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Ars' coverage isn't very good on this issue. There is a tremendous amount of context Ars ignores, namely all the franchise agreements between municipalities and cable companies whether these sorts of proposals run afoul of those agreements. Also, consider the Kansas City example, where the city gave a single favored company massive regulatory concessions to install fiber. I know "Google can do no evil," but it isn't good precedent.

Cheering on the municipalities is boneheaded. The municipalities and their franchising agreements are a major part of the reason we're in this mess to begin with: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa034.html (note the article is from 1984).
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Woa. She almost makes an amazing point in this article. She wants U.S News & WR to track adjuncts and penalize those that use too many adjuncts. This almost hits the mark.

How about the rankings are published along side the adjunct usage of each college, and we draw our own conclusions about the correlation/causality of adjunct usage and education quality. Who knows? Maybe education is better with more adjuncts. This seems like a good way to find out.
I would still like to see an easy way to switch between a gateway ssh host and going direct depending on location/IP.

If I'm home, I want to be able to ssh to the gateway machine automatically and when I'm at work, go direct.

Obviously, this can be fixed with a shell script but it's hacky.
interesting, but i want to nitpick on the appeal to authority:

> This fallacy is committed when the person in question is not a legitimate authority on the subject. More formally, if person A is not qualified to make reliable claims in subject S, then the argument will be fallacious.

Such arguments are fallacious even when person A is a well informed individual who is sufficiently well qualified to understand the subject. Not recognising this misses the spirit of the fallacy - that all claims must be substantiated and that prior performance is /completely/ irrelevant as to whether any individual claim is valid - even when that experience makes it the case that person A is the foremost expert in the field.
That's not how things work. Most YC companies tend to be oversubscribed, anyway, so what keeps the window small is competition between angels/VCs.
"If two parties disagree, then one side (or both) must be wrong."

There are any number of cases where this is obviously not true.
Fastest and cheapest in fulfillment are usually opposites, Wal-Mart is famously thrifty at their retail stores which makes this interesting.
I dug into it out of curiosity, and I don't believe that's technically true, but is sort-of true in practice. Only members of the legislature may formally introduce bills. But, Kansas, like some other states (especially those influenced by popular-democracy principles of the progressive era), has developed a convention where legislators often convey bills to a relevant committee when requested to by a constituent. In that case they submit the bill but decline to sponsor it, to indicate that they're just conveying it.

Here's the relevant section from the Kansas Handbook of Legislative Procedure (http://www.kslegislature.org/li/m/pdf/kansas_legislative_pro...):

16. Who May Introduce a Bill.

Any member or any standing committee, an interim committee of either house, and certain statutory committees may introduce a bill. Sometimes bills are introduced by two or more members (of the same house) as joint sponsors. All regular appropriation bills are introduced by the Appropriations/Ways and Means Committees. Bills sometimes are introduced by a member or committee at the request of a constituent with the notation “By Request” appearing after the author’s name on the printed bill and in the journal. A “By Request” designation often suggests that the member or committee who introduced the bill is not necessarily an advocate for it.
I am struggling with onboarding for a marketplace. Could you do one of those next ?
Wasn't this posted about an hour ago and now is deleted...?
They might be using those IPs internally.
I like the ability to use a null-cipher too. Handy when doing file transfers to embedded devices with puny CPUs.
muaha. read about HBGary. Palantir is scum of the earth. they participated in targeting Glenn Greenwald. only thing they haven't done is flying drones themselves to kill people. they are probably #1 in help NSA with their programs.
If you use a service with 2 step auth, use it. Here's the most comprehensive list (that I know of) of services that support it: http://evanhahn.com/tape/two-factor-auth-list/
Edward Abbey is on my reading list but I haven't gotten there yet. I will definitely recommend The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko. It says its a story of the fastest trip down the Grand Canyon but its really a story of the history of the river and the balance that society has currently chosen between recreation/conservation and development. It also has a great description of the major problems at the Glen Canyon Dam in 1983
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Or they could have different incentives, relationships, or resources. It is completely possible for two parties to be simultaneously correct and yet totally incompatible.
Also, if they submit a revised version, it will be a different page. Anyway, I don't think we will ever get a good PDF reader, because there is no demand. People read HTML.
I understand your meta point, but a better answer would have been, "The realtor doesn't have enough money to buy the property, even if it was the greatest deal ever."
Could someone who deals with PCI compliance please explain some other nuances of credit cards that I've been curious about:

* Fault/Decline Codes returned from processors like CyberSource. How are these factored? How do processors do Regex on names/addresses? [1][2]

* CVV numbers and what they mean/how they are treated in the system? If CVV number is included does this increase chargeback protection?

* How CHIP cards work differently in the processing system, if at all?

* Do "knuckle-busters" (carbon copy physical imprints) follow any sort of compliance anymore?

[1] http://apps.cybersource.com/library/documentation/dev_guides...
[2] http://apps.cybersource.com/library/documentation/dev_guides...
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If I'm logged in, I see "Launch" a Meetup group in the header. If I'm not logged in, I see "Start". Surprised they see a need for a difference. The current 50% promotion for creating a new group also draws attention to that option. I wonder how many non-members actually start new groups?

Also, that "short bio" section from page 30 is in fact problematic in Meetup groups I am members of. Most people say something like, "I'm new in town and trying to meet people." Well, for a lot of people, it's a year or two later, and Meetup still shows that same text. And it used to be buried on the profile pages, but they moved it to a much more prominent position, to be under your name in the attendee listing. So it tends to look like everyone on Meetup just joined the site.
It happens at the federal level too. Lobbyist groups write the bills themselves and submit them to members of Congress in closed door meetings. Congress can then edit the bill, but they often just introduce it as-is. We only know this because people have leaked the Lobbyists version of bills and compared them to the ones introduced by Congress.
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Probably because she is an author and published her first book before the divorce.
Yeah it was sexual assault at MIT or something like that.
Bitcoin transactions go in a public ledger. Although there are methods to obfuscate transaction history.

>This is why conventional financial institutions and services are undesirable for most criminals.

I think reality is in disagreement with you, as counter-intuitive as that may seem.
It's possible! Any particular marketplaces you have in mind?
I think "statutory regulation" just means there has to be a law allowing it ("statute" meaning law). From reading their website the other day, I got the impression that the case they had in mind was certain laws about containing contagious diseases, which could override privacy laws.

Reading on Wikipedia, "Statutary orders" and "statuatory instruments" seems to be particular ways of delegating law-making power from parliament. I don't think they are directly relevant here (since there has to be some enabling legislation)? But the section 251 thing already allows the Secretary of State for Health to disclose data, so if you are worried about ministers operating without parliamentary oversight, that is indeed possible....
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You're connecting the different parts of that person's life without his consent. That is functionally equivalent to telling the parents of a closeted homosexual that he's gay, just because he publicly announced it down at the Manhole. People sometimes wish to present different facades to different people. If you allow for closeted gays, you must logically also allow for CEOs that hold personal opinions contrary to their corporate policy.

There are legitimate reasons why someone would like to compartmentalize different areas of his life.

A doctor might be expected to wash his hands between every patient, but also choose to pick his nose before preparing his own dinner. When the superfluous lab coat comes off, my professional expectations of him as a physician end.

We have done this for centuries, with tokens of office and traditional garb. Kings have their crowns, Popes their grand miters. Judges don robes, and sometimes wigs. Cops wear badges.

Facebook does not allow for this. If you add your boss as a friend, he is connected to your everything. You have to work to separate him from your real friends. If, on the other hand, he were connected to your "corporate peon" role, you could switch him on and off at the... drop of a hat. In fact, he could give you that hat when you get hired, already connected to everyone else in your office. And if you leave that job, you both burn that hat, and he gives one just like it to the next guy.

It is a good thing.
If you think Netflix has mostly crap or movies you've already seen then either 1) you've seen a ridiculous amount of movies, 2) you're really not putting much effort into discovering good content or 3) your real problem is with Netflix's content discovery. Probably a combination of #2 and #3.
thanks for saving me the time of writing this reply. I'd add that billionaires are not being prevented from marrying non billionaires, nor are they being forced to walk around with patches signifying their possession of an attribute <i>that cannot be changed</i>. To that end, no one's suggesting we create forced work camps where billionaires are put to death. No, what people want is a fairer system. And people like Tom Perkins and this poster can't seem to separate the two.

For such smart people, some of the people on hacker news are just stupid. For the last time, the analogy doesn't work, it's inappropriate, and those who persist in this line of thinking really should have their heads examined.
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It's not quite clear whether you cite the Roko basilisk incident as (1) an instance of a "purge of fallacies" or (2) something generally cultish.

It probably does count as #2, but not #1. Roko's basilisk wasn't purged on account of being a fallacy.

(For the avoidance of doubt, I am not defending the purging, which I think was a really stupid move.)
What you're describing is progressive taxes [1]. Those predate socialism by a good bit, and have been present in the US for over 150 years. And in England even longer, certainly predating any notion of "socialist countries".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax
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I think it was just a convention and made people feel better about having entered the form correctly. It makes sense to tell a merchant what type of card you are using even though someone "in the know" might know that it can be sussed from the digits.

Most payment gateways still require it even though it's probably superfluous.

I've also wondered why forms ask for name on card even though I'm pretty sure it's not checked by most/all processors and would never lead to a decline. Worse is that hardly any merchants pre-fill it if they've already collected your name.
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Was it an Amtrak line belonging to a single company with a single decision maker somewhere up the corporate chain?

Caltrain is financed by three counties it spans - San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara, all with their own budgets, schedules and current issues, coordinating anything expensive in regards to Caltrain would require coordinating everything with those counties.

Then if your project requires any personnel changes, you have to coordinate that with Amtrak, as Caltrain subcontracts their employees. Amtrak might or might not have the human resources.
Agreed. That is one reason why most technical and scientific documents are still perused in PDF. In Authorea you can export each document to a journal format (Export). Soon we will have a printer-friendly style which is basically CSS.
When I write "passionate" in a job ad, I mean for the person to be enthusiastic about code /programming.

We have different teams in my company. Some require people who chose to become a programmer for the pay, who may not care so much if they write the same code day in and day out, who uses the computer only at work and cares more for Facebook than hackernews.

Some teams require passionate programmers - the kind who finds good solutions, that makes sure that the code is better when they commit, not worse and who prefers to read about technology rather than gossip in their spare time.

It's not about putting 80 hours a week into the job, it's about being an expert in programming. It's not about being passionate for the product neither, because the job they will do is often product agnostic.
As a hardware engineer, let me define what hard is when it comes to hardware vs. software. I wouldn't say hardware is harder in any way conceptually although of course both have degrees of difficulty. The main difference is that the "activation energy" of each step is greater, so you have to be more confident, deliberate, and determined when you are building.

A step like assembling components and wiring together a breadboard is small but non-trivial amount of effort. So you won't find many people who just play and see what happens (which probably won't work anyways).

A step like designing a PCB is as long as designing any piece of software, except you don't get to see the results until you're done. Well unless you have a fancy expensive commercial software that does simulation as well as layout. But it's still far from quickly throwing up a webapp and getting motivated with insta-results.

You might get some inspiration, then have to horribly dig through Digikey or some other catalog to find your parts, then wait for them to be shipped.

You might also find that some parts are not cheap. Not unaffordable for an engineer, but maybe you'd prefer the nice dinner over a slight probability of a future product. So time you could spend building sometimes end up being used to decide whether to spend the money.

Basically, in hardware you get bogged down in details that have little to do with designing, whereas in software you can just sit down and go.
It's neither necessary nor sufficient, unless your definition of "smart" is "not severely learning disabled". Many many people get rich on their own without having a ton of smarts.
Things could have been so different for Nokia if it had gone with Android instead of WP. There would also be a lot better designed Android phones.
That's actually the one part that's been great - well, aside from the price. I live in a pretty rural area. On Verizon you can't connect to 3G from my house, and can't even use voice unless you stand in front of a south-facing window. Tmobile gives a full 5 bars with very decent 3G speed. And it's not just around my house, the broad area is incredibly well covered.

I realize that's probably just local circumstances and I know Tmobile's network is a fair bit smaller, but I can't personally complain about that aspect.
Yeah, I don't have the Adobe PDF plugin either. But Firefox and Chrome use PDF.js which is open source AFAIK, and works with page references.
Yes. Let's give it another go, I suppose, shall we?

Seriously, I think it was deleted for having little to do with tech and simply being argumentation-bait.
he actually mentioned the SF protests in his interview with bloomberg, so you would be correct about his delusions.

I quote:

Now I used the word because during the occupy of San Francisco by the Occupy Wall Street crowd, they broke the windows in the Wells Fargo Bank. They marched up through our automobile strip on Venice Avenue and broke all the windows in all the luxury car dealerships. And I saw that. I remembered that the police just stood by frozen. And I thought, well, this is how Kristallnacht began. So that word was in my mind, but I did – I don’t necessarily need to read from this letter, but if you’re interested I can."
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Fuck off. So he used an extreme example, doesn't mean his point is invalid. Godwin's Law is not supposed to be used as an excuse to shut down uncomfortable conversations.
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I'm already proficient in rails, it's why I'm so jaded by having an unbelievably good developer experience. I'm not talking about ruby or even the rails API/community/etc. either.

It's just the problems that they address are the problems that matter for people who actually develop web applications full time because the core rails team develops basecamp full time and extracts rails features from their experiences.

The django guys are simply not doing this. I can't put my finger on it exactly but Python calls to me like a siren. It's unfortunate that Django doesn't seem to want to address problems that people have, aren't addressing modern web development problems and are calling out to the community to raise money to introduce features to django's core.

It took me like 3 weeks of hunting down random packages that add certain functionality, forking and fixing libs because the maintainers of those libs hate python 3 and won't support it just to get to the point where django was even usable as a development platform and now after all that I'm stuck having to waste 5 seconds of my life every time I touch a view or model.

Then I have to wait 1.5 seconds for SASS to recompile between page reloads because the django-pipeline author (who is awesome btw) doesn't have the time to make pipeline cache the sass files and only recompile them when they change.

It's one of the more anti-productive environments I've ever developed under and it's a pity because the django API is actually pretty good and I want to give it a chance.
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Why did you abandon your previous reason? You no longer care about making the world a better place? You don't find fulfillment from doing so? The fulfillment isn't enough? Or you no longer think you're going to die?
How about just taking BSD's functions and using them? strlcpy, strlcat, snprintf, etc. are all easily portable and libraries probably already exist for MS's compiler.
comparing it with the french revolution is appropriate in many ways. The message should be clear--if they persist in their Marie Antoinette ways, someone will pick up a brick. if that happens, we all lose, the middle class in many ways worst of all. that's why this guy upsets me to no end. I don't fault him being rich, I fault him and people like him, like the Kochs for ruthlessly lobbying for lower taxes and less support for the poor.
Having worked at a company where the development cycle is glacial, I absolutely want to work at a "fast-paced" company. By that, I mean the interval between "we're gonna do this" and "we did this" should be measured in weeks or months, not years. That's where I'm at now, and it's great.

If "fast-paced" means running around like chickens with their heads cut off, I'm not interested. I agree it's hard to distinguish what they mean from "fast-paced" just from a job ad, but it can be a positive attribute.
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Always replace Hitler with Stalin or Mao or you'll be swamped by the idiots quoting Godwin's Law.
What would be awesome is if jQuery had the same kind of download builder as jQuery UI, so that you could only include the parts of it that you actually need for a library.
I have definitely been the subject of this article. I had a particularly demanding client that didn't seem to want to put any work in, work you and I would probably both consider her responsibility.

I was brought in for consulting on A & B - but she wanted me to do the rest of the alphabet too. Ultimately my billable hours drizzled away to nothing, and my client was impossible to get a hold of.

I did find myself using these lines in various emails whilst working on the things I deemed my responsibility.

I still don't know if they had success with their project because she decided to go at it on her own.
Who says that everyone who wants privacy necessarily wants it for criminal purposes?
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over the past year, i've worked as a technical consultant for a number of small companies. it's tax season (in america) so i'm receiving various tax forms from my (former?) clients. different people are providing different forms for similar work. tax code is obviously complicated, so i'm asking whether anyone here has specific advice about which forms are most appropriate / reasonable / advantageous. any type of general advice / experience would be much appreciated.

each of the contracts has been relatively small (< $2500). i'm an individual, so not INC / LLC / ETC...

i'm also anticipating the "talk to an accountant" response. i'm going to talk to an accountant, but i wanted to reach out here first to see if there was any domain specific advice
This really wouldn't help at places where the national rankings are highly unlikely to be factored into decision making (such as most community colleges). But it's at these places where adjuncts make up the majority of faculty.
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The chain is:

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so useful for laundering, and easily converting your stolen credit cards into cash before starbucks receives the chargebacks.