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donations are revenue, not profit; profit is revenue minus expenses

Yes, I know that. See my response to ZenPsycho.

there is no requirement for the Red Cross not to have excess revenue above its expenses

This is a valid point (and thank you for linking to the actual law governing this). However, I don't think it makes much difference to the point I was making. For one thing, it amounts to admitting that the Red Cross can make a profit, and that therefore profit and helping people can go together, which was my original point in this subthread. Also see below.

it just can't have shareholders or other individuals to whom that excess is distributed

First of all, that's not the only limitation. They also have to limit their activities to those that qualify for tax-exempt status. The law seems to have quite a bit of language intended to make it difficult to evade that requirement. So there is still an assumption that certain kinds of activities are "more worthwhile", independently of the question whether they make a profit.

Second, if there is an excess, what happens to the excess? Some of it probably gets put aside as a buffer for times when receipts are down. But other than that, what else does the Red Cross do with it?

Based on their recent financials, this is purely a hypothetical question, since they are operating at a loss, from what I can see:

http://www.redcross.org/images/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1...

But let's suppose they had a surplus. Where does it go? They are limited in the uses they can put it to and still keep their nonprofit status. A regular for-profit corporation is not. So the Red Cross still has to cope with an added burden that it should not have to cope with (and would not have to in a sane world), and that added burden detracts from their ability to help people.
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Once again, with feeling: the fact that an algorithm is "broken" does not mean that a cryptosystem reliant on that algorithm is necessarily broken. In this particular case, the MD5 breakage is not currently relevant to TLS, and it might be decades before it ever is. And, while nobody particularly liked RC4, it was deployed to mitigate an even worse vulnerability in the MtE CBC construction in TLS.

Cryptosystems exist in strata: environments, algorithms, constructions, protocols, applications. A careful cryptosystem is designed so that a flaw in one stratum doesn't immediately destroy the entire cryptosystem. Not only did TLS largely succeed in that goal, but it succeeded in part due to the availability of RC4.

So: no. No, no, no.
Being properly OO kind of messes up the way alot of the HoF stuff works as well, since you don't have a bunch of functions that operate on strings, you have methods on string. You have to have some strange thing like mystrings.map(&:to_upper), rather than just passing map the actual function.
> Personally, I feel tapping through hierarchical menus on a mobile device is just the wrong way to go about organizing/using the system.

I totally agree. I love the edge swiping introduced in iOS 7.
Feds Use Fake Mexican Constitution Article To Deport US Citizens For 35 Years
It's still there afaik, but you need to download the `yow.lines' file separately and put it in the right place or M-x customize-variable yow-file to point to it.

https://github.com/shentonfreude/dot-emacs/blob/master/yow.l... seems to contain a copy, and google finds a whole bunch of others.

spook uses the same format as yow[1], so you can dump your favourite PRISM-related OCR nonsense.

[1] M-: (find-file spook-phrases-file)

[Looks like you need to run M-x spook at least once to get autoload to set things up, at least here.]
Agreed. I think that is the point the OP is making. As sites like Kayak grow in popularity, the usefulness of a discovery tool (search), diminishes.
Ok, thank you. I misread - I thought you meant that there were clients which weren't capable of handling block cipher suites (e.g. for performance reasons). You made me look into "Lucky 13" though, so at least I learned something!
Matz (except for the tongue in cheek thing about a suggested name at the end) didn't suggest that Ruby was a Lisp, just that in designing it Lisp was a starting point.

So, yes, you have every reason to doubt the claim that Ruby is Lisp -- a claim no one has made.

I don't see how that resolves your stated doubt of Matz claim that Lisp was a starting point for Ruby.
Thousands of times more pollution? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence!

The energy content of wood varies based on how dry it is (obviously, water can't burn so you remove the water to increase the proportion of remaining mass that burns compared to the energy released when burning the combustible mass) abut ends up being approximately 15Mj/kg. Using an efficient wood stove you can extract about 70% of this energy as heat, for the purpose of heating and cooking.

The energy content of coal is about double that of wood. Typically we don't burn coal in home fires, rather we burn the coal in a large power plant, carry the energy as electricity then consume that energy in various forms at home. The typical efficiency of coal fired power plants is in the order of 30–40%. So you are basically at parity with wood fuel, with the convenience of a large power plant where it becomes economically viable to scrub ash and soot out of the exhaust.

So how much less pollution does as coal fired power plant produce than a wood fire at home? It turns out that scrubbers are anywhere from 95–99% efficient depending on design, energy input and maintenance.

So what we are left with is an estimate of the pollution produced by a wood fire being in the order of hundreds of times worse than pollution produced by the same energy production at a coal fired power plant. To qualify for "thousands" of times more pollution, the scrubbers at the coal fired plant would have to be 99.9% efficient without consuming a significant portion of the energy produced by the power plant (this is the goal of "clean coal" projects).
Doesn't this change...nothing? They have always allowed you to run non-commercial servers, haven't they?
Depending upon the individual, I agree with the sentiment behind this article. Even if you go to work for a company - and I currently work for a huge company - it is not a requirement to have a bachelor's degree to get a very good-paying job in technology. Some people are perfectly capable of teaching themselves the skills that they need for the job at hand; these individuals are likely wasting their time in college. There are many, however, that cannot do this; these people really need the college environment to gain the necessary skills to do their job well.
Thanks for your input, but the comment I was responding to was:

> The top 0.0001% gained their wealth not by inheriting it

Your contribution does not cover that.
I read that article. While those studies are interesting, they are definitely limited and far from conclusive. For example, they didn't control for genetics as far as I can tell. It's entirely plausible that "rich" people are rich in the first place because, statistically speaking, innate intelligence lets them make better financial decisions even under duress.

While it's possible and interesting, I certainly wouldn't make policy recommendations or support charities based on that kind of evidence.

In the meantime, while independent parties come up with something more conclusive, let's try to affect known vectors for stunted childhood development like parental substance abuse, prenatal care, and malnourishment. And, again, these are real problems we should be doing something about anyway.
NOT to integrate libuv

Please reconsider this. Libuv rocks, and without it, well, you don't really have Node. It's not dependent on v8 in any way, so it makes little sense to not use it.
If you've got a couple bucks to spare, the Indiegogo campaign has some pretty cool perks, from t-shirts to a PRISM article signed by Glenn Greenwald.
And/or occasionally generate some fairly weak throw-away keys, and use them to encrypt jpgs of lolcats, or something.

Bonus points for "Hi there! NSA" steganographic embedding inside that :)
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Do you happen to know if anyone has integrated that with libuv? Seems like a match made in heaven...
No, the original wording was pretty draconian and attracted some complaints: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/google-fiber-continues...

Key phrase: "Unless you have a written agreement with Google Fiber permitting you do so, you should not host any type of server using your Google Fiber connection"
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This is not slowing down a clock for a while because it runs fast, but slowing it down to make it run too slow, and then skipping a leap second.

The first is good; it corrects an error without introducing the catastrophe of a clock running backwards. The second, according to some is bad because it introduces a temporary error without any benefit. According to others, it does introduce a benefit: you won't have to deal with leap seconds.
I am not quite sure why this is news (or even worth mentioning for that matter) given the fact that the NSA has demonstrated a propensity to collect pretty much any data it can get it's hands on. This revelation seems like a given fact. Should we also publish articles chronicling the NSA's collection of family secret recipes?
If bitcoin becomes "a thing," then it'll be on a newly generated blockchain mined all to hell by a private party or government before being released to the public. Then you'll trade your cash for approved bitcoin (not using that name either) on that specific blockchain.

It can even split out multiple ways (think: one currency per company instead of per country/region). Pay your AT&T bill with AT&T Fun Bucks which have an exchange rate against Apple Awesome Bucks which have an exchange rate with Euros which have an exchange rate with Safeway Safe Way to Pay Coins.

The current bitcoin madness is just an experiment in how many ways you can say "THIS PAPER HAS VALUE," sign it, rip it into bits, then make people think each piece is a valuable part of the whole (which had imaginary value in the first place derived only out of scarcity—bitcoin isn't even shiny).
Interesting! This is similar to what we're working on at threesat.com, though focusing on new grads. I'm an engineer myself, so the "advice" part is covered.

My intuition is, you still have to charge companies rather than talent for the service on a contingency basis, because the model is established and because as a candidate the market is strongly enough on my side that this approach works.

Curious to see how you do, though. There's definitely more room to take a cut from the talent side if they're working as consultants/contractors, a la 10xmanagement.com.
I posted this quote from a Foreign Policy article [1] on another NSA related discussion two weeks ago. In short, this isn't the first time Alexander has run a program that used large networking charts, and it also isn't the first time the charts his program created charts that turned out to be worthless.

"When he ran INSCOM and was horning in on the NSA's turf, Alexander was fond of building charts that showed how a suspected terrorist was connected to a much broader network of people via his communications or the contacts in his phone or email account.

"He had all these diagrams showing how this guy was connected to that guy and to that guy," says a former NSA official who heard Alexander give briefings on the floor of the Information Dominance Center. "Some of my colleagues and I were skeptical. Later, we had a chance to review the information. It turns out that all [that] those guys were connected to were pizza shops."

A retired military officer who worked with Alexander also describes a "massive network chart" that was purportedly about al Qaeda and its connections in Afghanistan. Upon closer examination, the retired officer says, "We found there was no data behind the links. No verifiable sources. We later found out that a quarter of the guys named on the chart had already been killed in Afghanistan."

Those network charts have become more massive now that Alexander is running the NSA."

[1] http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/09/08/the_cowboy_...
Human work cannot grow indefinitely. We already have the situation of heavily populated countries buying up farms in other nations in order to secure food supply.

There is a simple solution of course, but a one child policy was hard enough to enforce in China, I don't see how we would get the entire world to participate.
That scheme would be insecure even if it was SHA3(SHA2(SHA1(unix_timestamp()))
Also, bitcoin is deflationary by design. It will effectively run out at some point, if I understand the situation. I believe its proponents consider this a feature, but I suspect it will prove to be a liability.
> "the claim that Ruby is Lisp -- a claim no one has made"

Posted without comment: this was written just before Matz wrote this email, but here's someone saying that Ruby is an acceptable LISP: http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-a...
That is an absolutely ludicrous explanation. Nobody is using the iPod app and expecting to get to the store. That short cut is purely there to collect accidental clicks. If I wanted to purchase music, I would have opened the iTunes app.

I have personally hit that button accidentally many times while trying to get back to the albums view and waiting for the animations to finish in exactly the way this article describes. I did not want to go to the iTunes store! I just wanted to pick another album on my phone and now I have to double tap the button and navigate back to the music app.
> First of all, that's not the only limitation.

That's the limitation that's relevant to the name "non-profits"; there are several classes of tax-exempt non-profits, and that's the shared feature that makes them "non-profits" -- not that they don't have excess revenue over current expenses, but that they don't return profits to shareholders.

> So there is still an assumption that certain kinds of activities are "more worthwhile"

Well, yes, there are public resources being expended by way of a tax subsidy -- 501(c)(3)'s are not merely exempt from income taxes, but donations to them are tax deductible.

> Second, if there is an excess, what happens to the excess? Some of it probably gets put aside as a buffer for times when receipts are down. But other than that, what else does the Red Cross do with it?

All of it is put aside for future use.

> So the Red Cross still has to cope with an added burden that it should not have to cope with (and would not have to in a sane world), and that added burden detracts from their ability to help people.

Nothing stops you from forming a regular corporation and trying to do better than the Red Cross at what the Red Cross is intended to do. I suspect you'll find that the "burden" that you are talking about is far less than the benefit you would get from 501(c)(3) status. If that wasn't the case, no one would be starting 501(c)(3)'s.
From the LA Times article: "Using information posted to genealogy websites and other publicly available Internet resources, the Whitehead Institute researchers were able to ferret out the names of nearly 50 people"

They don't link the study, so it is hard to tell, but it appears that what actually happened is they used self-reported identifying information linked to DNA entries.

It's not apparent that they did any genetic analysis whatsoever.

That is still certainly a privacy attack vector, but one on par with getting your email hacked because you always use your birthday as you password.
It's not overuse if you're using the bandwidth that is advertised. If they can't handle you using the bandwidth, then they shouldn't offer it.
But at the scales we're talking about, it won't happen to have a clash on "Jones" and "Smith". This won't be a hash table - this will be things like a git commit hash, where generating 1/ns is likely to give a collision in 3 years, before which the storage required just to store hashes is in the yottabytes.
I keep meaning to figure out why this isn't working for me, because trying to use nxhtml-mode along with any sort of templating or embedded script tags is an exercise in frustration.

But web-mode (installed via ELPA) doesn't seem to be working at all, and any number of bits of my .emacs.d/ cruft could be to blame. Time for some -Q next reboot, perhaps.
If we were talking about "idea" in a totally general way, your point is fine. (I'd add astrology to your list.)

But I, and I'm pretty sure that Scott Adams also, were talking about business ideas; i.e., are there any people willing to pay for this product or service, and how badly do they need or desire it.
Was this recently revealed by Snowdon? If so, I'm loving his tactic of slowly leaking it all out and keeping it relevant. If it all came out in one go it'd have a lot less impact in my opinion. I hope the leaks continue for a long time.
It's interesting how different people define success.

It sounds like Mr. Adams defines success by how much money you have.

My definition of success is enough income to allow me to mostly ignore money[1] and instead can spend my days doing things that genuinely interest me, with people I genuinely like.

[1] eg not having to worry about working out which yoghurt is the best value for money at the supermarket, not being afraid to go to the doctors because I can't afford it, having enough saved up that if I want to take a few months off employment to do my own thing I can, stuff like that.
Although removing s-expressions isn't necessarily critical -- see Dylan, Honu, sweet expressions, etc. -- I think removing macros means you no longer have a lisp.
It's news because most people don't understand what "metadata" means in the abstract, and what the implications of the NSA having it are. This may be a sufficiently concrete invasion of privacy to reach the average person.
It's trivially easy to run it straight for a single 24 solid hours (apart from gas and bathroom stops). Just take a cross-country road trip with 3-4 drivers who can rotate. Minneapolis, MN to Page, AZ for spring break as an example.
They fixed the accidental tap issue, not it takes 2 taps for store button to activate when coming on to that screen.
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I don't think it's totally ludicrious to every user. My parents wouldn't have second thoughts of opening the "music app" to buy music.
How exactly do you justify disagreeing the blog post from the creators of the project? Do you believe they are lying about the data source?
Given the benefits of Lisp that were cited in that article as defining, the conclusion is well-supported by the article.

Obviously, those aren't everyone's central concerns for a Lisp, nor are they the standard criteria for a Lisp. But, in any case, that someone said something like "Ruby is a Lisp" somewhere else in a different context doesn't change that arguing that Ruby isn't a Lisp was something of beating a strawman in this this thread.
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> Being properly OO kind of messes up the way alot of the HoF stuff works as well, since you don't have a bunch of functions that operate on strings, you have methods on string.

It doesn't really - methods are nothing more than closures of general functions around a specific value for the implicit parameter (usually the first parameter). The syntax for doing this in Lisp is pretty straightforward, and that's the way CLOS is structured.

And for what it's worth, Alan Kay (who coined the term "object-oriented") himself said (in 2003!) that the only two object-oriented languages he was aware of were Smalltalk and LISP.
SOA is not back. It never left. It just much more mature now and easy to implement thanks to RESTful APIs.
Are you seriously asserting poverty is not a known vector for stunted childhood development?

Do you realize there are millions of impoverished people in this country who can't afford to eat healthily? You are aware of the effect nutrition has on childhood development right? Do you realize there exist impoverished parts of this country which simply don't have access to fresh healthy food?

There's literally hundreds of ways poverty stunts childhood development...
I have recently started working with a technical talent agent for consulting projects I do on the side. He takes 15% of the price of the gig. It is absolutely worth it.

His background is in law and sales. Therefore, he can (and has):

- Negotiate higher fees than I initially ballpark

- Handle all the contractual/legal/financial minutiae that I abhor dealing with

For example, the last Rails consulting gig I did went great. He negotiated a fixed-bid fee that was 40% above my initial hourly estimate. The client also had some specific legal requirements (related to patents) and it was nice not having to deal with it. The client was more than pleased and is coming back for more work. So, giving up 15% of that is a no-brainer.

Now, your question seems more related to placement of long-term/permanent positions. It's hard to speak to that because I haven't had a "real job" in 10 years. I'm not sure if or how I'd be willing to pay. The key parts, IMO, are negotiating salary and reviewing equity terms. If you could really deliver there, I don't see a problem with giving up 10-15% for the first year or two (can someone tell me if that's similar to what a recruiter takes from the company?).

Really, it all comes down to numbers & value. I'll give you X% of my pie if you can make my pie > X% larger.
I'm a Bokeh developer. We have plans to make the coffescript situation a lot easier to deal with, this fix should be coming soon.
SO what? You can have tons of fractions of bitcoins, and that covers the needs of any micro-payment even if a single bitcoin becomes worth a million of dollars.
if bitcoins would ever become the primary world currency, I think you would be doing pretty good either way, even at 0.05 bitcoin
Tukey on the future of data analysis (1962) still super relevant
How so? Isn't BTC a good USD hedge?
Why not import the text into sqlite and go from there? Full SQL language available, etc.
I'm sure people semi-rarely drive them 24 hours straight. There are certainly situations where people do that outside of motoring events, driving several states away on a road trip for instance (I have driven across the country several times, and if I had been doing it with a rental then I would have been inclined to maximize my hours-per-day to keep rental costs down). It would no doubt be rare, but I can only imagine that they don't get bent out of shape when it inevitably happens.

Basically, I hypothesis that rental car advertisement is far more honest than ISP advertisement. Furthermore, I assert that if rental car companies tried to pull the shenanigans that ISPs pull, they would be smacked down. An "unlimited miles" contract may have a "keep it legal" clause, which is a reasonable clause that anybody would expect, but a "'unlimited' means you can drive it during any time of the day, but keep it under 500 miles" tinyprinted clause would be considered deceptive.
Nice try Microsoft.

Lol.
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Some may say it's easier to get investment when you start a startup and your husband is a billionaire founder of google.
Seems pretty likely that Hangouts will be the default SMS app in 4.4 now.
I'm not disagreeing about the city, just that the metric was flawed.
> Is it just me, or is this article filled with a lot of complicated buzz words and hyperbole?

A helpful site for biz tech writers on a tight deadline is http://bullshitipsum.com/