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People don't care that Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups exist for the purpose of aborting minority children. They don't care that abortion kills more than heart disease, stroke, lung disease, cancer, diabetes, AIDS, accidents, murder, and war combined. Sadly, people won't care about this, either.
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If anything, a larger percentage of people read books than they did in 1906. Around ten percent of the population of the USA was illiterate back then.
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How do you think Twitter tells the difference between a Bot and a human? I get that they are sentences, but they aren't contextually relevant, they don't look like tweets, they look like spam.

If you randomly start posting "Four score and seven years ago" and the rest of the speech out of order you are going to get flagged.

I used to build tweet spam bots, I am very familiar with how they get detected.
I'd still like to know whats technically going on. There are bold accusations in another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6425444)for which I do not understand how they are accomplished technically. Both XSRF and simply OAuth seem possible. The latter can't go on unnoticed, imho.
So upon reading this I went to my LinkedIn to find the settings he is talking about but I don't see them anywhere. Can anybody help me? Where can I disable this?
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Trader Joe's is the American version of Aldi. Almost all the products are store brand so that they can offer lower prices. Plus the stores don't have nearly the same number of SKUs as other competitors.

Why wouldn't you trust it? Do you not trust grocery stores in general?
It will be on Mashape shortly, the Natural Language Part of Speech Tagger just went live Friday. Documentation takes time after we write code and is less fun to write. :-)
One (small) thing that isn't correct is that your Bitcoin address is not the public key. It's actually hash of the public key [1], using RIPEMD-160 and SHA-256 algorithms, with a network type and a checksum added to it, then encoded with Base58 to make it shorter and prevent typos (Base58 doesn't have similar looking characters like O - 0 and I - l).

Also, somewhere in the middle of the video it is said that all inputs have to be spent entirely in the outputs, but this is not correct as well. You can send less amount than you have in your inputs and the resulting difference between the sum of your inputs and outputs is the transaction fee, that is mentioned later in the video.

These are very minor things though, and overall, this is a very good video, probably the best I've seen covering the technical aspects of Bitcoin.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_Bitcoin_a...
This is as true now as it ever has been.

Whilst it is true that one can climb the social ladder, it is much harder now than it was. To simply say it is true/false is to ignore that it's significantly harder now than it was. It has always been true that the strongest indicator of success is how rich one's parents are; it's more true now.
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Indeed, almost every company rose (at their level) and fell. For the few survivors you can check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
OK so do you want the real story? The genius behind dBase was Wayne Ratliff. When George Tate died of a heart attack on 1984 at age 39 the company's new CEO was Ed Esber.

While Tate had a productive relationship with Ratliff and realized he was important to the companies success. Ed Esber fought with Ratliff. He famously told dBase's inventor that his contributions to the company were no important to the success of Ashton-Tate than the guy on the loading dock.

Ratliff quit and started Migent to compete against Ashton-Tate. Esber sued the young company over appropriation of trade secrets. You can trace the company's decline from this point. Ratliff introduced an innovative client server database called Emerald Bay but lacked the marketing chops to succeed. SQL was beginning to take off and when Microsoft introduced Access and made it easily accessible to the same customer base that dBase targeted it was the death knell.
"that's free" This should be "that are free". Cool list though.
Philippines, Japan (good luck immigrating), India, Malaysia, stretching the definition a lot, Australia. Depends if you are evaluating macro trends over past and future six months or sixty years, and how you prioritize your macro trends, for example Malaysian culture is very nice to visit but I'd be willing to trade a lot of $$$ to live in Japan rather than Malaysia, although your prioritization may greatly vary (and so might mine, after experience)
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http://imgur.com/pQjoQ White text with black outline can be read on any color.
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> a free press

Do you call that "free press":

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-...
The conditions for that to happen aren't there yet. There's a growing population of unemployed people but it's not like there's no enough cash flow that companies are struggling to find customers. I think if and when unemployment will be so widespread as to pose a real threat to cash flow we'll see countermeasures to what are now just bleak predictions.
is it possible to link screens together? Like for instance, on the homepage screen, there is a login, and i have a seperate screen for login, so can it be linked together.
Performance (I assume speed) for GUIs? When do you need that? Most people are fine with web apps and their internet latency speed.

If you mean a scenario, where you click a button and the app freezes for a few seconds then this is an architecture problem. Whateven happens should happen asynchronously to the GUI. This can be right and wrong in Python and in C.
Well, they didnt explained what have they done to make people angry. Those invites didnt send themselves.
Free software is nice, privacy and security are needed, yada yada. Yes, I absolutely agree. What does the FSF have to do with this? This an interesting claim in the title, but the post does nothing to explain the relevancy of FSF.

I used to be an avid supporter of the FSF, but in the recent years I've been shying away from them because I don't see how they're relevant to the well-being of free software. In fact I've come to see them as a lobbying group pushing their one-sided view of what free software is and how it should be. I much prefer to support free software projects and the people who actually write and maintain free software. I do this in the form of testing, code contributions, code review, bug reports, and user support. I'd also donate if I weren't living on a student's budget.

I used to be subscribed to some FSF mailing list. They kept asking for donations, but never did they give the impression that they're spending it on improving or making any free software I value. Sorry, I don't want to support their lobbying with my money.
Introductory CS class?
Interesting first criteria for judging a country's economic opportunities: the ability to easily terminate your staff.

The "Ease of Doing Business Index" actually removed "how easy is it to fire people" from its indicators because of the controversy.

Do you think everybody in the USA would agree that being able to fire people at will is a good thing for the US economy?
This is rad! As I looked through the list of people involved, I learned that one of the guys doing it was a close friend of mine through EE school.

And I have to chuckle a little bit about how much of a prairie farmer hack this is. People around here build crazy hacks like this all the time on their farm equipment, glad to see them getting some publicity!
I haven't had a LinkedIn account in several years and have not had any problems. I guess YMMV.
The presence of corporate functionaries and so on is decreasing steadily over time as their purpose becomes superfluous through different organization and evolving technologies. And retail jobs are not "middling", retail jobs are low-level and were at one point not too long ago almost completely entry-level.

You are making his point for him.
Would you say the feds set up a honeypot?
The thing, I think people miss about automation is that it will increase unemployment rates -- forever. The more society is automated the less labor humanity has, the less we need to do to survive.

I think, as automation become common place, society will have a larger unemployment rate, continuing into a welfare-based society. It will be a time where art, science, and creative will grow, as basic needs will be supplied easily via automation.
Exactly, anything that scales up to large, especially to fast ends up becoming an inefficient and uncontrollable behemoth. Take a look at any corporation(ie. Microsoft, HP, IBM) or governments(USG, China vs. Canada, Poland, Finland) or media (News, MTV, Cable) where large entities cannot function efficiently and only get worse as they become larger.

The only thing that works is some sort of self-organizing nature that similar to the way biological organisms form, which then end up creating neuron/brain like structures which form higher intelligence. Take a look at the universe, there is an interesting talk on how the Internet is starting to show that phenomenon, it's appearing more and more like a brain and may be starting to show some signs intelligence.

Take a look at this post from LinuxCon2013(it's not about Linux).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6425227
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Put quotes around the whole thing and Twitter will think you're just another 13 year old girl who thinks she's clever by incessantly quoting literature.
I was 18 and had just graduated from high school. At the time I had a vague idea about wanting to study computer science, and my home country's universities did not have good CS programs. When I got into one of the top CS programs in the US (UW), it became a no-brainer. (Ironically I ended up studying Information Science instead!)

What I didn't know at the time was how difficult the US government would make it for me to first get a job and then to become a permanent resident. Every dealing I do with the government I feel the undercurrent of not being wanted here - as if they are looking for an excuse to reject me, as opposed to actually wanting my skills and intelligence to contribute to the economy and doing everything they can to make me stay.

If I return home now, with my degrees and five years of experience in a software company, I can easily start my own firm. I'm telling myself that if the US government throws one more obstacle my way, I'm going to say fuck it and do just that. (When I go back for vacations and talk to younger people who are considering coming here, I tell them don't do it - it's just not worth the hassle.)
"There are millions of generic corporate, retail, or otherwise "non-elite" jobs being held by millions of Americans."

That's the good news. The bad news is there used to be tens of millions of that class of job, and with a smaller population to staff.
I agree. For those who understand what is really going on with this issue, Linked In's response here is infuriating lies and doublespeak that assumes the reader is either uninformed or ignorant.
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Right, and using the JS after body method achieves that, but google don't measure time to content, they measure time to complete load.
Interesting. That makes me wonder what architectures are (or used to be) out there that do support rapidly reconfiguring the cores. Obviously, if deploying the code is so time-intensive that you'd lose the benefits of the parallelism for dynamic use cases, there's no point. It's a little reminiscent of the situation with GPGPU where the overhead of marshalling all the data can eat away your computational speedup.

The program I'm working on (a kind of JIT compiler) is inching ever more towards a strict dataflow model in which the computations are divided into blocks and each block knows exactly which downstream blocks to send its outputs to. The ultimate output of the computation is simply the last downstream block that collects whatever outputs were originally requested and pushes them back to the client. Seems like a sweet spot for an array-based architecture. However, it would need to rapidly reconfigure the cores. Each time a block finishes its work, its core would go back into the available pool and (hopefully soon afterward) be reprogrammed with the code for some other block as the compiler produces it. The scheduler would also try to position blocks near their downstream neighbors. All of this would have to be dynamic. So, a poor fit for the GA144 given what you're saying.

If the above makes sense, I'd be curious to hear what alternatives come to mind.

Running this code on such an architecture is not currently a priority, but it does excite my curiosity—it seems so obviously doable in principle.
Can't you replace the "addEventListener" stuff with <body onload="downloadJSAtOnload()">?
Reading her Medium essay does not induce me to give her the benefit of the doubt.
The area where Denmark is most clearly easier, in my opinion, is starting a one-person company ("lifestyle business", freelancing, consulting, etc.). Since most benefits (healthcare, childcare, etc.) are independent of employment, you don't have to worry about all the headaches of losing your benefits when you quit a bigcorp job to go solo.

As far as hiring/firing employees, it's not quite that bad. The standard notice is six weeks (on both sides, so employees can't just walk out tomorrow either). Termination does have to be with cause, but changing business conditions or revenues suffices as cause, so it doesn't require proving actual fault on the part of the employee or anything of that sort.

The official policy aim is "flexicurity" [1], though it's implemented to varying extents. The goal is to have a flexible labor market where companies can hire and fire as needs dictate (contrary to, say, the French model), and also, but separately, to have a safety net providing income security for workers (through systems like the a-kasse funds [2]). I don't think it's 100% as rosy as the goal, but it's much easier to run a business than in some European countries. It ends up basically tied with the U.S. in the ease-of-doing-business indices I know of. The World Bank's index places it just behind the US (#5 vs. #4) [3], while the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom puts it just ahead (#9 vs. #10) [4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity

[2] Example: http://www.ca.dk/bliv_medlem/dimittend/466.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index#Ra...

[4] http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
Except in the United States, because we know in the United States that people who don't have a job are lazy. /s
I don't really understand projects like this on Kickstarter. It's a great concept - the demo looks awesome, etc. But it's a viable product. Why should I kickstart an app that will be a paid product after it's finished? I know folks use Kickstarter as a form of market validation, but I think the number of apps in this space already demonstrate that the market is valid.
So the worst case here is that the poor might move to GASP Texas! And enjoy a better quality of life associated with a smaller government. What a bizarrely narrow-mindedly ignorant perspective, which I imagine will resonant quite well with the anti-Walmart crowd that is equally too narrow-minded to appreciate the impact and empowerment Walmart has on the poor.
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You have some misconceptions about Europe. Here in the UK you can happily fire anyone in their first 2 years without any reason whatsoever[1]. After that firing people is still fairly easy if you go through a simple process[2] and redundancy again is easy if you go through a fairly simple process.

All of Europe is different.

American healthcare seems viciously regressive to someone with the NHS.

[1] I believe it's 2 now, labour reduced it to 1 a decade or so ago, think the Tories increased it again to 2 recently

[2] think it's usually verbal warning, written warning, some sort of meeting, then fire. Not sure if it's mandated or you just have to have a process

NB check this stuff for yourself, I'm merely reciting this from memory
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Hyperinflation - not here yet. Inflation - much more than officially stated.
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I have a python GUI app. When I press a button, it probably takes a few tens of milliseconds to chew on it. I suspect it could be done faster with other tools, but I doubt I'd notice it.

As for the actual work being done behind the GUI, that's a different matter.
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"Privacy is theft," that is a good one, really.
Danish employment law requires months of notice before terminating an employee, and allows termination only with cause. It also appears to be somewhat expensive to incorporate there.

QED
Very good video. Wish he had said a few words about how it all started and who is behind the technology.
I disagree although my first thought was exactly the same; how do you solve the problem of half of some text being on a dark background and the other half on a lighter area.

I see three solutions to the problem.

The first is not so elegant. If you have text then you wrap each letter in a span tag and apply the JS to each span. Very ugly, not practical, scalable, etc. but it works. If you've got dynamic text coming from a backend then just forget it. This solution is only viable for static content and even then it's not great.

You could implement this as instructed and then just give the text an outline of the exact opposite color. Chances are your text will not equally overlap both a light and dark background so this wouldn't look too bad at all.

The third solution is to just know your backgrounds very well and choose element placement very carefully so that no matter what background you have your text ends up in an all light or all dark part of it. If I had Medium style app where users get to choose the background image of an element that gets text laid over it this is what I might be okay with doing and accepting that not all the background images will lend themselves well to this technique.

Or... There's a fourth way that I've actually had to consider in one of my projects. Until I saw this post I didn't have the final piece of the puzzle but now I do. I would take the ability to dynamically change the text color based on a background and add to it a translucent background to the text with some padding to make it a blocky thing - kind of like how ios7 handles it in notification center.

The idea is that if you have an element over a mostly light background you give that text itself a light background with about 70% - 80% opacity and the text color dark. This way you're covered even if part of the text is on top of some random dark part of the image background. It's the same idea as using a text outline except its more cross-browser compatible and I personally think it looks better.

But like I said, if you're not in control of the text and/or background there probably isn't going to be a bullet proof solution and you'll have to accept trade offs but if you are in total control then there's no reason you can't mitigate these issues completely.
Bump.

AppSeed seems like a straight-forward remake of PopApp. Not to say it's a rip, because it's clearly an idea that several people could've thought of independently from each other.
"The owners in this country know the truth, it's called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin.
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It is not, for instance, my impression that the middle class in Japan is better off, trendswise, than the middle class in the US. Japan has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the world, and faces a demographic crisis to boot.

That's why I was wondering which specific countries/locales 'enraged_camel was talking about, because you can look at that company and make factual comparisons.
Thanks for fixing this up. It really is an excellent article.
Jumped on that keyword. Hopefully, it will help someone out. No ads or nonsense. Just a $2 contribution to the internet. Haha. I have so many of these that it hurts.

http://howtocloseappsonios7.com/
I don't think this really relates to the "men's rights" stuff. I think all the paper does is show that the bellcurve for men is flatter and that men are nature's crapshoot.
Can I ask which country that is? (I'm mostly just curious).
liked it .. is it really real time?
I couldn't concur more. It's one thing if someone is tactfully offering a suggestion that would help improve the comprehension of someone's work.

But to me there's nothing worse than someone whose only way of adding value is criticism something they weren't creative or proactive enough to do themselves.
I appreciate it larskluge! Are there services which you find yourself looking for? Or a tools that can enable you to do something better/faster/more efficiently?
this doesn't seem to be true. https://twitter.com/ColorlessG

context: http://colorlessgreen.net/about
My understanding is that while you have some flexibility on "cause", "cause" gets adjudicated when the employee disagrees, which makes terminating employees risky.

I agree that the health care situation in the US is a real problem.
hmm .. so sad .. would be fun it was real time
I never said they'd make a watch. I said it's curious that they're so obviously aiming it at a very resources-constrained device (or optimizing out the wazoo for energy efficiency) for which they don't have a client of their own or an announced third-party client. You'll note that they didn't announce "iOS in the Nebulous Theoretical Arbitrary People Transporter" and hope people take it from there.

With iOS in the Car, whatever they're using - probably AirPlay or something riding the various MFi (made-for-iWhatever) protocols - is already transmitting screen images. If they have a notification protocol like ANCS, they will probably not reinvent it, but iOS in the Car already involves several of their own protocols, so why use yet another connection - and if they do, why invent a new protocol and publicly document it for this use case?

Maybe it's about roaming notifications to OS X Mavericks, but there are no (revealed) commands for getting i.e. app icons.

Actually, whether they make a watch or not, it's very curious to see them introduce a new binary protocol in the open. If this is a turn towards being more open, I welcome it. It's far from enough, but it's a start.
No I was not talking about both, I dismissed them as mechanisms to bring the point back to the only thing I was discussing, the goal. I don't care about the mechanisms and if you can't see that then maybe you've got some brain damage to cope with and you should stop talking.
it's not steganography. the messages have little dots in them - they are very distinctive. it's trivial to find anyone using this.

why not use a typo instead? switch the letter at that point to another letter (could be a different one for each sentence). use fuzzy matching (eg locality sensitive hash) to find the correct sentence.

and construct the dictionary from previous tweets rather than books. then tweets look like tweets.