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>american slavery is such a small part of the vast history of slavery.

This, of course, was the unspoken thought behind your suggestion. You just don't think that the subject is important. American chattel slavery is both unbelievably important and unique in the history of the world. To minimize its importance in the establishment and rise of the US, the history of Africa and Europe, or its importance in world culture is willful ignorance.
I found http://www.hokstad.com/compiler/ really educational - implementing a language in the same way I'm used to writing code, by solving one problem at a time. It makes sense in a way that compiler theory lectures never did for me.
What they did to the Network slide in thing was so annoying. I hate the trend of wasting tons of screen space for features.
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Facebook estimates that between 5.5% and 11.2% of accounts are fake
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Are you really going tolerate 10+ ms of latency between a database, and an app server? I have never personally tried it, but it seems like it would be a disaster.
our payment gateway would charge us more for address verification than our merchant bank would discount us for using address verification.
AWS is PCI compliant. http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/pci-dss-level-1-faqs/

DigitalOcean and most others are not.

AWS's security and API is lightyears ahead of everyone else.
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Great idea: "Oh, yes, I totally agree with the need for Bitcoin regulation. In fact, every transaction should be required to be made available to the public ..."
Good point. We're struggling to see the benefits of EBS for Cassandra that has its own replication strategy (ie data is not lost if an instance is lost), voiding the "only store temporary data on ephemeral stores" argument.
Water could be lost in evaporative cooling towers.
False. I have a HD 6990, 3 2650x1600 monitors in various rotations, open source driver, no problems.
I was super excited until I saw the iOS only. Any chance of an Android version?
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OT: Reminded me that I need to renew my ham radio license in the near future so I put it on my calendar. Thanks. =)

Also: "dits" and "dahs", not dots and dashes
For anti-Paper, check out http://likelytarget.com, also launched today.
It's possible that the problem is that OSM lacks the data. For example, in Melbourne, Australia, only a handful of suburbs have any form of street number data, and the street/suburb mapping is overall moderately poor. (If you struggle hard enough you can probably get around it, e.g. in OSMAnd you can search for a street name and then "search in nearby towns/suburbs" and it'll tend to show the right one.)
Whats wrong with using the highly reliable IDFA for install attribution?
1) Allows the advertiser to know exactly which publisher provided the install, thus allowing for fair billing.
2) Allows advertisers to study users on a app-level to see which sources provide the high quality users.
3) Ultimately helps ad networks target more relevant ads to users, providing a better user experience and higher eCPMs for publishers.

You won't see any ad units that you don't like disappear - the transaction point for the advertiser will just be the click rather than the install.

This is only going to push the industry away from the heavily favored CPI pricing to CPC pricing.
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Covers are allowed because they are performed in venues with ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC licenses - http://www.ascap.com/licensing/licensingfaq.aspx. Covers performed in public in a venue without one of these licenses are not explicitly allowed.
Where can you buy something like that. A magnet is around 150$, but I have no idea where to get a copper tube of that thickness.
Is it fantastic? It's just fonts on whitespace with stock photos while scrolling horizontally.

While paging from the side or a slide in is cool they decided to go with an infinite side scrolling paper thing. Real bitch to read like that. The newsapp is a perfect example of that annoying hard to track with your eyes side scrolling that would be a 1000 times better if it either scrolled vertically or just paged.
As long as there is cash, there will be a way to get bitcoins outside of an exchange and outside of any regulation.

Even if this were not the case, the more regulation added to bitcoins, the more people move to alternative crypto currencies. I don't see people seeking to regulate litecoin, dogecoin, coinye, etc.
If your ancestors had owned every slave and had been in the US since 1650, you still wouldn't be personally responsible for slavery.

What you are is a beneficiary of it, even if you came over on a boat last year. Just as if you had migrated to apartheid South Africa from Ireland in the 80s.
rewarding effort? In this meritocracy?!
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How are they not triggering the WARN act? 15,000 is a lot more than the 100 that it requires.
1) The story explicitly refers to PFS.

2) Ladar has explained this. And even with PFS, if a service provider hands over SSL keys and gets hit with a gag order, perfect secrecy only helps in regards to past communications.
When you jailbreak an iPhone, you evade the phone's security
I found the term page ambiguous just on the very first use, whether you meant printed pages, or manpages.

I am running archlinux which would normally be light, but unfortunately I work with a lot of different programming languages and prefer different tools for each. I did not deduplicate any of the manpages. The number of packages that I have installed, listed by `pacman -Q|wc -l` is 1241.

I agree that it would be nice to have a single place to go to get all of the details, but I think manpages suffer from more than just examples. I think that someone just starting *nix is likely to look online. While you can search manpages with apropos or man -k it doesn't search the whole document and people just starting don't know the terminal commands to search more.

I would rather have 2 commands and have all of the information than just manpages that don't get frequently updated.
What you are is a beneficiary of it, even if you came over on a boat last year.

How am I a beneficiary of something that was outlawed in this country 149 years ago when I have only been alive a small fraction of that time and my ancestors have only been in this country for 84 years?
I'd just like to comment, because this comment hasn't attracted any replies yet, and it is:

a) moronic

b) completely tangental to the point under discussion

The list of "things that people could do" is quite long. You, for example, could go live in a hole far, far away where there is no internet. To qualify for this list, things do not have to be: profitable, rational or feasible. However, when a company like Microsoft creates a product, they consider all of those things, likely in that order. Thus when you propose that "a thing Microsoft could do" is to find every game created within every calendar year, then, at great expense, replicate the antiquated equipment on which that software ran, then market and sell it very cheaply despite the costs of research, licensing and quality assurance, I think that is a thing which Microsoft is very unlikely to do. I don't think it would be a very clever thing for Microsoft to do, nor would it be good for gamers, because after the inaugural release of a million games from 1993 nobody cares about Microsoft would cease to exist as a commercial entity, having wasted all of it's resources on this terrible, terrible idea.

On the other hand, why were you even compelled to write this? The most imaginative, creative scenario you could imagine was that if software copyrights expired very quickly, you would like to pay someone for that software? Which is totally already a thing you can do, and the proceeds (in reality) would go to the creator of the software?

In conclusion, the internet has broken me. I have no more will to live, and I can only hope in the distant future a giant, faceless corporation will populate different planets with clones of all the people born in each year, so that my clone can go and live happily on the planet 1991 forever. Hopefully your clone will not be present.
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You can (and many tv and STB manufacturers already have) implement the DIAL protocol[1] to make your device show up in the list of targets to cast to.

[1] http://www.dial-multiscreen.org/
The latch on our clothes dryer broke; the door would no longer snug up and maintain the seal or necessary pressure for the safety switch. I now have a 2x2x1" rare earth magnet holding the door shut against the dryer frame. Its strong enough to keep the door snug, but I can still open the dryer door with a good tug.

I'm not sure why I had a 2x2x1" neodymium magnet laying around, but I'm glad I did.
> Look at the balance of harms in this example.

Your argument proceeds from the assumption that the balance of harms matters. Legally, it does not where political speech is concerned. This is pretty much the closest thing to a legal absolute as our system of laws has.

Restrictions on speech are generally subjected to strict scrutiny. Strict scrutiny is not based on a balance of harms test. Rather, for a restriction to pass strict scrutiny, it must satisfy the following factors:

1. It must be justified by a compelling governmental interest.

2. It must be narrowly tailored to achieve that interest.

3. It must be the least restrictive available means to achieve that interest.

Note that balance of harms doesn't factor anywhere into this analysis. The closest thing is the "compelling interest" test. But "compelling interest" isn't a test that weighs one interest against another. Rather, it simply asks whether the restriction's positive effects, examined on their own, are crucial, essential, or necessary, rather than merely desirable. This is a fairly high bar, by the way.

Getting back to our original question: A restriction on politicized hate speech by government employees would presumably trigger strict scrutiny, largely because of the political nature of the speech. So, does it pass strict scrutiny? Let's go factor by factor.

1. Does the government have a compelling interest in preventing hate speech by employees? No, because preventing such speech isn't crucial, essential, or necessary. It's merely desirable. Lives will not be lost, property will not be destroyed, and national security will not be directly compromised if a government employee engages in hate speech. The expected harm from hate speech by government employees is largely psychological. Further, the psychological damage inflicted by one crackpot will most likely be very small. While it's clearly a bad thing, it's not compelling by strict scrutiny standards. We could stop here, as the restriction has already failed the first test and thus failed strict scrutiny. But let's continue for the sake of the exercise.

2. Is the restriction narrowly tailored? If the interest is the prevention of psychological harm to minorities, and the law restricts that hate speech and nothing else, it's probably narrowly tailored.

3. Is the restriction the least restrictive means? Probably not. One could imagine an alternative solution whereby the government actively and publicly disclaims its employees hate speech. That would be less restrictive, and would probably go a long way toward achieving the goal.
You're correct. Seems like a pretty useless/dangerous idiom to me. How often can you be sure that in 100% of cases your loop will never iterate a 0, an empty string or some other falsey value?
I think nowaday is not the idea one should "protect". These days everybody has many ideas. The real value today is to succesfully develop the idea into a product or service which delivers value.

So just start working on it, show it to other people, try to find somebody who works on it with you (a developer), and collect some feedback.

Don't be affraid! If it is really a good idea, it's surely gonna be copied by others. :)
Not sure where to get one at that thickness or diameter, but a specialized plumbing supply company can get you most standard size and diameter of copper piping.

That one is huge, though. In theory, this should work with smaller, but powerful magnets, and thinner tubes, correct?
The general advice you will get around here is that ideas are cheap, execution is hard. Many who started out believing they needed to protect their ideas end up in the camp of openly sharing them.

My understanding is that most angels and VCs will refuse to sign non-disclosure agreements or non-competes; not because they wish to steal your idea, but because they do not want to get legally entangled.

Imagine VC firm turning down an entrepreneur for idea "A" because the market didn't seem quite ready and they didn't have a strong team of founders. Now 9 months later another entrepreneur approaches the VC firm with idea "B" which overlaps with "A" about 80%. The market is changing in a positive direction, the 20% difference seems to solve certain problems and by the way the founding team is much stronger. If the VC firm wants to be able to fund the best team regardless of whether this was the first or the fifth time they have heard roughly the same idea.

Instead of capital, you may try to seek a technical co-founder. But that is not as easy as you might think either.
Johnle - Indeed. It works better with Chromecast than Netflix on Android in my experience!
How does one go about doing private ad sales? Does that literally mean identifying companies / media buyers in your target demographic? How does private compare to networks / affiliates, in terms of revenue?
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Thanks for pointing that out. I've purchased it.

Another question: Is it possible to run from cron? I don't want to have it running all the time. For example when run from the command line, is it armed by default or do I have to set it to arm manually from the menu?

If it's not armed when run, it would be nice to have:

OnCue --arm-video --arm-audio

Thanks again.
Agreed - app advertisers are playing a performance marketing game with their install ads. This change is going to make user acquisition more tedious in several ways:
- some networks will become straight CPC, which will be a pain in the ass to arbitrage to a CPI - there will be a lot of campaign monitoring required
- other methods of install attribution simply aren't as reliable. This will affect the eCPMs of in-app advertising that consisted of app-install demand.
Steam has been letting vendors bundle DRM rootkits for ages, and they don't do verification/certification on game releases at all. If a vendor wanted to they could bundle a browser toolbar with a major game on Steam and it would install on the machines of anyone who played it. (Valve would probably hear about the backlash and intervene eventually, but it's not as if it would be stopped systemically.)

Note that most Ubisoft titles on Steam currently just install and launch UPlay instead of actually running the game through Steam. This is despite the fact that in the past having UPlay installed exposed you to remote code execution vulnerabilities.
You really don't need anything as fancy. A small magnet and a narrow aluminum tube will do just fine. It won't be quite as impressive, but drop a pebble from the same height not through the tube and watch the delay for the magnet dropping. A four foot length of tube about 1/2 to 3/4 inch in diameter would do nicely.

Edit: try cast iron if you must have a big pipe. It's likely to be much cheaper. The thickness shouldn't make much of a difference either, so maybe even a cooking pot with a cut off bottom would work.
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Interesting how you define millions of the global population entirely by their race.

>Because it lets white Americans...[shift] the focus away from them and their ancestors.

Not every white American had ancestors that owned slaves. In fact, most white Americans had nothing to do with slavery--much like today, only the top 1.5% (1) or so of Americans enjoyed any of the benefits stereotypically ascribed to "white people." Poor white people were left to scrounge for low income jobs and educational funds, much as they are today.

Blaming all whites for slavery is much like blaming all Muslims for 9/11. From the past to the present, only the rich have benefited from slaves--as can be seen by the fact that the first slave owner in America was actually a rich black man. (2)

1. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Unite...]

2. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_%28colonist%29]
I don't disagree with you, but I'll take earnest if overzealous praise of one's teammates over anonymous trolling any day.
If Guido could carefully and objectively study ToffeeScript then he would see that it is much more readable than Python/Tornado.
And Prague has airport since 18th century...

I love statistics :-)
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I've seen the wrong side of -40, when I was flying to work in Ft McMurray, Alberta for a consulting job.

One time, I drew the short straw and had to go pick up our SUVs at the parking lot upon landing. They were outside, plugged in.

The car started with the saddest sound I ever heard a mechanical thing make.

I put it in reverse, hit the gas, and pulled out of the spot. Then I put it in drive and hit the gas- and the car moved backwards. Every gear except for Park and Neutral did the same thing: reverse.

I reversed around the airport parking lot to the terminal and walked into the Hertz. When I explained the problem, they had clearly heard it before. "Don't worry about it. Just leave it on for a few minutes and you'll be fine. Transmission fluid's frozen."
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That's what I thought of, since two programming languages are even more alike.

Did it not turn out to be a legal issue because there was ultimately little commercial interest behind the Go![1] language?

Apple Computer had to pay Apple Corps, even though it seemed like the computer industry had little to do with the music industry at the time[2], so it is confusing how the conflict can be ignored until it goes away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_%28programming_language%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer
Really, Kevin Poulsen is the Wired writer you are going to pick on?

He co-created Secure Drop with Aaron Swartz. If your memory doesn't go back that far, there was that cool article the other day about how a hacker reverse-engineered OKCupid. He's written stories that have put pedophiles in jail and exposed the FBI's use of malware on criminal suspects.

Someone else can defend Wired in toto these days, but, I will say it'd be hard to choose a less appropriate writer as proof for your first sentence.

And, yes, Poulsen was my former boss and editor.
We'll see many more layoffs like this in the coming weeks / months as the Fed tapers off. This is macro related.
I am writing an OTP-ish dialect of Erlang that compiles to javascript http://luvv.ie Just bought that book on your recommendation - better be good or else ;-D
Apple wants to create a monopoly for advertising across the entire Apple product ecosystem. If they're the only company with install attribution across apps and devices, they can serve (re)targeted advertising to you on the Apple TV, your iPad, your iPhone, and Safari, all through the cross-platform iAD.
Very informative, and scary.

I'm pretty sure there should be an OSM attribution on this map.

https://www.mapbox.com/help/attribution/
The above code will print out an off-by-one index for each element (starts at 1 and not 0).

Given that the loop also fails to complete if someArray contains a falsy value, I'd say this trick falls into the "too cute to be safe" category.
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I don't think you can make a permanent magnet any stronger as it is. There is a certain limit. I think the size matters in this case.

I can only find thin pipes for plumbing online, but I would really like the think one.
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> Regulation of transactions between individuals and vendors for example is not reasonable.

I'm not so sure. I think some regulation to catch tax cheats is inevitable. Whether that's desirable or not depends on one's political point of view.
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If I didn't already know about the payments company, I'd think that final fantasy was moving off of DSs and onto mobile, to be honest.
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Empirically, you're wrong. Several of my friends have hired bootcampers to great success. Therefore, it definitely works for at least some of the graduates.
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I think you've hit the nail on the proverbial head here.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) protects workers, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of plant closings and mass layoffs. [1]

I assume Dell is dealing with the WARN act's 60 days notification by including 60 days paid leave in the severance package. The article says that "the severance package includes two months' pay plus an extra week for each year in Dell's employ, a bonus at 75 percent, health insurance for 18 months in the U.S. and some outplacement services at least stateside."

[1] http://www.dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-warn.htm
it's a less impressive demo if the pipe is made out of something ferrous, like cast iron.
I agree, evade taxes and maybe user data not getting into the hands of NSA/US Gov't via court request would be a byproduct. Obviously the NSA would just try exploiting their floating data centers.
Now if only Apple would approve apps to work with them. I have the integration done, it's approved and whitelisted by pebble for their MFI program, and Apple rejects it for not being in their MFI program. Thanks Apple.
I think you're really missing the point.

Your goal is to write a whole programming language.

Calculating where each statement starts and ends in order to serve a good error message is misdirected effort. Just use a terminating character, and use the standard one: a semi-colon.
Excellent news. I own a Chromecast, but I feel that it's overly hyped.

There isn't a lot of content that I would want on my TV. For me, it would be good for showing videos/pictures to a group of people. But I don't see much use beyond that. Maybe it's me. I'm an odd guy.

It would be really cool if Android could add support for mirroring the screen via Chromecast. That way, the end users wouldn't have to wait for individual developers to add support for Chromecast; they could see on a TV exactly what they see on their screen, and in the same quality.