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I think you're looking at the wrong metrics for 'did well'.

Tomb Raider was successful, for the studios, successful enough for them to give it another go.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tombraider.htm
The second one lost money, and it looks like that was the end of the franchise.

Resident Evil has been a mixed bag, but clearly the studios were willing to risk it.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/search/?q=resident%20evil

Max Payne also seemed to make a bit, http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=maxpayne.htm
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Of course they can defend themselves in public. Corporations engage PR firms to manage that expertly for them all the time.
And ironically, whether this goes to trial or not, the worse the objective case for Github the more confident you can be that their lawyers will be telling them to say little or nothing.
Expect a very bland statement to appear shortly about how much they love and value their female employees. We may well also have statements from other female employees about how happy they are at Github - these may well be given 'off the record' without attribution as in "A female employee who did not want to be identified told me she has never been happier than she is at Github, surrounded as she is by sensitive colleagues and a supportive management."
:)
These exploits usually target browsers running on Windows, which until recently did not have ASLR or DEP enabled by default (and still doesn't in the case of some browser plugins). Many Linux distros like Debian or Ubuntu have had RELRO, SSP, PIE, and ASLR enabled by default for browsers for a few years now. PaX and Grsecurity would indeed protect against all of these exploits -- up until one or two years ago. These newest exploits are way out of my league, and I don't know if anything could stop their authors.
Wow, good argument there. Tell me why it's not an indicator of fame in this case?
There are any number of alternative headlines for this story that would not only be less misleading, but also more succinct.

It doesn't surprise me that the Boston Globe would want to stay on good terms with a major local power, but there are limits.

Consider instead: MIT Faulted for Lack of Support; Student Support Faulted at MIT; Students to MIT: Support Please!....
So you think people will prefer to use worthless plastic/paper currencies that are continuously deflated by governments to fund war and oppression? Cryptocurrencies will streamline the new digital economy - which encompasses all of our lives. Hardware wallets will soon allow people to secure their money with ease. Cryptocurrencies will revolutionize the world in ways that we don't yet understand. It's hard to conceptualize, but bitcoin the 'currency' is so insignificant compared to bitcoin the 'invention'.
And yet there is no evidence in this article that the company us unfriendly to women - just rambling about her "feelings".
Sorry, I thought you were being coy. To answer your question, we don't refer to all images as photographs. I think this was a joke-within-a-joke on the part of the author.
I also have a Sony Vaio and I got UEFI working. The trick is, it is hardcoded to load the bootloader from /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi - it does not respect the EFI boot menu.

Linux is installing its UEFI bootloader to someplace like /EFI/debian/grubx64.efi. Move that file to /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi and it will boot GRUB. You can chainload the Windows bootloader from GRUB.
If you'd like MIT students who were impacted by the administration's callous lack of support, consider:

- the MBTA "hackers", 2008: http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/mbta-suit-against-mit...

- Star Simpson, 2007: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2...

- Ryan McKinley's "Government Information Awareness", 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Information_Awarene...

- Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, 2002, XBox hacker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Huang

- Ladyada, 2002: http://www.ladyada.net/pub/research.html

- David LaMacchia, 1994: http://cd.textfiles.com/group42/WAREZ/LAMACCHI.HTM

And these are only a few cases that made headlines; there are many additional controversies handled more quietly. The point remains that the MIT General Counsel's office exists to protect the institute, not the students, even while MIT's culture rewards innovative, boundary-pushing work.

The point at issue here is that MIT needs a legal support structure for such students commensurate with its encouragement of the work.
If you do a little research about how things work out for whistle blowers you might not be quite as confident about what a great deal this is for her.
All light is made of photons. I think you mean "ionizing radiation", which includes gamma rays (photons), as well as alpha particles, beta particles, neutrons, etc.

I concur with Dylan16807; your physical model makes no sense. It means that viruses would be killed if a gamma ray sneezed nearby, and it doesn't explain D. radiodurans survivability.

It's likely going to be a function of DNA size, ability to repair DNA, redundancy in the DNA, and lack of easily induced damaging side effects. None of which are strongly correlated to cell volume.
What seed box provider + private torrent sites do you use? I used to be a big fan of demonoid or waffles. But have been out of it for so long that I no longer have an "ins".
I am forced to dual boot because my colleagues use Skype. Luckily, my laptop has a mSata slot , so a 128 Gb card dedicated to Linux. Never been an issue with dual booting my Thinkpad.
I tried your project and found a bug. When a task starts on one day, and finishes on the next, the total time reported is negative.

for instance:

23:34, task started
00:09, task done
expected time spent: 35 mins
reported time spent: -24 mins

Aside from this bug, I really like it and plan on using it.
Regarding conversation number 3. Why give a hostile employee time to retaliate? Just give them the choice of resigning or being fired, but make both effective immediately.

GOT fans will remember Ned Stark made a similar mistake.
Isn't that why they used the word "also"?
IAma former employee of a jail where I watched inmates be beat for fun
I tested this a while ago by auto-generating websites with millions of keywords. Surprisingly, I was able to get the websites ranked for many long tail keywords and it started to bring over 100,000 visitors per day.

Though it didn't last very long, Google penalized the websites after couple months. I did it for testing, but it could be an effective strategy for spammers who could rinse, repeat and scale.

There are many websites like that still ranking and generating traffic; some of them have Alexa rank below 1000.
The chain of events did not start with 'her deciding to go public.'
In fact neither of us know what started this ugly mess. But one thing we do know is that it started long before she went public. For example, the actions of the founder's wife were long before, as were many other hostile acts that have been alleged.
Well I agree with that :)
The entire article is a bunch of moonbattery. Such a failed and vapid critique of the original.
I use this Chrome extension to always open NYT links in porn mode:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghost-incognito/ge...
Sure. But the app seems to be focused on streaming very popular torrents, which means that generally all pieces will be available enough.

Also, all Popcorntime clients want the same blocks first, meaning they will both need and seed the first blocks more. So they do not cause an imbalance, as long as there are always some peers that have the full movie.
Calorie counting + weekly weigh-ins. Keeping a food diary, journaling or full-on counting is repeatedly shown to be among the best long-term weight loss and maintenance. It does not require substantial alteration to the diet, just portions. There are no prohibitions and you can eat out and about with your social groups as normal, making compliance pretty high. For most people, exercise is useless for weight loss[1]. The educational impact of complying with a calorie counting program can have lasting effects on food choices even if the person stops adhering to the program as rigorously. Example: a bowl of strawberries has fewer calories than a slice of cheese. If you get in the right mindset of optimizing the 'yum' and the fullness per calorie, it impacts you even on 'cheat' days.

1: It is incredibly easy to out-eat any moderate exercise regime; a single soda can undo a half hour of running. I suspect that most people who are in the obese and overweight zones do not have the cardiovascular or muscular fitness to make any meaningful dent in their caloric budget. That being said, fitness is important for general health and there is definitely a range of BF% where exercise goes from inconsequential to critical for body composition purposes.

Calories in / calories out is NOT the whole story. But it is enough of the story and compliance is easy enough that it has the best results in the long term.
Were these bugs discovered during the contest, or were part or all of the exploits discovered beforehand?
Except for linux :P

I kid, of course. Last I heard they don't even target it in the competition. But maybe neither do hackers ;)
It's a tough scenario. One of the first big managerial problems I had to face was when I was still a snot-nosed twentysomething working at a Fortune 100. I came back from lunch and was pulled into another director's office, who quietly told me that two of my employees had spent the last hour screaming at each other in the hallways and would I make sure they "stopped scaring the goddamned children." Turned out they had been secretly dating for the past six months, something that I was totally ignorant of. The relationship crashed, then burned, and then I had two senior-level sysadmins (each about 10-15 years my elders) who refused to work with each other. Even though we eventually worked through the professional problems (didn't realize that couples' counseling was going to be part of my ambit), they ended up with a lot of bruised feelings and I (for good reason) permanently lost a lot of political capital.

On the other hand, there are plenty of people who can be in a relationship while working with each other. Hard cases make for bad law, and I'm uncomfortable with blanket proclamations against relationships at work, as long as two people at different levels along the same management line aren't seeing each other.
It's a betting game, upheld by the assumption that as bad as it is, it is the best method we've got to determine the 'value' of a thing (you reach some interesting philosophical questions very quickly this way).

John C. Bogle has written angrily at length about this many times in the past. I don't know enough to say whether I agree with him or not, but "The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism" was a fun read. He basically pushes forward his thesis that many problems related to corporations and corruption have to do with a transition from "shareholder capitalism" to "manager capitalism".

I read it so long ago that I'm distorting things, but I will always remember that it was way better than the stupid title made it seem.
OP here. X1 or X220 would be ideal machines if Lenovo engineers used their brains.

The X220 was really good. The only thing it needed was a better screen, a decent trackpad, and a slightly less noisy fan.

It got all those improvements, but they messed up with the case, introduced a ULV processor, limited the amount of RAM and upgradeability, botched the keyboard, and many more things.
Where do you get "most people" from? I'm not saying you're wrong, but for example I don't even try to scam paywall sites by trying to get in, it is an imprisonable crime[1] to do so in most jurisdictions, I just close the window.

[1] http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/text.jsp?file_id=295166 Article 11, http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&trea... The signing parties.
Scalability and interactivity, which is both not used here.
I take it you didn't read the Smithsonian article? The second paragraph says:

> Birds around Chernobyl have significantly smaller brains that those living in non-radiation poisoned areas; trees there grow slower; and fewer spiders and insects—including bees, butterflies and grasshoppers—live there.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disast... , which also points out that "[s]ome plants and animals have been able to adapt to the increased radiation levels present in and around Chernobyl", but then only lists the Arabidopsis plant.

There is more animal diversity there now than before, but that can also be attributed to it being more like a wildlife sanctuary.
Is Incubating The Right Move For Your Startup?
Designing for Gullible
> Re objectification: couples get advice from their life partners. That doesn't mean this is their life partners only goal.

Women objectification is about treating a woman like an object, a belonging, a resource.

As it turns out, the person writing the parent comment defined a founder's wife as "one of your most valuable business resources". That person should have said, "some of your most valuable business insights will come from your wife". It wouldn't be objectification, but it would still establish differences between the sexes based on anecdotal experience.

Assuming unproven differences between the sexes to be true has always been ethically borderline from a scientific perspective. From a social perspective, it artificially deters persons of each sex from doing something which is then implicitly considered "unnatural" for them.
Well, there's always capital gains when you sell. I'd say investors aren't buying Google stock because they want to control the company, they're buying Google stock because the people who do control the company are doing a good job.
Upon reading the replies on Twitter, it looks to be an issue with LastPass
Yes, there's a link to that at the bottom of the original link. There's also a comment: "if you examine it carefully I think you will see that it actually does little but evade the issue." I found that to be true.
Who keeps deleting these?
Cathy Bessant, the English major turned "tech-exec" who once said "I frequently design datacenter structures on the back of a napkin—much to the horror of my team" (http://www.waterstechnology.com/waters/feature/2076214/bank-...) is suddenly going to go after tech-talent? Har Har.
In the past 5 years, tech wages have only gone in one direction at the Bank: down. There is no technical talent in management whatsoever (and no technical career path). Don't believe me? If you ever interview there, ask to speak with your hiring boss's boss. See how technical they are. You will not find tech talent more than one level deep in management.

This is a company that hired an Oceanographer (http://www.rubinworldwide.com/team.php) to tell them how they are spending too much on IT, and are dumb enough to believe it. As Steve Jobs said, once you compete on price (instead of value) you have already lost. Well, at the Bank it's just cut, cut, cut. No one Sr in IT appreciates or understands enough about technology to actually communicate its value to the business. This is a company in its death throes - the management is just too ignorant to recognize it.
fantastic standalone app. I created something similar, a simple movie torrent search engine: http://www.moviemagnet.net I hope people are not discouraged by Popcorn's exit, since torrent based applications should force the issue, old media companies to change their archaic distribution models.
Manassas is an example of white flight (which is a big theme of the communities in NoVA period). Mike O'Meara refers to it as "deviltown" for a reason: it's pretty much been abandoned by its residents.

Though many communities in that region suffer from it, I think Manassas has had very very bad urban planning. Very little is walkable, there's no character to the town, and you see very little green space. It's a case of suburban decay.
Really recommend Trello for a day to day work to do list.

You can drag cards between lists (To Do, Doing, Done) (feels nice to drag items to the "Done" pile and build a long column), has check-lists in cards for sub tasks, and works everywhere.
Yeah, I think this is the interesting part, it wasn't detected by the "gravity wave detectors" but by something else.

I think that they can point the source because the effects they detected means it could have only come from one place.
My new-age VT-100 PC is still a general purpose computer, and if I want to use it as such I should be able to. I see the advantage of shipping it as a VT-100, but I don't see any advantage in blocking power users from unlocking its full potential.

Nobody wants to work on hobby projects that have no chance of ever running on real hardware. What's the point then? Even if you'll never get to run your hobby OS on real hardware, that possibility still serves to motivate the developer. Nobody likes to work on things they know beforehand nobody will ever use for anything.

As an example, coding a toy shell in JavaScript that runs in a web browser and prints some text to a canvas is not the same as coding a toy shell that can touch the actual file system and be used for real work.

Life is too short to write toy software for emulators, I want to write software that people use and get something out of. I'm an engineer, if I buy a computer it's because I want to make cool things with it and for it, not because I want a dumb terminal to connect to some rented server.
If you're exposing your Ruby to the internet -- as in building web apps with it -- you should strongly consider not using your distribution's Ruby, and relying on a tool that will allow you to install new releases more quickly. There have been some pretty important CVEs issued over the last couple of years. Not having the ability to quickly update, test, and deploy a new interpreter version is a pretty significant liability.
So, in essence, they have worked out a way to be paid in stock shares instead of currency?
Great point.

The article's example of the Apple store as a model of a retailer that "just plunks a glass cube on busy shopping streets" is pretty clueless. Most Apple stores are in malls!

I think the issue with Malls is that in 1980-something, your choices were dying downtowns, department stores or the Sears/LL Bean/whatever catalog. For food it was local places, McDonalds/Burger King/Wendy's. The mall offered more choice for food and retail.

Nowadays, the traditional mall retailers are all consolidated and offer similar stuff. Why hang out in a food court when you have a dozen fast casual restaurant choices outside the mall?
I think you are missing the point as well. People will not start watching movie at the same time. When one person is almost done another just begins the movie, thus as long as there are few initial seeds and healthy interest in the movie it does not matter which order chunks will be downloaded.
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> genuinely helpful

As in, sit across from someone you don't like and glare at them all day?
It provides a different social perception too.

In your 20s its fine, put off getting married, but the 40 something guy who introduces you to his girlfriend sends a totally different signal than someone who introduces you to his wife (and vice versa if the genders are swapped). It says you're noncommittal, bad at relationships, maybe previously divorced, constantly shopping around, maybe breached partners trust repeatedly, whatever, take your pick. What it never says when someone is judging your book by its cover though is "this is just some guy who's been hedging against marital risk for a couple decades", any other snap judgement requires the person know you better.
Houston is a weird mix of both, perhaps as a result of its impressive sprawl. There are dozens of abandoned malls, and dozens of thriving ones. Perhaps land is so cheap that it's just easier to build a new one than to renovate an older one. Gives a weird feeling: by the numbers Houston's economy is booming, but experientially it feels sort of post-industrial, with abandoned properties dotting the landscape.
I suppose. This is true for more than just Bittorrent use, though.

If you live in the any country that closely monitors (or has industry-rights organizations that monitor) its citizens' internet activity, then immediately, without fail, go pay the $5/mo or whatever to get a tiny little server somewhere nicer!

You can:

• set your server up as a seedbox

• set up OpenVPN on it (which has been beautifully simplified by Docker-containerization; no need to create and forward an extra bridge interface)

• run an MTA daemon, so you can actually obey the semantics of SMTP (mail is supposed to arrive in your own possession before it's considered "delivered", etc.)

• run an IRC bouncer, or whatever the modern IM-network equivalent of that is (is there one? we've regressed, if not)

• run a web server, e.g. nginx, with (authenticated) WebDAV support enabled, and thus have a place to push arbitrary temporary files when you want to share them by URL

Or, in short, you can fully participate in the Internet.

Disclosure: I'm working on a business in this space. :)
Also maybe you in the us have netflix

Here in eu I still have nothing similar to a legal film streaming service.
NOTHING.
The NYT allows you to view up to 20 (I think - not sure of number, could be 10) stories per month for free. So you don't have to scam the paywall. And, I don't think if this is still the case, but. . .when the paywall was first erected, if you were directed to the NYT from another site, the story you accessed did not count against your free monthly quota.

The sites that I skip are those that require that I register before even reading an article.
Makes sense, otherwise this is a very easy way for spiders to realize they're in a trap. I'm pretty sure Google tests bogus query strings to see what the 404 page looks like.
Cash has the same problem, which is why banks and credit cards exist. There's no reason your bank account and your VISA card couldn't be denominated in Bitcoins, affording you exactly the same protections you have now.

You might lose $100 out of your smartphone wallet every now and then. But that will hopefully be rare.
As Deadly as a DDoS: ICANN Unleashes the Whois Accuracy Program
I have a hypothesis but it's probably bullshit.

If
a) Horvath had felt for some time that she was in a hostile work environment and that she was being subjected to pressures that a male employee would not have to endure (ie sexist discrimination, and
b) the company senior management / founder(s) felt that there was a risk that she was going to leave and go public with her allegations of sexism, then
c) it makes a twisted kind of sense that the founder would send his wife to go talk to Horvath to try to negotiate some kind of truce, make her happy. The (unfortunate) logic being that a woman to woman communication might be better for defusing Horvath's concerns.
d) unfortunately the wife, whilst female, handled it clumsily and make matters worse...and as the situation deteriorated she played an increasingly crazy and (apparently) unmanaged role. For all we know she had represented to her founder husband that she could handle it and panicked when things started going downhill.
e) etc etc

Like I said, it's probably bullshit...
Someone at HN who's butthurt about Marco trolling them.
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No, it’s “X isn’t really Y, despite what we say, and it’s actually harmful, so let’s stop reinforcing problems by pretending that it is Y”. As being discussed elsewhere in this thread, the problem with meritocracy is that it’s dependent on value judgements by those already in power. Simply, it is a fine ideal, but in practice it is unachievable, utopic. Establishing an organization or community as “meritocratic” means ignoring the role of existing dynamics.
The question specifically says:

"Although it's easy to bypass some of these 'paywalls', it would be kind of unfair to these companies."