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> This will not magically be overcome by constructive interference - each beam will still lose a significant amount of power as function of distance.

Well, yes, and no.

Each beam does "lose" energy compared to the theoretical amount it'd have without interference.

But the power you can transmit into any area inside the cells coverage is nearly constant, and you do not need to put that all extra energy your beans are "losing" into the transmiters, just a tiny part of it (due to errors, delays, object interference, etc).
followup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318631

"After listening to the deep concern that has been voiced over our application to register the npm trademark we have decided to withdraw the application from the USPTO."

good move
Others have proposed such measure. And it sounds like a good thing on its face.

The problem is that who then decides which coins are "bad"? Does the US Government get to decide? How about coins that fund organizations that the US Government doesn't care for?

My personal opinion is that no bitcoin should ever be tagged as better or worse than any other one. By messing with the fungibility of the currency, we would do way more harm in the long run than good.
> The agenda of ensuring children have access to life-enhancing educational opportunities?

Did you steal this from one of their pamphlets?

Are you implying that teachers unions only agenda is to help students and not self preservation?
http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...
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You can't really seize bitcoin. you can think you have. The only thing you need is a private key so if you store this in a encrypted file like you can with wallet.dat you can seize this file.

mean while you can have already split your key into parts and give them to trusted people. setup a dead man switch to email those people to talk and recombine private key, import into wallet and withdrawal funds.

this would have worked beautiful in silkroads case because the private was encrypted.
Absolutely impossible. One of the major positives of bitcoin is that accounts cannot be frozen by any authority.
There are already reports of two suicides related to the Mt.Gox fiasco, so yes, it does matter.

http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...
For me maybe it is a little bit like law of physics. There are rich and there are poor. There are healthy, there are sick. The world is a cruel place that's just not fair no matter how you slice it. Maybe death is great equalizer - makes us all equal in the end. There is no way to fight it, that's by "design" (i.e. 'law of physics'). Accepting this world as it is and living happy regardless, for me, that's the border between the world of adults and the world of children. I prefer to insult you (even though I didn't want to) than to be disrespectful (in the sense of not saying openly what I really believe in, don't want to be dishonest).
while in theory possible, this approach has not been done because it is said to be a slippery slope down the lines of being against "bitcoin neutrality".

once the feature exists to treat one set of coins different from another, it leaves the protocol open to control by centralized parties - they could ban the use of "unidentified coins", etc.
He will never fly again.
This is not technically speaking impossible, but the Bitcoin community has a visceral hatred for the idea, because it allows off-blockchain-entities to effectively deprive them of the use of their coins. It also undermines trust in the currency generally, since why accept Bitcoins if there is the possibility that you'd be paid with black Bitcoins instead of white Bitcoins, when you're practically speaking guaranteed that all dollars are green.

Also "Take all the coins that went through Silk Road. Now, floodfill forward." (probably) colors most of the network black.
Why use explicit memory management in the iOS wrapper (delete in dealloc) when ARC in conjunction with std::shared_ptr would take care of it automatically?
And yet, being outstanding in teaching has much, much more effect on one's students' chances of learning things.

Is the university system (excepting "third level institutions" apparently) just a scam perpetrated against its students?
Let's say there are 2 categories of addresses involved with these coins; addresses that have been sufficiently analyzed (so you don't care anymore about tracking them) and addresses that have not been sufficiently analyzed.

Following the second category is roughly instantaneous, it's all on the block chain. So in some ways, the chase gets easier over time.
About the SQL injection thing: you do not need to use stored procedures, just parametrized queries. And do not 'sanitize' input text to prevent SQL injections, ever. It will bite you in the future.
what the hell is "Google tax"
I had an accidental line duplication in git the otherday trying to do a by-line commit with a visual tool.
I am running it on elasticbeanstalk in Amazon. It should scale but the traffic showed a bug in an ebextension file
The new prime minister, Matteo Renzi, was responsible for getting rid of this. Yesterday, he was visiting a startup incubator in Treviso: http://www.h-farmventures.com/

He's been in office since February 22nd.

It's not a bad start, by the admittedly bad standards of Italian politics. There's a lot still to do, but Italy has so much good stuff that other countries simply will never have that, as someone said, it doesn't need to be better than Sweden, the Netherlands, and so on, it just needs to stop sucking quite so bad, and it could be a more attractive place to do business.
It would be possible if enough miners started supporting a blacklist, but the real problem is not enforcing it, but who decides which coins are "stolen"?

Bitcoin is decentralized, and that's the benefit of it. Creating a global block list would go against that.
In my experience, Typescript support in IntelliJ/Webstorm has always been sketchy --- so much that I find it quite unfair that they would mention this as a feature of the paying version.

I still use it, but I often get invalid highlighting, etc.. Then I update to the latest EAP because it's supposed to fix this particular issue... and then other appear. Hmm, annoying...

I tried the VS version as well, and there the highlighting and refactoring works very well... but the editor is waaaay slower so I always give up. Funny because it works fine when working with other languages such as C#.
We'd get better teachers if we paid more to good teachers. The problem is no one can seem to agree on how to measure what makes a good teacher - one side is busy arguing seniority should be the primary measure, the other side argues test scores, and neither one seems to want to spend any time or money figuring out an actually successful way to measure teacher skill.
Democratizing SSL Certificates
> I also believe there are some nice SQL sanitation libraries out there.
This is not the right approach. Separating the query structure from the data is the right way to go - parametrized queries are much safer than sanitization, which is subject to all sorts of encoding headaches.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
With seemingly unlimited mobile bandwidth and speed, the cloud gets a new dimension too. Perlman has already proven that even the most demanding applications, realtime games, work well in a streaming scenario even today. With something like this, i could see my desktop in the cloud being accessible from anywhere through a mobile thin client in my pocket. Hook up multiple monitors/keyboard/mouse to it or just use the device screen itself, with computing power only limited by the cloud provider. Technologies like OnLive or PCoIP show thats its possible even today, all thats missing is the infrastructure to support it and pCell could be the answer to that.
Not statistically, since most fail miserably.
While baking TypeScript into Visual Studio isn't a certainty of its future success (e.g. Silverlight), it is a good indicator of Microsoft's commitment to the language.

As a former CoffeeScript user, I love TypeScript: it's a more consistent language driven by a real language designer, Anders Heijlsberg, author of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and now TypeScript.

I am building 2 major projects using it:

- RavenDB Management Studio [1]
- BitShuva, my Pandora-clone radio startup [2]

Both of these projects have benefited from TypeScript.

Microsoft has really built something quite nice here: a clean JavaScript with an optional, flexible type system, plus goodies from the future version of JavaScript (lambdas, classes, modules). I believe this simpler approach is superior to Dart's monolithic standard library + optional VM, superior to the Rubyist's take on JavaScript that is CoffeeScript.

[1]: https://github.com/JudahGabriel/ravendb/tree/Raven.Studio.Ht...
[2]: http://bitshuva.codeplex.com
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My cousin is a high school teacher and posted this article on Facebook with the comment that it's like saying just because you had parents, you think you know everything there is to know about parenting.
I've seen a close friend work 20 hours a day, barely make payroll, deal with employee drug habits and try to minimize the legal damage a sociopathic employee did.

You don't know what it's like owning a coffee shop.
I would be surprised if that was simply a ploy by Mt. Gox to deflect blame from their own ineptitude.
both of these are coming: Nodejs Tools for Visual Studio will do TypeScript & be installable in VS Express shortly.
The worst part of ts is that it is associated w/ MS and not npm.
They've added a number of those things, they just are just coming down the pipeline. Check out Aurora for some of these things, such as more breakpoint options and reformatting JS.
Doesn't revealing the identities of the key holders somewhat compromise the system? Ot at least make it more vulnerable?
The old link referenced pointed to a different page, the release page for the previous version.

Perhaps the biggest difference between Permanent and Numbers is the interface. It's easy to suggest that tablet spreadsheets might all work the same, but if you try a few you'll find they are widely different experiences.

Permanent has cloud support for Box and Dropbox. Numbers supports only iCloud.

Permanent is free, and most people do fine with the free version, so a pro upgrade is generally not required to use the app.
Don't sit idle on faith though. Start planning around the possibility that you will get zero back from gox.
Grok means to understand in fullness ... from the Heinlein novel, the etymology of the word comes from to drink or to consume.

You cannot grok something just by watching it.
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>They tried and failed to make VS good for JS

VS 2013 is actually very nice for Javascript development. The only place it really falls down still is management for pure JS projects. SublimeText still beats it there for grouping JS files together just by folder instead of Visual Studio's need for clunky "solution" and "project" files.

But Visual Studio's Angular support is awesome.
If you run out of ideas for side projects
Why Facebook is suddenly smitten with Groups
No, it doesn't need a defense. There is no evidence to back up the idea that the bug was malicious. People that have worked on large C codebases have seen crazier things than this. Routinely.

I understand that Rails developers believe that all the TLS stacks must have dense rspec test coverage and zero-warnings static analysis passes in their builds, but that isn't the reality for any TLS stack. These aren't Rails apps (and, hate to break it to some of you, but your Rails test coverage isn't doing as much for your security as you'd like to think it is).

This is a nutball conspiracy theory, another example of the tech "community" eating its own rather than focusing on anything that would help mitigate state-sponsored surveillance. And it's happening solely in the service of an "exciting" narrative. The people promoting this bullshit conspiracy theory are, by and large, doing it because they want it to be true.
I don't think so. I think access to the best minds in the field is much more important than good teaching. Bad teaching is an opportunity to learn how to learn independently--an extremely valuable skill.
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You should grab our Nightly build then :) We have parsed responses in the Network tab, I just tried HTML and JSON for you and both show as expected. See http://imgur.com/OHO4lFH and get Nightly at http://nightly.mozilla.org/.
Those two messages are not incompatible. It could be pseudonymous enough to buy drugs with it safely because the resources required to actually unravel identities is so much greater than the value of catching the drug purchaser (this assumes there is any value of catching the purchaser over the seller for purposes of argument).

At the same time, the value of solving large thefts like this makes expending substantial resources to solve it much more reasonable.

It's like stealing someone's iPhone with a ski mask on while a camera catches you vs. robbing a bank with a ski mask on with a camera catching you. Both thefts begin with the same amount of evidence, but the latter is infinitely more likely to have resources devoted to it.
There is a light theme in Aurora right now.
not exactly the same, one bad actor owning that amount of bitcoins would be scary: for example, this person could first trade otc one fraction after mixing, second talk with some entity that hates bitcoin (say jpmorgan) and tell them that you can sell the rest in the open market (on every big exchange) sending the price to 0 (literally), get profits and powerful new friends from doing this.

The situation doesn't looks good.
I still don't quite understand why anyone would use TS... especially without an IDE.
Um I know how Spain treats TUPE which is to say you have no protection on transfer of employer that is not the sign of a country that treats its employees well.
Agreed. I had a fun time playing it, and had to force myself to put it away after 15 minutes.
Well, by definition there are more below average teachers than exceptional ones, so it doesn't benefit unions to favor excellent or even promising teachers over terrible ones.
What do you expect? Should it show every possible font you can type into the property? Just the fonts installed on your machine that other people may not have?

Just any property that has a preset number of values show up as options as you type. The difference is that Chrome shows a dropdown list while with Firefox you have to sort of remember the values as it does an autocomplete. I see no reason Firefox couldn't offer the dropdown since it clearly knows the possible values.

By the way, I tried the same font thing in Chrome and it responded the same way, no font list. You can see a similar behavior with color, for the value it shows possible colors by name. Start your color with # and suddenly there's no options. If there are too many possibilities to list it doesn't list anything.
that's like telling programmers that Apple doesn't use a repo system, so there could not be any trace of this.

And why don't we hear anything the guy who might have done this mistake IF IT WAS AN ACTUAL MISTAKE ?

I don't like conspiracy theories, but I'd be apple, I'd fire the guy for incompetence. I mean of all the code that has to be secure, you have to check this one.
Try reading the article.

> The tax, designed to ensure firms that advertise and sell in Italy do so only through companies with a tax presence there...
I don't think I've ever heard anyone pretend to be an expert in any of those fields.

But practically every day I hear some grand opinion of teaching from people who haven't taught a class, ever.
that's common practice to anonymize bitcoins. google 'bitcoin tumbling service'.
Braces, y'all!

This is why you always, always, ALWAYS put braces around your if()s.

(I'm not religious about what line the open brace goes on, but I will reject any code review that skips the braces entirely.)
If by WebKit, you mean Chrome, sure. Safari's inspector is a mess.
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I've had a few offers to buy my domain but even though it's not one people follow I've still become attached to it as part of my identity, it's used for my main email address.

Just looked now and archive.org's earliest capture of my alicious.com domain is 2004. By that it's my 10yr anniversary in 2 weeks. Though I started the site ~1996 [it was on Geocities for a time too] I don't think any content remains from then.
Ryansinglehurst is the right company to approach. With a specialized skill and sales training and a good experience of how the corporate sector works, this company is one of the best one in its field. It offers so many different services which you can avail to make your team more efficient and thus contribute in the company’s growth.
https://audioboo.fm/ryansinglehurst
How scientists plan to farm on Mars
HuffPo definitely has original reporters, my friend is one of them:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/betsy-isaacson/

She writes good articles for the general public about tech in general and things like net neutrality and aaron swartz
Since the story seems to be that this has been going on for years without anyone investigating, I'd guess that most of them are long since laundered and distributed between various innocent bystanders. Even if we could trace every single uBTC to it's current location, the percentage actually held by those responsible has got to be very small.
> because It says absolutely nothing.

Much like your post
The main feature of BTC is that it's unregulated, so indeed, if you don't provide the security usually enforced by governments, there isn't any.

Usually, when using online services such as MtGox, you're secured by the fact that their reputation is worth more than what they can scam out of you. It's vital for eBay, AirBnB, the Silk Road etc. that you trust them, so they won't let an horror story unfold publicly just to steal you a couple of grants.

If a service / person is in a position to pull off a scam worth more than the reputation / survival of the service, it's dangerous to trust their good will. MtGox was predictably dangerous. Given the poorly aligned interests of MtGox, and the target they represented for black-hat hackers, all this is a (very expensive) lecture in basic economics for libertarian masses.
Your search and replace after copy and paste seems to have failed.
Renzi may have cancelled it but anyone in his place would have done the same, because the tax was illegal. It was against EU's policy and the fact that it came so far as to be approved only highlights the incompetence of Italy's lawmakers.
There is a plugins loader called EasySIMBL [0] that can be used to load missing functionality (read: app hacks) to an existing app.

With a little time and gnireenigne, anything's possible ;)

References:

[0] https://github.com/norio-nomura/EasySIMBL
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The problems you experienced go beyond teachers unions. Dumping "problem" kids into one school is a recipe for disaster and communities are not served by that kind of thing at all (except those that dumped off students, although I would argue those communities aren't fixing their underlying problems). Administrator heavy, top down approaches that override community and teacher autonomy are a bad thing in general, and the obsession with testing over standard lessons and homework is a huge problem with the way the public education system is run.

Ultimately teachers as a professional class deserve a union. We see in other places and countries that the unions do not serve as an impediment to a quality public education, so we have to ask ourselves what is really going on with current systems and unions that make the situation so shitty (esp. in New York state).
Noone was promising any returns, so how could this possibly be a ponzi scheme?
This is such an ignorant statement.
Why do you think it's called master of Arts in teaching, and not master of Science?
Good. I don't really enjoy living anyway.
Sure they are, in an indirect way. This doesn't mean that I want to eliminate food aid and medical care for poorer folks, but it does mean that Wal*Mart doesn't have to pay these folks enough to live on. Perhaps if we can raise the federal minimum wage, we'll be able to cut back some of these programs and get the companies benefiting from these employees' work to compensate them fairly for it.
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Those two options are not mutually exclusive.

If you use it correctly, then bitcoin itself is anonymous.
I like FF dev tools a lot, yet there is some stuff there that could be better:

- no call stack(?)

- breakpoints are a bit of a hit or miss, especially when callbacks are involved.

- http request monitoring is a bit messy - you see the request in the console, you can click on them, but the resulting dialog box only offers basic info, without even an option to go to the clicked url directly. In network panel the functionality is completely different for some reason. Fortunately mostly fine, but one irritating thing is that response view is so little and you cannot make it much wider.

But anyway, they're improving greatly, only a couple of months back you couldn't even think about not using Firebug in FF. So kudos to them for all the hard work.
Yes, there is: http://pineapple.io or http://ananas.io whichever you prefer. It's pretty cool, and not only does collect cool project from GitHub, but from all over the internet. Every tools is hand picked and edited, tagged correctly.
Wow. Lost karma because I'm enthusiastic about something? Neutral, I'd understand... but downvotes? Really? I've seen even more plain and simple comments get upvotes. You folks are a fickle bunch.
House of Cards does not fact check, and plays fast and loose appropriating real world names and applying fictional attributes to them. It is obnoxious and frankly it is harmful.
Yes, in the case of Bezos, it was mostly his decision to leave his cushy, high-paying job to go start an online bookstore. It seemed crazy at the time, but he knew he would regret not trying.

Relevant book: The Everything Store
Having lost $468M in Bitcoins, Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy protection
I've been involved with a couple conferences before and agree with wholeheartedly with the post.

As a conference chair, you’re responsible for delivering on every promise to the attendees and sponsors! Stop and reread that line.

This is key. I've seen situations where teams bring on too many volunteers who promise all sorts of things. The chair is optimistic at the beginning since they have a large team. Eventually, about 1/3rd of the team will flake and the chair is left holding the bag. The remaining volunteers are pushed to uphold all the promises and the stress collects.

It'd be great if you write a follow up post going into more details about your experience.
A personal note:

Francesco Boccia (the proposer), Enrico Letta (old prime minister) and Matteo Renzi come all from the same politic party, Partito Democratico. Web tax was proposed when Matteo Renzi was already the secretary of the Party.
Will this work with an s3 bucket?

I'm looking for a personal, static gallery to put on top of a bucket of all my photos.
A Ceng/PE has the same requirements as a MD or lawyer arguably more so in the case of lawyers - but a Ceng or PE will earn less than a MD or lawyer for the same level of experience

And dont you need a First from a good university to stand a good chance of high paying job in SV?