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Is there a way to "bump" bug reports responsibly? For example, the proposal for persistent app-tabs (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551849) seems to have stalled and the original creator now works for Google.
The author isn't a journalist. Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel-prize-winning economist.
Axe to grind, much? "Despots"? Really? What, do you work for Typesafe or Relevance or somebody with a vested interested in slagging Groovy, or what?!??
As a non-designer techie I'm always amazed when I see articles showing the subtle differences in the new iOS or OSX.

I usually don't consciously perceive the subtlety, so seeing these detailed articles helps me appreciate the effort that went into the design.
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Nope. I said what I meant. Java is alot of things. I was talking about all of them. I used to be part of Sun's Java Center.
Only when you are directly attacked and use reasonable force ie some one pulls a knife or gun on you you are legitimately able to claim self defense if you end up killing them but not if they bump into accidentally on the tube.

Oh and if the state does it legally its not murder.
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Yeah but - these are powered by CR2032s - typical capacity is around 200 milli Amp Hours, and they're usually rated at a maximum continuous current of 1mA with 10mA "pulse" capacity. That's a continuous 0.003W or pulses of 0.03W.

It's probably not _impossible_ to start a fire with a pair of CR2032s, but you're going to have to set it up that way on purpose – the chance of "accidentally" creating enough heat to set non-intensionally-incendiary materials alight is low enough to be ignored.

(Note, I carry a pair of these cells around in my pocket - an LED light attached to my keyring. These cheapo lights rely on the internal resistance in the battery to current limit the LED, with a white LED across a pair of cells, the battery's own resistance is enough to keep the current down under the "let the smoke out" limit of the LED - it might be more than 20mA, but it can't be heaps more.)
Because they are separate sides to the same thing. Westerners smile as a "neutral" stance, but to a Russian it feels disingenuous because smiling isn't "neutral" but is suppose to convey something.
I heard PATRIOT Act....
ok, I do understand the distinction you are making.

I am not sure how you are so confident that the NSA was not at all involved in this capture, and that parallel construction was therefore entirely unnecessary.

When reading that article, and various other sources, one thing that stands out is that even after arresting an administrator - which did lead to various other arrests - they still had no direct link or identification for Ulbricht.

Ulbricht was careful enough that although the police were apparently communicating directly with him, and arresting a number of others that were more directly involved, there was no way for them to locate or identify him.

Note, that this remains true even after he believes that one of his contacts has murdered someone on his behalf.
He maintains the firewall between himself and that contact.

Frankly, that is fairly impressive, he must have been a careful man.

Suddenly they find a link buried in the forever webs between a nickname he uses and his actual name and bingo, they have him.

Now, it entirely could have gone down like that. It is completely plausible. Most likely the link was there all along, just waiting for someone to stumble on it.

BUT, that is rather the point of parallel construction, isn't it? to bridge the gap between the information they have and the information that they can present in court, in a totally plausible way.

I am not claiming the truth to be one way or the other, who knows (hell, who cares in this case), but I am claiming that to disregard the possibility and maintain that it is absurd is to ignore the fact of parallel construction and the fact of its frequent use.
Plenty of spaces like restaurants or airports leave sports on TV. If it cost them more money to show sports, they might not play the games at restaurants, and perhaps might even turn the TV off. That's a win for folks like me that dislike background screens displaying anything[1], and particularly dislike sports playing. Now if only CNN, Fox, and other "news" stations would do the same...

1: After not having TV for years, I'm drawn to any screen like a bug to light. I find it extremely difficult to focus on things if there's a screen in the background showing any sort of moving image. I notice people that do have TVs seem to be able to just leave them on as ambient audio/video.
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http://ussenate-f.akamaihd.net/i/govtaff111813.mp4/master.m3... may work for you in VLC.
Yes the guy in the background. It is actually funny but I am afraid getting downvote for saying that haha :)
I bought into that deal and have been hugely disappointed. Half the streams don't load and many other games are blacked out locally so I had to buy a TV antenna to watch them live. Despite my best efforts to follow the rules and watch legally, I still end up on sketchy free sites because they work more reliably.
I love Groovy, and am excited about this release. Pretty much our entire app stack is based on Groovy + Grails, and that's one decision that I basically could not be happier with. Switching from Java + (Struts|Wicket|Tapestry|Spring MVC|whatever) to Grails & Groovy has worked out amazingly well for us.

Not to say Groovy is perfect, as it's not... the performance could still stand to get better, for one thing. But it's "good enough" for what we're doing, and I do expect the situation to improve over time.
I am working on some solution to this problem. I have created tool which helps you find profitable keyword niches in Google: metrics11.com
A site like you-tube rarely goes down, and when it does happen I'm sure anyone would wonder if they are the only one.
Similar to http://ioccc.org/ ?
As a Russian living in US, this article was pretty much spot on. Let's not counter generalizations with more generalizations.
Where did the traits go? The wording seems rather definite in this announcement and rather lengthy mailing discussion [1] in June this year:

> We're looking forward to implementing an often requested feature: traits! Our existing @Mixin transformation isn't ideal as it's bug-ridden and hard to properly fix, and has the drawback that Java frameworks don't "see" the mixed-in methods -- like the recent thread related to Spring MVC showed.
So having an AST transformation that would be "static" would help in such situations.

The feature list in 2.2 is fairly sparse for a point release, and still no traits and the mixins are still buggy and unable to see mixed-in methods.

[1] http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Adding-Trait-to-Groovy-td...
The files we have today on the computer contain font programs. These programs can be interpreted in software to yield the needed fonts (= face-size combinations) on demand.

Edited to add: But none of this changes the fact that Adobe Garamond and Garamond 3 and ITC Garamond are not the same typeface. If you wrote the original article, you should probably update it to fix this mistake before readers start getting the wrong idea.
Get with the program, welfare is terrible. Unless of course its welfare for the wealthy.
This also seems like a useful companion piece to "Why the tech press is ignoring Zulily's huge IPO" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6740927).
It's actually #introduction (no plural), but yes, we are a friendly bunch!
The FBI and CIA can use Bitcoin to anonymously pay off foreign informants though
JVM a downside? I like the JVM. And I love Groovy. It has the easy syntax and familiarity of Java, but instead of using all the ugly stupid stuff of Java, you can also use all the cool fun stuff of Ruby. It's a very enjoyable balance with the best of both worlds.
That's a totally fair point. They're really visually distinct, especially to someone with any eye for type. Garamond is confusing because it's so old and so influential. Maybe it would have been better to choose something like Futura which, I think, most people would agree is a single typeface but can be purchased digitally from multiple foundries as a distinct font.
I like when immigrants or wannabes shit all over theirs own people saying that, "it's not culture, it's just everyone is miserable and suffering, because of Stalin, Putin and gulag". I can tell you, fellow foreigners, this behavior is also part of culture for centuries already too.
$500000 is inadequate sum of money in his circumstances. He was making at least $300000 per year and he should have planned for at least 15 years of unemployment (50 to 65 when his pension kicks in). His saving rate should have been higher but I would not judge somebody with 8 kids for not saving enough for retirement.
Hah, well that's one way of looking at it. In theory, though, speculation does play an important role with food, futures establishing scarcity or abundance over a long enough time period so that new crops can be planted, or new land brought into cultivation, to balance things out. Albeit, not sure about in practice.
What does it mean to be a Russian-American? He left the country when he was 5? He was born in US to Russian parents? His comment is pretty ignorant. The article is fairly accurate.
This is an extremely awkwardly constructed first sentence. Top Bloomberg editors were killing Chinese workers??:

"A reporter for Bloomberg News who worked on an unpublished article about China, which employees for the company said had been killed for political reasons by top Bloomberg editors, was suspended last week by managers. "
Speculation excluded, currency controls would be a good reason for a Chinese citizen to "invest" in bitcoin (and cash it out on USD at the other side.)
I really don't hate Java at all. It's had a generally beneficial impact in all sorts of places. But I wonder with the change-over in leadership for Android[1] if we aren't seeing signals that Google wants to consolidate all of its apps under Chrome. One possible motivation is that they may not want to leave a core technology under the control of Oracle forever.

1. http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/07/17/google-is-holding-a-...
That's why I never agree to any terms and conditions online.
> "But hollow disruption porn and worse-is-better are still fucking tragedies."

What do you mean?
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How did the government create the derivatives bubble? Seems like the exact opposite happened: the government massively deregulated things, then just a few years later there was a bubble.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization...

Since the bubble burst, what corrections has the free market made to prevent there isn't another one?

So much of the rhetoric about "free markets" seems to come from looters who resent the government eliminating ways to make money by rent-seeking, collusion and fraud rather than producing useful goods.

(edit: fixed link)
The dot-com bubble was late 90s very early 2000s. The established dates of birth for the baby boomer generation are from 1946-1964. In the year 2000 this puts the age range of the baby boomers from 36-54 years old. That means none of the baby boomers were retirement age. So I'm not sure how your explanation of them retiring is correct?
I don't know what $100,000 would change for me.

Basically, God's gotta become known to the world. The news is supressing God talking.

Once the news gets out that God talks... I win.

My retard jew-nigger CIA enemy thinks he can suppress God indefinitely.

Game over, I win, end of world.

Give up.

$100,000 and some kind conventional thinking is retarded--what would I fucken do with $100,000? God talks and international news is the only sensible course.

-----

Judgement day mother fuckers.

God says...
you're_out_of_your_mind youre_welcome just_between_us caution
uh_huh repent what_do_you_expect oops industrious you're_out_of_your_mind
taxes epic_fail crash_and_burn like_like joking you're_no_fun
evolution no_more_tears astrophysics King_Midas home bank
talk_to_my_lawyer au_revoir Watch_this I_could_be_wrong
prosperity how_come

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Brendan thinks he's clever jedi mind tricking into "Of course you have memory protection". DOS and the C64 had no memory protection. It's perfectly fine without it. Protection matters when you have buggy applications that access memory they shouldn't. If you do not have bugs, memory protection never does anything, but slow everything down and make it complicated.

Just quit with jedi mind tricks. Nobody is fooled. Everybody knows the score.
We've got lists of recommended contributions for newcomers, and they come with a mentor attached as well: http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/
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I suspect that historians, given free access to a very very wide range of writings (and of course all the works attributed to Satoshi) and whatever the modern analysis techniques will be will make quick work of figuring out who Satoshi was.

Few writings remain truly anonymous if the author also wrote significant amounts non-anonymously (and these days, who doesn't?).

For his sake, I hope he isn't uncovered during his lifetime, but assuming bitcoin remains relevant I greatly suspect that history books will eventually have his name.
Ratpack, Graffiti, Gaelyk, Portofino.
It's hard to judge something as "mature" because this is often synonymous with bloated, filled with magic, etc. So for my money, lightweight frameworks like Sinatra for Ruby are more mature that Rails. Most languages have frameworks inspired by Sinatra, or in Python, frameworks that preceded the whole Rails and framework hypestorm.
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A container can expose ports that the application is running on to the host. For instance, one of my web server containers might expose 9000 to the host. You could access 9000 directly from the host or you can setup nginx to forward 80 to 9000 if that's what you want. Something like that.
Still looks like they're trying to give it the kiss of death to me.

Relevant:

http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/groups/comms-ic/documents/websit...

Now, complying with regulation for medical devices is very expensive. Their high end estimate for the costs to a company that wanted to import _a_ product into the UK for sale sits at £266,000. A figure I consider to be rather optimistically low. And that assuming that

'57. Our MA cost estimates assume that applicants would not have to conduct expensive animal and post-market-authorisation human clinical trials to satisfy MHRA that the risks to health from long term inhalation of ENDS
vapour are acceptable. However, this may not be the case and MHRA assessors might ask for these additional trials. The one-off costs of conducting these additional trials would probably run into several hundreds of thousands of pounds. '

A lot of the strength of the e-cig market is in its diversity, you can get a lot of different flavours, and a lot of different devices to get the experience you want. Which this sort of thing would make very costly. And it's worth noting that the MHRA is fairly blatantly against diversity in flavours, it's even mentioned as one of the things they'd do in options 1.

And all this in a paper that notes:

'The policy might only need to be marginally unsuccessful for it to be considered a costly failure. If the design and implementation of the policy has the effect of reducing access to NCPs (particularly ENDS) then it is possible that the number of successful quit attempts could decline. If there were no substantial countervailing health gains from improvements in safety, the policy’s overall impact could be highly negative.'

If they push this through to the hilt, I rather suspect that we'll end up with just the big companies trading their crappy little fake-cigs.

At this stage it's a matter of seeing how the EU breaks on the issue. With big tobacco attempting to kill off their competitors before they become large enough to defend themselves, BT being one of the few who can afford that sort of thing, I'm not hugely hopeful of that.
That's even stranger - apparently Aereo only allows you to use an antenna where you have your CC billing ZIP code. Which means I can't just sign up for any programming I want. How is Aereo any different than me installing an antenna and Slingbox? Sure, it's more streamlined and the user doesn't have to screw around with hardware, but conceptually, Aereo could even mount the antenna where the user is and stream from their home Internet connection.

I was under the impression Aereo would rent you an antenna+DVR in any place, so you could watch programming from another state/country. As-is, I can't see what the fuss is about...
Reality doesn't work like that. The stress and depression from lack of income and the prospect of homelessness will rapidly destroy the "good feelings" that power love and a relationship as well as many women's attraction to their male partner.

If a woman can escape homelessness and poverty by re-marrying someone else, it seems to be a rational choice. Do you really think she would tough it out with him on the streets just for the sake of "love?" Why -- to avoid a latent feeling of guilt? We are all self-interested beings, even the love we offer others is in our own self-interest.

I would have got my spousal visa to Germany asap and headed there with the wife, personally.
One of the amazing things about our food subsidies is that they skew towards subsidizing things like row crops: wheat and corn, and indirectly subsidize grain-fed meat.

And they don't subsidize things like vegetables.

Now, what do Americans not eat enough of? And it's partly because they're too expensive compared to cheap grains and cheap grain-fed meat?
Funny how the USA goes all socialist over football and other sports - in the uk you used have to pay that nice Mr Murdoch to watch most soccer.

Which makes my ex employers kick in the balls to the sky monopoly even more sweeter
You nailed it. I lived in a Honda Civic this summer as I was getting a startup off the ground (http://www.austenallred.com/founders-never-say-die/), and I had a half dozen people offer to let me stay at their place or crash on their couch rent-free.

I was certainly grateful for their hospitality, however self-sufficiency, even if it comes to the extent of living in a car and scalping soccer tickets for a living, feels completely different than being a welfare case. As a result, I wasn't living in a car for lack of other options, but rather out of belief that I could create something by sheer will-power, and that I was going to do that come hell or high water. My homelessness was a matter of seeking something greater than myself, not being lost to poverty.

Sure, it wasn't convenient to live in a car, and it made some parts of life a little more complex. But you can read some Thoreau, realize how free you really are, and work on what you love and believe in every minute of every day. That's powerful, whether it's a startup or getting back on your feet.
Actually, Italians are racers: https://www.google.com/search?q=italians+are+racers
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Why exactly is that a reason to be afraid? What are they afraid of?
Sorry no, i leave sociology long ago and making software as most of HN visitors.

Very few of humanitarian science publications is translating from Russian, on the other hand things that opinion journalism is revealing often weird and politicized.

If you want some kind of overview of Russian specific, writers done this work better than scientists through generalized characters and situations. Reading cultural researches you'll be surprised by amount of fictional references.

I can recommend few for a not-dry reading.

N.Leskov "The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea"
http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/russian-culture/lefty.doc
This is short, partially based on actual events story about XIX century engineer. Its perfect crystal describes difference between russian and western mentality and engineering.
I think its touching the russia-west problems not yielding C. P. Snow lectures about western intellectual life )

I.Ilf, I.Petrov "Twelve chairs"
http://lib.ru/ILFPETROV/ilf_petrov_12_chairs_engl.txt
about "entrepreneur" life in early XX.
It's full of killing precise WTF persons and situations, that still filling everyday life.
They call themselves "despots" in the link you replied to. Btw, I don't work for any company with a vested interest against Groovy, but am reimplementing Groovy as a side project. I think Groovy and its apps like Grails should be kept separate if they developers to build things using Groovy, like in pretty much every other language.
Just sold off my bitcoin at $700.
Who knows where the price will go next. Hope I won't regret this too much... :)
Imagine a country where 1 million extra housing units only represented 1/1300th of the housing needs for the nation. Imagine someone having built 625 extra apartments in SF.

China is trying to urbanize 300 million people, a ghost city here or there is a drop in the bucket.
Just using "sort(hash-keys())" instead of "hash-keys()" should be a trivial patch that fixes this.
(> smartparens paredit) ;; true

https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens
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I've read articles about Russian sense of community, no behavioral protocols, politeness or rules, but a simple yet strong habit of sharing both bad and good times.
You keep repeating the same thing all over this discussion, are you?
> unless I read this wrong, this protocol does not
> describe how the initial call is initiated, just how the
> video and audio is negotiated and transferred over the web.

Correct. The underlying application is responsible for initiating calls, using a protocol such as SIP.

> there is no way to federate with google hangout or
> other WebRTC services, is there?

That's up to the service. Hangouts doesn't permit federation, but there should be no technical barriers to launching a federated video-chat service.
I use it to debug android stock browser without ADB, or USB for that matter. I have a bookmarklet set up so I don't have to add the script to the page. The safari debugger is far superior for mobile safari on iOS, though. Primarily because js debugging in weinre is almost nonexistent in comparison.
The area appears to have a high murder rate, as mentioned in some other news articles.
Correction, you must install paredit

Or the newer Smartparens: https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens/wiki
Isn't Jenny McCarthy married to Jim Carey.
The blackout restrictions are annoying, but I haven't had any problem with loading the streams that aren't blacked out. My major complaint is the poor quality of the streams; the bitrate is far too low. Hopefully the NFL comes to their senses and takes internet streaming in house soon.
Words are cheap. People, things, circumstances, beliefs, ideals all change with time.
Interesting. I'm guessing that was meant to be mostly tongue in cheek, much like referring to Guido as the "Benevolent Dictator for Life" of Python.

Btw, I don't work for any company with a vested interest against Groovy, but am reimplementing Groovy as a side project.

Sounds pretty cool. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
That's how the us constitution was set up to suit the rich landed gentry not the huddled masses in the city. Its why agricultural states with tiny populations have more representation in the senate than they should.
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Unfortunately I was relying on having 100+ megabit internet for working remotely.
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>How is this is any better than some Russians' generalization that smiling Westerners are duplicitous?

It might be more accurate
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