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The fact that the story of the great flood existed before the biblical account is evidence in favor of the story, not a refutation. Every person of faith knows the true source of the story, it is not a Babylonian invention. Many early cultures, I would venture ALL of them, had the same story. This guy is just an outsider and not informed.
Zipcodes are not numbers. As a counterexample, MA has codes beginning with 02, e.g. 02135.
He replied to this one.
A far better analysis occurs during the front part of this podcast http://www.shacknews.com/article/82702/weekend-confirmed-200...
This is a small collection of programmable guitar pedals I've been maintaining, including The Owl, my own design, the FV-1 and many others for Arduinos and whatnot: http://diydsp.com/livesite/pages/GuitarPedals
Would you mind highlighting the differences between FenixEdu and Canvas?
I'm sure snapchat isn't looking for your sympathy. What trend? Snapchat brings an age old mating ritual to the digital age in a way that's appealing to the age group that spends most of their daily energy trying to garner the attention of the opposite gender. There's no trend here, it's just life in the digital age.

...those same not fully developed minds that society thinks amply prepared to go into war to kill and maim. I'm pretty sure they can handle 1-10 seconds of naked body parts.
On Windows there's no patching to do, since this is by design. If you want to close this potential hole you simply stop the Firewire DMA driver from loading, which is pretty easy to do via Group or Local Policy. Microsoft has an article on it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516445
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No, they very clearly and explicitly promise otherwise https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#privacy
This one is interesting, I'm on the fence about it though. I have a Hackintosh (i5 3470k,16gb,2X GTX660TI SLI) inside of a G5 case. The interesting thing about the older Mac Pro is they did not really change the design for so many years and you can pickup a empty G5 case for $70-100 on ebay. Only slight modifications are needed to make it work with PC components.
you don't get it. FB's audience are aging out, they are too busy with their careers, dealing with newborns and aging parents. Snapchat is a brand that has an increasing number of new eyeballs to sell ads to. It's not anything to do with how much good snapchat is doing in the world, or how their 'service' is bringing a new benefit to humanity, all that matters is the next generation with purchasing power are looking at it.
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What's even niftier is, say with Windows and BitLocker, the BitLocker key can be recovered from a memory dump pulled this way. Couple this with live patching of RAM to bypass the lock screen and you're just kinda sunk.

And yes, me, a not particularly security-oriented guy, did this fairly quickly as a demonstration for coworkers. It required only marginally more than script kiddie levels of knowledge.
And if your car is unlocked it's meant for joyriding?
Hey dude, language author here - yeah, a (lambda) will become a Python lambda if it's a single expression, otherwise it'll turn into an anonymous function (with a name like `_hy_anon_fn_00011`) and replace the lambda with a ref to the function.

Allll taken care of :)
The sooner all cops shifts are "GoPro'd" for lack of a real product the better. Tech has reached a point where we can archive a shifts worth of video for atleast 6 months.
what a stupid ask. why wouldn't a vc do this? Isn't this something that would be a big part of the iterative application process. I doubt the process has remained unchanged over the years. As new feature vectors of success are identified it would be a very inept investor who didn't consider how to integrate that back into their process. And PG is not an inept investor.
They specifically promise not to do anything like that.
Most of the engineering positions are in Germany apparently?
Seeing as I was using the exact same boards for my 6 rack cluster...It's a little concerning to see pic 12, in what looks like to be a disassembled PSU on the underside of the board. Other than that...I think this build is actually pretty cool.

Speaking from experience, these boards are awesome, and smallest ones I've ever used (other than a mac mini/or rPI)!
I don't know as much as I'd like about Weimar; is there a "standard" good book on it in English? I know WW2 and WW1 a lot better, but the Weimar-and-rise-of-Nazis part always falls into the cracks.
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The hostility towards bros in this thread makes me feel uncomfortable and unwelcome.
I'm not trolling. I responded to the person sticking up for others and let them know they aren't alone. You should stop claiming anyone who disagrees with you is a troll, Chris; it really doesn't make you look too good.

Likewise, characterizing me as "hateful" because I pointed out how skewed your priorities are is really quite juvenile. You apparently thought it pertinent to grace me with not one but two replies when the other commenter left something objectively more hateful. That says something about yourself. You should take some time to examine why my comment deserved such protest.
I don't see a single attack against women in this entire 600+ post thread.

I haven't read the entire thing, however.

Would you mind sharing a link?
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Most _north americans_. This is a uniquely north american phenomenon, let's hope this cancer doesn't spread worldwide.
It doesn't even have to actually work. It just has to offer the experience of ephemerality.
He should start selling this case and release the recipe. I am sure plenty of people wouldn't mind to buy the case from him if he makes more. Like raspberry pi cases. Anyway, beautiful idea. But will Apple patent this design?
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So modder gets close to fit/finish with his hands and then its not good enough cause the "insides"... which you can't see BTW is the real good stuff is. Design can be just for design sake and not for technical or mechanical superiority.

Your thought train is living somewhere between these:
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/special-pleading
He was her fifth husband [1997-2002], or so Wikipedia informs one.
There's male feminists, by the way. I know, mind-boggling for you, absolutely clear to anyone with the empathy of at least a stone.
how can you cost effectively allow penny donations? Isn't the cost of running the campaign and the cost of accepting credit cards something like $.35/transaction?
Thanks for fixing that. :)
You mean the problem with Direct Memory Access is that it's Direct? Memory protection, authorization checks, and user consent are all implemented by the CPU knowing which pieces of memory are what. If you use DMA you're just writing to and reading from specific locations on the RAM chips, irrespective of what the CPU wants you to do. RAM chips don't have ACLs; They'll do whatever requests hit their pins.
True. But if you have lots of apps, it can be tedious to manage. Also, it seems better to abstract away the command to be able to quickly change tools when needed. And you won't get a fancy, readable list with alias :)
(2011) should be added to the title; see the date of the comments below the article.
There really isn't any need for such hostility, especially since you are wrong. OP wanted to know if YC searched through applications looking for rejects that ended up being successful. That's a very specific question.

PG says that's not how it works. I guess you think the way YC works is stupid.
If/when I get one, I'm going to run it without the shiny exterior as much as possible. That thing is too shiny and I much prefer the aesthetic of PC boards and parts on a Pro machine. (Then again I run my Windows tower with the sides off too, though that's because I was too lazy to hook up the power button and front USB ports.)
Yikes. You "empathetic" activists are consistently some of the meanest, most cruel people in every discussion you wander into. Do you not see how needlessly demeaning and insulting you are? It's remarkable that you cling to the banner of "empathy" while hatred and condescension drips from every word.

And yes, the grandparent poster did say that if you're on the Geek-Feminism-Privileged™ side of a given issue, you have a "vanishingly small" chance of being right, so "you're better off holding your tongue".
nkuttler, don't be a nutter. Stop denying science.
He placed it in double quotation marks. That means that his reference was to the word itself as a syntactical construct. It carries no implications regarding the semantics of the word and does not imply any opinion on whether the word should be used in normal communication (i.e. without quotes).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...
"They offer nil in the way of progress, yet act like they are all about progress."

There's some lesson here in the value of distilling an experience to its bare emotional essence.

They did actually capture something of value, and created (perhaps by accident, perhaps intentionally) something that brings an unmistakeable humanity to what used to be cold and technological.

This is some sort of progress, I think. We could use more humanity in our technology. In fact I'd say it could be the next big set of problems to solve.
Wow... direct, heartfelt and forceful. Respect.
The IOMMU is basically ACLs for RAM, but OSes don't use it as much as they could (possibly because Intel disables it on random SKUs).
Token woman in tech here, with the disclaimer that I do not speak for "women" or anyone else but myself.

I am sensitive to the issue of exclusionary culture within tech. I think there are times when this is a necessary discussion to have. I want to see more women get involved in programming, and I am happy to point out instances of men perpetuating a sexist culture.

With that said, I don't see it here. I really don't. And I understand the concept of lots of little things adding up over time, where one joke would not be offensive, but a constant barrage would be. I think of myself as someone who isn't bothered at all by swearing, but I have a housemate who literally swears in every other sentence and it is the most grating thing to me. It's not once instance, it's the accumulation over time. But I don't think this is similar.

"Bro" being offensive seems very highly specific to particular subcultures that I guess I'm not a part of. I guess there are people for whom that word has some highly negative connotation, maybe the people who are called "bros" derogatorily, but I don't understand why this pun is offensive to women. Gender isn't some super shameful characteristic that I flinch at any reminder of its existence. If I used this tool, I guarantee you that I would not be subtlely reminded that I am an "other", that I am not a "bro"; I use git all day every day and I honestly forget that it has any other meaning.

I hate to say this, because women feeling excluded from tech is a big, real problem, but this conversation trivializes it. People who need to hear that this is a problem are going to see this discussion and think that women are being ridiculous. Women are not underrepresented in tech because of this. But thanks for contributing to the stereotype that women whine and complain about trivial stuff, bros.
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The word 'bro' has nothing to do with women. There is too much internet dork white knighting going on in this thread.

I'd respect peoples opinion more in this thread if they said 'Hey! I know there is a small percentage of us guys who are offended by this rubygem name, and I dont like it! You should change it.' vs. trying to frame the argument that one is trying to save the poor helpless women from themselves.
It doesn't change the fact that running code that's downloaded over http,unverified by any kind of signature, as root -- is a very bad idea, and just having it there in official documentation for package whose purpose is managing systems gives me a very poor impression of the projects security goals.
FYI: Without additional tweaking, don't expect top-of-the-line Mac performance. Sure, my overclocked 6-core i7 made it over 12,000 when the highest I'd recorded before then was 9,000ish for a Mac mini i7 server, but when I ran the same parts under Windows, I hit a geekbench score of 25,000. Had I a legit Mac for the same price, I'd probably hit 20,000 easily, and in the older, cheaper designs, could have matched 25,000 for about the same price. If only Windows had a decent terminal, I'd be happy. Instead, when the Mac Pro gets DDR4 later this year, I might just switch.
This is a cool idea. If the creators are watching this channel, might I suggest a few ideas?

- Tweak the campaign page layout to more closely match Kickstarter et al. Big hero graphic/video, packages down the right, extensive sales pitch down the left. This layout is effective, flexible, and more importantly, the de facto standard for crowdfunding. You want people to immediately grok what the campaign is and how it works.

- Allow projects to have screenshots/mockups/videos/slideshow/etc. If you want campaigns to succeed, let people put some sexy graphics up there, maybe even the occasional high-production-value Kickstarer-esque video. Worth a thousand words, and all that.

- If you get critical mass, allow people to browse projects. This will allow potential clients to see all the campaigns out there, and may even build a community of backers. This is one of the real assets of Kickstarter - a community of early adopters, ready to spend cash for fun projects, frequently checking the "popular projects" page.
Writing your congressman is useless, unless you're signing a check.
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It's really easy to have direct access to a single range of memory and no access outside of that range. It's also really easy to have somewhat more complicated schemes. There is nothing inherently insecure about DMA. It's just shoddy protocols and/or protocols used in unexpected ways.
I wonder if the newer ephemeral apps like Whisper etc... will ever catch on as much as Snapchat did. They're basically trying to be more like Facebook in terms of functionality but they've added optional ephemerality on everything you post.
Please stop quoting irrelevant fallacies. Jeez.
It's a prescription that'd end up killing the patient.
I've been dealing with the same symptoms for about 12 years. I saw three different physical therapists while I was in the military, but they couldn't really isolate what was injured. I haven't tried some of the exercises/stretches you mentioned, perhaps I'll give it a shot and try to find a good PT.
Thanks for the extra testing.

My biggest problem with these benchmarks and your queries I cover in this [1] post.

If databases.name is unique then you'd have a unique index/constraint on it. Doing this in the environment I set up causes SQL Server to generate identical execution plans for all three queries.

If databases.name is not unique then your query's group by name doesn't make sense. I'll just quote what I wrote verbatim:

> No online retailer is looking at their sales reports and thinking that John Smith is their best customer and Amorette McFredson is their worst.

> ... I don’t know whether the query that was chosen for optimization because it’s good for demonstrating the technique on PgSQL or because it represents a query that is actually in use. I don’t like group by name without knowing whether dashboard names are unique.

> With that said, if it’s not unique then the query is arguably “wrong” because it aggregates results for distinct dashboard names rather than distinct dashboards.

> Removing the unique index on dashboards.name does change the execution plan of the first query – it’s slightly worse than the other two (which remain identical). “Fixing” the first query to group by dashboards.id and dashboards.name causes the better plan to be generated again.

[1] http://ta.speot.is/2014/01/25/use-subqueries-to-count-distin...
Given what I understand to be the preeminent position Babylon held in the ancient world, it seems plausible that the Biblical flood story was influenced by the Babylonian one, although both may still have had a common antecedent. This is not necessarily supporting evidence placing one particular version of the narrative over another.
I can't imagine why this sector predominately consists of men.
Great idea, except certain types of police work have a much higher likelihood of being accused of brutality or handling cases incorrectly. Work property crimes? No one will ever accuse you of abuse. Work narcotics or traffic stops in a rough part of town? A lot more likely.
Has your dentist recommended a mouth guard, or do you know you a teeth clencher/grinder? Try actually wearing one nightly.
> You could write an app that specifically exposed some dangerous API, but you'd know you had done so.

Few people write insecure code on purpose. Of course the same is true of Safari or networking/parsing code. I still maintain certificate pinning is the answer here, to try and defend as much as possible against MITM in the first place.
I'm not reading anyone saying that women are inferior to men here.

The only thing I'm seeing people say is that both sexes need to earn their stripes and credibility through effort - and this needs to be true in programming just like any other field.
> However, Github holds people accountable for actually having to program - funny how meritocracy came up as a bad word to these people!

Uh, no it doesn't? There are plenty of reasons someone might be a programmer that doesn't have work on github. Maybe their employer has a really restrictive invention assignment agreement and they don't feel like giving them free code. Maybe it's their day job and they do other things with their free time, like paint. Maybe they don't have any free time because they're a single parent or whatever.
As a user of snapchat, I've found unexpected value in the type of interaction it offers. My entire family is on it: we communicate visually daily where we never communicated before. We don't have to worry about making the communication high quality or meaningful because it's ephemeral; the fact that the communication is happening at all is high quality and meaningful.

If it's replaced, whatever comes next will probably be informed by the human way in which snapchat communicates, and hopefully will build on the idea.

Just think of it as a mobile translation of a core communication concept: simply looking at someone and talking to them, which is by nature visual and ephemeral. Snapchat captures some of the core emotions and psychology there that nothing else before it had.

Just saying—the instinct is to see Snapchat as useless and valueless and an enigma of popularity and hive mentality. I don't think it is.
This guy is actually trying to use G+

He doesn't have the right to complain
1st world citizens still have to go to work every day, this is more like a 1% problem.
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Nintendo making games for other consoles? That's just giving up. Could you imagine having played Super Mario World on a Genesis? Super Mario 64 on a Playstation?

I'm not saying the great guys at Nintendo couldn't make great gaming experiences for other platforms. But it would dilute the brand to virtual extinction. Better to fold up the business than throw away their dignity like that.

Nintendo's been around for a really long time. At this point they're just having a few bad years. Let's not start dooming and glooming just yet.
"By law, when you put your money into a deposit account, your money becomes the property of the bank. You become an unsecured creditor with a claim against the bank." Source: Depositors Beware: Theft is Legal for Big Banks, and Your Money Will Never Be Safe (May 01, 2013) http://www.globalresearch.ca/depositors-beware-theft-is-lega...

HSBC is a criminal bank. Here are a few more reasons why:

1. They were caught "transferring funds on the behalf of financiers for the militant group Hezbollah." Source: HSBC Gets Small Fine For Terrorist Transactions (12/18/2013) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/hsbc-terrorists_n_4...

2. HSBC laundered $881 million for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels. Source: HSBC Became Bank to Drug Cartels, Pays Big for Lapses (Tuesday, 11 Dec 2012) http://www.cnbc.com/id/100303180

3. "HSBC profited nicely from the bailout of AIG." Source: HSBC received $3.5 Billion of AIG bailout money (1 October, 2009) http://hsbcwatch.com/hsbcnews/news/hsbc-received-35-billion-...

4. This analysis suggests HSBC is 64% likely to go bankrupt in the next two years: http://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/0005.HK--Probability-O...

In the 90s, I was a VP for a Wall St. Mortgage Bank. The culture there is very corrupt. IMHO, you'd be better off keeping your money hidden in your mattress, using it to buy physical gold, or converting it bitcoins than keeping it in a big bank.

I predict that the next time the financial system collapses, the banks will be "bailed in." In other words, governments are already too deeply in debt to afford to bail out the banks again. Instead, the banks will simply seize their depositors' money, perhaps issuing them stock in the bank in exchange. This is what already happened in Cyprus. And HSBC may very well be testing the waters to see how feasible it is to confiscate their depositors' cash in the UK and US, given how close they are to bankruptcy.
::looks at responses to @defunkt's twitter post::

1) it appears to be a pretty even mix of men and women responding positively.
2) a huge number of the people who responded positively (male and female) are in fact software engineers, some of them fairly well known (e.g. conference speakers), several of which work at big name companies.

So, uhhhh, what the hell are you on about?
I noticed that this list was made by Martin Seymour-Smith. He was an English poet and critic whose masterpiece was called Guide to Modern World Literature. It is a monster of a book that covers hundreds (thousands?) of writers, a tour de force that is nearly impossible to believe was put together by one person. I used to spend hours poring over it in the reference section of the library. For such an encyclopedia, it's remarkable how idiosyncratic and addictive it is. He makes no attempt to be balanced or standard about anything; he just gives his personal views—for example he pooh-poohs Eliot and says that the greatest poet of the 20th century was César Vallejo. So, unlike most reference works, it's wonderfully intimate. It's like having an uncle who knows everything and will happily tell you all about anyone you name.

Sometimes it's even perverse, as he loves nothing better than to champion the obscure and take the famous and well-established down a peg. So I suppose it's fitting that basically no one has heard of his work.

I discovered him years ago on a long bus trip with a layover in Salt Lake City, where I went to a used bookstore. His book--actually an earlier one called "Who's Who in 20th Century Literature", smaller but still massive--was on a shelf in the basement of the store. I looked someone up in it and thought "this is interesting", sat on the floor and looked someone else up, and then another and so on. Hours later I woke up and realized that I was sitting on the basement floor of a bookstore in a strange city. I remember I had to run to the bus station and barely made it. That book, and then later the astonishing one I described above, became my companions for years, the sort of thing where the author is your mentor and friend and you feel vividly that you know him. Thank you Martin Seymour-Smith!