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I don't really understand the US' college sports system. But from my very flimsy outsider picture, it seems like a pretty good system.

It's flush with cash. I see complaints of how a lot of this is captured by coaches and staff, but I'm sure some flows to (for example) less popular sports too. It gives athletes a college education and an incentive to finish high school. This article is obviously about cracks in that system. Overall the effect on athletes' education is probably very positive, especially outside of the super-elite players in more popular sports.

Compare that to european amateur sports systems that have nothing to do with college: It is pretty hard for a 19 year old with a sport as the no 1 thing in their life to get a degree at all.
It's kind of like a matter of forcing acquiescence versus offering traditional dignification to the eventual employer. I cant really say I take a side.
There's some safety in being entangled with everyone else. It would be difficult to nationalize just Norway's stake and avoid upsetting other nations.
Dell will beat them to it - the new Dell UltraHD, while only 28", is a proper desktop 4K monitor with what will (most likely) be far better color accuracy and usability, for $699.

Seiki just dropped their price to $500 which is attractive, but I think the Dell's build quality and internals will be worth the $200 premium.
Could you share more details about 'commit accounting'?
That's a pretty tortured definition of sport.
Hehe. The answer is in the question. Mobile browsing is what... a third of the web nowadays?
Buried in the text:

> He notes that the site was never 100 percent NSFW; his graph leaves out /r/reddit.com for purposes of legibility.

This is a problem of poor axis labelling. It should be: "Fraction of posts submitted to Reddit.com (excluding /r/reddit.com)". The other issue is that the other graphs that include /r/reddit.com are hidden in the slideshow at the top.

It's clearer in the actual blog post: http://www.randalolson.com/2013/03/12/retracing-the-evolutio...
Just turned it on on my 15" 2012 rMBP and it finished encrypting the drive. Before I was getting around 520-540MB/s read/write. Now it's 440-460MB/s. It's not a large hit, slightly noticeable, but worth the security. I am not sure about battery life, but I could not see any one else online complaining.
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A study in the early 90s found women featured 35 times as much as victims in Canadian news headlines than men. Not a typo.

Yes, this is just one data point, but it's a pretty unambiguous one. And of course, such studies tend to only happen once, as people with feminist agendas tend to ensure they do not get confirmed.

Do you think this might skew your perception of how often people of either gender get harassed?
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So let's create some new options like restraining orders.
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This is a good use case for Bitcoin. But I think the bits about being able to cash out from hundreds of Bank of the Phillipine Islands branches and the part about disintermediating the banks' role as middlemen are directly contradictary. If this gets any traction I suspect China type rules won't take long in arriving.
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Perhaps you didn't read it yet, but i have already said that there should perhaps be a single exemption for auto generated boiler plate text.

But still, breaking a court order is never a good idea. Saying that you broke it inadvertantly isn't enough. The court order is a clear bright line and you're expected to take special measures to avoid breaking the order.

If you want me to have any sympathy you'd need to find numbers of people caught by this, broken down by temporary and full orders, and by consequences (police chat, arrest and chat, arrest and prosecution, arrest and prosecution and punishment, arrest and prosecution and jail).

I've heard of a few instances of people getting into trouble after this kind of auto contact. Either it's rare enough to not be a problem, or it's so common that it isn't reported. I'd agree that if it was happening to tens of people a year that it would be too many.

Finally, use of prison for people who do not have a history of violence is not suitable, so i only support it if it's only a week or so.
Awesome stuff.It's time for a standardized case - a big problem with laptops.The folder is cool though.
The trouble is that VCS pain points are far from universal. Everyone has their own experience, for better or worse, and will have a view on what's important based on their personal experience (or lack of experience).

In other words, arguing for a model (mainline or trunk) without first setting a context is pointless.

For instance, consider the needs of a very large team versus a very small team. Consider a team that releases often versus a team that releases infrequently. Consider a team releasing multiple projects according to a roadmap versus a team releasing a single project on an ad hoc basis.

The variations are many, and so too are the strategies for managing source code.
Wrong. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware for (much) more information, this is really quite the thing right now.

You might disagree with the definition, if you somehow consider all the information that goes into the manufacturing of a physical object to be something else than the "source" for taht object, but this is how the term is being used by a lot of people, who are actually doing this.
Thats why I find it curious that more hackers don't adopt Lua, and the Lua VM, for a lot of projects - you can put the VM anywhere. ANY. Where. It takes less than a day to get the Lua VM inserted in a project, and from that point on you have a powerful engine for productive development..
It's not that they're not taken seriously, just that they're not in any way a requirement to be a professional player. To play cricket, aussie rules, rugby, hockey, netball and so on at the professional level doesn't require a feeder system of athletes from the tertiary education sector. Professional athletes also aren't introduced by sportscasters as 'name, college'.

Who knows, it might catch on. Other American sports oddities have, like that annoying singing of the national anthem before each match and providing a role for athletic women in professional sports by making them cheerleaders...
You might want to come to Singapore.
How much extra range does this actually end up giving if you take into account that they actually cost range to power the camera(s) and the screen(s) though ? :)
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This is from a UK Tech Recruiters point of view working from an agency perspective on Developer and Infrastructure recruitment.

We recruiters sometimes get a bad rep for not looking at CVs without certain words or phrases on them, and candidates can get frustrated when because they don't have a very specific skill-set then they're overlooked, even if they know (and WE know) that they'd be able to pick it up in a very short time period. Its not always our fault - with some of the companies I've personally worked with unless they have everything in their CV listed on a job specification sent from a lead developer then they won't be passed through to them to review the CV, even if they have a lot of other skills that we think could mesh in well with the development team and company culture.

Yes, there are recruiters that don't know what they're talking about but not all of us are like that! One of the downsides to what we do is that a small minority of recruiters manage to get most of us a bad name, which is a shame.
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You either obey the court order while you appeal it and fight the injustice. Or you disobey the court order and go to jail and appeal the court order and fight the injustice.

But while the order stands it will be enforced by the apperatus of the law.
Well, according to the research in question so can 92% of University of North Carolina football players. What's your point?
There was some discussion about OS X window management options on another thread the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6998309
Why not give clients the benefit of a rolling 3-month rate automatically? That way you could help educate them (by showing them their own data back to them- scheme tier x volume) as to how merchant charges work.

To keep it simple, you could require a minimum volume to participate which may also help you get people to consolidate their merchant activity with you, similar to the way traditional tiering works.
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Distinct lack of Derbyshire accents!
Give a link to said study or go back to /r/theredpill.
my setup is a Samsung 42" TV + AppleTV + a PS4.
The colours and clarify are amazing (the sound isn't)

I use the TV for BBC iPlayer, Netflix, and Viki (I'm into asian soap operas)
I use the Apple TV for Youtube,
The PS4 is for Battlefield 4,
I use Airplay for anything else
I think it is generally agreed upon that white males can say things that others can't say without running into death threats. It is also generally agreed upon that women are more likely to be abused for saying things.

That being said, epistasis's reasoning is still wrong. A kind reading blames the difference on misogyny, suggesting the non-misogynists send death threats to males and females alike. But that would only be true if a large portion of the people that send death threats to females would do so out of misogyny and not out of, e.g., an unconscious perception of women as easier to troll. You may argue the reality of that perception and you may want to change that, but disagreeing with it doesn't make it misogyny. That's just labeling every bit of discriminatory behavior as 'misogyny', which comes down to redefining the term.

Apart from being wrong, I think it is unwise to use language so bluntly. It makes most readers think "well, I'm not a misogynist, so nothing here applies to me", when the real thought should be "yes, interesting, how likely am I to discriminate against women? Can I identify the possibly subtle effects that lead to this discrepancy?".
Most of the 4 places I know of, yes :D

And the dentist office is one of them, actually. Anyway, I may be wrong about this right now, but as you note, in a few years, when the support dies and nothing works on XP any longer it will still thrive in environments I describe.
While university sport certainly exists, the major differences are that i) they don't generate any revenue, and ii) student athletes don't receive any advantage in university admissions.
While accepting the other replies, I do wonder how hardware trust is achieved. The security point about open source is peer review. For a dunce like me, I can pretty much rely on people much smarter than me to review open sourced code. In reasonable time, if there is a iffy routine buried in some bit of software, such people will out it. So, people like me can pretty much trust it, and even if something is missed but later found, again, we can be sure the discoverer will report it, while a commercial organisation might be motivated to hide it.

But, how does that work with hardware? How do we trust all the chips? How do we know there isn't something iffy built in at manufacture? Then, how can those same cleverer than me people discover it? How do they inspect the encased silicone circuit?

So, in that vein, I see the point you might have been making, and actually, I think its a worthwhile question. Because to me, it does look like what you describe, a sort of closed source hardware which runs all open source software. And I personally dont know that that is safe. Or is it?
In my (not actually humble at all) opinion, Unroll.me is a security hole by itself. "Oh yeah, I'll willingly give all of my e-mail data to a third party, what could possibly go wrong?" Although this article is fascinating news, it sounds like "in addition to the hole created by iceberg impact, Titanic also has open portholes above the waterline".

(Before you start pointing out that my e-mail provider has my data - I'm sort of aware of that, and find it as a necessary evil to keep my e-mails flowing; it doesn't follow that I should therefore give access to anyone and everyone)
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It was a long one, and I'll admit I only skimmed it.

But from a glance, it looks like the one writing the rebuttal didn't really understand the criticism, and is himself 100% captured by the exact mindset which the original article criticized PHP for having.

This guy is the one who will be standing at the door complaining that you just broke his house. He is what is wrong with PHP.

And naturally, however much sense he thinks his argument makes, it will still be wrong. It's in the very nature of this situation.
I use bspwm, which has a very simple design and follows the unix philosophy quite nicely. A single daemon process which manages windows, and all configuration is done with the shell via the `bspc` command, which talks to the daemon over a socket. A separate daemon (sxhkd) is used for keybindings, and the configuration for sxhkd is just a map of keybindings (including mouse buttons) to shell commands, with a very simple DSL to allow groups of commands, and the use of the cursor position. Example from my configuration:

alt + {Left,Down,Up,Right,h,j,k,l}
bspc window --focus {left,down,up,right,left,down,up,right}

{alt,super} + Tab
bspc {window,monitor} --focus next

alt + super + {Left,Down,Up,Right}
bspc window --swap {left,down,up,right}

super + {Left,Down,Up,Right}
bspc window --edge {left,down,up,right} push

super + shift + {Left,Down,Up,Right}
bspc window --edge {right,up,down,left} pull

super + q
bspc window --kill

Worth noting that bspwm treats monitors individually when using window commands, so you need a separate set to handle windows on diff monitors (unless using Xinerama).

I've no idea whether it works on OSX though. 2bwm seems to be popular among OSX users, but I've not tried it.
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At more than an 8-9 reading age? That's probably true for the premiership. If we included the lower leagues... I wouldn't take that bet.
Chess is more of an individualist game where the world championship will be won by one guy rather than "Team USA".

It's also more difficult to follow than say soccer to people not intimately familiar with the game.
Why not write the whole thing in Python? Why bother with V8 and JS? Is JS considered a better fit for this?
Sports teach various kinds of dedication and teamwork, inside a framework where you get strong immediate feedback and conclusive results on a regular schedule. It also demonstrates vigorous competition within a system of rules, and instructs participants and fans in the occasional randomness of rewards and importance of perseverance-through-losing, and graciousness-in-winning. These are all important cultural values for a big, contentious, competitive society.

It's also the original "reality" programming, unscripted and unpredictable, with a constant stream of life-stories and morality-plays, which can be covered as 'news' relatively cheaply. It's not just 'bread and circuses', but actual moral instruction: modern constantly-refreshed mythology, always available for casual discussion with acquaintances and strangers.

The strong linkage with US higher-education isn't strictly logical, but tradition and economic symbiosis has entrenched the relationship. The large-audience collegiate sports help market and fund entire college communities, providing a focal point for common entertainment-outings, loyalty-displays, reunions, fundraising. In its absence, people might be relatively more parochially-aligned with just their hometowns, or faiths, or social class, or careers.
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At $1,000,000/btc this would mean all the Bitcoins would be worth twice the value of all the gold ever mined. Seems too optimistic.
> At what point does the law of diminishing returns kick in?

You won't know until you try. I hesitated a lot about switching my CRT from 14" to 17". After half an hour of work going back felt like staring at ATM bulb shaped display.

I'd like to try very large monitors but it's pointless without higher resolution so I'll wait until I can buy 4K as a toy.
Yes, sorry - I had a typo in previous comment, I meant $3500 for the 32'' from Dell and Asus.
While physical access on almost any hardware (without whole-disk encryption) will always allow full access, it's good that this is sometimes raised as many people either don't know or don't internalize this.

A more interesting question is whether this should be the case. As has been noted, this is by design and made far more sense when computing devices weren't quite so mobile. Perhaps it should take more effort to boot into single-user mode? Perhaps FileVault should be on by default with a cloud-stored key tied to your Apple account?
If all they do is play sports, then you couldn't really call it a scholarship, could you. The athletes would play sports and in exchange they would get.... to play sports. And the college gets all kinds of money and publicity in exchange for ... allowing the "students" to play sports. Perhaps some of the more literate of the players might stop and think for a second about the situation, and then get a crazy idea like trying to form a union, or something equally preposterous. And then the colleges might have to share some of that game revenue with the people actually playing the game! What are you trying to do, freeze over hell?!
Moving commits from one branch to another according to a ritual. This way even simple change seems like a lot of work. The concept that machine should be one doing rituals, not humans by hand, is promptly ignored.
Which isn't popular with the average Joe, because in contrast to MB, where all the types have somewhat positive names (Architect, Healer, Protector, Mastermind, Champion, Inventor, ...), the big 5 measures personality traits that can be regarded as negative (and which probably are in the context of social interaction). No one likes to hear from a test that they're a disagreeable, neurotic, close-minded person.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4221
I wonder if it's possible to create a minesweeper layout that can't be solved without guessing at least once or not.
The solution to this problem is new legislation which limits what can be done with information gathered in this way. E.g. limits on what information polite or the government can subpoena, limits on whether such information can be sold, etc. We can't do anything about the technology itself, but we can decide how it can legally be used.
It does seem strange compared to the UK system as well. Here, for football (soccer), most people would join a club or youth team at 16 or so. Nobody expects football players in the UK to have brains. I can think of only a couple of footballers with a college degree - Graham Le Saux and Steve Coppell, I believe. Joey Barton has A Levels but is probably not a good advertisement.
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I was looking through at my average news article rate and completely missed it.
Exactly - that's how I found reddit, back in the day.

First it was mostly hacking, startups, and some libertarian politics. Then there started to be more politics, and less hacking and startups. And more "outrage stories". And it went downhill fast enough that PG started Hacker News.

That's one of the reasons I loathe the political stories so much - they build a momentum of their own and wreck sites like this one.

Interestingly enough, you can see PG helping to get reddit off the ground:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050725010627/http://reddit.com...

"bugbear" is PG.

Edit, I think it was through this essay:

http://www.reddit.com/comments/20775
Very nice - thanks for sharing!

Diving into WebGL is on my todo list for a long time. Games using it (e.g. Quake) really do look impressive for something that doesn't require any additional plugins to run.

Link to the article:

http://www.pheelicks.com/2013/12/webgl-tombstone-part-1/

Link to the Github repo:

https://github.com/felixpalmer/webgl-tombstone
>What most people do not realise is that it does not matter if China or the US or any country bans or criminalises bitcoin. All it takes is for 1 small country (like Singapore) to embrace bitcoin for it to be worth $1,000,000 a coin.

Not really. That 1 small country can be pushed diplomatically until it gives up on Bitcoin all too easily.

As for the "$1,000,000" thing, LOL, it seems the tulip/gold rush/quick bucks from nothing dream will never dissapear.
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I've worked for a CV/resume parsing company and had to talk to a lot of UK consultants (they would have stabbed me in the face if I called them the r-word). The vast majority are simply looking to fill positions as quickly and easily as possible, and don't give a jot about the candidates.

A couple of times, when I've been on the job markets, I've gotten calls and been told to change my CV to better match the massively-underpaid position they're looking to fill.
"Summary of some mostly uninteresting e-mails" doesn't quite feel as important or sensitive as "Password recovery e-mail". Very unintuitive, very surprising.
Nothing can beat this for a beginner.

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html -- read thru src code of unix v6, polished for x86 as xv6

Once done with xv6,
http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs422/pios#! -- Build a modern multi-core os kernel
Sure. But assuming we had saved the money, what would have been not-paid-for in the meantime?
I'm using a 30-inch monitor to program regularly, and it isn't nearly enough once you learn to use it properly. Have you really tried this out?
Dude you haven't seen him with his shirt off? He's ripped, brosef.
Isn't the cannon on SA and Israeli helicopters eye-tracked? (I think the Apache is helmet-tracked, but its also a much older system)?

I can't find it by googling, but a long time ago I used to read far too many Flight magazines.
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>This sounds suspiciously like modern context being retrofitted to an ancient story.

This sounds like you're too young to remember that the "modern context" is what's actuall "ancient" -- it has been around since the fifties -- with several mass surveillance scandals along the way back in those decades.

As for the "ancient story" -- people in their early forties were active in the eighties tech world man. We still use tons of technologies from that era. Nothing ancient about it.
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pardon my ignorance, but how this is different from non-branded chinese laptops. since those are non-branded i guess they don't have legal rights over it too.
how is this better than multiple monitors? the support in Windows (and at least Ubuntu Linux) for e.g. maximising a window to fill a single monitor is excellent.

The other thing, with any article like this where Windows is not used for testing makes me skeptical. Most programmers do not work in offices developing on Macs or Linux machines by a very large margin. Working on a mac for iOS and OS X development is something we grudgingly do because Apple enforce it... in fact you could say that all programmers use Windows and be very close to being accurate.

I've never used multiple monitors on a mac to comment though - I can imagine the support being just as good as in Windows or Linux.
Now I'm thinking I ought to start thinking about a 3-D desktop environment. I know it sounds nuts to use this technology to just render a browser and a bunch of terminal windows, but that could be an awesome working environment.

It is neat to have bigger and higher resolution screens, but I can only read the text at one point in space anyway.