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> I'm not sure why exactly the pendulum swung so hard to conservative side

In Afghanistan, because in the wake of the Soviet takeover, the US (and Pakistan and some others) threw lots of money into funding religious extremists to fight the Communists, which was eventually successful, at least to the extent of forcing out the Soviets and establishing something like control by the religious extremists of much of the country (though competing warlords were still a factor.)

To a certain extent, similar factors are present in the Middle East (at least to the extent of religious extremism being a product of forces that were backed by superpowers for geopolitical reasons during the Cold War.)
Unlikely, but not because of a lack of appeal. I'm getting older, having a kid next year, and time for video games has slowly vanished for me.

I sure do miss those teenage years of being able to pour hours a day into an immersive masterpiece like FFVII.
Some researches from the Singularity team moved on for the same type of work for Windows.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/
This is my current setup:

http://www.squidoo.com/uhost-android-mini-pc-review

specifically:

http://s19.postimage.org/f82vickg3/uhost_air_mouse.jpg (the device on the right - the left is the actual Android machine itself)

It would be wonderful if it had a keyboard and better-quality accelerometers. But it's just too coarse and clumsy as an airmouse, and Android is touch-based so you need a perfect pointer to make it pleasant.
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No big deal, its pretty reliable, but also, but i got an MX at a friend's place. Never lost a mail, even if my server goes down for a couple of days.

Mail actually retries for a certain amount of time by default, so short downtime generally causes no problem at all. Longer ones do require the 2nd MX, but yeah, I do that.
In about 15 years i think the backup MX helped twice so far (which is probably totally worth it)

the mail itself is also replicated there in fact
Many of them you can open upward in one fluid motion. I find this much easier.
It's not like the other realistic choice in 2012 would have been any better about this stuff.

The root of the problem is that the majority of voters like this stuff. Americans are, by and large, terrified of terrorists (imagine that) and want their government doing everything imaginable to stop it. Never mind that terrorism is less dangerous than e. coli or sharks, it's an important issue to a lot of people. That is what we need to change, not a few politicians. Convince the public, and the rest will follow. Not that I have any clue how to even start.
Sounds like any business really.
If they're ISOs, they're actually legally required to expire the options 90 days after termination. More information here: http://blog.jparkhill.com/2008/03/07/why-do-stock-options-ex...
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I enjoy watching game trailers.

I own a PS3 and would love to pick up a PS4.

I will not do so.

On the PS3 I used to play Call of Duty and after a few weeks, I looked at the number of hours I had spent on the system. It was in the range of 50-60 hours I believe.

I basically decided that although fun, I wasn't getting anything long term out of playing. So I stopped. I can use that time to learn, read, spend with family and friends.

The bad thing is that these games aren't designed for short term game play. I know myself and getting a PS4 would involve me spending a large amount of time playing. It would be tremendously fun but the time sink would not be worth it.

So, regretfully, I'll stick to playing World of Goo or some other quick play game on my iPhone instead of getting the big guns.
I only wish Visual Studio retained the same MVCRT/MSVCP runtime libraries, or at least some backward-compability mechanism.

It really boils down to this - if you do plugin development for a product (Adobe's, Autodesk, etc.) or ffi-bindings for some language or environment, then you have to make sure you use the same CRT version as the host application.

And while statically linking to your CRT in your plugin DLL might work, it might not always - hopefully most people have found workarounds - for example not exposing "FILE*" or memory allocations/deallocations across DLL boundaries - e.g. alloc/free is done from the same DLL. But sometimes things like C++ exceptions make this even harder.

And now I'm seeing VS2013 brings yet another new CRT. Oh bummer!
No, they're using radars as well.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/safety-regu...
The point is that the internals of old cars are actually old, not just old designs.
This takes more work but often yields better benefits. Adsense and BSA are easy, drop in some code and wait, with no fear of rejection. It's hard calling up companies, pitching yourself, and getting rejected but that's what you have to do to get more than $1k for half million impressions/mo in a niche like this one.
Yes, we are porting string processing routines to OpenCL. We are going to have many of the Java libraries accessible within the compiled GPU code, including file system I/O.
If memory serves we'd eat (har har) between 1-4 bucks on each chicken depending on it's price (those went on sale a lot).

Grocery functions successfully on average product margin of around 40-45% --

So when you calculate that pre-made mashed potatoes and coleslaw are massively overpriced, it balances out. There's a good chunk of psychology here as well. The person who is buying a pre-cooked chicken is the same person who isn't going to mash their own potatoes or make their own slaw. Get them hooked with cheap chicken, everything else seems like a fair price too.

It's really a fun job, thinking back on it.
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Yup you said it- it's not a major currency yet, so it's not "competition." ¥ -> BTC != ¥ -> $|€|£ etc. No manipulation of a central bank can effect BTC's value. Not only does yuan get "kept in the system" through govt-regulatable Chinese exchanges, it's not pegged to other nation's currencies, which China hates.

Remember Romney's line about "going after China for their illegal currency manipulations?" Heh.
For drawing, you can get away with larger tips, but I cannot understand how can people use those soft-rubber tips for capacitive screens, where the center-point of contact is actually moving as you scrub the screen. For comparison, I use a Wacom Intuos 5 large, and I'm already noticing that the pen tilt affects the position of the cursor (a 45' angle moves the point up to 0.5mm in the direction of tilt).

I saw several people taking notes with those pens though, but the note-taking applications offer a large "writing" area where you can write text as big as 4cm in height. I honestly cannot write efficiently at that size.

The "Pencil" here also has such a large tip that clearly covers the area of contact even if you use it with the short side up. I assume you will be able to figure out the point of contact after a while, but I would have chosen a normal pen design, not an "artisan pencil" at all.
It’s coming: http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/12/playstation-4-will-suppor...
The point here is that those stay server-side and are thrown away together with the messages when they get deleted. Whatever's sent to the client can be stored by him/her indefinitely.

BTW. There is probably a time limit: if this is really a MAC, then the key used to generate it is most likely rotated once in a while.
Exactly what security features do you think Docker is providing that LXC isn't?
If you haven't noticed, Obama is big on taking advice from those around him. The people who surround him are mostly young and new age. So tumblr is the way to go.

Obama himself is a speaker, a talker, a rephraser. And a very articulate one. His intelligence (or lack thereof) has never truly been revealed because he never does the thinking.
>Wait, the retailer takes a significant cut too.

They don't. They really don't. I'd be surprised if the retailer made more than $5-10 on the console.
Thanks these are great!
As does every other TV and player manufacturer. We're not talking about PCs here, or 3rd-party remote manufacturers. We're talking about Sony, Samsung, and LG and the baked-in TV software.

They control the screen, the software, and the controller, same as Apple. They're just not as good at it as Apple.

I don't like Apple - I don't like the horrifying complete lock-in of hardware/software/media. But I admit something: Apple wins because they're the best. Period.
I'm not sure I would trust storing my files using a service from China. Maybe that sounds rude, but I feel like there is a demonstrated timeline of trouble here....
You bring up a great point. I didn't cover mobile development specifically as we hadn't had a use case for a mobile app yet as the site is full responsive. I opted for more of a blanketed statement in the section on "Developer Liberation" as to how the API covers all client bases equally well.
Right. These problems are all addressable. We're using a streaming scheme to ensure that the bus bandwidth is fully utilized for each GPU. Moreover, a dispatcher will intelligently partition and distribute jobs across multiple hosts.
They're around 20%. Increasing that to 50-60% (as you need t consider the inefficiencies of batteries, transportation of electricity, not just the efficiency of the motor itself) won't save the planet. It helps, but what we need is fusion or something like that.
Great initiative, I personally prefer to refer to this as "Eat your own sh*t".
'razors and razor blades'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing
Only if you're tall enough.
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From what I understand, the GPU computing target is a loop parallelizer a la Microsoft's C++ AMP.
Alcohol is a staple loss-leader in UK supermarkets.

Lose money on the alcohol, recoup it on everything people end up buying along with it.
A normal stylus is dumb and only does a line. This stylus allows for change in depth.
So why is this a 1984-esque rights trampling? New houses have to have lever handles. I'm sure they also have to be wired safely. Why should someone who is disabled only have a subset of houses to choose from?
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I'm a vim guy, but it's wrong to look down on IDEs as pure crutches. They're just tools. In the end, expressive power is conferred more by paradigm and language than editor.

In this case, IntelliSense gives you visibility into available methods and their signatures right in the environment. When working in a larger codebase (LLVM in my case), it's very helpful to not have to look up documentation. Then there are tools like ReSharper which you can think of as "higher-order editing" tools that understand the semantics of the code and use it as a basis for manipulation, rather than simply modifying the textual representation of the code.

Vim is great at manipulating text, but not as good at understanding the code. IDEs are worse at manipulating, but a bit better at the latter. For most things, I reach for Vim. For bigger code bases, I'm pretty happy in an IDE, as long as it stays out of my way.
Well, it depends on how you measure 'yield'. 60% yield at hitting "high-spec" could easily mean 90% yield at "low-spec".
I absolutely LOVE the paper app. This is so cool.
So you're basically asserting that by definition nobody can ever overpay for anything?
Indeed. For two-way detection, the two ecliptics must be in the same plane.

Or more accurately, the two ecliptics must be close enough to a common plane, where the common plane passes through both planets and "close enough" means within half a degree on Earth's side.
EFI even talks FAT and there exists licensing such that you can use FAT for EFI reasons without any patent worries. I'm not saying that's a bad decision, just pointing out it is another thing that happened.

I heard that fact in a linux.conf.au talk by the guy what did UEFI work for linux [0]. If you're sad to hear about the Microsoft influence, dude isn't too hot on the implementation of this new standard in general. Interesting talk though, digging up the link to post it here means I'm going to give it another watch.

[0] EFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful - Matthew Garrett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U
I have the first world problem of having a huge gaming backlog for the PC due to the extra-cheap Humble Bundles, so I'm passing on a console until the consoles become cheaper or offer a bundle.
The article seems to really skew things for some reason. As others have pointed out, it's actually very common for consoles to sell at little or no margin.

Importantly for Sony, the cost of manufacturing the PS4, relative to the cost of the system at retail versus how things were with the PS3 is a vast improvement. Sony is likely taking a small loss on the console, but took very large losses when initially selling the PS3.

They were in the position of having to sell a lot of games and accessories to make up for the loss on the PS3, whereas even a single game or accessory sale probably makes up most if not all of their loss on the PS4.

The article also really misses some crucial points. For one, it's not just about games. There are accessories (controllers, playstation camera, controller charging stations, covers, etc.), digital downloads (skins, avatars, etc.), Playstation Plus, Sony's music streaming service, and a whole array of revenue streams that are fairly high margin and in most circumstances the loss they took on the console should be made up quickly.

From another angle, Sony is already at a price advantage and there's a decent chance they won't discount the device as manufacturing prices drop. This is the exact opposite position the PS3 was in as it was much more expensive than it's competition and Sony had to continually discount the machine to stay in the running with the Xbox 360.

Finally, a small aside. I think it's interesting now that the PS4 is on x86 and using a straightforward unified memory architecture. Doing a bump on this (double memory, double cores, double GPU compute units) doesn't seem very far fetched and could probably happen at
a similar price point within 5 years. This would give Sony a new console with a huge back catalog of games that would not need to be ported (and could even have "HD" add-ons for download), plus a bunch of new power for games on an architecture developers are already familiar with. All this and it would likely cost a lot less to develop as opposed to developing new hardware from scratch as has been done for every generation previously. I think it would be an interesting move and could allow Sony to have a long running platform to compete with.
Tested in our WebRTC app for remote teams, Sqwiggle (https://www.sqwiggle.com) - it works flawlessly.

From a developer standpoint it's only good news that Opera has moved to webkit at this point.
The best part about this is that it describes equity as what it should be: an incentive to do a great job. The problem that I see with most startups (especially in SF) is that they treat equity as a replacement for salary.

Sorry, guys, but equity doesn't pay the bills. Furthermore, it's delayed and potential gratification. First, there's generally a 1 year cliff, which means I'm effectively taking a salary hit for 1 year for no good reason (unless you matched my original salary). So like I said, equity is not a replacement for salary. Second, your company may be valued at $400M, but my options are worthless until you get acquired, sell, or IPO.

You're basically saying "I'll give you X salary and I'll also give you Y pieces of paper that will hopefully be worth Z dollars in the future, but I can't promise anything."

IMO, equity should be treated as a benefit along the same lines as free lunches or vacation days. It should be a bonus. If you offer me X salary and Y equity, then X should be enough to pay my bills and Y should be enough to incentivize me work my ass off for you.

My two cents, anyway.
its a great example of the failure of the hellbanned concept. time to ditch it and stop looking like "TOTAL ASSHOLE HACKER NEWS YCOMBINATOR"?

Or are the admins/moderators really this oversensitive? Cry more. Grow up noobs.
Suing Top Gear was a fairly aggressive move.
there is still no reason to assume that it will ever stop having these extreme fluctuations.

Actually I was thinking about this yesterday, and I think if/when goods start to be priced in BTC (not just "fixed USD value converted to current BTC equivalent") that could help anchor the value of BTC.
Totally agree with you. Actually I came to comments to say exactly that
LXC provides all the features. Except some protection that can at the moment only be provided by AppArmor or another MAC system. I'm not sure what are the LXC defaults are - But I assume that docker uses more restrictive defaults: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/master/lxc_template....

I'm still learning about LXC so my post regarding security may be inaccurate. I'd just thought I'd share it because a lot of people think it's as secure as a virtual machine. I hope soon it is.
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And still do a startup on the side while you're at it... besides meeting future cofounders on the job.
Why do I need to login if I want to post a comment anonymously?
"crisis for 50 years" is a bit of an oxymoron.
That website doesn't load for me.
HTC made one like that
How do you feel about low-flow toilets.
The explanation of this particular quote is like 5 minutes long on YouTube. If you don't spend that much time to listen to an argument, it's unlikely that you have a well founded opinion on programming languages anyway.
Mary Doria Russell put it memorably (for me) in this quote,

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/417319-we-all-make-vows-jimm...

It's longer, but here's one part. The speaker is explaining being married 4 times to 4 different men (each named George--the "same" person).

"Every ten years or so, George and I have faced the fact that we have changed and we've had to decide if it makes sense to create a new marriage between these two new people. . . . Which is why vows are such a tricky business. Because nothing stays the same forever."
I downvoted you for your bias about marriage vows being meaningless in a non-religous context.

It may be difficult for the religious to understand, but atheists and agnostics can certainly be as moral or more so as a religious person. Those of us that are not religious can derive our morality from valid sources other than religion, including real life. Humans do not require morality from a higher power, and to assert otherwise is to assert your own bigotry.
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Re your comment about currency production costs: A spike in electricity costs would directly effect existing bitcoins' value. A spike in cloth paper prices would not cause a meaningful change in the value of already-printed dollars. And the price of the dollar would spike with electricity costs indirectly. They're not the same, it's an invalid comparison that neatly evades their inherent technological and conceptual differences.

"Store of exchange-value" != currency, and BTC is currently behaving best in that role. Admirably, really- see how it's spreading like hotcakes in China. That's as a store of exchange value, not a currency.

You can't turn your gold "back into" ore or your diamonds "back into" carbon. The cost of an airline ticket is mostly determined by the current price of fuel.

When BTC starts to be used as a currency in earnest we can revisit the issue. Although at that point, you will be able to exchange your BTC back into electricity or other commodities through speculation or arbitrage. Which you can actually do directly right now if you know the right people, anyway. Profitably.
I think this is right. There's a (let's say) 0.01% chance of false positives and being detained and hassled by FedGov border cops, and this guy was in that category.

It's not just American border cops. Like the parent poster, I had bad experience entering Canada. I truthfully told the border agents I was a journalist arriving to speak at an Internet law conference at the University of Ottawa's law school, but I didn't ask the conference organizers for a written invitation and therefore couldn't produce one.

The Canadian border guards took me to a side room and interrogated me what seemed like an hour. It was an unpleasant experience, especially given the uncertainty about whether I'd return home or be able to enter the country or be banned from entry for a period of time. My now-spouse was living in Canada at the time, so the last option would be the worst. They did make a pretense of looking on the school's web site for the conference, but (from what I could glimpse) were looking at the French version, not the English version where the conference was actually listed. Or maybe they found it and were intentionally playing dumb.

Eventually I was admitted. Ironically, the conference was sponsored by the Canadian government!
The claim, as claimed, is wrong. Plenty of people have faith in it.
Meh, I firmly believe mobile apps are the best passive income generators available today, and it's only going to get better. SEO and blogging is just a pain. If you want to go the blogging route, try to game Pinterest instead. A lot of money to be made there.
I love how the email from FB began with "hi," as if it were a note from your dear grammy checking in with you.

The deadline was 5PM PST - how many days (or hours) did you have to comply?
I have a sub-$100/month bandaid insurance from Anthem that includes 4 checkup visits a year, has been more than sufficient.
It improved substantially during the life of the console. Unfortunately for Sony, it took about 3 years after launch for the manufacturing price to line up with the price at retail.

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps3-manufacturing-costs-dow...
I did this when I first started writing REST APIs. It felt natural and the "right" way to do it. However, it didn't scale well.

And I'm not talking about website scalability with traffic.

It eventually made development more difficult than it was worth. For example, doing things like enabling/disabling an object is a whole API call rather than a simple UPDATE statement. Either you have to set up an API endpoint to handle toggling the status of that object, or you have to send a whole (sparse) request just to flip a flag. Stuff like that can be tedious.

I love REST APIs and I loved what they have done for the web, but I've changed my mind over the last few months that this separation of design is always necessary.
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I find the number of people schilling for Docker mindblowing.

"I don't know much about LXC, and I don't know what the defaults are, but I assume that this trivial wrapper around LXC provides more security".
You've said that the US is as varied as Europe. You said that we can stretch that to languages. You gave an example of needing to speak Spanish to get around some parts of the US.

Spain itself has Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Basque. Sure, you can probably just use Spanish. But about 15% of the Spanish population - living in Spain for generations - don't speak Spanish as a first language.

None if this is about which country / continent is "better".
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http://play.basketball-gm.com/

Completely 100% client-side JavaScript. Possibly makes heavier use (abuse?) of IndexedDB than any other website.
Are you from Pakistan? or somewhere else?

For Americans getting a visa seems to be easy. Maybe not for some other countries?