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for photos someone has done a site for relatively inexpensive, high quality custom built frames in the US. Mostly customizable and an example of a kludgy gui from yesteryear, that could easily be improved. They did put a youtube video on how to order on the front page.

I have no affiliation, but have bought frames there.

http://www.framedestination.com/
If you are a bank, and you haven't fix one of the worst and widest reaching security holes in years by now.. well. Criminal negligence would be an appropriate description.
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Is there any screenshot or publicly accesible demo ? The linked page doesn't give much information
There have have few proposals that give blanket approval for spouses of H1-B: The Senate bill of 2013 does, and few House proposals as well, like the House SKILLS Visa Act (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr2131/text).
Well outside of the first generation of transformers being made up of largely common cars you'd see on American roads and American military equipment (not a lot of Mercedes, Opels, Peugeots in the mix) and taking place in what appeared to be the American South West, desert with small mountains and valleys (with nearby American style suburbs the human characters lived in)....they changed this later, with a larger variety of settings. The Animated movie felt like it took place in somewhere, Europe.

Yeah Bumblebee was a VW Bug and Jazz was a Porsche, but there really weren't any other European cars in the show and both of those cars were pretty common in the U.S. Most importantly, Optimus Prime was very clearly an American style semi-truck rather than a British Lorry or Euro style truck.

I guess I wasn't clear though. Those shows really felt like they were at least reinforcing the prevailing propaganda, at a kids level. Part of this was no doubt marketing savvy rather than Government control, but it really made the propaganda machine pervasive, from young to old, top to bottom.

The modern movies are very much an extension of this. The Autobots are allied with Americans, operating out of a base provided by Americans. There's the occasional Aussie or Brit, but by and large it's all American. The cars are all GM cars. It feels natural because it's just an updating of what the Transformers were already doing.

It was brilliant. It tapped into so many threads floating around during the 80s and just pulled them together. High tech robots that fought evil and turned into blue collar American trucks! Bad ASS.
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I think this is factually incorrect, that trolling was used for the tactic of milking patents for financial extortion, separately from the identification of the class of actors known as "non-practicing entities" who, as a class, are known for frequently employing (and being particularly difficult to constrain when they employ) the tactic. But, while the two concepts are related, they aren't identical -- trolling is an action (and trolls are those who engage in that action), while NPEs are a class of entities distinguished independently of their engagement in trolling (despite frequently also engaging in trolling.)

You don't have to be an NPE to be a troll, or vice versa.
Actually, I listened well past 10mins, but then the Oasis cover triggered a previous-life flashback and I had to stop :o)

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I want to dislike Uber and hate surge pricing on stubborn principle, but there are times when there are no substitute goods in NYC. The only reason Uber cars are available is because they've implemented surge pricing.

When it gets busy, cabs dry up and you can easily spend half an hour trying to hail one in Manhattan.

Outer boroughs have less hailable cab activity overall, and using a credit card with car services is often unpredictable and tedious.

Hailo won't help you if all the cabs have a fare or if there are no cabs around at all.
because the students couldn't shop there if they played rock music.

In the days when car radios had dial pointers, BJU had a teacher whose job it was to go through the commuting student parking lot each day and issue demerits to those whose radio was tuned to the local rock station -- AM 1440.

Yeah, they finally racially integrated about ten, fifteen years ago. The feds put a lot of pressure on them, and their excuse of "We're integrated - we have two black students" didn't fly (obviously).
There are also people who browse HN who are not programmers, like myself (a mechanical engineer). I may not read all of the same posts as programmers, but the "intellectually stimulating" guideline for news posts & the overall level of discussion here seem to make it worth my while
>What this means is that, as a first approximation, it is Uber that sets the price, not "the market" (whatever that is).

The market is the aggregate of all other people providing a similar service. Taxi companies, other Uber-like services, are all competing for the same consumers.

If Uber is setting its prices too high, they'll lose customers to the aforementioned competitors and they'll potentially earn less money if the higher price doesn't offset the drop in customers. That's what people mean when they say "the market sets the price".

I'm sorry, it just sounds like you're giving a very cliched "the market doesn't exist" response in a situation where it just doesn't apply at all. This is a market with competing firms, not a monopoly.
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Yep, they target a different audience. They're more for beginners who want an apprenticeship in coding. Whereas Hacker Retreat is for intermediate and advanced coders who have their own projects, and want to learn and apply advanced techniques.
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Nitpick: uber is not a german word, if anything its a version of the actual german word über where someone garbled the encoding. It also doesn't mean the best, it simply means above.
So I don't actually know, does Uber flash up a big red warning when you're about to book a cab that your usual $10 ride is going to cost you a lot more? One of the reasons people dislike the surge pricing is that it was taking people by surprise.

If Uber wanted to still please the people with more money than time they could just add a 'bribe' button to add $5 or $10 or more to your ride request so drivers will be more likely to accept that request.
If you donate to charity, Google will match your donation. You can buy a smile on your face for the rest of your life, knowing your exploit build a school in Africa.

If you manage to sell this on the black market, that money is worth half when turned into "legit" money that you can spend. If we leave aside "I'm afraid to get caught" do we mean "caught by the justice system"? What would happen if you sell your exploit to some cybermob and a few days later, some monkey on a typewriter, finds your exact exploit and publishes it online? Not your problem it is worthless now and some mob feels you sold them crappy gear?

As for the moral aspect. Think of anyone you hold in high regard, or have a loving relationship with. Selling an exploit that will be used for harm, might mean harm to those you hold dear.

Then there is this simmering thing in your subconsciousness. Some know how to put out that fire. Others wake up in a sweat years later, after a dream where their exploit is used to find and execute a political dissident. That is: You may very well come to regret a "bad" deed in the future, when your situations and responsibilities change. You won't lie on your death bed and think: "I wish I hadn't build that school, but taken the money and put a down-payment on my new bathroom."
I love coding, but the idea of doing it every day would make me hate it so quickly. I love learning new technologies when I want too, or fiddling with a concept, but I want it to be because I want to do it and not because I feel obligated too. I've put myself in that situation before and all it did was bum me out and push me close to a burnout situation, it works for some people sure but people should be doing things because they enjoy it.

Don't write code every day, do something you want to everyday.
Does weev get any compensation?

I get that he's now retroactively never been convicted of a felony, but he was in prison focused on protecting his corn bread for a couple years. Clearly this affects his employability, as well as his general happiness, having been deprived of both liberty and safe corn bread for a while.

Civil suit against ATT? Wrongful prosecution against the feds?
Myself included. So many interesting topics to touch on when explaining something.

The only reason I ever manage to be short in text form is being able to go back and delete.
Of course. Twitter is more of a media-consumption platform.
I understand small companies caving to the demands of patent trolls, because fighting is more costly than they can afford. I like to think I'd have the courage to act differently, but I understand the rationale. But a behemoth like Microsoft or Sony? Why pay up? You hear the mantra all the time: "We do not negotiate with terrorists."

It seems obvious it's worse for them in the long run, and they can afford to play the long game. Maybe I'm being naive about the costs at stake here.
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The important part you are missing is that there is already a monopoly on cab services precisely because of regulation. Uber is currently disrupting this monopoly. So what you said, but other way round.
There are many assumptions here that you should question.

- That the 1.7 million college grads who are unemployed work in the same field as the H-1B workers. H-1B workers tend to commonly be in engineering / science / medecine / etc. Mostly Bachelors in Science degrees. The most common majors in the US are mostly BA degrees. You can't just plop those people into what they're not trained in.

- That the 1.7 million college grads who are unemployed are unemployed because of H1B workers, and that if those workers weren't there, the unemployed college grads would be employed.

- That any worker can be anywhere at any time. If a company is in North Dakota and needs a programmer, it doesn't matter that there are 1000 unemployed American programmers in New York.

- That when someone graduates, they're able to perform their profession up to the standard required. That they are "good". This should be laughable if you've ever been to any college short of the top 30. 1.7 million graduates don't mean 1.7 million desirable employees.

Unemployment sure is a huge problem, but I think you might be barking up the wrong tree here if you're looking for a cause. Getting rid of the H-1B is not going to help much, from what I can tell.
Some people have no shame.
Wow, I want this, but I can't justify buying another board for at least a few more months :(
I saw it from one of the attorneys on the appeal, and even she was saying she'd have to more fully read it to explain it, so I figured I'd just post.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/appeals-court-rev... is the first article.
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I asked an Uber driver about surge pricing once, and he said that he doesn't see what the surge rate is. He just gets texts from Uber sometimes saying, "demand is off the charts! get out there!" So it's interesting to hear all the almost-dogmatic free market rhetoric from the company, when it seems the reality is that the market isn't very free at all.
The waste problem has been solved. We store it somewhere safe until we decide something better to do with it.

What hasn't been solved is the effects of of all our coal, gas, and oil usage that could be replaced by nuclear power. It makes all the sense in the world to be finding ways we can widely and safely deploy nuclear power worldwide to replace coal and gas power plants. Generating clean electricity is a requisite for wide spread electric or hydrogen cars to stop burning gasoline.

If you believe that coal and gas burning is bad for the environment, then we need nuclear power urgently and widely, energy needs are only going to go up and the only alternative to nuclear is burning more fossil fuels. I find it absolutely absurd that people worry more about nuclear waste than atmosphere pollution currently happening. I think we could store a few hundred years of nuclear waste on Antarctica til technology figures out what to do with it, even if that's just shooting it into the sun. I choose safely storing nuclear waste for the future to deal with over continuing to burn billions of tons of coal and gas each year which is actively killing about a million people per year. (WHO 2008)
Thinking of "this" as simply the app's context helped me make sense of that.
A big part of investment is pattern recognition. Of course they try to understand what people are doing but that only gets you so far. Ideally, you would want to be able to learn from your previous decisions and improve on your process. If you have real data and a way of using it for more insight then you can make much better decisions.
Would be good to add Mozart/Oz.

Dealing with process coordination using the resolution of logical variables gave me a refreshing new perspective. The finite domain constraint system design in Oz is an awesome example of this in action.

An interesting tidbit - the Mozart/Oz team invented "pickling" before it caught on with Python.
The basic twitter system is easy enough. Now store all that data forever, run ads, collect ad stats, collect server stats, collect service stats, do authentication for API calls, etc. etc.

Things add up eventually. Suddenly your 6000 tweets/s has turned into a million op/s fanout.

Problems become a lot less straightforward over network links too.
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Deserving or not the spouse is still there. So why block them from working if they're already there. It's not as fair as giving someone else an h1b but at the same you can't view it as trading one for the other. Instead you're just expanding what an h1b means. Again the person is already there so why not let them be productive...
No, because the judgment was vacated. They didn't grant a judgment of acquittal. So the government is still free to bring the case again.

Still, the prosecution is really unlikely to do so.
perhaps they would like to make surge pricing optional and let passengers agree to pay the surcharge or not..then let drivers choose which passengers to pick up..
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Yep, I was just hassling our billing SaaS provider about this, but then I looked into their SSL vendor heartbleed post, and their customers mention this in the comments:

http://blog.digicert.com/2014/04/heartbleed-openssl-fix/

Excerpt: "Also, Busy IT Guy is right; it's a little disheartening to be listed as Unsafe after having done all the right things, just because the issue date didn’t get updated."
It's actually quite well-written. I was afraid of the same thing, but found the document quite easy to understand.
For the rainy season around here (FL,) I got a cheap set of bearings and put some lithium grease in them to keep the water out. The grease will eventually wear the bearings down but it definitely keeps them from rusting, and they actually get a bit of vibration dampening out of it, which is nice on our gravelly-textured roads.

Stopping distance would be the real problem for an electric board in the rain, though.
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You're almost right, but the judgment was vacated, so the prosecutors could bring it again. They won't, though.
Or, if you use existing parsers in a language like Haskell, you know parsing is supposed to be a pure function. If parsing suddenly requires IO effects, you can be suspicious and try to figure out what is going on.
Author here. It worked for us, but I don't know if it works across the board. We looked for any angle to pitch as an exclusive as well.
> To me at least, selling this on the black market poses no moral questions

That's probably a reflection of your own morals. There are millions of people that could be affected by this bug, so I'm not sure how there isn't a moral question here.
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Exactly, doesn't matter if someone tweets or not. Its the active user that matters..
A similar policy at Zappos was discussed a few years ago on the Freakonomics podcast. Here's the transcript:

http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quitting-fu...
You can, but not with vector. Use valarray if you need to perform those kinds of computations.
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... in an alternate (fantasy) world where the dwarves didn't hoard the reclaimed treasures and where everyone was involved in a market economy.
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This is why most CDNs like Akamai don't allow illegal sites to use their service. You have a shared-destiny with all their other customers. If someone goes after a site like Rescator for selling credit cards online or blocks 4chan for child-porn, your site can be affected because it's served from the same Cloudflare network.

A few CDN's have build entirely separate networks with a different ASN's for keeping their more questionable content away from the bulk of their customers. I've not checked if Cloudflare have done this or not, but it would make a lot of sense. This segmentation can really help. For example, a bunch of hacker groups use Cloudflare and by putting them all on the same IPs, you can magically stop them from DDOS'ing each other.
But it is for warehouse workers employed by Amazon - which isn't many of them.
I'm a 20 year C programmer finally making the transition to C++ and as far as I can tell the main advantages C has left are:
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You're right Google should pay out 100k for all exploits turned in.
But they are not part of the EU?
Well that's a user-unfriendly page.

For those unfamiliar with the app:
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I'd actually like to see a monthly post along these lines, in the same was as the "Who's hiring" or "Freelancers required/available" posts. I don't think it works as well on a post by post basis but as a collection it'd make for good scanning.
Under these facts (the prosecution theory was a stretch that they don't want tested; the original conviction was caused in part by the defendant's stupid behavior during the first trial; the defendant already served time; the New Jersey federal prosecutors who brought the case can't do it again) the government is very likely to back off.
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Oh thank god it's back! Missing Reeder thanks to GReader dying made the entire thing so much worse. I never got used to running TinyTinyRSS.
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For me, it's not about standard busy times, but when the weather is really bad. In serious rain, sleet, snow, etc. it is really difficult to hail cars. The surge pricing for immediate service is a good trade-off if you're stuck somewhere and really need a ride.
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We have been having serious issues with our offices cable connection stability. We have a team of about 18 guys and we use a good amount of internet every day. I was just talking with an alternate provider about getting Ethernet Over Copper and its appealing because of their 100% QOS guarantee. The thing that scares me a little is that its a 10Mb up/down connection based on our location. Our current cable connection is 70Mb down 5 up. Can anyone speak to the real life implications of this? Will we need to put bandwidth limits on each of our connections with a much smaller download limit to avoid having horrible congestion? In short, the stability and consistency is very appealing, the speed is a little scary. I can't seem to find any really good real life comparisons after Googling a bit. Any thoughts/help would be much appreciated!
Thanks for the compliment. We certainly enjoy socializing, but effective learning and working take precedence, and we expect an atmosphere of "enthusiastic intensity" at HRet.

The people at MSV have been cool with us. And while they certainly want to have visibility for their program, they've given us all the freedom we need in using their space.
It's less that US decided to try him in New Jersey, and more that the prosecutors who wanted to try him were in New Jersey. If the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas had wanted a crack at this case, it would not have ended up in NJ.

[Edit] To be clear, there is nothing unique about the New Jersey statute that was used as a sentencing enhancement. As many states do, Arkansas has a similar statute - A.C.A. § 5-41-104 - so the sentencing enhancement could have been applied with Arkansas as the venue. The E. Arkansas US Attorney's Office exercised prosecutorial discretion by not seeking indictment. The New Jersey USAO decided they wanted to prosecute and thought they could make a colorable claim on the issue of venue.

The prosecution tells us much more about the New Jersey USAO than it does about the overall desire of the US Government to prosecute this particular act.
Twitter definitely could, and they can easily get a clear idea of how many of these 'zero tweet' accounts actually are active. However, Twitter have no reason to give this information out and there are not many ways for outsiders to discover this information.
It's important to understand here that the judgment was not vacated on grounds that had anything to do with the crime charged -- the Court didn't conclude that he wasn't guilty.

Instead, it was vacated for lack of venue. In other words, he got off on a technicality.