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I am an author of a library [1] that does this. I understand the what the OP is talking about and agree with it, but like anything for me the rule is "(1) Don't do dangerous behavior X. (2) If you are an expert, do dangerous behavior X sparingly and with caution."

Mind you, my library does not connect to a database, or any such crazy thing. It simply creates a singleton which is then useful throughout your application. There would be very few cases where you would not want that singleton and you would want your own instance. If so, you are free to completely ignore the created singleton and make your own instance. The creation process is also idempotent, except the data you put into that singleton; that data is a special case: it is your explicit responsibility to namespace it, which is indeed the whole point of this library. I feel pretty good about this thing.

[1] https://github.com/ipartola/groper
"She" doesn't look like a girl or even female to me. "She" looks like a "he" masquerading as a female.
Or you make a Jug Handle turn.
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I submitted to Y Combinator this idea before they created their app. Of course, the application failed.
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If I could run this on a linux desktop, it would be a no brainer. But if I have to buy and configure a windows or mac license in addition, its less compelling as a desktop replacement. Plus I would really like to see some 4 or 8 core machines with 16 Gb ram. That said I have been wanting this for 20 years...
Tangentially, when I visited Melbourne a few years ago, I left my backpack, with my laptop, phone, and accessories on the tram on a Saturday morning. When the lost & found office opened Monday morning, the bag had been turned in, complete and intact.

I wish I knew who turned it in, so I could've shouted them a pint or whatever.
Ok, how many of us reading this are high school dropouts?
I was on my 6th job by age 22, but the first 5 were a string of minimum wage stints.
if you are in a low crime area, they should be dropping it off whether your are home or not like they always did for me (fedex, ups and usps).
I don't understand how uniformity of behavior is inherently anti-theft. These still seem like unrelated things.
I submitted to Y Combinator this idea before they created their app. Of course, the application failed.
Unfortunately, it's too late for OP, but I hear Undercover works well for recovering stolen Macs:

http://orbicule.com/undercover/mac/
Actually if you read the entire article it addresses the fact that while UPS finds most left turns inefficient there are some instances where their routing software recommends a left turn.
Leaving a bag in an airport lounge seems like it's likely to trigger a big security alert?
Why would he go to jail? The guy's friend asked for the pentest. There was no "unauthorized access" involved here.
Yeah, I was confused too. "What does an instruction set have to do with a web technology?".

But I don't think it should get renamed, it should pretty easy to differentiate between "Streaming SIMD Extensions" and "Server-sent events" according to the context (I didn't because I've never heard of the term "Server-sent events" before of this post)
When you apply for a job companies do background checks. Not many business want to hire a thief. It tends to eat into the profits.
Why was the thief at least a third bigger than the woman?
A better solution still is just to keep your programs in your head. That you wouldn't even be out the $200.
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You raise a good counterpoint. Perhaps it's less to do with analogy and more to do with empathy. Which is again a subjective appraisal of the topic.
just use facebook facial recognition technology, they can easily find her
This is an interesting meta-analysis of some of the studies done on the efficacy of vitamins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mDrAQi1SwU (Presentation by Dr. Jeffrey Tice of the University of California).

He covers vitamins A, E, and C around 18 minutes into the presentation.
> If they don't, then there is the author's big problem

I don't think that is a valid simplification. He is allowed to disagree with the lawsuit but also point out the damage it caused. If you want to call it a strawman that is fine, but it isn't otherwise a flawed argument.

> It results in companies not paying out the full damages due

What other option is there? Unless weird things happened the entirety of the capital invested in the company was consumed.

In theory we could build a way to say "you are liable for your investment plus X%" but how do you measure X%? And without some kind of limit the current capital investment strategy becomes difficult to maintain.
Thank you for asking this question. I think it crosses everybody's mind at some point. I've learned a lot reading this. Im in my early 30's. I think the best thing to do try to grow within your current company. I think of the story of oscar mayer when he walked into a meat packing company make his company. people wonder what if he would have walked into an icecream shop or a clothing chain. Perhaps now oscar mayer's would be a huge icecream company or clothing chain. Curiosity and a little creativity can go long way but nothing replaces hard work when talking about dream jobs.
So, given that this involves rounding errors in solutions to equations it is only an approximate solution. A solution with fuzz. Is it possible to prove that each point of "contact" is exactly coincident? Or to prove that exact coincidence is not possible. There seems to be room for deeper work on this problem.
If your profits will increase after paying a new hire, then absolutely, positively, go for it while you can. It is so difficult to work yourself into your current position that you must maximize your return while there.

Also, if you have more business than you can handle, then the only certainty on your decision tree right now is that you will lose revenue if you don't hire someone to help. Google may hose you (and that may even be likely, at some point) and you may be able to find alternate traffic streams, but they are not certain occurrences, nor is the timing of any of these scenarios (including a Google hosing).

And, of course, if you get help then it may free up some of your time to pursue the other streams without impacting your current revenue.

If you can mitigate your hiring risks by offering 1099 or contract-to-hire, or otherwise, that may be prudent.

But, again, you gotta' maximize your profit while you can. Congrats on having a "good problem" and best of luck!
I still leave my bicycle unlocked even though I've had one stolen.

The bike cost $30. If I get one stolen every 10 years, I figure I'm paying $3 / year for the convenience of not having to bother with locking or carrying a key.
Inside a first class lounge, especially in international terminals, people leave their carryon bags at their seats all the time (getting up to the bar, food, whatever).

(I love that I basically pay cheapest coach fares, and through gaming FF programs and credit cards, am either in the business/first cabin, or at least have lounge access. It's a really fun game.)
I couldn't ever get it to compile, but I haven't tried in a while. I don't actually need it much these days as I'm using Postgres for most things.

I'm sure there are other packages that are similar: not so easy to get working with pip but not impossible.
Except my old mailman who grew up in San Francisco in the late 40s told me that nobody in his multistory apartment building when he was a kid ever locked their doors even if they went out of town. I'm not sure what the difference is but it's not authoritarianism.
Cyclist deaths get a lot more attention that purely automobile deaths, because they are so rare, which makes them seem vastly more common than they are.

In fact, in 2013 there were 14 cyclist deaths in London. 6 of those were in a two-week period in November. That was shocking enough that there was political attention and increased police enforcement around intersections. I'm sure also increased media coverage.

9 of those deaths were from lorries, as you said. I'm sure the majority are also at intersections, as you said, since that's where most cyclists get hit by motor vehicles.
I would advise against meeting sellers at their homes (at least in high crime areas). My father has represented several criminals who lured people to their apartment complexes with fictitious Craigslist ads for iPhones and robbed them at gunpoint. I always insist on meeting at a public place.
I believe the simplest explanation is that while all you need is a preponderance of evidence to sue in civil court, you need beyond a reasonable doubt in criminal court which is what is required to pierce the veil of the corporation.

Put another way, if I prove in a civil suit that you wronged me, that is not automatically enough proof to go after you criminally (which is likely what most people believe).
When I initially saw your post, I thought that Denmark was driving on the left... but then I realized that much less countries then I initially thought are driving on the left side.
Good luck finding the thief! One thing I do, that is not always helpful (if the thief formats the computer it's useless) is that I install prey on my laptop. (preyproject.com)
Or it could be a sign that the lack of male teachers in our primary education system somehow has an effect on male student performance? Primary school teachers used to be mostly male so the teacher gender balance has clearly changed over time, but it seems incredibly hard to study this subject.

Personally I think it is important for our society that kids get more exposure to male role-models and caretakers.
I'd say more like 7 and 3 than 3 and 7. Still, the violin has always seemed strange to me. It doesn't help at all with the established 12-tone scale, or with polyphony or chords, and it sounds unbearable in a beginner's hands. Sadistic parents allocate about as much skill to it as to the piano, but it just seems like a bad instrument for producing western music.
Is $5 typical for beer served at a dive bar in NYC?
If you have the my UPS app they will send you a push notification to your phone. It is possible to reroute it with the app, but I've never needed to; since the UPS driver will most likely just leave it.

In my experience, only freight companies call ahead.
The protocol in Japan is to leave your stuff at the table and go take your dump. In fact, it's protocol that when you enter a coffeeshop (starbucks, mc donalds, etc.), first find out if there is a free seat. It could be on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd floor. Leave your stuff there to claim the seat. Then go back to the 1st floor counter, order and get your drinks/food, wait to receive them, walk back to your stuff.

The point you should get from this is that PEOPLE IN YOUR COUNTRY SUCK AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU LIVE IN SUCH A SHITTY CULTURE AND THAT YOU TAKE IT FOR GRANTED THAT YOU HAVE TO PROTECT YOUR STUFF BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL STEAL IT.

After living in a country with very little violence, a country where you don't have to pull your car radio out of your car, where you don't have worry about what alleys you walk down, a country where if you leave your bags or wallet on a train you'll get them back, I was very ashamed of my own country, the USA, where I used to think I was safe but in reality I'd just learned to avoid the ever present danger rather than do something to fix it.

Now comes all the replies telling me how much Japan sucks in other ways. That's not the point.
London has lost thus element of civil society
Limited liability isn't an entitlement for anyone except maybe managers.

Employees that don't directly do something shouldn't be liable, going bankrupt because you worked at a bank and did nothing wrong is silly.

Investors are actually personally liable, just their liability is only their capital investment and is weirdly assignable, they aren't sued directly but instead their investment becomes worth less.

Managers are hard to pin the blame on in big companies, but this is definitely a grey area.
This was an amusing read. I'd not heard of using DRAMs as image sensors, but I had discovered that EPROMs sort-of worked as image sensors. Back in the 80s I was writing video poker machine games. 6502 running at 700KHz clock rate, very simple boards using interleaved video/CPU memory access, and all graphics done via 8x8pixel sprites, that were programmed in EPROMs. One day I noticed that bright sunlight on a sprite EPROM (no cover label) produced on-screen garbage. With a bit of experimenting, I found I could get a fairly decent image into the screen. Wrote a program to generate an index mapping into the game screen RAM, so the sprite EPROM was mapping to the screen 'about right', then found that by programming all 1 (or 0, I forget now) into the EPROM then partially erasing it, I could get it quite sensitive to light. I only tried hand holding assorted crappy lenses in front of the EPROM window, and there were all sorts of optical and electrical and geometrical artifacts. But it kind of worked. Pity I have no photographs of those experiments. Didn't consider it anything more than a silly amusement. Especially since I already had a nice B&W PAL video camera.
SSE ?
Generally my machines are full-disk-crypto, locked firmware, etc., so if one fell into random-criminal hands, it wouldn't be that horrible from an information-security perspective. Replacing a $3-4k laptop, $1-2k in random accessories in the bag, etc especially while on a trip would actually be quite painful, though. Single-round stolen laptop is probably survivable, just expensive and inconvenient.

In international travel, the other thing I'm afraid of is surreptitious physical tampering of the machine itself by someone like the MSS, with it being returned to me for future use. i.e. someone adding a hw keylogger, or other modifications. I'm not particularly concerned about MSS doing this to me in the US, but if I were on a business trip in China, it would be top-of-mind, and I'd never let non-tamper-evident hardware out of my direct control. I don't leave laptops in hotel rooms in China; despite having some cool technology to detect tampering, it's not foolproof, and I'd prefer defense-in-depth. I also tend to use throwaway equipment (not my new rMBP) when going to a place like China, and will decommission it afterward (pull the drive, put a new drive in, eBay it).

It's more of a pain now that I'm doing hardware stuff with prototypes. I'm working on secure bootloading as a feature, but even with that, I want to keep the physical design safe before production. Luckily they're pocket-sized.
I don't see how what you are saying has to do with limited liability.
People with Alzheimer's can't help stealing things?
I think that's changing with the proliferation of cameras and tracking mechanisms. Seems a good chance this person will get caught. Worth it?
If you remove the constraint "in a web browser" then there is nothing here at all to talk about. Making an acronym for stuff people have been doing routinely since the 1970s is kind of weird. This is the problem with web programmers.
It's a sweeping, evidence-free generalization nonetheless – business people in tech get no respect? Really now? If you list the most well-known names I would bet ~0% of them are purely technical
I really tried hard to enjoy mathematics...but I never got to the point of ever seeing it as beautiful. I've seen some code or algorithms I thought were beautiful from time to time.

I love art, prose, music...I can frisson, mostly to music, but sometimes to other mediums. I tend to think visually, finding it easier to put a sequence of pictures together to describe what I want to say rather than words. People comment to me that my replies in email are frequently just a link to a relevant picture.

Strangely, I don't enjoy most poetry or music that requires listening to the lyrics to enjoy (songs with lots of humorous lyrics almost always fall flat with me). I did fine with Mathematics in school, studied hard, good grades, but it never really "sung" to me. I never enjoyed it beyond the natural joy one gets when developing a skill. But I guess I never really got to the point where it was speaking to me so I could reach this kind of enjoyment.

I can sit there are appreciate certain cool things. Euler's given in the article provokes some fascination...but beyond being a lucky coincidence it doesn't really stir anything in me.

This kind of makes me sad.
Personally (and I expect this to be controversial here) I think that we should stop treating corporations as different liability-wise from limited partnerships in terms of what owners and managers can be held liable for. The problem is not really limited liability for passive owners. Why should a passive investor have more liability than a lender? The problem is that we provide even more limitations in some areas (like product liability) exclusively to the corporate form.

So suppose a company dumps toxic waste into a river. I think we should be able to accept the following two propositions:

1. The company's investors themselves, absent any part in this decision on their part, should be liable only to the extent of their investment.

2. The folks who signed off on the decision should be personally liable for the rest.

That's not far from the situation today. The problem really are all the exceptions to this approach (product liability for example) and the fact that nobody actually sues individuals for their personal parts in such things.

So let's have a simple rule: There should be no difference in liability between an unlimited partner and a corporate executive for decisions actually made under their watch. That preserves corporate limited liability, but also limits it appropriately.
Doesn't seem as big a change as what Ajax was back when. Before Ajax there was no async interaction from the browser to the webserver. SSE is just another way to do async, except it's now push instead of pull...
That space used to house my pet boutique Cheeko B. Now it's "Joy's Place". Not sure why victim did t mention the cafe name.
I checked the video and it get a pretty clear view of her face. I wonder if I would be possible to upload a screenshot to Facebook and see if it can auto tag her (Facebook brought back facial recognition right?)
This post should be flagged. All I see is ppl getting downvote. There is nothing substantial to discuss.
Or in other words "You can't just extrapolate random variables into the future, unless it's clearly discrimination"
That chart is 18 months old. FreeBSD 10 got a number of SMP-related improvements (and some for ZFS as well, if I'm not mistaken). It'd be interesting to see an up-to-date comparison with FreeBSD 10 (and maybe 11-CURRENT), DragonFlyBSD 3.6, and NetBSD 6.1 (and maybe a couple of Linux distros for good measure).
Because under limited liability, the owners would lose their equity. Under too big to fail, the owners are not liable at all. I.e. for really big businesses, we have gone from limited liability to no liability.
At least in NYC, they don't ban left turns, but the majority of streets are one-way; and they alternate street by street (or avenue by avenue). So you often need to put together 3 rights to make the left. There are exceptions (e.g., 42nd, 34th, and 23rd are all two way streets); but not too many.
I tried to read the article on my iPhone, but can't get past the sign up pop up on my iPhone.
What are optional bike lanes and how do they differ from non-optional bike lanes?
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I believe that there was a mathematical proof published along with the news.
I am not particularly familiar with phys.org. Briefly scanning it, it looks pretty normal.

Most likely it's just someone stepping outside their wheelhouse. I mean, I trust PZ on biology, but I wouldn't incredulously accept legal advice from him. So, maybe reliable for physics/space, but unreliable for biology is my guess?
Yep, Japan has no innovation and no entrepreneurship :rolleyes:

I guess all those famous Japanese brands just some how happened without any entrepreneurship and their products happened without any innovation.

Sorry, I didn't mean for this to be snarky but seriously... Your excuses are BS and don't live up to any scrutiny. It's not an either/or thing.
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There are a bunch of cases of amateurs who do this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2081590/Man-arrested... http://www.ktbs.com/story/22346692/man-accused-of-trying-to-...

I'm more used to people just putting car bombs on the vehicles, though.

You should be good with the e-brakes, and should never 100% depend on your primary brakes when driving, but in practice I'm sure a lot of people get into situations where they wouldn't know to switch to e-brake if the main brakes failed, or wouldn't have time. The biggest risk to the assassin is that car accidents in modern cars just aren't that fatal -- you can hit another car head-on at 60mph and, with seatbelts, non-offset crash, airbags, etc., either walk away or at least survive at a hospital. It also leaves enough forensic evidence, especially if the driver survives and reports "my brakes just didn't work!" that it wouldn't be surreptitious.

A bomb isn't likely to be taken as an accident, either, but is at least likely to be effective.
It's so weird when people look out for each other. It's like they're actually decent human beings or something!
Please don't submit purely political articles, except in the rare case where they contain something of significant intellectual interest. This one doesn't, so it shouldn't have been submitted.
I've come to this cafe a few times. It's Joy's Place on Post St. in the Tenderloin/Tendernob. I think I've also seen the victim of the theft there a few times (working in XCode). Probably not the first time she's left her stuff and used the bathroom; assuming she felt the cafe was a safe/trusted place to leave items unattended.

In other thoughts: the thief pulls the ultimate scumbag move and asks for someone to watch her purse whilst she uses the bathroom. Then steals from someone else in the bathroom. Always keep your valuables attended!
It's not hard. I have (had?) a client for a while who had a pretty questionable past. He came in to our shop one day with a shiny new laptop, needing the password cracked on it and a new account set up. He said a friend gave it to him but forgot to give him the password. All my alarm bells went right off and I said, sure, and then checked in to it.

I found some of the PO's personal information on the laptop. I called the local police department, and they weren't interested, they said to call the police department where it was (edit: maybe) stolen. I called that police department, they said they'd check their reports and call me back.

I called back the next day, same thing. Second day, same thing. Third day, same thing, so I called my local police again to see if they could speed things up. Still not interested.

All in all, we held on to it for a week before finally returning it to him.

I really hated to do that. I've had my stuff stolen before too, one of my friends had her laptop stolen. It sucks, a lot. I really wanted to at least make sure it hadn't been reported lost or stolen. But all of the authorities involved were totally uninterested, and I didn't feel right about doubting my customer enough to contact the PO directly, either.