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> But societal pressure? I've never seen or experienced that, certainly not for males.

Not my experience. For years, when I was younger, I was pressured in many overt and subtle ways to be married and have children. A number of friendships eventually ended because my unwillingness to be married was a deal-breaker.

On hearing me express my lack of interest in marriage, one guy asked, "When are you going to start living up to your responsibilities?" That was the day I found out what "proletarian" means.

My favorite story in that connection was the day a woman I was dating confessed that, contrary to outward appearances, she had chosen me for my intelligence and was doing all she could be become pregnant by me. I instantly ended the relationship and began to seek a vasectomy.

But then the fun began -- most doctors refused to perform the vasectomy because I wasn't already married and I hadn't already had "my children". Others insisted that I had to get my wife's signature -- no wife, no procedure. One doctor initially agreed, then, when he discovered I wasn't a member of a minority group, refused.

Finally I met the ultimate western doctor who, on hearing my request, launched into a seemingly rehearsed speech that began, "Your sperm belongs to the state, son." I regretted not recording the conversation for posterity.

Then I heard about Planned Parenthood. They gave me a short speech about how the procedure was irreversible, then performed it.

Since then, since the vasectomy, on a couple of occasions I've had women say, "I'm late! And I think it's yours! Okay, I might have forgotten just this once to be disciplined about birth control, but haven't you ever been swept up in passion?"

That's why I'm a Planned Parenthood supporter. :)
Hi again. To quote myself:

"The current government is not a puppet but actually an actor who tries to extract bonuses from multiple parties by raising stakes."

Multiple parties are USA, EU and Russia.

Of course, talking about pre-protests situation.
This looks like it's tightening up the app sandbox in a way that is consistent with non-removable storage.

This article in the Android docs has been revised to reflect the change: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage....
They're secured (not quite backed) by inability to do certain kinds of math. That's proven to be moderately reliable over the years (cryptosystems get weakened and replaced, but usually not compromised abruptly) but certainly catastrophic failure of a cryptosystem has happened more often since WWII than has catastrophic failure of the US Government.

All of that said, I'm not convinced government use (also not quite backing) is such a big deal - I've pointed several times now to the recent Economist article about the Somali Shilling retaining value decades after the issuing government collapsed.
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The article is idiotic and disingenuous. Paper money didn't attempt to replace coin in one fell swoop. Paper money evolved from letters of credit which make perfect sense, and bitcoin fundamentally relies on similar concepts anyway.

You can't buy something online by just anonymously transmitting credits into an account -- who gave us the money? what do they want? You fill in an order form, a bunch of stuff happens, you get a receipt and a product and money gets transferred at some point. Very little of that is the currency transaction. You needed to generate a letter that said I want X and I'll pay you Y, then you paid Y and sent confirmation of the money transfer, and so on.

The bitcoin bulls think that Credit Cards are a terrible way to buy things because they charge too much for what they do (and their security sucks). This may be true, but bitcoin is only solving the easiest part of the problem. Banks can already transfer money around cheaply and securely. Indeed even market transactions are so fast and inexpensive that high speed trading is now a huge economic force.

The fact is that credit cards (a) let you buy stuff on credit, (b) provide transactional support allowing commerce to proceed smoothly, and (c) already work. A credit card is merely automated checking with overdrafts, which is a direct descendant of the letter of credit (from which cash evolved), which is in fact a more fundamental method of trading than barter. (Tracking people's accounts is the reason writing was invented.)
I don't think anyone has every figured out a way to make trains profitable at a price that consumers will pay. That's why governments are pretty much the only people that build them now, since they are willing to take the losses to facilitate any economic gains generated by public transit. Whether or not those gains are real is a separate argument, but as far as I know, no American public transit system is profitable on a revenue-expenditures basis.
> I had not previously heard of that particular technique (using special HTTP headers) and it's a useful one.

I am pretty sure by "special HTTP headers", they mean cookies.
Housing in Portland (particularly rental housing) is getting less affordable by the day, and the city is very aggressive about land use planning. This is, of course, one reason why the city is so nice... but it also means that there is a very fixed amount of buildable space, literally all of which is already taken. Infill is certainly happening, but the city really can't absorb any larger of a population increase than it already has over the last couple of years.
Similar to what others have said...when I setup my DJ mixes website for electronic dance music back in 2008 (http://www.house-mixes.com), I literally jumped on to like-minded forums asking if people would be willing to trial it out, there was only a handful of competitors at the time which helped I suppose, but today we have over 550,000 registered users and an extremely active site.
That is actually excellent advice.
Or least proximity to the Universities. Oakland is neither here nor there in terms of being a useful place to collaborate with either VCs or Academics. There is no good public transit, for example, because you cannot take Amtrak (it goes only SJ via east bay). So you have to Dog-leg from Bart to Cal-train in SOMA (PITA). In theory, Emerville would be well situated (close to bridge, oakland, and convenient to Berkeley) but again, there is no Bart-station...so no Transit to SF or the Peninsual (and terrible cross-bridge traffic for driving). There are some areas that maybe could be developed, but the Transit situation is straight out of the Buck-rodgers 1970's. As bad as it is, SF is just way more mobile to get around (at least mission/SOMA)...by taxi, bike or Bart...And its a direct/reasonable drive to either Berkely or Palo Alto.
Not only that, but the software complexity and amount of globals was so high that thorough analyses or exhaustive testing of the key logic was impossible.
Switzerland is neither in the EU, nor in the NATO.
You don't get it. You're still looking at Apple as just a brand.

The iPhone didn't just have a different "look and feel". It redefined the category and obsoleted everything else overnight. That same process could happen with cars.
Oakland isn't much less convenient to Sand Hill Road than SF. It's a commute from either city.
Everyone should take a Functional Programming class (I'd dabbled in it, but took Odersky's class last year). I'm not programming in a functional language, but it's changed the way I think about certain coding tasks (for the better).
the truth is that everyone nowadays can program

yeah, no, try again

get outside your bubble
The text on the back (card ID number and such) all comes with the card, Microsoft doesn't print it on.
Kind of like working for Google, or any other tech giant. Lovely.
The Guardian actually owns thegrauniad.com -- somebody needs to set up the redirect
Could it be possible to reflect the laser with a mirror? If so, maybe the navy could use UAVs with mirrors to guide the laser for over-the-horizon shots.
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Hardware interlocks are really important.
Is there a "explain Docker to me like I'm 5" post?

This seems like the old "I have problems with managing everything I need for my app so I'll just run docker containers. Now I have 2 problems"
I would also like a comparison. I used Open Calais two years ago for a project, and would definitely use it again if needed.

Edit: A quick glance at the API also shows that there doesn't appear to be much in the way of machine learning. Does this build models for you or is it just to dissect text?
> I think the most important detail is that he slammed on the brakes and the car continued to accelerate. Cars with a computer controlled accelerator should be able to stop accelerating if the brake pedal is pushed.

The transcript from the toyota case reveals that a crash on the control thread (managing acceleration, say) would also crash the brake control system until the car was restarted.
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Yanukovych's side doesn't claim to represent ethnic Russians and/or fight against Ukrainians. They indiscriminately fight any opposition.
None of the protesters' demands have anything to do with ethnic Russians, who by the way join the protests too.
So no, this conflict isn't between ethnicities.
That's a bit of a jump I think...

Had it been Canada and the US, I'm sure they would have done the same for each other and they're not part of any union.

I don't think we can make generalizations like this because while EU is good for some things, it has also been devastating for other things like the disparity in economies in Germany vs Spain, Italy, Greece.
Absolutely. This was in the context of the parent talking about doing things without certain privileges or skipping unnecessary steps.
> The upside is that you would need two separate isolated systems to fault in order to have out-of-control acceleration. Even if the accelerator system is broken, slamming on the breaks will generally always win at the hardware level.

IIRC, I think for the court case, the brakes for the particular model of car could physically not stop the engine if the engine was going 100% acceleration at highway speed.
No one is tossing crap into containers because "it's like a VM". Maybe you should pay attention before calling other people cargo cult programmers.

Also, security is not the main reason people use VMs, if it was virtualization would not have been so popular.
The primary reason is not 15 billions, but trade preferences from Russia. It's 2004 all over again, and Ukraine wants to sit on two chairs - it wants to develop closer ties with the West and doesn't want to lose preferences from Moscow.
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I didn't interpret it as mean (but I see why someone could) but it raises a point different from 'I disagree'. "I studied this stuff intently" is a simple appeal to authority and does not make an argument credible. In this case, it does not tell anyone why central banking is the best idea since sanitation which is a very strong claim that needs some better support.
Where I work you cannot gift your superiors and lunches are a gift. You can gift downward.
Please don't miss the larger point of this talk (and others by the same speaker); programming languages in general are not what they should be according to this speaker. If anything, though, he seems to agree that Scala is a good choice compared to the plausible alternatives:

"At the very least, I can endorse Scala relative to the set of existing
alternatives pretty strongly."

"I judge things compared to what could be, and not what is. [...] It's not
good enough to be the strongest of the little kids brawling when you could
be the big kid next door."
And being a civilian militia has a number of advantage: one cannot simply bomb a few military bases and decimate their military strength.
There's barely any blogspam anymore on proggit, and if some manages to get through, it gets the customary tar-and-feathers treatment which even good submissions receive, only with more abundant, and hotter tar.
You can't talk about central banking authorities as a single type of homogenous system. There have been and are many different kinds of central banks over time and across borders. Each are run and incentivised very differently. Each operate with different levels of competency and available data. Each can be motivated radically differently - e.g. some are basically run by the government and are prone to political pressure whereas some are run by relatively independent committees (such as Canada, UK, New Zealand).

But Central Banks have the ability to make a huge difference in the quality of life/standard of living in a country depending on its competency and understanding of the economy. If you take the US as an example and compare the response to the 2 greatest financial crashes in the last century. The Fed in 1923 operated under poor information and took the exact wrong course to mitigate a financial crash by contracting monetary supply. Contrast with the Fed in 2008 to date (despite complaints) - its steps in producing massive quantitative easing was the exactly right thing to do. Given their likely responses, there are many more jobs and more economic output today than would have existed had we swapped the 1923 and 2008 federal reserve - I don't think many economists will disagree on that point.

With a decentralised currency like Bitcoin, my understanding is that monetary factors cannot be controlled. So you'd lose a very important tool when it comes to regulating the economy/applying course corrections over economic cycles.
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Don't buy into the propaganda. Bank runs only happen in fractional reserve systems, which central banking facilitates and encourages.

Deflation isn't bad either, it encourages saving, which rather than living paycheck to paycheck as most do today.
Yeah I agree. But perhaps a tick-tock version release schedule could work well for this. Odd number versions fix bugs, and even ones introduce new things, deprecate old things, fix bad syntax etc. I know it's sort of being tried with Python right now, but it's sort of this monumental this or that (with that not being clearly better) that doesn't seem to be working. The way the Perl community is back porting perl 6 bits into 5 does.

Keeping the even releases well scoped would ease the pain of transitioning. Maybe ensure some guaranteed level of support for 12-24 months a la Ubuntu and we might have a good model for language development.
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They do for large organisations like The Guardian.
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One of the things that appeals to me about angular is that you can compose your application of smaller angular apps. I think what you're talking about (and the original article) mostly are about single page javascript apps rather than angular specifically. One perk of angular is that you can use it almost exactly like knockout, as a way to get nice two way data binding, without having to go full on SPA. Unlike knockout, it also gives you a nicer enforced structure for your mini apps.

That said, I still go knockout for this sort of thing most of the time because their support for legacy browsers wins out, and in the industries I do work for old versions of IE are sadly common.
Another tool I tried out for pair programming remotely with great success was Floobits (https://floobits.com/) and their tmux like terminal plugin flootty.
I'm not talking about predicting the future. I'm talking about the fact that you can't escape the past.

And you mean the same book that Popper dedicated "In memory of the countless men and women of all creeds or nations or races who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny"?

Much like how everyone is trumpeting the "inexorable laws of historical destiny" of Bitcoin? Hmm?

Thank you for reminding me of this book, BTW, I had sort of forgotten about it! Unfortunately you seem to have misapplied its lessons but it is actually basically in support of the same sort of arguments I've been making about Bitcoin.
I choose to believe that you are a master of sarcasm.
I don't know of any company that encourages the display of passwords around their employees' necks.
'The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity.' - Abraham Lincoln
The slideshow on this page gives a decent overview:

https://www.docker.io/learn_more/
Ha, the issue there is really about domain availability and cost.
This is true, I live in Hong Kong. It's easy to find yourself in an apartment, internet/phone, electricity provided by LKS. Then you go downstairs to the shopping centre that's part of your apartment and the food store, the pharmacy and the shopping centre itself are also owned by LKS.

Hong Kong, is owned by a bunch of families, it's as far from a free market and is more like a capitalist aristocracy.
Weird, why say all that about how it's better than Python/PHP/etc but then not say why they chose it over Java?
There is a huge lag on the stream, around 20-30 seconds meaning if you send a command you are controlling the game 30 seconds later.

When democracy is in effect it takes votes for a time period(5-10 seconds?) and then chooses an action.

http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/1y8o60/a...
I'm not trying to call into question your level of the awareness of this situation but what exactly do you believe a "special multi dollar transaction is"?

Yanukovich sat down with the Euro leaders and couldn't come to an equitable agreement that would help Ukraine in any way. Russia on the other hand offered a $15 billion bailout to help out the Ukrainian economy and a guaranteed low price for natural gas. The elected leader of Ukraine probably thought cooperating with Russia might be a better deal for Ukraine than Euro's offer of asking something for the promise of nothing.
How much would you pay for insurance that covered up to a $200 loss which is likely to happen at least once every 15-20 years?

Being robbed is not a financial worry for people who aren't living check to check. It's a worry about getting shot, and I don't think bitcoin protects you from that.
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These articles are advertisements. It's a combination of growth hacking, seo, recruiting, etc for companies that wouldn't otherwise be relevant here so they force it.

Exploitation is a good word for it - the submitters often have no actual interest in this community except for what they can take from it. We get a lot of it now. Flagging helps keep them off the front page depending on how many coworkers or friends the company has jacking their votes up.
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So no.

One of the beauties of Erlang's hot code loading is the ability to migrate internal application state. An example:

I'm storing a lookup table going from key to value as a tuple {key, value}. With a change going out, I'm going to start doing {key, {value, other-value}}. In Erlang there's an easy pattern in place to do that. Just provide a function that goes from {key, value} to {key, {value, sensible-default}} and as part of the code reloading process that function will be run before the new code starts executing.
They sent fighters up to escort it. I don't think their response has been any different than the US. Pre-9/11 that wouldn't have been the case. 9/11 affected the whole world.

9/11 is not considered an existential threat to the US. No one believes al Qaeda or any terrorist group has that kind of power. However, they are capable of a lot of tragedies. Sending fighters up is part of a calculus that we will rather take the lost of a smaller group of people over a larger group. I don't think it's reasonable to draw a larger conclusion than that.
Also, the terrain is notoriously difficult, the bridges have predetermined break points and places to put the dynamite (none there atm, but not so long ago there was), and any old shed in the mountain could contain a bunker or hangar. Apart from Israel, Switzerland is the only country with enough bunkers for the whole population (even ABC rated I think).
should have just had a vote every 10 seconds... most voted answer wins?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6395148
I didn't know ascii architect was a job.
I think OP is trying to say, studying golf does not make a golfer.
More likely a useragent change
Fair; I was under the impression most of that talk stayed in-house, so to speak. Are you referring to portrayals just by Americans which reach British shores, or portrayals by Britons as well?
> You've never played an MMO...

It's true, I confess it. :)

My favorite South Park episode is the one where the boys spend their time immersed in World of Warcraft -- http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s10e08-make-lo...
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Sure. Yanukovych is playing for his own survival. It is important to remember that he is NOT doing anything for the people unless it helps him personally. If the Ukrainian people benefit, it's a side effect, but not a goal.

He is a puppet in that Putin has lots of influence on him personally and on the Ukrainian economy in general, but I suppose you could say that he has his own agenda: to steal as much money as possible as quickly as possible and not get killed in the process.
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From the BBC article:

> A five-second rule was introduced at one stage to try to bring some order as several players typed commands at the same time. Whichever command was typed the most over a five-second period was carried out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26240191

Unsure what happened to it, though.
I lived in the south bay area for 20 years, although I moved away ten years ago. Unless there has been a seismic shift, why is it inevitable that the tech industry must move north? There is an assumption in this article that the ideal place to be is SF, except for the prices there, so the game is to get as close as one can afford.

I utterly reject that idea. I loved visiting San Francisco when I was 20, and when I was 30, and when I was 40 with kids, but through those different phases of my life, I never wanted to live there, and not living there was never an impediment to my career. None of the companies I worked for considered moving there.
Just the fun of it?

Learning other stuff in the process?

Gaining a better idea of what the thing you study entails, even if you don't understand it fully yet?
I might be reading this story incorrectly, but it seems like Ladonia is just a normal piece of property which is owned by artists who issue "citizenship".

Is there some other quality I am missing that separates it from any other piece of property someone owns, creates a website for, and calls a micronation?
I don't understand the PID1 case. You are running a single process, why do you have to collect zombies?

In fact, I understand none of these points. This seems all very hard to relate to. These are containers and not VMs. Most of that stuff should run in a separate container.
It's not that there aren't female ninjas and female rockstars. It's that appealing to the ninja and rockstar image is a particularly male thing to do.

Being "into" rockstars or ninjas is largely a boy thing, and (like upper body strength) has absolutely nothing to do with software development other than the fact it's a largely male dominated industry.
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