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>> When you're talking about K-12 edtech education, in many cases the kids have the patforms their schools/districts endorse. And in many, if not most cases, that's iOS.

It seems that what you are asking is whether the school should take steps to ensure that kids can develop mobile applications. If that is the case then the school could just set up a single app store account as part of a mobile development course. If the school really wants people to develop mobile applications then the $99 fee is meaningless. I doubt that there is any overwhelming demand to do that on the part of students or teachers.

Of course, any kid can develop a whole plethora of applications for a variety of platforms at very low cost if they really want too. Considering that it wasn't too long ago that it took thousands of dollars to even get a computer(and many people I know didn't grow up having access to a computer of their own) your criticism is essentially looking a gift horse in the mouth. There are a lot of factors that come into play with encouraging kids to get into computers, a $99 deployment requirement for an expensive device isn't one of them.
That's not entirely true for counter mode. For random noise, if you see 2^(n/2) n-bit blocks then there's a ~50% probability of two of those blocks being identical, but if you have that many n-bit blocks from an n-bit block cipher in counter mode the probability of two identical blocks is zero.

This doesn't apply to stream ciphers.
Government weed has the Monsanto grandfather gene in it already.
'Steve [Jobs] believed that A players hire A players—that is people who are as good as they are. I refined this slightly—my theory is that A players hire people even better than themselves. It’s clear, though, that B players hire C players so they can feel superior to them, and C players hire D players. If you start hiring B players, expect what Steve called “the bozo explosion” to happen in your organization.' — Guy Kawasaki
When the entire production chain is legalized, the black market disappears. Decriminalization only affects the end user and leaves the black market in place.
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It's not as straightforward as that. A followup from the original author of the blog post:

http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2013/11/smoking-weed-in-north...
Photoshop chugs really bad on my 2012 MBA. Works great on my 2013 MBP though. I would say for someone who isn't creating assets (it sounds like you are a developer rather than a designer), a lighter tool is definitely preferable. That is, unless you are front-end and needing to open PSDs. Though I suppose you could use Elements for that.
He didn't say that being an entrepreneur is a new thing. He made a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite_bourgeoisie ("Petite bourgeoisie ... is a French term (sometimes derogatory) referring to a social class comprising semi-autonomous peasantry and small-scale merchants whose politico-economic ideological stance is determined by reflecting that of a haute (high) bourgeoisie, with which the petite bourgeoisie seeks to identify itself, and whose bourgeois morality it strives to imitate.")

Ultimately, I think business, whether you're talking about small ones or big ones, socially responsible ones or irresponsible ones, are neither the problem nor the solution. In a market economy, the health of the middle class is function of the supply versus the demand for labor.

Being a well-intentioned entrepreneur isn't going to have any impact on the equilibrium. The minute you become big enough to have a non-zero impact, you'll be big enough to feel the heat of competition from China, India, etc, and will be forced to adopt whatever labor-saving measures they adopt.
The scholar-gentry are false elites who have no idea how disconnected from reality they are.

Source: former one, fall from grace, mostly by choice.
On the other hand, it's not like there is going to be much to watch on TV...

Apparently alcohol is extremely popular in North Korea. Probably a better entertainment/hunger compromise.
This is fear mongering. You could have some person out in the field tailing you and get the same info (maybe even more). You can also put up a camera and tag people as potential DUIs based on how close to the middle of the lane they are driving. So what?

What's important to ask is what can the government do with the data. And NSA or not, what they are can do is limited by the law. No database changes that.
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It can't be, because a valid way to detect such underhandedness in a higher-level language is to compile it to assembly and check that.
Any locked (or lock-free) pointer queue with the right ownership semantics will give you what ZMQ does within a threaded program. A coroutine library will get you even more flexibility if you just want to setup pipelines. If you want greater scalability, there are lots of non-blocking I/O event libraries (libuv/libevent/boost asio). None of these solutions involve moving to a message passing model.

I'm not discrediting that operating between threads is a handy addition to ZMQ, but using it for communication between threads seems like a lot of work (moving to that message passing model) if you never intend to leave one process.

I do happen to like messaging, but when your data becomes complex it's a right dog...you're now in the world of protocol design.
Surely you don't begrudge them wanting/aspiring to something better. I presume you mean that if they expect to have the trappings of success without putting in any effort then you have something to say. But even then, that is merely an expectation that will remain unfulfilled. If a group of people actually receives the trappings of success without effort then, I agree with you, but this is not born out by everyday experience. The poor and disadvantaged are comparatively, well, poor and disadvantaged when compared to the successful. So, if my anecdotal experience matches reality then the problem becomes, "how best to help?".
Are you aware of the meme? There was a risk-like game where you played the role of a deadly disease. The game mechanics often left Madagascar as the last hold out of humanity.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-down-everything
It'd be interesting to know your process for creating and maintaining the appliances you distribute to clients and any tools/packages you chose to help do it.
It saves tons of memory too. See https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2013/10/01/memshrink-pr...
For the US, failure is a feature, not a bug.

The TPPA started as a deal between a variety of east Asian and Pacific nations in what the US regards as its back yard. The last thing the US wants is China becoming more cosy with US dependents such as New Zealand, Australia, or the Philippines. For the US, joining the deal, and then forcing it to either confirm to US wishes, or breaking it entirely are much, much better options than losing influence in the region.
But once you know a little bit of your customer means know basically everything?
I really wonder whether this is going to be a partnership with Xiaomi...

after Hugo Barra went there from Google and made this quote "“If I do my job right, in a few years, the world will be talking about Xiaomi in the same way that they talk about Google and Apple today.”"

It appears the company will be gearing up for a big smartphone release in 2014, which would also fit into the timelines here.

Xiaomi tends to be known for the high-performance low-price phones, but have always had poor software letting the devices down.
Atlantan here.

I lived in West Midtown for five years post-college. It's the epitome of hip re-urbanization and all that comes with it. I walked from my house to a local restaurant or shop exactly 0 times during those five years.

I moved to a cul-de-sac in a northern suburb six months ago. I'm 1 mile from 270,000 ft^2 of retail shopping and 1 mile from a walkable downtown with tons of shops and restaurants.

Do I drive 60 miles to and from work every day? Yes. I've also walked to restaurants and shops on numerous occasions. And as pointed out by rkischuk, I live in a house I couldn't begin to afford in West Midtown and we live in good school districts.

If you want to live in a small apartment in a high density area away from cul-de-sacs, good for you. Let me make my decisions based off what I've optimized my life for without demonizing me because we place different levels of importance on different items in life. I am happy spending $33/day to commute in exchange for a walkable area, larger house, better schools and more family-friendly environment.
KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) is a Linux kernel module that allows a user space program to utilize the hardware virtualization features of various processors.

QEMU is a machine emulator.

QEMU can make use of KVM when running a target architecture that is the same as the host architecture (which gives significant performance advantages).

KVM is not strictly dependent on QEMU but they are usually used together. If you don't need the kernel level hw support (i.e. emulating a different architecture to the host platform) then QEMU can be used independently.
I understand the term. I was trying to underscore (unsuccessfully, apparently) that my original point was to be an entrepreneur whose principles depart from that of the current establishment. In other words, what I was suggesting was the exact opposite.

I could only interpret the response as a glib remark that to be an entrepreneur in any sense necessarily makes you an imitator of this establishment. My view on this, however, is slightly less cynical.
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Look at what is happening with gay marriage. It started changing at the state level, and once the public sentiment changed enough some of the previous federal restrictions are starting to fall as well. The same could (in theory) happen with marijuana if a critical mass of states begin to legalize.
OP's picture of our economic reality is overly simplistic.

The Urban Archipaelogo[0] is the new era of politics, not this false stratification/dichotomy of proletariat, bourgeoise, and archetypes in between, which cannot explain network effects.

Class is a spectrum condition/disorder of society.

Or to put it another way:

Poverty is a disease of economies.

[0]: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=19813
I worked in a university research lab and had more than one PhD student/RA inform me that MatLab destroyed their actual programming skills in other languages.
Interesting choice of cookie:

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/28/the-google-cookie-tha...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368255
> The people that fought for social equality are the ones who are responsible for making it politically desirable.

Absolutely, but I'm pretty sure when writing for a US audience it's foolish to so much as hint that good working conditions may in any way relate to the work of union organisation.
> scholar-gentry

We prefer to be called "Eloi-American".
I like the quote from Uruguai's president, José Mujica: We just regulated an existing market.
Don't these kind of deals need congressional approval eventually? The idea of dealing behind the scene is that it allows you to talk more openly about what is and isn't on the table without having anything on the record.

Ex: Say they were negotiating with Israel. Publicly Israel has very uncompromising policies. But maybe in private, in return for some things they are willing to give up some of their demands. Maybe some of their concessions end up not in the deal, or the whole deal falls through. They don't want to have to then be "accountable" for the things they put on the table.
All anyone needs to do is smoke it to know it's not as harmful as substances like alcohol.
How does this compare to the safety of Ubuntu? Is a rolling release distro inherently less safe than a fixed release distro?
It relies on a header, which can't be set through the attack vector, so it's all kosher.
This is all well and good until you want to handle error responses on the client. Let's say your user is on spotty wifi and they hit the submit button for your form. Guess what happens if that AJAX request fails? Probably a whole lot of nothing, unless you've got some templates client-side to show an error message. At that point, if you're making your error messages fit into each of your UIs, you'd might as well just be using client-side templates anyway and SJR is moot.

On top of that, you can't update the UI in a meaningful way until you get a response from the server.

That's also not even touching any security considerations that you need to make to use this technique: you can't implement a CSP, you've got to make damn sure you're properly escaping every piece of data [in a special way] that comes through, and you've got to make sure the response that you're sending can't be used in a script tag (i.e.: you need to add an intentional syntax error that you strip off) or an attacker could simply put a script tag on his own site pointing at a URL on your site that returns sensitive information.

TL;DR: Badasses only.
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I would argue that it's the other way around: single-dispatch o.o. is a special case of multiple dispatch.
It's not the same goddamn thing. The article describes programmatic policing.

THEY CAN APPLY THESE TECHNOLOGIES TO THE ENTIRE POPULATION AT ONCE AS THEY ARE NO LONGER LIMITED BY NUMBER OF OFFICERS AVAILABLE.

This carries new, complex risks for society at large. How hard is that to understand? Relying solely on unclear "policy" and "access controls" to protect us from these risks is extremely foolish. Now, I'm not saying this is happening now, or will happen tomorrow. But these thought exercises are very useful and informative.
If he said, "it's dangerous to connect a non-Web-aware program to the Internet", I'd agree.

Except he didn't, he said, "Problem is that it requires that the app handle all the security aspects of talking to the Internet", which is not unique to applications using this daemon, or even to applications using WebSockets.
My point was not that no guys do, of course I know some do. The OP used 'guys' to seemingly include all men. My point was that, no, not all men do, so you don't get to play the "everyone does it so it's okay" rationalization card.
It's a hologram in the sense that its max information density is based on the surface area of the observable universe, not its volume.
Hah, the joke is on them: I browse with cookies disabled.

Of course, I'm sure they have some other way to pwn me, but it's nice to know that I was doing something right.
Come on man, this isn't reddit. Your comment is not constructive.
Uruguai's president, José Mujica is a truly unique old man.

He is a very interesting Character. I advise everybody to learn a bit about him and his way of leading the country.

Put that aside I think that way of working one works on small Countries or Cities with small populations.
if you browse with cookies disabled, that means you cannot successful browse arounds sites logged in - correct ? you basically do a ctrl+shift+N in chrome every time you open a new window ?
Given that worldwide equality is falling each year, I'd say that all is well.

Also I'd note that the "educated sophisticates" are a far higher proportion of population today than before.
Those buttons aren't silver bullets. If you file a bug and include the contents of about:memory (use the "measure and save" button) and CC me or mccr8 there's a decent chance it'll get looked at.
Sure, cars suck for some scenarios. Bikes and public transport work much better there. Frankly, I don't like living in those conditions.

Bikes and public transport suck for other scenarios. Right now I'd spend more time just walking to & from bus stops than my entire commute, and biking the 15 miles to work would get me killed by the end of the week.

Live where it suits you. Ticks me off that the public transport crowd wants to actively deny me both my money and preferred mode of transport, when I wish to deny them nothing but my involvement.
With magical patriot fuel that provides thrust relative to the amount of ridiculous drama that has thus far been painted on the stupid propaganda movie reel. Likely when the meaningless death of the goofy but loveable sidekick has been concluded somehow and the ex quarterback pilot jock is sufficiently despairing and enraged at the same time while his high school sweetheart is crying over said death in some sterile but tense government control room and he can hear her on comms as he spurts out his last gasp of impotent rage doing the actually impossible thing and making watching vaccuous halfwit proles feel proud to be American.

Queue complete bullshit speech by sufficiently aristocratic looking political figure about lessons hard learned and tests successfully overcome.

Swelling music, much tribalism, wow.

Roll credits.
I don't understand your last paragraph at all. Inverters aren't all that expensive and will run all those basic necessities you mention from a normal gas-powered car.
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> Don't these kind of deals need congressional approval eventually?

Yes, but I believe the argument goes something like this: "We cannot possibly renegotiate the deal because (1) we've already spent considerable time and funds to reach an agreement and (2) it represents the best deal we can get." So Congress gives a ceremonial rubber stamp on a deal that would otherwise never have been reached (and conveniently stuffed with as much lobbyist pork as possible -- originating from who-knows-where since all "negotiating" occurred behind closed doors).
That's a more fragile attack though, since it requires identifying that memory location.
I can't really agree with your findings. I still think the largest hindrance to taking advantage of the arbitrage is the international wire transfer fees that coincide with transferring money into the exchanges.

Mt. Gox - Astro-based deposits. Not available for US customers.
Kraken (US Based Exchange) - Still waiting on getting their licenses on a PER state basis, until then digital currency can be bought or sold.
CampBX (US Based Exchange) - ACH withdrawal only after Dwolla dropped support, only other options are personal checks (requires KYC verification)and money orders which require 4 days for completion. Their volume is much too low for taking advantage of arbitrage.

Coinbase is by far the easiest yet their trades take 4 days to complete if you have a tier 1 account. On top of that they take 1% for every buy and sell of Bitcoin and do not allow you to keep funds within the coin base platform hence no ability to swap funds easily.

I've tried arbitrage but the structure is not there to take advantage of...yet.
Please file a bug, include an about:memory dump (use the "Measure and save" button), and CC me and/or mccr8.
Alan is a rare and brilliant fellow. Just to clarify, he has been Julia's patron from the very early days, but the actual design and development of the language was done by Jeff Bezanson, Viral B. Shah, and myself. These days it's a collaborative community effort.
The progressive left would solve this problem with increased taxation on the rich, which would ostensibly be used to fund more social programs for the poor. Take from the Belmonts, give to the Fishtowners. Raise the minimum wage, increase regulation, enforce stricter laws that encourage equity for all. Perhaps some form of guaranteed income.

The libertarians would solve this problem by eliminating barriers to success. Lessen business owner regulatory burdens, eliminate federal income taxes, eliminate the minimum wage, and impose as few hurdles as possible to whomever wants to hang their own shingle and provide a service.

I'm not sure what the Republicans would want, really, or at least not specifically enough to enunciate it here on their behalf, but let's say it's somewhere in the middle.

If you're able to succeed as an entrepreneur enough to be able to have some degree of influence on the problem, then you'd be a spokesperson for either the democrats or the libertarians. By your success, you'll be advocating the possibility of one to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, hang their own shingle, and become financially stable in the process, but by having attained that success, you would similarly be the target of progressive taxation, and would now be a sympathetic Belmont, from whom riches will be collected and distributed to Fishtown.
From a few long Youtube videos I just watched, the amount of information in the Universe is limited and based on the total surface area, not the volume.
Actually we don't. Those would be nice to have, but the current drug policy has failed horribly. The meth "epidemic" is a perfect illustration of this: it's illegal but it hasn't stopped those that want to use it from using it.
Dan, you might want to do something about the logo. On the blog I saw it and read CHeap. not a radar + heap. or pie chart + heap. flipping the pie segment to another side would solve this.
I call this "your experience is not universal" (YEINU).
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Washington state actually (partially) legalized alcohol ahead of the Federal repeal of prohibition. So there's a kind of historical example.
Going by Neal Stephenson, surely the scholar-class would be the Morlocks in this particular analogy :P
see weed is bad. it turns you into north korea.
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I actually agree with the view you express here. While I find the story to be positive - after all, it is apparent that someone did something nice for someone else and improved their life a great deal - I think you are right to say that it is a disservice to the gravity of homelessness in the United States. It is such a complex problem, as you said, rooted in extremely serious issues like mental health, wealth inequality, and lack of proper healthcare. While I love to talk about how code literacy is the solution to many problems, it really has almost zero salience to the topic of homelessness. Ultimately, what helped this guy was the kindness of a complete stranger. Not the education. Not the computer.
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There's been talk about a Messenger for Twitter, we decided to build one, and think this is how it could eventually look.

Just today Twitter announced photos on DMs so we've got work to do. Feel free to get in touch inbox@cris.mx
> Totally unrelated to this, but please look into the API returning a ton of HTTP 503/504 gateway timeouts. It's been happening to me across several servers in different regions of the world.

Ironically, that's probably the rate limiting blocking you. Are you hitting the API more often than once every 30 seconds?
> My point is that most programs with an interface on STDIN are not designed out of the box to be run on untrusted, potentially malicious input, and so you will have to spend time hardening yours that far exceeds the time you spend hooking up the network protocol to STDIN.

Yes, that is a valid point. However that is not what you said, which was:

> Problem is that it requires that the app handle all the security aspects of talking to the Internet

which is not unique to applications using this daemon, or even to WebSocket applications in general. That's borderline FUD. Combined with the inaccurate statements you made to back it up, your original post is simply incorrect and misleading.

> if you think you've found the "right" solution and someone is just "wrong", there's usually a trade-off you missed somewhere and a concern they're considering that you're not.

No, not if the "right" solution is backed by facts and research, and the "wrong" solution is based on demonstrably incorrect half-remembered mistruths from ten years ago. There's not really a tradeoff there.
It has been legal to grow and posses (but not sell) marijuana in Alaska since 1975

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