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Yeah, I posted that article because it gave a good summary of the sequence of events w/r/t the Mail's reporting. I don't really agree with that last point.

There's no evidence that any of the Labour politicians expressed sympathetic attitudes towards paedophilia. Their argument at the time was about exactly where criminality should begin --- arguing against a blanket ban on images of nude children (because it might criminalise totally innocent parents) and sex between underage children of a similar age (which is arguably more an issue for education, youth services, etc. than the police and courts) --- y'know, the sort of things you'd expect a civil liberties organisation to be concerned with.

You might disagree with their position, but the Mail's reports really were trying to cast them as having been sympathetic to child abuse ("LABOUR MP ADVOCATES LOWERING OF AGE OF CONSENT TO 10", etc.), which clearly wasn't the case. It's hard to see it as anything other than a smear campaign (or, at best, extremely sensationalized journalism) given that.
The thing is, "everyone you know who is good at code" is mostly people your age. So, yeah, they got good by the time they were your age. But that's just an artifact of the sample set.

No offense, but those people who are your age who you think are good, well, they mostly aren't that good yet. They may be good enough to hack something out for a startup. The startup may even take off. But for building maintainable code that can sustain a company for the long haul, they probably need to learn a few more things...
UberX would fall under that categorization.
As makes sense. I follow Bitcoin news, and I hadn't even heard of Flexcoin or this other Poloniex.
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Buttercoin did that. Then they decided to go closed source and do a traditional exchange.

https://github.com/buttercoin
Anybody remember "Buttonfly"? Now THAT was actually USEFUL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826qq6pslJk

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=...
This is not something that can realistically happen by itself - just as for 'traditional' banking, it would happen only because government regulation would force it to happen.
I'm not so sure ML/DL can effectively calculate the contours of an image. ML's strength is in regression and classification (eg, differentiating between handbags and shoulder bags), but there are more appropriate tools for image segmentation and foreground extraction.
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You're both right. There are challenges in training a deep-learning neural network, and that training requires a lot of processing power.

We open sourced a pretty cool standalone machine in Java that addresses those issues about a week ago. Looking for feedback...

http://deeplearning4j.org
One of the big upsides I see to Bitcoin is the borderlessness of it. Where I live, we already have free same-day wire transfers we can initiate from internet/mobile banking, and services supported by all the big banks for cheap (15 cents fixed fee) instant transfers using cell phone numbers as recipients. I think most countries have similar services. But as soon as you cross a border, suddenly everything has 10x greater fees, you run into anti-terrorism/anti-money laundering regulation snags, and so on.
What I don't understand is why can't the bitcoins can not be seized and returned. If the feds can seize bitcoins obtained illegally through drugs why can't they seize bitcoins obtained illegally through stealing?
What a horrid article. Fuck history, fuck the environment, house prices are too high. I'm going to have to agree with Jamie Marshall in the comments: "The author of this is clearly an idiot."
well for altcoin trades, there are options:
https://coin-swap.net/
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Atomic_cross-chain_trading
there isn't much volume yet, but i think this is the direction things need to go.
"In 2013, Tesla delivered 22,477 vehicles to customers worldwide. By the end of 2014, Tesla expects combined sales in Europe and Asia to be almost twice as high as sales in North America. Part of that projected growth will come from the UK, where right hand drive versions of the Model S will soon be introduced. Highly competitive leasing and financing options, similar to a program the company recently launched in Germany with rental company Sixt, are also expected to drive growth on the continent."[0]

[0] http://www.teslamotors.com/en_EU/about/press/releases/tesla-...
Interestingly (or at least I find it so) any Public House (i.e. Pub) in the UK is required by license and law to let any member of the public use their bathroom, and also to provide fresh water, for no fee.

The toilets do not have to be located in the main building, but be within the property of the main building.

This applies to neither private clubs nor private businesses (i.e. shops).
My bank is completely OK with that. Most banks probably are. The problem is that then they charge me even more money for it rather than going bankrupt themselves. Talk about a bad response...
You can change your visa waiver status to another status without departing the USA. My ex wife was from Italy, she came here on vwp and we got married. She stayed during the AOS process.
A friend of mine had very good results in work with micro-dosing - he took 1/10 of trip dose and was more focused and creative. He suffered no hallucinations or giggles.

EDIT: Just trying to give second good use of this substance. Easing the suffering of a terminally ill person is good. Enhancing creativity and focus in young person is also good.
> The key flaw I find with PHP is with its community and lack of any mature frameworks.

The key flaw in the PHP community are people like you. People who still think that Codeigniter is THE PHP framework (it hasn't been for at least 3 years) yet still have the nerve to look down on newbie programmers.

The ignorance in your post is embarrassing.
The worst 'secret' of Head & Shoulders is that it doesn't work.
A better solution would be for the Bitcoin Foundation (or some other entity) to certify exchanges and online wallets as being compliant with a well defined code of practice and audit them regularly.

Consumers could look for the mark as indicating that the exchange is a well run outfit rather than a bunch of cowboys.
That's like expecting the goth subculture to result in more eyeliner in congress one day.
"Image segmentation" is usually the term for doing this with still images, and OpenCV provides a couple of functions for it. They're not perfect, but they're probably more effective than what this article describes.
Hacking in WordPress code base is a great way to learn MySQL IMO... it does a very nice job of neatly organizing content using and tags being polymorphic to represent categories and tags. Really helps to have code samples... otherwise, reference manuals are great for answering questions about how some specific syntax works...
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Sorry, I downvoted this. Great code doesn't need no comments. Lots of comments is definitely a code smell, but anything of reasonable cognitive complexity will almost certainly require some comments.

I can't be certain about your first example, but writing a UX framework is a pretty straightforward thing in terms of what it needs to do, so there probably wouldn't be much need to comment about what it's doing. Why, though - that's a whole 'nother question. Surely it's missing some of those whys.
As demonstrated by this article, the uber-rich are not able to deny local markets permission to do things for themselves. The uber-rich simply failed to figure out how to market pads themselves. If Ambani had figured out the marketing, this would just be another story of Reliance incrementally moving into another industry and making a bunch of money.

Trying to paint the uber-rich as some sort of villain here is silly.

The really interesting thing is that this is an example of the value of marketing.
Did you seriously just equate North Korea, Russia, Rap Genius and Nagios?

Everyone knows that Rap Genius is an oppressive regime in which you're executed for dissent, North Korea are SEO spammers, and in Russia... there is no need for monitoring software because Russian computer does not fail!
I really like the site. What are some of your needs for progressing it other than getting curators and more development?
The desire to empower kids is basically one of the best motivations available to everyone. I'd recommend poking around for after school programs where you can volunteer to do it. I spent a month or two teaching HTML to a small group of middle schoolers and it was easily one of my favorite experiences in life.
Those things are called crises because they actually happen quite rarely. When such episodes become a regular occurrence people tend to abandon the system in question.

I keep seeing this attitude among Bitcoin fans. Of course, there have been many financial crises with regular currencies and banking systems. But that doesn't mean they're the norm. When you look at the number of crisis against the number of different financial systems and years-without-a-crisis it's obvious that they're exceptional. Sadly, the number of Bitcoin shocks seems to be increasing linearly with scale.

I don't think this is inherent so much as a problem of overconfidence and magical thinking. Right now Bitcoin service providers (in the aggregate) are like builders whose structures catch fire distressingly frequently, but who excuse this by pointing to famous fires of the past. The fact that fires have historically been a problem doesn't mean fire codes are useless; quite the opposite, in fact.
There is a difference between a sketch or textual description of child rape, which can be fictional, and a photo, film, recording, etc., which does not seem fake, and for which it is overwhelmingly probable that it was created through actual child rape. (This being said, I agree with the comment pointing out that "child rape", in this context, is not qualitatively different from any other crime.)

While I think this distinction exists, I do not think that any kind of data should be prohibited, even if the data should not have been created had the law been respected. If a crime was committed to produce the data, of course the crime should be investigated and its perpetrators should hopefully be punished, but I see no reason to believe that it will make any difference to further regulate what is done with the resulting data.

I think there is a gut reaction that you do not want to know that people are looking at authentic pictures of children being raped, people being killed... but you have to acknowledge that you have no say on what people are doing on their own, as long as they are not harming others, and that people watching this data are not harming anyone directly by doing so.

(Of course, there is the line of argument that people buying child porn are doing harm to people indirectly because they finance a criminal system... but then it's the financing that may be criminal, not the actual data.)

(Then, there is the line of argument that people may be tempted to act out the crime because they look at images/videos of crimes... but (1) to my knowledge, this is not adequately substantiated by evidence; (2) it is a very slippery slope to argue "you should ban data X because it makes people who see it more likely to commit crime Y".)
PHP's "closures" are basically you the programmer calculating the free variables in an enclosed function and then telling PHP you want them to be bound in an environment. I would laugh if it weren't so pathetic.
This really hits home, having grown up working at a franchise. We were acquaintances with another Mcdonald's franchisee who got equally screwed by corporate when they convinced him to spend a quarter of a million dollars renovating his store, which happened to be located in a terrible neighborhood. They also asked him to make it open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As a franchisee, he was not able to tell Mcdonald's corporate no, and sure enough a year later he was broke, having spent all that money and seen no return. He hung himself shortly thereafter.
Well I think the purpose was to teach people who are not web programmers. Or at least those who are new to web programming.
I've seen somewhere on the site that Pakyow is "up to 40 some percent faster than Sinatra". What makes Pakyow faster than Sinatra under the hood?
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Haha, thanks for making me laugh. This comment section is truly terrible.
The comments on the bitcointalk thread are interesting. Here you have a bunch of people who have just lost 12% of their funds and most of them are totally ok with that. If you are looking for evidence that bitcoin supporters are driven more by ideological reasons than economical ones, here is a pretty good example.
Yeah, like an electrum seed?
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Maybe not anymore (at least in the west), but the bible does have that stuff in it too.

http://www.openbible.info/topics/menstruation
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Shinken was specifically mentioned in the slides as just a "Nagios", and not solving the problem.

Not sure whether that's true or not, but they did address it...
Clearly fake. What I don't see is why?
I could only think of one verse off the top of my head, but here are several. The Leviticus 15:19-30 reads a lot like what was described in the article. http://www.openbible.info/topics/menstruation
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To own a bitcoin is to own the cryptographic private key that holds those bitcoins. If the bitcoins moved to a new address, then you would need the private keys of the new address. They can be acquired, but it's difficult, since hiding a crypto key is a lot easier than hiding cash.
I agree that using optimized libraries is the better choice when those libraries do something close to what you are trying to do, but this algorithm is Rube Goldberg-esque.

Also, OpenCV includes functions for image segmentation. If they couldn't use that, it would have been nice for the article to at least touch on why.
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NFC adoption was either killed (or put on hold) by Apple, thanks to their resistance in adopting it for god knows why.

Bitcoin exchanges seem to be trying to rebuild the wheel while touting they're not wheels.

There are many layers to banks and exchanges, including security and risk reduction, which add to the overall operational cost. These exchanges either thought they were exempt to these same issues or they thought they could skate by without addressing them.

It's almost an agency effect - "If other exchanges aren't doing it, why should I increase my costs by doing it?" This line of thinking and deferment of responsibility is what leads to financial crises.
I was waiting for the "april fools" or the "ha ha, maybe in 20 years" but there is non of that
> As a tech guy, I always feel extremely guilty about it

As a tech guy, business people routinely dump big piles of raw data in my office every few days. I mutter a bit about how this is why we invented databases and then laugh all the way to the bank.

And I guarantee you the business people don't feel at all guilty about it.
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Bitcoin companies create additional attention from criminals because people engaged in illegal activity are a targeted market segment. Near the median there's just ordinary getting away with something; an AirBnB rental in Milwaukee that takes bitcoin to facilitate reporting less taxable income. The long tail of bitcoin use probably leverages anonymity move money that facilitates the most extreme nastiness.

Using bitcoin is a strong nexus between an individual and the long tail and it puts the individual on their radar. The long tail is being nice when they only steal my bitcoin.
Was this friend working in the laboratory then?
Yeah, but it's not interesting or challenging to do that.
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cat sharing companies

Off-topic, but as someone with too many cats I would like this idea to take off pronto. I could use a full night's sleep.

I'll show myself out.
I think the rating is a pretty weak way to address issues like this.

I'm a big fan of Uber, but the insistent ratings are really annoying. For example - I take a ride, the car is fine, the driver is a little annoying, there is traffic and but we get there. Is that a "5" star ride? a 4 star ride? a 3 star ride? To me, 3 stars is average. to Uber, 3 stars is "you're fired." doesn't make sense.

Not to mention - how the heck would I know if he was vaccinated? that's just gross to contemplate. What if we rate him a 5, but then i get hospitalized with some crazy sickness later? and I thought taxis were dirty - i take it back.

Maybe public health officials might know something after all.
These practices wouldn't have been observed by Christians, except perhaps by early Jewish converts.
Reminds me of: "The original virus rips, or "unglues" - as the name suggests - DNA strands. The strand attempts to repair itself, but its proteins are scrambled in the attempt." — http://ansible.wikia.com/wiki/Descolada
Great timing with Mardi Gras-- the company made local news, and if you look at the world map, there's about a dozen openings in New Orleans (but a surprising few in the French Quarter).

I'm convincing the inlaws to to a PPP model in their gallery today.
Do you understand that if people care about these things, they won't use Uber? Before reading your comment, I didn't know cab companies tested for TB and I never thought to care. If TB were a problem in cabs, I would care, and I would use a cab service that tested its drivers.
Do you really think tacking on more badly designed features makes PHP better? PHP's "closures" require you to write down the free variables in an enclosed function and tell PHP that they exist, that is something a compiler should be doing. Google "closure conversion".
J1 waiver isn't too bad. Yes, it involves some paper-work, but nothing that would need an immigration lawyer. You can do everything yourself, and costs about $200 last I checked.

Also look into the O1 visa that doesn't require a waiver, and has no quotas.
And again and again:

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Not PIP specifically. I had homebrew and macports problems. I remember RVM was complaining about it. I didn't really use ports for anything so I just got rid of it. I don't really know much more than that.
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Crassin's "Interactive Indirect Illumination Using Voxel Cone Tracing" [1] might be of interest. A snippet from the second page:

> We handle fully dynamic scenes, thanks to a new real-time mesh voxelization and octree building and filtering algorithm that efficiently exploits the GPU rasterization pipeline. This octree representation is built once for the static part of the scene, and is then updated interactively with moving objects or dynamic modifications on the environment (like breaking a wall or opening a door).

It takes a somewhat beefy computer to run, but the results are impressive. I don't have a link handy, but there was a UE4 editor demo showing some of it a few months ago. IIRC it's been axed as a feature because it wouldn't have run well enough across all of the platforms they were targeting.

[1] https://research.nvidia.com/publication/interactive-indirect...
According to http://www.lawblog.de/index.php/archives/2014/01/23/wem-geho... those old ladies in Europe do not get this money as income!
The article says that one of them earned up to 8000 EUR/day in shopping mall during chrismas. She never cleaned a toilet, she calls other guys in via radio to do it. She had to give all the money to the company which operated the restroom and her job was just to watch the plate on which the money was dropped by customers. The article is about her suing her company about that money
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Yes, reinventing the wheel is okay when you have a simple problem. But the article describes a complicated problem, and the presented solution delivers pretty poor results. In this specific case, I am pretty sure that looking for an existing solution would be the wiser choice. I saw two separate solutions to this problem at a recent graphics conference alone.

(Tip: if you have trouble compiling something you found on Github, contact the author and offer $200 to walk you through the installation. Might save a lot of frustration)
> So he will continue using Nagios because it works well for his use, and good luck making something better.

Ops guy here. If something better than Nagios/Zabbix came along, ops people would use it. Nagios gets used because 1) people know it and 2) its pretty easy to setup.

Is it going to scale to Netflix or AWS scale organizations? Probably not. But at that scale, I presume you have buckets of money to throw at problems (i.e. build a custom monitoring platform).
Apparently there is an old Orthodox liturgical tradition that women abstain from receiving the Eucharist during menstruation, but it doesn't appear to be an official requirement.
Convincing Google that I don't want its assumption that I want a typo fixed is getting more difficult.

The dynamic Google results page means that it's really difficult to refine a search based on the presently visible results which disappear as I update the search. I find that that behavior incredibly annoying, and greatly appreciate that DDG doesn't do this.
The start of the video shows a very similar approach.
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On a school trip 15ish years ago which related to the subject of religion ago we got to a mosque and were then asked if anyone was menstruating. If yes, don't come in. Credit to a male friend of mine, he yelled out that the male next to him was. Its a pity all the males didn't react this way. http://islamqa.info/en/128576
> You know the person you are going to meet must have it together enough to have a functioning credit card, smartphone, and cell service.

That's a poor heuristic. Ted Bundy had it together enough to get into law school.
To be fair, the article is about the polar opposite approach: Giving a full-bore hallucinogenic dose to people who are dying anyways so it really can't make their situation worse, and seeing if it helps them cope with the inevitable.

Which is very interesting. I always feel like the war on drugs is horribly unfair to people in end-of-life situations who really should have access to all the most destructive mind-altering chemicals to ease that.
I'm going to buy pg and company a beer and get code integrated into HackerNews that turns all submitted links into Coral cache links. Its 2014 and the Slashdot effect is alive and well :(
I generally agree. But I think there exist good "frameworks" out there. I'd cite Bottle[1] as one. And while it's still new, I think Martini[2] has the beginnings of something great. Both of them heavily rely on principles of composition.

[1] - http://bottlepy.org/

[2] - https://github.com/codegangsta/martini
Thanks. I made the mistake of assuming that the git read me "pip install beets" was an requirement because it said install and then read this.

"You can install beets by typing pip install beets. Then check out the Getting Started guide."
If by "proponents of these services" you mean customers, then answer is that you can detect whether or not they care by seeing how they spend their money. Everyone else is irrelevant.
I can only guess that people have become so used to solid financial institutions that present little risk for deposited money. Even non-FDIC institutions, like stock brokerages, usually have extremely low risk for deposited cash. If you're thinking like that, why not let them hold onto it? It's less effort. Of course, we see the answer to "why not?" here.