the used models you can get), but the Open Pandora would nicely fit some of your requirements. It's excellent for emulation, among many other things. It also plays many Android games pretty well.
Parsing The $900M Surface RT Writedown
MIT got where it is by being a crucial instrument of the military industrial complex, in many years the largest non-profit defense contractor in the country. They know which side their bread is buttered on.
What's normal severance at a startup?
13-year-olds [...] particularly gifted [...] spatial relations skills, the ability to visualize and manipulate two-and three-dimensional objects.

Hah! True story. As a 13 year old, I met my first girlfriend over a 28.8k local BBS link and, other than occasionally meeting in person, we generally proceeded to create raw Povray source files with constructive solid geometry using plain text editors, and exchange the raytraced renderings. They weren't super complex scenes, but they were complex enough when you remember that rendering a single frame took half an hour!

PS. I often wonder if shoving kids in to boring boxy apartments (as is presently happening the world over) is not depriving them of spatial stimulation... a forest is infinitely more spatially complex than the built environment.
I think the interesting question here is whether the 6% drop in cost-per-click is the beginning of a problem for Google.

Is the market justified in worrying about a drop in the average cost-per click, even when the number of paid clicks is rising?
'Invisible' Wetsuits Confuse Attacking Sharks
Yeah, that shit pisses me off so much. I'm fucking surrounded by people using Macs - it is a complete monoculture and it drives me crazy.
It's not very nice to go after the people in between as being the people you really want to attack. But I guess if you can't reach them directly maybe you can make it irritating to work for them at least. I've always wondered if there is a way to make it impossible for the NSA and its ilk to find employees.
The "makers" of the games (i.e. developers) don't get the money for re-released games, just the publishers do. It does not cost them anything, it's full profit and they own all rights to their distribution. I don't think it makes it more reasonable to support them for making fresh, full money out of completely outdated games.
The shares instantly drop in price because the price of a stock is based on the perceived value of the company. A release of new information can instantly change the value investors perceive a company to have. Shares of public companies like Google are being bought and sold every second, so a change in perceived value is reflected instantly in actual sale prices. However, buying and selling isn't necessary to change the perceived value of a stock. The perceived value of a share of a private company could change even if nobody is buying or selling shares at the moment. So, a change in stock value isn't necessarily related to a change in the number of shares people want to buy or sell.
Religious science types always strike me as odd. There is nothing bad about thinking about things in a new way, and nothing bad about writing a little paper about it - maybe they want to generate excitement, maybe they want to make sure everyone knows they came up with this first, who knows.

But getting an idea out there is in any case a net positive.

Scientific breakthroughs don't start with double blind studies; they start with an idea. To say it with Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowing a language versus getting creative with it is different. Perhaps start with criteria for a project larger then a todo app. The project would need to deal with databases, session / account management, tracking input/output, maybe some calculations, parsing, multiple forms/screens, and maybe reporting, anything else? But would that all make it a bit much for it's worth to an employer?
Opinion: RT was an interesting strategy and most people in Steve Ballmer's shoes would have taken the same bet. It came at a time when Microsoft didn't have a tablet to compete with iPad. So, what did they do? They converted their existing Start interface to occupy the entire desktop into Metro Mode. If you think about it, the desktop was always a huge waste of space. After they converted, Microsoft had couple of major issues - if they allowed for tablets running legacy apps or forced x86 on tablets, people would ignore the new interface and continue building legacy apps. The new metro was going to be used by their phones and game consoles in a one screen, 3 devices policy and in case they didn't have metro apps, their phones and consoles would suffer. Windows was always the driver - it had to be. So, they decoupled desktop from their new interface and put it in a new set of devices supporting low powered ARMs.

And as such, current Office is never really meant for Touch. So, I am guessing they were forced to bundle a pseudo-desktop along with RT to support Office which is also a cash cow. Would they have loved to remove Desktop completely? I would bet so.

Maybe Microsoft foresaw that x86 prices would fall, power would increase and battery life would increase etc., but they had to continue down this road and take a hit because they needed metro apps. My bet is that they were willing to take the hit. I don't think anyone in Microsoft had the impression that RT would come save the day. It is a necessity because of their new direction. If RT designs in app interest being generated, I would say that it did it's job to some extent. Of course, I don't know how this will play out but according to me, these are some very daring decisions being played out at MSFT and I would say better than Google.
There are better ways these companies could force the government to change: refuse to do business with it. Of course that won't happen.
Me too :)
I guess I just expect it to be up at the top, like every other website.
it's trivial to infiltrate, and there is effectively zero way to tell who is actually behind any particular action.

That is kind of the point, but you are right in that Anonymous' nature works against lending much credence to their motives.
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Donations matter, I hope. But I don't know how many regularly-donating alumni will follow through on their pledge not to give until this case is resolved, and proper action is taken.

It's hard to do, and it feels lousy. The alumni who feel closest to this case are probably people who spent a lot of time making stuff. When they donate, they're more likely to target their money at helping other people make stuff, by donating to things like the Edgerton Center [1], MITERS [2], or SIPB [3], or even just giving money directly to dorm governments (my hall had a PIC burner sitting next to the toaster on our kitchen counter and a couple of oscilloscopes you could check out from the front desk, courtesy of some slush fund somewhere).

When these alumni donate, they're not doing it to get their name on a plaque, or out of some kind of broad-based affinity for the school, they're doing it to help current students have the same kind of experiences they were able to enjoy. And if they stop donating, it's pretty easy to see the culture of creation suffering. People will keep making stuff, but it'll be a little more difficult, require a little more dedication, and it'll wind up being fewer people. That's a significant price to pay to stand on a principle.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/edgerton/
[2] http://miters.mit.edu/
[3] http://sipb.mit.edu/
When religious architecture looks like a farm animal
Yahoo probably wants to hire devs.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compel

You can be compelled by the US government to do things you might not like to do. Google can either comply since they are a US based company, or not. The benefits of compliance outweigh the downsides of not complying.

>secret unethical, most likely unlawful and surely unconstitutional request?

There has been no evidence that what the NSA is doing is illegal. It has congressional oversight and approval.
I'm as upset as most people on here about the NSA's actions, but this is just foolish.

To Congress members, this is going to feel like an attack and a threat. People are going to want repercussions for those responsible, and now there is fresh fuel for any proponents of PRISM-like monitoring.
I was in the same boat. Switched from mixed windows/linux desktops to Macs around 2007 or so. Switched back to Linux a couple years ago, though, and honestly it's as much an out of the box experience as OSX ever has been. Mint in particular is stellar out of the box.

You do have to be somewhat careful of the hardware you buy, but arguing that having to buy exclusively Apple hardware is somehow better than exclusively buying, say, IBM hardware to maintain compatibility with your OS is pure sophistry.
Microsoft Wants Developers To Start Creating The “Companion Web”
I stopped reading PZ Myers quite a while ago - he's almost entirely negative, and doesn't seem to be able to do much more than flame other people.

eg. his little diatribe on Haekel. Ok, Haekel was wrong, but the initial processes behind embryo development must still be pretty old, right? Nope, apparently, even mentioning Haekel == wrong, and your whole argument is wrong and you're stupid and should be embarrassed, etc, etc.