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My initial reaction was acquihire. Though given their recent improvements to Pages [1], this acquisition could mean a push into the Easel market space.

1: http://pages.github.com/

EDIT: Just to point out why this is a big deal - What percentage of new sites are mostly static, presentational? Probably a slim minority. Whilst Github can't code your site for you (yet?), giving you the tools to develop your app layer and frontend - with some as-of-yet seen integration tools? - those are some very large slices of the pie. Don't forget Github pages is currently free too, perhaps there'll be a paid tier for dynamic sites.
I believe (from second-hand sources) that many libraries in the US are required by their funders (state and municipal governments) to spend a certain fraction of their budgets on buying books.
I submit that availability trumps even that. In many cases, you would not have a gun if it wasn't as simple and cheap to make as the AK-47.
Good Question. Lets take the scenario where we are partnering with another bank. So then we have two main applications or systems - 1) Integration with their api (I'm assuming this would be a fairly big thing considering the complexities) and 2) Our API/App i.e what people would actually use. I would see the second one there being open source, but not the first one, for obvious security reasons. Furthermore, apps and other smaller services would be open source. I think if you can portray an image that you are transparant and in a non technical way, have it as part of the brand as such, it might interest people. Get me?
I used this and found it a good for intro level:

Random Data: Analysis and Measurement Procedures

Bendat & Piersol

http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470248777...
Do you mean the sound waves would generate radio waves somehow, or are you thinking of the speaker generating EM interference as well? How strong would you expect that to be?
Allen May (http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3030327) and I came in touch over the same topic a few months back. And whatever Nicholas is saying here makes so much sense that I couldn’t agree with him more.

I myself have been engaged in a couple of mentorship programs this year and planning to continue doing it. I’ve set few rules and created my own process on very similar lines that Nicholas has explained; although not that precise and thoughtful. This blog post has helped me with some really great directions. Sincere thanks to Nicholas for it. Great work, there.

I feel, we could use a transparent system where the ongoing mentorship program highlights are shared publicly and other mentors can learn/contribute from/to it. It is such an important aspect of our professional life that it saves huge amount of time (in years), makes us a stronger person, gets us the right kind of contacts, polishes the existing knowledge, teaches how to learn effectively and provides us with a solid foundation that lasts through the whole life. Making small mistakes as a mentor can have disastrous results on the mentee’s life.
You hit it I think, but the bigger issue (heh) remains: you're basically creating a contract which is not all that different from a tiny freelancing gig, but you've a more distant relation between the parties, so it may be harder to build trust.

Does your system involve an escrow concept? Something like, the money is wired by a third party (you) as soon as the commit is merged into a certain branch, or something.
It depends what is being programmed.

Pre-Algebra / Discrete : Basic variable substitution and functions

Geometry : Drawing 3d figures and graphics

Calculus & Trigonometry : Physics engines
I like bitcoin, but a government has the right to define the currency it's citizens use (i.e what is legal tender and what's not) and I think for a bank targeting ordinary people, you have to deal in legal tender. I don't think a bank for the 0.0001% who use bitcoin is going to be able to revolutionise banking..
Web Performance and Tech Evolution at the NYT
A really candid view to the travails of making a product a "success".

I think the following quote sums up pretty much everything:

> OK, how about this: most of my failures seem to be marketing failures. This includes misjudging if there is a market for a product or how big that market even is.

Perhaps the point in all of this is that it's almost all a clear case of technology-push as opposed to market-pull. Your chances are a whole lot better when you've got the product-market fit sorted. It's almost always more difficult than the technical side of things when it comes to success at the end game.
Most of the bad rep AK gets for precision comes from Mao's knock-offs. Chinese copies account for at least 80% of AK family guns on the worldwide market (e.g. nearly all Mujaheddin used Chinese copies shipped through Pakistan).

The idea that USSR couldn't produce a weapon with high tolerances in 1950s is laughable. It could teach precision machining to perhaps rest of the world, save the USA and Germany.
Thats rather unfortunate. I think you can use Homebrew to pull in newer stuff, though, but I haven't tried (I don't host stuff on my MBP, I use my Linux workstation for that).
Good point. Real criminals attach an inconspicuous cam and a skimmer to the machine.
List of Blocked websites(by court-order) by an Indian ISP(Youbroadband)
in a casual glance, Most appear to be spammy. Put your thoughts
The last big bond issue by AT&T paid 1.4%

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-20/at-t-said-to-plan-o...

I'd not call the NPV of any tech stock predictable.
Quoting from http://www.displayport.org/embedded-systems/microsoft-pushes... :

Microsoft Senior Program Manager Gavin Gear created his newest setup with a pixel rate that is truly jaw-dropping – 1.5 billion pixels per second (yes, that’s a billion with a “B”). The overall 12K x 2K resolution (across the three screens) on the PC gaming rig was built by three Sharp PN-KN321 4K Ultra HD displays connected with DisplayPort 1.2 to register the best refresh rates enabled through Multi-Stream Transport. Gear also took advantage of ASUS’ HD 7970 DirectCUII’s four DisplayPort outputs.
SSL Labs also has a client test: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html

And, if you're curious about client-side SSL support in general, every server test page simulates about 20 most popular (or important) clients. Scroll down to the "Handshake Simulation" section. If you click on client name you get the full-page client report. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.ssllabs.c...
Why not teach assembly language programming so that the student can really understand how a computer works, and teach Scheme so that they can really understand the power of abstraction, recursion, functional programming etc. A later course can be to write a Scheme compiler generating the same asm lang.
Those are probably all linked against OpenSSL so that's what you would need to upgrade.
Yes, but:

1. That tweet is from May 2012.

2. The other URL is in the address bar in the screenshot on the Pirate Browser web site. The screen shot has a time stamp of August 2013.

So the first URL was probably the official one in 2012, but it has possibly been superseded by the other one.
Ok, asking this question here was a bad idea. I now regret doing this.
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MSIE6 does not support new enough SSL to be considered secure. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of sites no longer work with MSIE 6 over the next two years as sites transition to turning RC4 and SHA1 off.
This surprises me. I thought New Zealand was a prominent part of the world map. All maps have included much less distinctive areas.
My acquired Bitcoin startup Bridgewalker is now open source
This would be more interesting if they only polled people who could draw. Maybe ask them to draw a horse first, and if it's recognisable as a horse, then continue on with the world map.
Also ironically, it was AKM that moved from milled receiver to stamped, making it both lighter and less expensive, but giving garage experts a reason to complain about.
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UHttpSharp : KoaJS in C#
I've modified uHttpSharp to be more like KoaJS,

Performance isn't awesome, What can I do to make it work more faster? Already using the async/await pattern where I should.
In most EU scolarships, you're taught geography very long, even if that has nothing to do with your primary subject of study.

I've been a European student (FR) who spent a year in a US high school so I see the differences between the two populations. Simply put: average world citizen is not very good with geography, and average US citizen is noticeably worse.
Definitely -- I remember being in the crib, the toys I had in my nursery, and even the color of the lamp! (All verified later by asking my parents, all from before I was a year old)
It's not so much that it should suck, as much as that it probably will suck, just because you don't know what you're doing yet. So as you said, it's just to set your expectations right, not your ambition.

And this is where I deeply agree with the author, and why I don't spend as much time reading articles as I once did: All of this is advice is probably right, in context. In the incredibly rich and impossible-to-convey context of the author's situation. Used outside of that context, it could be exactly the wrong advice.

It's like Soeren Kierkegaard said, you can't pass experience on through writing, it has to be lived.
(Thanks for saving me from questioning my sanity)
Some background: It's an Android wallet, where you maintain a euro balance (held by Bridgewalker for you). Using those funds, bitcoins will be bought at current market price whenever you want to send any. This allows you to use Bitcoin only as a payment mechanism, without being affected by the exchange rate volatility. You fund your account via Bitcoin as well, which will be exchanged for euros at current market price and credited to your account.

So: Bitcoin as transaction mechanism, Euro as store of value.
Correct. Firefox and all other modern browsers use the so-called 1/n-1 split technique to mitigate the BEAST attack. It's actually possible to test if the mitigation is present; it's just that this site has not implemented it.
There are really two different ways in which programming and math match up.

At a basic level, programming and algebra have a few key things in common (variables most notably), and more generally you'll probably end up using math to solve some common problems that come up in programming; that won't really rise to the level of advanced mathematics, though, beyond roughly algebra plus linear algebra.

More importantly, though, math and programming are both heavily about learning, seeing, and applying patterns. Algebra, trigonometry, geometry, calculus, discrete math, and linear algebra all give you a toolbox of patterns to apply. Likewise, the more you learn about programming (or more generally CS), the more you have a toolbox of patterns to apply. Both heavily involve analytical reasoning and fast pattern matching against a vast set of possibilities. In other words, both of them bend your brain in many of the same ways, and they cross-train incredibly well.
We all know this. My point is, the site gives some indication as to how effective any particular browser's SSL is, yet the site doesn't function for the worst offenders.
I'm sure you're aware BH recently shot itself in the head by getting rid of their last connection to the Jeff Moss days; it looks like it's rapidly headed toward "just another RSA".
He is talking about the $30 prepaid plan, which is both still available and doesn't start throttling until 5gb.
Distinctions between the terms is nearly entirely academic, and most people just make up their own. Practically speaking, the terms are identical.

PS I think I noticed Beastie Boys lyrics in one of the crypto challenges. Did you put those in?
I can't get used to Emacs (or Vim neither), they require too much keyboard interaction and they are aesthetically ugly
A better hash table
Intel Dreams Up A Smart Bowl That Will Charge Gadgets
Quite nice to see that this is written in Haskell.

The idea of a bitcoin app that stores funds in another currency makes a lot of sense for people who primarily want to use bitcoin as an exchange mechanism without speculating on its future value.

I'm curious what service this uses to purchase bitcoins, or if it uses its own exchange; it's not comforting to see a reference to the MtGox API, but hopefully they're only used to find out the current value. (Even then, they're not a reliable metric for the true value of bitcoins, since they're not sufficiently liquid with respect to governmental currencies, but that'd still be better than actually attempting to use them as a currency exchange.)
Magnet links are tiny, inconsequential even on dialup.
The manga cafe is one of my favorite Japanese institutions, though the utility is lower now that I'm married. It's a no-notice dirt-cheap hotel (if you're amenable to sleeping in a recliner), a mid-day nap, an instant office-with-a-door, an instant wifi connection and (typically) open outlet, serviceable liquid refreshments, climate controlled like a business rather than Japanese houses (i.e. always tolerable, which is not a hard-and-fast requirement for Japanese apartments/houses), and virtually guaranteed to be tolerant of people at the margins of society [+].

[+] This can be useful if it is 2 AM and you're in a city you don't live in with a face that says "I am at the margins of Japanese society; nobody will fault your hotel if you refuse my business on the excuse that you are fully booked... on a Thursday... but could be unbooked if I were willing to have someone from my office call to vouch for me."
Funny :)

As long as you hit middle C1 on every chord regardless of whether or not it's a duff chord or not...

At least with vi, you can play one fingered and make an acceptable tune ;)

Sure Douglas Hofstadter could write a book about that...
You're talking about old things like Bell's theorem to support your straw man fallacy, but neglect your own saying. States are transmitted instantly and you still misunderstand either willingly or not the possibility of information transmission by this method.

Your words >> "Then the other photon will indeed assume the symmetrical state."

Your causality argument is void, because in no way has this to do with a paradox. That's high-school physics you use to draw the straw man here. You have no references that back your claims and have you even looked at the scientific journals I have sent you? Try to formally disprove those. And I'm all ears again, but here you only defend your position no matter what.
I know some projects do deterministic builds using a pre-made VM. There are Bitcoin bots that periodically build the client and check it against official binaries to detect tampering.
Only if someone decides to contribute--we're working on other kinds of data. You should check out The State Decoded, however, at http://www.statedecoded.com.

The State Decoded takes a more Jeffersonian approach (appropriately perhaps, given that it's based in VA), allowing citizens to code up their own state statutes. PlainSite in contrast is more Hamiltonian: centralized and standardized. There are advantages and disadvantages to each approach.
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It's from a retrospective on Haskell: www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/appsem-slides/peytonjones.ppt

There seems to be two arguments against laziness. Firstly, it makes reasoning about performance hard. Secondly, forcing strict evaluation is tricky, maybe harder than it would be to do optional lazy evaluation in a strict language.
When experts say that AK47 is not "particularly accurate", it's a bit misleading, because in a battle you don't shoot for bullseye, usually any shot within the inner 30cm (12inches) circle on the target is considered as a hit. Ak47 is certainly not the most accurate weapon, but in a real life situation and within its fire range of about 350 - 400 meters it's accurate enough. In my experience with the Yugoslav version m70 it's really hard to miss anything under 200m and when shooting further than that (because it doesn't have optics in the standard setup) your eyes are a bigger problem than the gun itself.
Wondering whether someone is working on a org-mode plugin.
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TPB no longer uses torrent files as their primary distribution mechanism. Torrent files were already small, but now they use magnet links which are basically just a SHA1 hash and a URL for a tracker. The tracker isn't strictly necessary.

Here's a fun trick: Make a plaintext file containing "Hello world" (maybe lowercase, maybe either will work). Take its SHA1 hash. Paste that into the Transmission "Open torrent address" dialog (edit: It looks like you can only directly paste hashes into the web dialog. You can still craft a magnet link manually). Give it like 5-10 minutes. Through the magic of DHT, you will soon have a brand new copy of the "Hello World" text in your downloads directory.
You're right. Negative experience is valuable as well. I mysefl is now in a somewhat similar situation: I convinced my wife and my friends to try to implement a web-service I had in mind with a small working prototype. They agreed to suppor me financially and I quit my day job and took a year for now to finish it and have at least beta version running.

I should say that I feel really grateful and really appreciate this opportunity and what my friends are doing for me.
nice tutorials, thank you
Yeah sounds like a potential loophole
I more than welcome you (and any other) to suggest any ideas of building trust.

The concept is as follows so far: The full amount of what people want to spend goes to a third party (me). Then the money is wired to the developer or back to the "bidder" depending if the issue-manager accepts or cancels the progress. I hope i made this clear on the pricing page: https://issue-bidder.com/pricing
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also, not sucking and financial success are two different things. You can be a financial success with a game that sucks. Getting to where you're consistently making good, innovative stuff really does come sometime after your 10th game.
China and Russia are attacking the world
How does "Editor: build file or project" work? Can I create my own build targets?
Good advice in general, i don't really agree with what he said about marketing though.
Depends heavily on the market obviously, but today, even if you have a super awesome mobile game it will be very hard to be successful with it if you don't know what you're doing in terms of marketing and don't have a budget for it. On many platforms, most decent games simply never turn a profit.
> "This is how it looks like."

I seem to come across an increasing number of occurrences of the phrase 'how it looks like' (and derivatives). This, to me, sounds very wrong and is starting to annoy me more than I'd like... But since it seems to become more widespread, maybe it's me? (non-native English speaker, btw)
One can, and one should. We should build this system, keeping in mind the lessons of Project Xanadu.

http://mesh.is/draft
His point is that the majority of the fine levied (80%) against JPM was in relation to WaMu and Bear Stearns behaviour BEFORE JPM bought them. The real crazy tho is that JPM _knew_ that some potentiually dodgy stuff had been going on at WaMu/BS and sought assurance from the regulators that they would not be held liable if they bought these two firms - which they were basically doing as a favour for the US Gov. Then the regulators fucked them anyway.
Anyone has more details as to why a news site would need so many queue instances ?
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I think the Dose Espresso counter was taken over this week by another company.
> Sandwhiches can be 9 pounds by themselves.

Where?
So what attack is this responding to? I'm a bit lost here, it looks like someone is stepping in to defend Ben from something, but what?

Is it related to http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/12/addre... ?
How exactly does this work? Is it sniffing the user-agent and comparing it against known values, or does it actually inspect the connection?
My bank here in Italy has a pretty good web interface, and very easy money transfers with IBAN. Other than that though, I prefer the low fees in the US.
Barriers to entry are extremely low, thats why you have an incredible amount of competition fighting for gamer attention. So in the past it was harder, but there were also a lot less people doing it.
"Terrible at geography" is not binary state; it may well be true that Americans (on average) are worse than most others, while having absolutely brilliant scholars.

High standard deviation.

Plus I believe the real stereotype of Americans is being ignorant of geopolitical issues, dumb bigoted nationalists. Nobody really cares whether you draw some obscure peninsula correctly or not.
While I really appreciate this feature, I'd love it even more if I could get multi-account reporting (from Stripe or anybody using the API). I have 3 Stripe accounts and don't have a problem with password management, due to having LastPass, but answering simple questions like "How much money should I expect to receive in transfers in the next week?" requires me to do three context switches and then math. (Also, mentioned this to support years ago, but even on a single account there's no "sum of scheduled transfers" on the transfer page, which has always struck me like a number likely to be of interest to many people.)

This is a priority for me which is annoying enough to mention and to have bought various Stripe reporting apps speculatively, hoping one would implement it, but below the cusp of "Screw it, I'll figure out how to use the reporting API then do summary stats on a cron job and dump them onto one of my dashboards."
Oh Matt Taibbi is a hack of the worst kind. His bullshit and propaganda infuriate me.
> The structure of formal proofs is taught in geometry. That's pretty much the only course where students are expected to prove theorems about the subject via proofs. In most of the other courses students are taught the formulas and techniques, axioms and theorems, but then apply them, rather than attempt to develop or prove them themselves. They're also, typically, not shown a proof of the theorems they learn, they're just told to accept them.

Wow! I can't even imagine how that works. When I went to school (and that's in Europe, not Asia), the notions of theorem and proof were taught in the fifth year of school (out of 12 pre-college years -- 8 in elementary, 4 in high school). That was, indeed, as part of geometry. Starting from high school, however, pretty much no formula is given without prior demonstration. Subjects where they can't do that (like mechanics -- that's taught in Physics prior to pre-calculus and calculus) are a royal fuckup. You aren't usually expected to be able to reproduce the proofs for those formulae, but a) you're strongly encouraged to study them, because they help you with the exercises and b) it's usually implied that, if you can't remember the formula, but you can prove it, it's OK. For example, if you can't finish a problem in a test because you don't know the formula, but you obviously try to find it, the professor will sometimes give you full credit, depending on circumstances and following a short talk.

I didn't even like math back then, save for geometry, but I reckon this was the most important thing I learned there. Unless you're dumber than a toaster, you're typically able to apply what you learned to everyday phenomenae after ten years of school; the bonus you get is also being able to reason rigorously and correctly, which is an important takeaway no matter what path you choose to follow.