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Well, this is by design of FOSS.

I could not disagree more. Nothing about being part of the FOSS world mandates acting like a dick.

FOSS is about freedom. One can do whatever they want.

Just because you are free to do something, doesn't mean that you should do it, or that you're not an asshole for doing it. I'm not in any way suggesting that Mark or anybody else should be denied their right to free speech. But verbally abusing somebody else for having a different belief is still being a dick, even so.

I don't see what is sad about this.

OK, tell me this... who benefits from this outcome? As far as I can tell, the answer is "nobody". OTOH, who suffers? Well, potentially everybody who's part of the KDE on Ubuntu ecosystem. And the person who's being bullied and abused into walking away from something that he would probably prefer to remain involved in, IF it weren't for the asshole'ish behavior.

The drama is what is nonsensical

I don't see it. If somebody is being a dick, calling them out for their behavior is hardly "nonsensical drama". It's just being forthright and honest.
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There are lots of cables in the ocean: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/.
That's what people thought when they first built the projects.
At the time of the Morris worm, there was a single T1 line running across the bay (between Mt. View and Milpitas.) The line to sun-arpa was a 56k link.

The only real 'protection' was that ip_forwarding was set to 0.
Technically, quantum refers to physics at the atomic / subatomic scale, and not necessarily to the spooky effects like particle wave duality and such that we usually attribute to the term.

So, I believe this would be an "effect on the quantum level," even if it can be understood through the lens of more traditional electromagnetic physics as well.
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They are currently seen as a front internationally aren't they? Probably as much as they ever will be.

It'll have some effect but I'm not convinced that the lost business would pay for the fight necessary to change the circumstances. The fight would be hugely expensive, in cash and political capital and not likely to make a difference.

The best decision for the bottom line would be to put up a show of a fight and do "we're trustworthy" marketing while getting in on that sweet defense contractor money (especially when you are encouraged to cooperate and lie about it by the law) instead of actually changing things. This is what I see them doing, and I'm not convinced there is any reason for them to change.
Definitely agree.

The co-op program actually increases time to degree a little bit (three terms), because a “normal” 4 year university degree is 1/3 summer term, while Waterloo students alternate co-op term and academic term after their first two terms (I’m glossing over some details, but this is more or less how it used to work).

A = academic; S = summer (most universities); C = co-op (Waterloo)

Most unis : AASAASAASAA

Waterloo : AACACACACACACA

Essentially, Waterloo students get 8 academic terms and 6 co-op terms in 14 4-month terms. As others have mentioned, the history and structure of the co-op program means that students are getting industry experience very early on in university. The extra few terms seem like a small price to pay for that experience.

Most other (US / Canada) universities focus their teaching in the fall and winter terms so that a student will get 8 academic terms and 3 summer terms (where you’re much more on your own in terms of finding a summer job).
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A quick skim through both local news papers, and then I do their crosswords!
Feinstein (and Pelosi, also pro-NSA and representing San Francisco of all places) could easily be removed from office via a primary challenge. Doesn't necessarily need to be a Republican opponent.
That video is tantalizing, but it's dated 2010. If it works as well as advertised, then why has it taken three years to be part of Android? I'd love to see ART work out though. And the video is almost worth watching just for the very awesome French accent.
Coderwall (YC W12) launches Assembly
I think you exaggerate. zoopla and some research gives me (all city centre addresses):

Manchester - £55K+

Leeds - £70K+

Birmingham - £45K+

Hull - 50K

Bristol - 100K

Norwich - 70K

etc.

If you're happy with a small village then I think you can find even cheaper.
It's a Canadian thing. You'll find grads from all the Canadian universities are humble and practical.

Being a top university with grads in high demand, it's actually amazing that Waterloo grads haven't gotten a reputation for being more arrogant. I know I was at one point in my life.
Dear PR person, WTF?
If enough people do this it will be the end of Airbnb. This is one of the patterns the state of NY is using against Airbnb while Airbnb is arguing that the service is intended for people occasionally renting out their primary residence. If the state is able to prove a significant number of people used this model Airbnb is done in NY and I fear other states will follow.
Nice Job! I'd suggest adding a page with information on what each plan level (Gold, Silver, Bronze) covers at minimum.
Good, concise write up with real numbers which is nice. But the woman who is doing all that cleaning and contact work for $200/month is the one making this possible (so it seems) and that could quickly eat up profits (though the ROI is great enough that there's lots of room there).

EDIT: Also, is there currently an AirBnb manager market? Similar to the cleaner/manager he has, it would be great for people to invest remotely. Do research, fly in to inspect potential properties, purchase and give the cleaner/manager a nice cut? I know there are property management companies but there seems to be some extra finesse (and possible discretion) needed here that I haven't seen from PM companies before.
Comment from the source[1]:

We have already created that oat file above with
CreateOatFile. Originally this was just our own proprietary
file but now it is contained within an ELF dynamic object
(aka an .so file)

Seems like oat file might be enclosed in an ELF container and might support linking of shared libraries.

[1]https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/kitkat-relea...
[2]http://www.retrodev.com/android/dexformat.html
I would wonder if the Marshall Plan didn't contribute greatly to the post-war success of Western Europe (as was the intention of the program). A cursory glance over the Effects section of the Wikipedia page shows that the effects of the plan greatly increased Western Europe's industrial and agricultural standing.
Thanks for posting this. I've been debating getting one of these micro homes (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nomad-micro-home-easily-as...) and setting it up in Whistler to do exactly the same thing as you are... Airbnb it year round.
I wonder what the neighbors think.
As a Canadian working in SF, I can assure you I owe the Canadian government a big fat check when I go back for the difference in taxes.
Dalvik is the JVM[1] in Android.

[1] Ignore the pedants saying otherwise; it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.
Yes, I think the OP is rather mis-informed. There are plenty of places in the UK where you can get a one bed apartment for between £50-70k and not get a 'brick through the window'.

Are these places you're likely to be able to rent out to full capacity on AirBNB? That's a different question.
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And because there isn't much money to be made in it, you really can't make it scale on the back of its own business-model. So there's really nothing a startup can do to help with these problems.

However, I think there's a case to be made that startups can become an important part of solving these problems: they rake in money from wealthy sectors of the population, they're usually quite high-margin, and they are headed by small, smart, effective groups of people, who could make the decision to engage in Effective Altruism with their proceeds.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is doing more for the world's problems than any little start-up aiming to help people track their dogs' sleep-cycles--but it could have been started way earlier, when Microsoft was way smaller, and still be having just as much of an impact--if it had been the whole organization on-board, instead of just a private hobby of the founder.

(Really, any company could join in on this at any point, but the more bureaucratic and self-sustaining the business culture has become--which usually happens proportionally to scale--the less likely it is to happen. Far easier to convince a few guys in their garage that this is their end-goal-after-the-end-goal, rather than to convince a company already making big money that they should reorganize their corporate vision to doing good.)
Yeah -- the story behind it is intriguing. Also, the states that have their own exchanges use central services provided by the federal gov for subsidy eligibility.

I do think we will see states release data back to the federal gov for ease of use in time. NM and ID already has done this and other states seem to send their raw data to individuals when asked -- suggesting the data can be centralized (e.g. when we reached out to CA for data, they quickly provided their data to us).
How are you promoting Lockitron when they are still not shipping? http://blog.lockitron.com/
If a job hopper hops to get raises, then it's easy to makes sure he stops hopping: pay the employee market rates. If they can't get a raise, they probably won't quit.
We tend to trade back and forth with Stanford for top at Apple too.
His question was does it work without having service. In other words offline mode. I think the answer is that no it does not.
The purpose of web design is to create a document which is appealing to the eye and is laid out in a logically consistent manner. It is a pain in the ass to jump back and forth between an HTML document and a style sheet in order to get various page elements sized correctly and with the right padding/shading/etc. Macaw gives people all of the settings they need side by side with a visual representation of their document. It isn't meant to replace hand-coding. It's instead meant to complement it by taking the pain out of the design work.
How do you go about insuring this? As a second home or as a rental property?
As a guy with a comic book marketplace startup (http://comicswap.com) - I'd have to disagree. Some of the recent prices fetched for key golden age issues are absolutely insane and many of the currently running series are fetching ridiculous prices (Image comics in particular, like The Walking Dead).

However, the bronze age - yep. Very little there worth much.
What is also important to remember is that collections - comic books, baseball cards, stamp collections - whatever - were collected before the internet came along. Therefore, the price was assumed to be what the dealers in such collectibles said the price was. You never really found out what the true market value was unless you actually had a severe cash shortage and sold your 'collectibles'. Then you took what you got given and did not exactly tell everyone that it was a million times less than what you thought you would get.

Therefore, actually having market prices as sold (eBay) rather than having what 'Stanley Gibbons' (stamps) will sell you something for - is bringing an important reality check to things.
Edit: replaced snarky response with this.

It's not just startups -- businesses tend to focus on earning money. I don't know if we can realistically expect private industry to take an interest in social or economic problems. At the lowest level, there are founders trying to choose a niche that gets them from debt to break-even as quickly as possible; at the highest level, you get into transnational corporations which act only in their own interest.

I would be happy if Apple or Google were to dump their excess billions into social welfare or government reform, but it is vanishingly unlikely.
The way I read this article,it seems to me as if the author doesn't think cypherpunks can also be good entrepreneurs.
So, you just need to write down the PIN somewhere you have service, right? Or am I misunderstanding when the PIN gets sent?
Depends on how quickly you can re-rent. If you sign a long lease, the landlord typically offers something lower than "market rate" in exchange for lower risk and less time un-rented.

One thing he doesn't say is what percentage of the time the room was rented; he only says that it wasn't always making him money because he and his friends occasionally stayed there.
When I entered my zip code, the site stated that my state, Arkansas, is running its own exchange. In fact, Arkansas defaulted to the federal exchange.
I really like the mention of Lockitron, the whole 'keyless entry' idea really is going to be the future of AirBnB rentals.

I have several customers who are AirBnB hosts who use my service, Ringo [1], which lets their guests into the units via the apartment buzzer. That combined with Lockitron, and you never need to worry about key transfer again. You can effectively live on a different continent than your AirBnB property.

[1] https://www.tryringo.com
Speaking from the perspective of an interviewer (so assuming you pass the HR filter) it wouldn't be an issue as long as:
1) you had a good story why it was not a fit for you, and
2) why moving to my company, in contrast, is a good fit

While I say "story" above I don't mean something untruthful but rather a concise, credible, and compelling narrative. Concise - because you want to quickly get through this part of the interview and onto the "real" stuff. Credible - because you want me to believe it. Compelling - Because you want the narrative to show a transition to why you are interested in this new company and demonstrate that you are not just "looking for any port in a storm".
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Even still, one would probably expect a different degree of commitment from a 16 year old than a 26 year old.

Regardless, that's awesome. Keep at it.
Having worked years in high-volume retail and foodservice, as well as having extended POS and designed one, I can tell you it's not nearly as easy as it appears.

Software must react ASAP, keeping the customer waiting at the time of payment is one of the easiest ways to lose sales (and employees will leave if it interrupts tips or the customer relationship).

Hardware must also be rock-solid, for the same reason. Happy paying customers are the foundation of a business and any error or downtime is unacceptable.

That is why the vast majority of retailers accept the high cost of POS as the standard cost of doing business.

There are many, many low-cost and free entrants in this space. They quickly discover it is difficult to compete on features with established players:

* Taxes differ by *city* (on products, alcohol, wholesale/resale, shipping,
handling, and more) -- maintaining a correct tax system is a constant process
* One of the top reasons to use POS is comprehensive analytics that gives great
insight into the effectiveness of sales, employees, and timing (creating such
a product is practically a business of its own)
* Users expect to be able to customize almost any data entry, because to make a
sale and happy customers often requires working 'outside' of the
established system

While I believe there is a place for a web-based POS using a modern software stack, the huge amount of work needs a solid business model to pay for it. If you are stuck on open-source, I would suggest doing like Gitlab, sell the service and hosting and give the source away for free.
Having been born the same year as this worm's release, I love reading about these moments in internet history. When I read that Paul Graham and Morris later went on to found Y-Combinator (why didn't I know that already?) I was so excited I shouted at my computer.
Any chance of it to get off the bottom of the charts?

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7...
I'm not that familiar with the Airbnb situation in NY. Why is this a "bad" pattern that NY state has deemed to be a violation of the law?
That may not work if your Secureboot implementation is buggy.

The '80s solution to this problem was way easier, and it worked: a switch on the motherboard required physical access to the machine to flash its firmware.
I like this answer. And I also think as long as you can speak to why you made each move in a positive way you'll be fine. I'm not a recruiter, but I've done hundreds of tech screens when I was at a consulting firm to know the difference when someone's BS'ing through an explanation of a job change.

So I didn't have a set bias for/against people that moved, say, every 6 months, or every 2 years. You just had to have a good explanation.

In the DC/Virginia area, from my experience, most people moved every 6-8 months, or every 2-3 years. Former were more contractor-types, latter were more employee-types. All generally speaking of course. I have both types on my resume, cause I've done both ;-)
The /about link is giving me 404.
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Since 9/11 we've made it "impractically difficult" to hijack an airplane. The flight deck is behind blast doors, and even if someone did manage to sneak a weapon on board, other passengers would more than likely risk life and limb to hold down anybody who got too uppity. This is the real deterrent to terrorism on an airplane, not the TSA.

Yet even though the above came into effect very shortly after 9/11, the public has demanded (and the government has provided) such an extreme overreaction of a response that it borders on insanity.

So now it's too difficult for a terrorist to hijack an airplane. Are there any other areas where people are densely packed, and where it would be easy for a terrorist to bring in heavy weaponry? Perhaps the circus of a security line that's supposed to take away said heavy weaponry? This is a problem of our own creation!

Honestly, anybody who has thought about it for more than a few minutes should have seen this coming. But if you draw out your conclusions (queue jokes about security lines to get to the real security line), it should also be completely obvious that, short of imprisoning the entire country, security from this sort of terrorism is impossible. Yet we continue to escalate rather than de-escalate!

What really scares me is the possibility that we might start to see TSA-like "super" agents armed with assault rifles, just as we see militarization of the police forces in our cities. And we're the ones who are going to suffer for it. Some poor guy is going to get shot while taking apart a stroller or something because it "looked dangerous."

The time to put an end to this stuff is now, before it spirals out of control. One could argue that it's too late, and that the situation is already out of control. But I would like to believe that the tragedy at LAX today can give people pause to really think long and hard about what's possible and what's appropriate rather than immediately jumping into overreaction mode again.
When the HOA finds out he's breaking the terms that he agreed to when purchasing the condo, they'll fine him per offense. Then get a lean on the apartment.
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You are assuming that "destroy the banks" is the win condition. I'm saying that's not correct. It's a long game.
$200 monthly for a local cleaner who does unlimited cleans AND handles the bookings/inquiries??? That's quite a steal!
So the whole post is suspect?
Getting the cleaner to manage 'guest relations' for this cheap is probably a great deal not easy to replicate.

Handling them poorly could quickly result in bad reviews.

On the other hand, those kind of profits are really just short term until the market catches up. People are not stupid to not take easy profit and / or governments will crack down with regulation and taxes.
They've shipped a few devices already.
That's messed up for the neighbors. Please don't do this.
More specifically: What if they completely trash the place? How remote is he, and could he travel to do the repairs on sudden notice? Could legal wrangling over the damage make it no longer worthwhile? What about future guests who are displaced by a damaged and unlivable apartment? What would you do if your neighbor became fed up with unruly guests and tried to do something about it (legal or otherwise)?
Benchmarks aren't, and never will be, the reason for using Ruby on Rails. Quite a bit would have to change in Ruby the language in order for the detractors of Rails to change their minds, and lets be honest, Rails wasn't built for those type of people anyway.
When he involves the magic of Lisp macros he goes beyond anything any other language family can do.

I tend to agree, or at least I prefer the (optional) modularity I can achieve in Lisps to any other language family.
Much of this is due to the DSHEA[1][2], which really needs to be repealed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Supplement_Health_And_E...
[2] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/dshea-a-travesty-of-a-mo...
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well, that's a tricky calculation. It's possible that Apple and MS have miscalculated the backlash on this, and they will be net losers. As for morality, although I disagree with it, there is a moral case for intellectual property rights. That this absurdity is an outcome of it suggests that there's something wrong with the foundational moral assumptions, but given that people are calling this a "nuclear" case - it's reasonable that many people did not forsee this coming.

4.5 billion dollars. If lawyers are even taking 1% of that - good gosh. So many other things in this world 45 million could be better spent on.