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> Dog the Bounty Hunter in pursuit of Edward Snowden

Correction: s/Edward Snowden/unearned publicity/

Quote: "Dog the Bounty Hunter, or Duane Chapman, held a press conference to announce his plans to enter Russia and illegally capture Edward Snowden."

Surreptitiously?
I'm not following. Your prospective employer needs to tell you about liquidation preference obligations they have for you to value your options. The way you as an employee determine that ahead of time is to ask.
According to the article, they make about 0.35 cents per month from subscribers. Given 13 episodes per year, and a 30% commission that's $4.20 vs $17. I suspect that much less than 25% of AMC subscribers watch Breaking Bad given how bundling works so it can be argued that they're making more money from subscribers than from people buying on iTunes.
You can run this to get rid of the annoying overlay:

$('#TB_window,#TB_overlay').remove()
Is there a way to cancel an account w/o an angry blog post and then waiting for a call from PR?

I created a Windows Store account when I was a MSFT employee and it's straight up impossible to cancel it. There are circular links but no actual way to get in touch with someone.
Nuts? For being high or low?
This is broken on mobile for me. Cool demo, but what about devices other than a desktop browser?
I think the "hacking X for fun and profit" is a pretty well-known trope.
That's ABSOLUTELY true! That's the trickiest part and it's one of our challenges in our startup. It's hard to keep the balance when you want to build your own product, but also got to make some money while your product hasn't reached your desired stage.
See now THAT is an analogy that makes sense.
I organize a 1,000 person hackathon at MIT, and the entire organizing team is super-excited about using this. In hindsight, GoComm seems so simple and obvious that one wonders why nobody built it before, but I guess that's true of all the best products (Dropbox, Stripe, etc.)
Both Erlang and Go's concurrency models are strongly influenced by Hoare's work in Communicating Sequential Processes. That certainly qualifies. You appear to be interpreting "some attributes" as a deep-dive analysis into the unique traits of what makes Erlang, well, Erlang. That was never the intention, and I'm not sure what motivated this.

Actor model libraries exist in various states of maturity for Go, as well.
That's a great idea. I never organised an event but this sounds like it can come in handy.
Ask HN: Suggestions about "remote" sharing startups
Hi.
I am a freelance web developer. Last week I started working with a guy who is looking to build the core team for his startup (initially he just need a tech man who develop the app from scratch). We have good connection, so I joined to the project as the CTO. I am charging for this project the third part of I usually charge, but he also offer me the 15% of sharing, so I finish agreeing.

The main point with that is our locations, he is based on Netherlands and I live in Argentina. And the business will be focused on Europe.

So, my question are, what should I know about "remote sharing"? Is it legal? what papers do I have to request him?

Everything you can suggest me would be appreciated!

thanks
Not an ethical imperative to you, perhaps.

I think the old adage needs an update.

"The internet interprets censorship as well as annoying advertising as damage and routes around it"
> The Hyperloop would be infinitely more useful (and might actually get done) if it were from Boston to DC (with NYC and Philly stops in between).

There's already a "high speed" rail system between those points. Of course, that depends on your definition of high speed.

http://www.amtrak.com/acela-express-train

Having been on that line, you're lucky when you're going 50 mph. Having a hyperloop on those points would be insane. You could live in Boston and work in NYC.
Use a temporary, merchant-limited bank-generated credit card number. BofA calls it ShopSafe, I don't know what the other CC companies call it but they all offer it. You can set the period of validity, the maximum amount that can be charged to the "card", and close the card at any time.
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Some good ideas here, but if I had to give advice to fledging writers I'd start with one rule: just say what you mean.

English classes in the U.S. spend a lot of time teaching people how to write five-paragraph essays: one paragraph of introduction, three paragraphs of argument, one paragraph of conclusion. But outside the classroom the five-paragraph essay form is worse than useless: it's actively harmful.

For simple arguments, it's harmful because it forces the writer to jam words down the throat of their argument to plump it up so it fits the format. For complex arguments, it's harmful because it forces the writer to lop limbs off their argument to fit it into an arbitrary box. Most arguments are simple arguments, so the first sin is the greater one.

So much bad writing is bad because the writer couldn't just say what they mean and then stop. They stuff their argument with fluff like it's a damn pillow. An argument should be lean, cut, diamond-hard. Packing it with fluff just makes it soft and saggy. So skip all that -- just say what you mean, then stop.
Flagging because this isn't even close to everything you need to know, and the treatment of ISOs is overly simplistic.

As others have mentioned in the thread, David Weekly's guide is a much better resource.
I'm sorry that you don't know what it means for construction to be approved. It means the units will be built in the future. This isn't Sim City.

If you are feeling exceptionally lazy and only have time to look outside your bubble once, go to Market between 7th and 9th. The new building on 8th between Market and Mission has over 1900 units (over 1400 units net of what were demolished) and the one at 55 9th Street has 300 new units on what used to be an empty field.
> Cost is probably off by an order of magnitude, if not more. Why? Unions and other groups.

If this was done right, why would the unions would be involved with anything other than the pylons?
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After UK, Google to give away $2mil USD to 4 Indian tech-focused non-profits
Why Ember.js is a great framework for building web applications
I'm happy to pay for quality content while filtering out all the jibberish I would otherwise get by watching it on cable TV. And I don't have to pay the $100+ per month that Comcast jacked me up to with fees, equipment, and constantly increasing monthly subscription costs, which would always go up without explanation or warning.
> the actual copyright owner can get their contents reinstated

Yeah, they just need to send a counter-notice with their full name and address to a bunch of angry homophobes, whilst being gay and running a gay rights site. Easy!
Syfy determined that the same number of people would watch a movie no matter how much money they spent on it. Now all of their movies have a budget of only $1 million each, and they're still pretty popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharknado#Production
Some of these fall premises, are actually admitted to be true in the article... wtf?

Also, a lot of the quotes are not so much against a/b test, but people who claim a/b testing is a panacea, and are recommending the wrong tools to the wrong people. (ie tools based around static content to people with entirely dynamically generated content)

basically the biggest problem with a/b testing is that some of it's most noisy proponents have no idea what they're talking about. (this is true of a lot of things)
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No I don't shop in stores that I know give out coupons.

Biggest one is Bed Bath Beyond. If for some reason Amazon can't wait and I need it now, no way in hell am I buying a product from that store w/o the 20% off coupon
i agree, but the context nowadays is different. you don't often see articles about modifying the binaries of major operating system kernels.

what impressed me most is that the hack worked flawlessly on one of my 10.8.5 pre-release kernels even though it had not been tested there yet.
It includes pederasty but is not exclusive to it. A male citizen having sex with a male slave when both are adults was considered fine too. From my understanding it was acceptable so long as it was a citizen with anyone of lower class.
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Well, that's because they are primarily a retail operation. They want to have different prices for online shoppers versus retail shoppers.

I find it handy, because I can place an order online and pick it up at the store. But I usually get 20% off. Hmm...
Puppet supports a push model using mcollective. You can also just use ssh the same as ansible and use any CF tool to "push" changes.
> Chomsky would have fit right in with the founding fathers.

By today's standards, many of the founding fathers would be deemed "terrorists" or "enemies of the state [kingdom]".

A nation naturally seeks to preserve itself, so perhaps that's not surprising, but it's worth pondering for a moment.
First, I'd like to point out that his suggestion is fucking absurd. Without codes, there would be no way to discern between methods of customer acquisition (eg. is this ad more effective than that ad), especially on non-web content. Moreover, the efficacy of customer acquisition would decrease tremendously (most people respond to ads because of the promise of a discount). I don't understand how the OP believes that this is financially tenable for most sites. Codes are a fundamental aspect of advertising strategy for many companies.

Second, the notion that this is hostile to the user just bemuses me. I don't understand why this has any detrimental effects on the customer. If they are fine paying full price (as they were when they began checking out), they are free to pay full price. If someone with expendable free time would rather dig through these coupon sites, that is their prerogative. The existence of a coupon code field merely gives the option to seek out a discount. This is similar to most other forms of commerce. If I have free time and want to save money, I can dig through circulars and clip ads, or I can just go to the store and pay full price. Is it offensive to the user that the self checkout also has a slot for placing coupons? No one is forcing anyone to do anything. How is it bad customer service when a user literally isn't forced to do anything other than ignore the field if they so choose? Giving people the option to save money if they are willing to exert some effort is an unequivocal positive aspect of most sites.

This piece is just incoherent to me. I honestly don't understand why this is bad in any way.
Short answer - it isn't likely to change much.

In order to significantly affect the overall bitcoin issuing rate long-term, the hash rate would have to continue to grow exponentially for an extended amount of time - years. In reality, the hash rate can only grow exponentially while an older mining technology is being supplanted by a newer one. It happened already with CPU to GPU/FPGA, and now it's happening again with GPU/FPGA to ASIC. It will grow exponentially while everyone hashing upgrades to ASICs, but once the hashing market is saturated with them, it will drop back to modest linear growth, as the only growth will be either new miners coming online or modest, linear improvements in ASIC technology.

Haven't looked at this part, but I have a feeling that the difficulty itself wouldn't be able to go high enough to support long-term exponential growth in hashrate.
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I really like Elm as a language, although I'm not into web development. Its record syntax is just so wonderful to work with and something Haskell could learn from.
I did read the article. You make a good point about online distribution. No need for the derisive tone, let your content speak for itself.
Just for some solid numbers: Breaking Bad costs ~$3m/ep to produce. They normally pull around 3m viewers; this week's premiere pulled 5.9m viewers.
Audi’s new augmented reality app is the future of car manuals
You were using their job title to evoke the image of a certain type of person in a negative way. That is very much shitting on them, whether or not you care to admit it. It's quite literally how stereotypes are created and perpetuated.

> I could re-use your comment to put down any criticism of any change of any kind.

Sure, if my criticism was about something that naturally changes. If I were criticizing trees for losing their leaves, or tides from moving in and out, or potato chips for going stale, you would be completely correct to tell me, "All of those things happen whether you like it or not." Just like I'm correct to tell you, "It's pointless to complain about words finding new meanings."
I don't think that's really true. The people in Oakland who would be NIMBYs and have enough money to be effective at it all live in the hills, or in Piedmont. The people who live in the flat parts of Oakland, and to a large extent all of the flatlanders of the East Bay, don't have anything to fight with.

Now compare to the kind of 19th-century legacy gazillionaires along the CAHSR route in Atherton.
It can be hard to sell those shares when there's no market, no? I recently left a small startup in which the AMT hit would've been $26k, with no possible way to recoup that from selling the shares themselves (outside of a scheme like the ESO Fund, which issues non-recourse loans on the upside of a stock option sell, covering you for the tax and exercise costs.)
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Intel GPUs != solid OpenGL drivers. I do a lot of work in OpenGL and I curse Intel almost daily for the multitude of bugs in their OpenGL implementations.
The GPUs' only saving grace is their ubiquity so at least I get a bug report quite quickly when a work-around is required.
>If he manages to accomplish that, the end stations will move over 300 meters, in total.

Where are you getting this idea from? That seems like an insane implementation compared to using accordian-like flexible section[s].
The ASICS for Bitcoin mining only do one thing very well: SHA256. They're not general purpose computers in any sense.

The FPGA versions can be theoretically reprogrammed, but any good design will use the maximum number of gates, leaving nothing left over for Folding type applications.
You can use any CF tool over ssh, this is not unique to ansible. In doing so, you can also "push" to any CF tool. You can also push by using more integrated tools, such as mcollective with puppet.
They also seem to keep the new seasons a secret. I missed the new Breaking Bad and missed most of The Killing this season (too late to even catch up online).

I'm at the point now where I'll just wait a couple years to catch it on Netflix.
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Which is a good reason to use a remote of some kind, no?
How phone batteries measure the weather
There are a couple key omissions (though there are many -- this is not a particularly substantive article):

- When you are joining a company, the first question you should ask is "How many outstanding shares are there?" All you really care about is the % of the company you are potentially getting and the current value of the company.

- The AMT is a big deal that can heavily impact your life when you exercise options. There is no point in getting to the details here, but if you happen to be lucky enough to be working for a company that has gone up significantly in value, the AMT can be an expense to consider when exercising options. It can also indirectly affect: a) Whether or not financially you can leave a company (because if you leave you are forced to exercise your options) or b) If you should exercise your options early for smart tax planning

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Kudos to the author for trying to inform people, but if you work for a successful startup and have questions about stock options, do not listen to this article at all and talk to an accountant!
> This is an informal comment forum, so I prefer to structure my sentences as I would informal speech. That means comma splicing and lots of it.

How do you distinguish a comma-splice from the grammatically-correct independent-clauses-connected-by-semicolons in speech?

> What would you have written?

Well, assuming I wanted to say what you said, I would replace the commas with semicolons, making it grammatically correct without changing the wording or the implied spoken phrasing.
How is it nuts? Most customers pay them much less, but most customers don't watch the show. It's the fundamental tradeoff behind bundling.
While we're doling out "Did you read the article" comments, the article also mentions that HBO is in a league of their own when it comes to distribution. They have their own streaming network (HBO GO) and new espidoes are released immediately.

I think HBO definitely had a strong hand in pioneering AMC's current model.
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Did the author ever look at d3? It seems to offer the same thing, with the added benefit of being able to bind data to the dom elements.
http://d3js.org/
Check out Eschede.
Some good ideas here, but if I had to give advice to fledging writers I'd start with one rule: just way[sic] what you mean.

Rule No.2 - always proofread before hitting send/post :)

[EDIT Re your main point, now that the typo is out of the way]

There are various ways of structuring an argument - as a dialogue, as thesis, antithesis then synthesis, or treating it as an oration like Cicero's with 6 parts ending in a peroration. All of them are imposing structure on thought (and thus restricting creativity), and none of them will perfectly fit any argument, but some structure is vastly preferable to no structure at all, which is a far more common problem. The problem most people have in their writing and speech is a lack of structure, and I think the school lessons you evoke are meant to counter that by imposing some (even at the risk of making essays boring and formulaic). I don't think the intention is to forevermore make everyone write in the same structure (which would be a procrustean bed as you mention), but more to show people that you can use structure, and employ it persuade and explain. Students are then expected to grow out of that structure later or explore other possible structures.

Once you understand the mechanics of argument, you can then break them with great effect, but only if you do it sparingly, and it's best to know the rules in order to know when you're breaking them.

A far more insidious problem nowadays in terms of imposed structure is the habit people have of making a list (as the OP does) as if this is a substitute for properly structuring their thoughts - to me that's a cop-out and not far above no structure at all. Usually the results are then labelled top n x or n things you didn't know about x and contain more than n examples of x, without any attempt at an introduction or a conclusion.
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This is exactly how RockAuto does it. If you enter an unknown string, it probably goes into some database that they can use for advertising. They also send out deal codes over email that are intended to go into the referral box.
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Owner of Snowden’s Email Service on Why He Closed Lavabit
I suppose that's the most plausible explanation. (Doesn't seem to match the height-width relationship in the sketches, but its the only thing that makes the particular numbers used understandable as a fairly simple-to-explain error.)
Most opinion based articles tend to restate the obvious but never offer anything beyond that.

As a web manager, this is something I struggle with at my company on a regular basis. It's great to have a stance and all, but then you're just a talking head and nothing more. There needs to be a little soul behind what you're saying.

Offer solutions, not problems.

The other thing I'd add is that fluff is something I've personally struggled with when I write something. I often go back to Edgar Allan Poe's guidelines for writing short stories:

In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design.
By "99% of the Rakudo spec tests today", do you mean "99% as many spec tests as Rakudo on Parrot passes today", or has Rakudo managed to implement 99% of the specification on both the JVM and Parrot now?
Even if what you claim is true, it still backs my point that some more explanation is needed on why those conclusions can be drawn.

Regarding the argument itself, was the memo really "regarding" Noam Chomsky? It reads to me like it's about some other people traveling to Vietnam, and the "with the endorsement of Noam Chomsky and Cora Weiss" is the only mention of him. Is it your claim that the mere mentioning of a person by name in a CIA memo means that there's a file on that person? Is there a copy of that memo in the files of all 8 people mentioned by name? If so, this expert should say that because it's relevant and interesting.
It is also interesting as Parse is being featured as one of the AWS prominent customers in the past, but now AWS compete directly with them.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/parse/
> Blowing up a hyperloop is basically like bombing a bus - no one really bothers to try.

Oh, bus-bombing happens; mostly in the middle-east, but it did happen in London once. You can google it.

I also expect that an explosion inside a depressurised pipe would shut the whole thing down in a way that an explosion above a road surface would not.
Will pass to product management. Could be possible.
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"Just way what you mean" embodies its own spirit: get your point across, correctness be damned.
Am I the only who get a greyed-out overlay layer because I'm guessing some anti-spam-security-and-whatnot plugin interferes with their page?
In any case -> inspect -> delete node!
There are, still, far more experienced iOS developers than there are Android developers. Some people think the learning curve and development effort are steeper and higher for Android. I'm inclined to believe them if only because I think Android is a more expressive app environment, and it takes longer to learn, more effort to design, and longer to implement apps that take full advantage of Android. It's just going to happen more slowly than the iOS app market.

I think there are going to be waves or generations of Android software. We are about at the end of the "porting wave" and we'll next have a wave of apps that really digs in to the modularity, IPC, background processing, and RPC technologies available in Android. Facebook was an ambitious first try at a suite of cooperating apps, and I expect more successful attempts to follow.
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this strategy is starting to smell like double-dipping. the networks charge the cable company an increasing cost per subscriber that subscriber's can't opt out of. (cable bill just goes up), and on top of that, run ads.

either be like HBO and be an optional premium channel with no ads, or stop making my cable bill go up to subsidize crap i don't watch.
Anyone find it a little odd that in their demo from fullmovies.cc they are publishing the IPs from hits? I don't think the users would really appreciate that.