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Ireland rejected both the Nice Treaty originally[1] and the Lisbon Treaty[2].

Our considerate government had the stupid, uneducated electorate have a second attempt at both referendums until we came up with the "right" answer. Talking about being undemocratic.

My own view is that if you put most issues to a popular referendum, people would vote no. It's the assholes in national governments and in Brussels who ram through stuff that only the elite wants.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/18/eu.politics1

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8288181.stm
It would be a smart buy.
>We’ve had to make the difficult decision to limit our beta to the U.S. only, because of regulatory hurdles. This was not our original plan, and it means we can’t collect beta feedback from Steam customers world-wide, which is pretty unfortunate. All things considered, we’re sure it was the right decision, because the alternative was to delay the whole beta beyond the point when we’d be able to incorporate any feedback into the 2014 products.

For those outside the US who were hoping to participate.
Can you please post the tex associated with the pdf? Thanks in advance.
One feature that I like:

If you have a newer community mailbox, smaller packages get left in a larger compartment in the community mailbox and they leave the compartment key in your own mailbox.

After you pick it up, you drop the key in the outbound mail compartment. It's very handy if you're not home to receive packages. In a way, it's like BufferBox.
Would love some of your thoughts on the subject...
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/Rule34.el
Nick Pettit here. I was the Teaching Team Lead for about a year and then became the Chief Content Officer (CCO) for about 5 months before we went flat.

I can't remember which way I voted. Not just saying that because I don't want to reveal it, I just honestly can't remember. I know it seems crazy that I'd forget such an important decision, but it was a very chaotic time with a million details, a lot of which are foggy to me now. That said, I don't really care which way I voted because I'm incredibly happy now that the dust has settled.

To be clear, nobody was really demoted. I see it as everyone being promoted to being an ultimate decision maker. There are checks and balances in place, but generally everyone is free to serve our students however they think is best.

Being a manager was insanely stressful with no escape. In a typical day I would answer about 150+ emails and have 5-10 meetings. We probably did lots of things wrong that created this situation and we could have learned to be better, but I think being flat is far superior to any evolution of our previous structure.

Management was rewarding at times when the team would hit important goals, but it's poisonous for creativity. I hated killing other people's ideas, but I was the final judge of how we were allocating content production resources and I had to make tough calls in order to hit company goals and deadlines. In our new flat structure, people can execute on whatever they think serves our students best and they don't need anyone's approval to do it. We're now producing more content than ever and I think a lot of it has to do with people executing on projects they're passionate about. I found it extraordinarily difficult to make people passionate about projects that they don't come up with or decide to work on themselves. We're also able to produce more because managers are now free to produce content rather than, you know, manage.

Not only did I kill the creativity of those around me, my own creativity also died a slow and silent death. Now that time has distanced me from that period, I've rediscovered my own passions and entrepreneurial spirit. I'm making websites, always learning about the latest stuff, and I've even been learning iOS in my spare time for fun.

Management also allows little time to eat healthily, exercise, or sleep properly. I've managed (ha!) to gain ~20lbs in muscle mass in the last few months and I'm in the best shape of my life. I never thought a skinny nerd like myself could do that.

Would I do it again? It's really difficult to say. It would have to be a massive financial reward, but I'd be more concerned with the circumstances and the happiness of my team.

TL;DR: Management wasn't for me. I'm happier now than any other time in my life.
It could have been clearer that the author is advocating containers as an alternative to virtual machines for isolating your apps from other users on shared servers. For some reason a lot of other people are advocating containers to isolate your apps from each other on your own server (or VM); there's very little reason to do that unless you have a bunch of poorly managed apps with incompatible dependences which didn't come from your .rpm or .deb library.
BOFH is dead. Long live BOFH.
This seems like exactly the kind of "slowly and steadily select for antibiotic resistance in bacteria" behavior that they're trying to avoid with these changes.
I'd love to understand what use cases Docker is used for. I read a lot of comments where people talk about outsourcing functions their laptop would normally run, but I'm not sure of the comparative advantages of that method.

I wonder a few things:

1. Could tighter security be implemented by outsourcing certain functions to Docker--the base computation can only allow certain routines to run, for example, disallowing any trojan activity? (Similar to blocking ports, but at an IO or computing level).

2. How is this tech beneficial to the consumer market? As the consumer market goes the business market (as we saw in Microsoft/Apple/iOS adoption--consumers demanded it then wanted to use it in business situations)

3. Is the tech Docker using propietary, trade secret, or protected by patent? In our current environment tech firms face terrible regulatory uncertainty due to crappy patents. Can a viable competitor to Docker exist?
Small but perhaps worthwhile thought - I didn't see argued or tested that reduced convenience of mailbox locations and delivery might actually reduce the pieces of mail delivered using Canada Post.

Here in the US (I know, I know - different) a great deal of my daily mail is marketing material. I would definitely not walk to my post box to reach it so the reach / impact for advertisers would go down. Reduced impact would bring reduced spending. I think mailed marketing material is somewhat outmoded and wasteful, but I definitely still see it and thumb through my catalogs.
I completely agree. I'm not impressed by the new features of Google sheets when desktop apps have had these features (and much more) for years and years. Sure, Sheets runs in a browser which is an impressive feat, but it can't match the speed, responsiveness, or the much richer interactions possible with a desktop app.

Plus, if I'm running a desktop app I can be pretty sure it's not tracking and recording my every action. Can the same be said for when you sign into to use Google Sheets?
If you were offered even one choice that would be acceptable to you, would you vote then?
Honestly, I'd be somewhat skeptical of the value of a report produced for $40. That price implies that these are at least mostly automated checks.
The whole tricking people into forgetting to cancel thing has always felt extremely dirty to me. Glad to see someone else feels the same way.
>Using a native rich application is always going to be superior to building a web app on top of a browser.

Always? You think that will be true 20 years from now?
When the state has access to nukes and the populace doesn't, how can this statement not technically be true? It seems like the ability literally wipe cities off the face of the earth means that you have the permanent upper hand, in terms of power.

Further, what you call "cooperation" I think would largely would be a lack of organization. The ability to organize can grant immense power, and when people talk about the power of large crowds like this I think there's usually an unstated assumption of "if they were to spontaneously act in great--or at least adequate--coordination." I don't think it's fair to assess power in terms of something like a body count, and to ignore the power granted by organization.
Binge drinking doesn't mean what you think it does. The recommended alcohol in units is per week recognising that people might drink more on a Friday night. Binge drinking is defined as weekly limit/7 x 2. So you can be a "binge drinker" even if you drink half your units and nothing any other night! The term is just a stupid thing Tony Bliar made up.
Everyone gets their own mailbox with a separate key, they're just all together in one place. They look like this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMDCvMaCBE4/TPNLlfBWovI/AAAAAAAAAf...
Right? I would appreciate an in-depth root cause analysis report on why it failed, mitigation steps and final solution. I'm sure such a document exists somewhere...
I absolutely agree. And I believe governments nowadays are doing too little to prepare us for a potential epidemic of a lethal virus. In my opinion a reasonable measure would be an emergency plan which (in a matter of a few days) can provide all households with enough food for a month long curfew.
Github is at 230 people now. They use open allocation for devs and designers. Looking at the new hires section[1] on their blog, they also hire support personnel for teams. "technical writer, focusing on documentation for Github Enterprise."

1 - https://github.com/blog/category/hire
I'm in a downtown Ottawa "condo" (row house really) and all the homes around here have door to door delivery. It's pretty common I think.
Yep, basically any neighbourhood of detached homes built pre-1970s which is when community mailboxes became the new standard.
The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago; the second-best time is now.
All the hardware interface is through shared/mapped memory nowadays (there are CPUs with a dedicated I/O bus or fancy coprocessor interfaces too but even there the bulk of work is creating control structures in memory and then kicking them through a port or a coprocessor instruction). C/C++ are perfect for the memory manipulation even in their purest standard form. I imagine your concern is about deriving the addresses for register apertures or emitting specific opcodes?

For the concrete addresses you just link with the symbols defined outside of your C code. Special ops cannot be done in pure standard, but this is not an issue in practice as there are no pure standard compilers. Even for app development you want intrinsics just for the vector, cache and bit instructions.
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This is preaching to the choir, especially on this site of self-proclaimed technologists. Yeah, we know more oversight/regulation needs to happen in certain nascent industries. We also know how awful things could get; you just told us. Blog posts like these is just wasting breath. Getting out and doing something and getting involved in the political process now is what will be helpful...so when the last baby boomer in a position of political power finally shuffles off the mortal realm (and we can have a weeklong celebration) we will have well-educated people on the issues that matter ready to ascend to power.

Then again, who am I kidding. We're talking about politics.
When did you use it and what issues did you experience?
AmazonFresh grocery service officially launches in San Francisco
Not really - overcommitting VM resources lets you get similar sharing.

What docker really buys you over individual instances is lower resource overhead devoted to OS operations.
Thanks for the feedback. We're following https://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/#SHA-2

Could you let us know how it's incorrect? Otherwise, feel free to make a pull request on https://github.com/BitcoinMafia/SpareCoinsExt
I just installed the spotify app on my phone (it's pretty big by the way ~20mb, I wonder why that is) and this latest change doesn't seem to be in effect for me. Is it not rolled out in the UK yet? Personally what I would like to see is the ability for Unlimited users to use the mobile app.
As long as someone is handing out performance reviews, bonuses, and raises, there are bosses. This obviously includes the people with the checkbooks, but it also includes the advisers, formal and informal.
Looks nice. Just curious: does anyone know where Valve is making the hardware?
I live in Whitehorse, Yukon, and every house within city limits gets door-to-door delivery now, including packages.

Those outside town have the shared boxes you describe.
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I'm not sure they would win, but it would be very close - probably a good campaign on either side would be what would decide the election.
Federal Reserve defaults when Germany attempts gold withdrawal
I'm really excited about this release, particularly because of the new labels and uniqueness constraints functionality. I'm using Neo4J as the back end for my own startup, and I switched to 2.0 a little while ago for development. It required some rethinking to eliminate hacks that I had to get around the lack of label-like functionality. Big win!
> The narrative has always seemed to be "check out how the NSA is going crazy over here!". But the reality is "check out how all these politicians are voting in these new laws allowing this to take place!"

I'd like to beg your pardon, because I'm not from the US. I'm British, so I'm sure there are large contextual elements of this situation I'm not understanding. But can anyone explain to me how this can happen?

I mean, I've grown up being told that there are two types of legal framework for a country: ones with a constitution and ones without. In countries without a constitution, like Britain, the politicians can do whatever they like. In fact, it's always a big principle in the UK that parliament cannot bind its successors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty

But in a country with a constitution, I always thought that wasn't correct. If a politician wants to change the law they can, except where that conflicts with the constitution.

Now, my understanding of America is that it has strong constitutional safeguards in place for such things as free speech and unreasonable searches.

Isn't there some constitutional court that people can take this kind of thing, to find out if it all really is legal? Because if politicians really can make any law they want, surely you don't actually have a constitution in the US at all?
> I suspect one of the reasons for that is that the native storage isn't a file format at all, and that all of a users sheets (and other files for the Google apps) are stored in a set of entries in an online database.

If the DB entries can be duplicated to the users browser, then they could be serialized to a file in the users google drive. This would allow people to back up their files, move files out of google drive when it gets full and move them back in when they need them. That guy that lost all his files a few months ago would have been ok. I can't see a good reason the .gsheet files are just bookmarks. I want my files.

Also, if somebody from Google is reading this, please add a reconnect option to Google drive. Exiting and re-running drive is a pain after every network failure, hibernation, etc.
When I moved to the suburbs, I thought I would hate the community mailboxes, but they've actually turned out to be handy, because most small and mid sized packages can be securely delivered into the community mailbox.

Larger packages or those that require a signature are usually dropped off at the mail depot at a nearby drug store, which is open late.

When I buy online, especially from the US, I try to ship via USPS for this reason (also because they don't add exorbitant Canadian brokerage fees the way UPS and FedEx do).
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And be dead? Is that OK?
Apparently they're struggling on bulk deliveries too since so many people are opting out[1].

[1] http://globalnews.ca/news/585922/canada-post-opts-for-junk-m...
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Well, if he just leaves this running, assuming the same level of profitability it is 17k a year of passive income...definitely worth keeping up if possible. as the exchange rate goes up it should become even more profitable.
It works almost just like in Excel.
Select row (or 30 if you need them, "shift + space" is the shortcut, same as Excel) Then go to Insert menu (Ctrl + ⌥ + I) and then W.

Very easy and fast.
Guys, use Redis for your real time data. Why else would you care about having the benefits of in-memory speed? Jesus. If a partition happened to my redis setup, you know what I'd do? Trash the whole thing and start again.
The vast majority of people have an above average number of legs.
Really? I'm quite happy with it.. I've been a subscriber for years, definitely worth the $10 if you listen to a lot of music.

For me it's more like $14, but everything is more expensive in Scandinavia :(
Here is a graph with zeroed X-axis.

http://i.imgur.com/OAul7h2.png

At the average rate of decline (constant ~4.5% decrease in mail delivered per year), it should reach 10% of 2008's usage by 2050. This obviously does not reflect reality, and it's just a napkin calculation.
I was about to write this comment!
While it is hard to say what Google expects to do or not to do, it does seem like Google are building an app platform on Chrome in parallel to the so called web app platform (HTML5 + Javascript).
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This is something Apple Numbers did right. Option-Up or Down makes a new row. Bliss.
I wish there was something like this for Minecraft world building.
>But what happens when there is another rails application that uses the same stack. you need to setup another instance identical to the previous one to run the second application in production.

Why not just run them on the same "instance"? What does instance even refer to?
> automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.

Bullshit. How do I run it on RHEL 5, because DoD systems are chock full of those? What about Windows? I have to install Virtualbox, and Vagrant and then run Docker inside the virtualized linux environment and then run docker containers in that.

So "virtually anywhere" means on a handful of systems.

Sometimes technology's biggest "fans" are its biggest enemies without even realizing.
You don't have to use one or the other. Docker is more about shipping around images that can be used to start containers. How you configure the image is up to you, but Docker provides a "Dockerfile" that can configure images with bash commands. You can call Chef / Puppet / Ansible from the Dockerfile to configure the image.

Once the image is created you can send it out to any machine that has docker installed and start it up.
I get the impression you don't play chess?

Lets say Paul takes artificial hormones to increase his level of happiness; numbing his receptors. What stops Paul from also taking a drug which improves the recovery time of his receptors?

Edit: In a galaxy far, far away. Where E.T. comes from and science is rockin'.
Don't describe it as if everyone should already know what you're talking about. You're not going to sell anything to anyone that way. And you definitely won't sell a service based on "known templates" and doing what everyone else is doing.

I know exactly what they offer, but you are the one selling right now. You can't just say, "I'm selling what everyone else is selling, wanna give me $30/month?"

What makes you different? Why are you better? What are the benefits? What value does it provide and to who?

In B2B, you could charge $200 a month and it wouldn't make a difference -- it's not their money that they are spending. A lot of little things, such as export to PDF, are much more important. Know your customer and know your product.
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Well then I have just exhibited the typical Toronto tendency to assume the rest of Canada is like here. :)
Your argument is that if Google do it, you could do it? I don't share that opinion, if you consider that manipulative methods are bad, you shouldn't use them. Fight the lie by lying even more?
NetBeans is Swing, too, and looks quite beautiful and native.
The problem with this "shuffle" order is it tends to be the same songs over and over. The songs they get a bigger cut for are played more frequently. Same happens on Rdio stations and Pandora most likely.
It's the article title and a key topic in the article.

"Also in 2011, some researchers figured out how to reengineer H5N1—avian influenza virus—to make it much scarier by causing five mutations at the same time that all together made the virus both easy to spread and quite lethal"
http://lwn.net/Articles/573690/
Dave is a redhat employee.
> they just get kicked out of their home and starve/freeze to death?

Yeah, pretty much, though most of them can subsist for a long time on handouts before they actually die.

> that sounds like it would be massively expensive in terms of increasing crime levels and providing hospital care for all the dying people

Yeah, pretty much. This is one of the reasons the U.S. has the highest incarceration rates and health care costs of any industrialized country by a wide margin.

> Honestly it sounds like something out of a dystopian cyberpunk novel.

If only it were fiction.
> “Why wouldn’t we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?”

I think this is disingenuous. Of course the US should do to extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans. I don't think anyone is saying exposing hypocrites is a bad thing, and it's certainly good jounalistic practice.

What people are upset about is the US spying on the whole internet to do it.

In addition, there's the slippery-slope argument that once this mechanism of surveillance is in place, they'll use it to modify everyone's behaviour, not just "the bad guys."

But it's hardly controversial that journalists reveal hypocrisy, is it?
Maybe it's not worthwhile for Bitcoins or Litecoins, but how about the smaller altcoins for which a competitive advantage early on can have a big impact?
I hear that stuff all the time, but no one seams to be able to tell me what those features that are "just right" are.

I can't assume I can right click and get anything useful

In a browser the right mouse button is generally not used that is right.

The concept of a consistent menu bar you can access with hotkeys is gone.

Google apps have hotkeys just learn them, then you can use them.

the input lag is intolerable.

That kind of depends on your computer/Internet line. For me google apps loads faster than outlook. But that is for me.

Our company probably saves something like 3000 USD per user by using google apps.
Mostly administrative costs.

Could you list some features that are not just cause you are used to Outlook?
Linux, Firefox 25.0 seems fine.
Google can't force other browsers to implement features. If it's only available for Chrome, it is possible that the features they need are not available elsewhere.
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Not really comparable to Blender: Wings3D cannot animate. Part of Blender's draw (pardon the pun) is its physics engine and animation suite. I cannot say for certain, but I suspect Blender's Cycles Rendering Engine is vastly superior to Wings' renderer.
Not sure that's true, I think it has to more do with whether you live inside a major city.

My last house in Toronto was built in late 2001, and even though it was in the less dense northeast outskirts of the city, I had delivery to the door. At that same time, all suburban neighborhoods a few intersections north of me were getting community mailboxes for quite some time.