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The solution of having a "civil union" that takes care of that stuff and then "marriage" is up to the church is generally acceptable to the LGBT community. However, nobody from the other side is willing to do this either; they just want to bash the LGBT bunch.

> If you're right that Prop 8 was about attacking gay people, then that sucks.

It was. Sadly. And that's what pissed off a LOT of people. The Mormons swooped in and spent enormous amounts of money to get it passed. The Catholic church did too, but not as much as the Mormons.

> This is where I'd like to hear from Eich on the matter. I've automatically assumed his innocence on the matter of gay-hatred, especially after reading his March 26 blog post.

Don't. He believes this and is unapologetic. I suspect it's part of his religion.

I respect him for sticking to his position even though I find his position abhorrent. However, both he and Mozilla should have seen this coming and not put him in the CEO slot.

> Certificates for emergencies and so on, come on there's not actually that many rights. Some can be sorted out with co-habitation agreements and other arrangements.

It's NOT that easy. If it were, I suspect California would have done it already. "Marriage" winds its way through a lot of laws--power of attorney, medical emergency decisions, death benefits, child custody, divorce splits, alimony, adoption, the list goes on and on and on.

The stories of some bigoted doctor preventing a gay partner from visiting or making decisions while their loved one is dying are not uncommon. Can you imagine the lawsuit if that happened to a husband or wife of a traditional marriage? It would be so huge that it wouldn't even get to court.
> being motivated by people telling you you can't do it.

I'm saddened by all the stories I see posted here and on Reddit where people are discouraged from doing things by negative remarks from others.
You'd think the new enum support could use.. you know.. ENUMS. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-enum.html
Gandi also offers free primary DNS. This in itself is nice, but even better is the fact that they have an API to update said DNS. This makes it possible to implement your own dynamic DNS without the need to cname through a third party dynamic dns provider. Just add a simple script to your router, run it at regular intervals (cron is your friend here) and you're set. You'll need an API key for this, these can be had for free through the dashboard.
Thanks ch4s3. I released the starter kit after bashing my head in on a few configuration tasks with various gems. I haven't looked far and wide, but I think it's one of the more complete Rails 4 starter apps. I needed it for my own projects, but hopefully it can save some other devs configuration time.

If you know of other solid starter app projects, I'm happy to fork them and make them discoverable in https://github.com/starterkits. It's meant to be a community project. I just haven't had any time to promote it.
When an old brick-and-mortar business does it, it's price gouging. When a hot valley startup does it, it's "surge pricing". Welcome to the tech press.
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Regardless, this seems like a huge PR win for Airbnb given the recent news about crackdowns in SF/NYC.

Kudos to them and best of luck!
Suggested article title: "I miss my OS completely crashing a few times a day, lets bring it back with disastrous consequences!"
Sure, but the effect of that is to make everything more random and a lot less meritocratic.

Pedigree travels everywhere and is legible. Merit is impossible to demonstrate. Merit plus a noise term is easy to demonstrate. The noisier the process, the more of an advantage pedigree has over merit.

For example, a blue-blooded asshat like Evan Spiegel will be able to get into every college no matter what happens, even though he's (by Ivy/Stanford standards) a joke. On the other hand, I've heard of IMO medalists getting turned away in this (after 2006 or so) brave new world. Any system that has Evan Spiegels outranking IMO medalists is completely broken.
Rehabilitating from gaming addiction gets significantly harder when topics like this pop up on hacker news :(
I keep secrets in the DB. Only thing in the ENV that matters is DATABASE_URL. I'm surprised more people don't do this.
If you go to school in the fall of 2014, it's likely you'll graduate in 2018.
That is not the only scenario. More people want to apply to the best colleges than ever. Also given that these schools are targeting students/schools in road shows nationally & internationally it is likely that the increase in number of applicants is also due to the a larger percentage of the sample population's interest in attending these institutions.

As an anecdote, I recently took the GMAT and had MIT as one of the schools that my score was sent to. I scored well above the 95% which is a decent score. Since then I've been getting extremely targeted emails from MIT almost weekly either about an online chat / forum, some resources, etc.
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There was an interesting article on this subject in WSJ a month or so ago...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230445090...

Apparently, unlike the average Facebook user, farmers are very aware of the implications of forking over their data to third parties.
If the students are expected to start in 2014 and do 4 years of university, then they would be the class of 2018.
They'll join in the Fall of 2014. Graduate in the Spring of 2018.

Thus. Class of 2018.
Microsoft's Singularity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system) project was able to eschew the MMU and use verification to prove that programs couldn't harm the kernel or each other.

Structuring a kernel like this makes the micro-kernel idea much more palatable as context switch overheads drop dramatically.
Haven't tested on 3.2.x yet but the GC was never the issue for our stress tests. Bugs in the socket layers were killing us. Better under 2.10.9 but still not completely resolved.
> They really make awesome products

Oh dear god.

As an employee at a medium sized company that uses Jira and Confluence, I have to disagree.

I'm sure people out there have managed to wrangle and configure Jira into something usable, but it's implementation where I work has been just horrible.

And confluence... Apart from being just slow and unreliable, it's text editor gives me nightmares. I mean, all due respect for building that (it does some pretty powerful and complicated things), but 95% of the time I just want to write an article in Markdown and post it.
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In the US, college classes are numbered by graduation year, presumed to be 4 years after the start. So Fall 2014 starters would be class of 2018.
A better deal for an unlicensed premises.
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Well it looks pretty...

But in terms of the web... if you can't create it with CSS3, its not worth it IMO. All those extra little shadows and light reflections... yeaaa. No thanks.

More designers should learn CSS and build out little things like this themselves so they can see how far they can take it without using an image.
premailer is also useful. Even with the new Rails 4.1 email previews (available in development env), sometimes it's useful to be able to preview in production. https://github.com/fphilipe/premailer-rails
There is a relatively idiot-proof licensing method for preventing idiots from entering the airspace.
Except that that is adding supply that didn't exist before - before AirBnB was popular, there was no reliable way to exploit it. And while AirBnB is competition, it's not the same thing as a hotel room.

My point is that I don't think there's anything nefarious going on. Demand is high, so the hotels raise their rates. And the high demand is predictable because it's due to a scheduled event. Presumably, the existence of AirBnB will cause the rates to go down somewhat.
Warren Buffett has said Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is a great businessman[0]. It is worth reiterating what Jeff Bezos thinks about price gouging: “There are two kinds of companies: those that try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.”

Perhaps you will argue that increasing the storage cost for fulfillment by Amazon[1] is an example of price gouging. I will let smarter people answer why it is OK for Amazon.com to charge more during the holiday shopping season. I'd imagine the simple reason is greater volume of transactions. However, with the way Amazon.com does storage, a 33% hike looks strange.

[0] “He’s a great businessman and a good guy, too.” http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/09/20/offering-tip...

[1] Currently $0.48 per cubic foot per month Jan-Oct and $0.64 for Nov-Dec. http://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/pricing.htm
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Hurricane electric offers free dynDNS, free DNS, and also free IPv6 tunneling. https://dns.he.net/ You can even set up an IPv6 tunnel for a dynamic IP and have it update dynamically.
This actually bubbled up into my brain as well, but I just put it off as my political paranoia being overly active.

Given that nobody really anticipated Eich being put into the CEO clot, I wonder if some big battle happened in the background. So, the board said "Fine, here's your shot. Enjoy." and dropped him into the soup to let him sink.
To be fair, Atlassian bought HipChat :)
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>with attitude like this it should not be a surprise to you that you are probably the type of employer whose employees will be using this type service. instead of whining about this service maybe you should be paying more attention to why your employees would be even tempted to use a site like this in the first place.

Got too many downvotes on the previous comment, so here is your chance again to downvote me. If I am a shitty employer, why the phuck is one sticking with me., you only want to flirt with me, that I shouldn't and can not allow. the point I had made was going totally against the employees which is under-stand-able, however I had raised my concern as an employer.
That's true but I think the bigger reason is that a single address space makes system calls as cheap as regular function calls, since there is no kernel boundary any more.

Ironically, VxWorks's latest major rev was all about turning memory protection on since overwhelmingly people prefer the performance hit of kernel calls over the heisenbugs that come from stomping on the kernel's code and data structures.
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Except that price gouging commonly refers to taking advantage of people in duress. Voluntarily going to Omaha for a convention and finding that hotel room prices are higher due to higher demand is not duress.

Are hotels not supposed to increase nightly rates when there is increased demand? Should hotels in Manhattan sell their rooms for the same price as those in Omaha?

There is no "hotel lobby" that's pushing to outlaw selling your own residence on AirBnB. However, it's usually illegal because of the liabilities and disturbances a transient crowd can cause for people living around them, and it's the people that want these restrictions.
PCs are like vehicles. Tablets are like bikes. Phones are like feet.
The question is, how much are its ratings worth based on who is using it?
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Is there a quick way to test a site actively (i.e., without going and checking the openssl version)?
Unfortunately many (including mine) are not compatible
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Is this result a universal feature of human psychology, or is it the product of a culture of immediate gratification and high self-esteem?

You could answer this question by trying an identical study in several different cultures.
I believe the parent comment is implying that in every biography by someone who does something impressive, there are moments that show the environment they where in. Some things to note about the statement "I confided this to a colleague, and he suggested a lunch with him and the local C guru"

1. He had a colleague to speak to about this issue. This indicates he and the colleague had a relationship conducive to speaking about such problems, and was in a position to speak to him in the first place.

2. That colleague was engaged enough to want to hear more.

3. The colleague knew a "local C guru" and in turn had enough of a relationship with that guru to arrange a lunch between the three of them.

All of these things point to an environment that helps foster this kind of work. It shows that the author was hard working enough already to be in that position.

I don't know if others interpreted his statement to mean the same things, but that's what I have.
That's literally not saying anything all other than he's at least breaking even, and those extra 2 weeks make at least $1 profit.
If Switzerland is attacked, it is literally rigged to blow up.
Don't forget property tax, and other fixed yearly costs that don't go away when the apartment is unused.
could this be linked to the fact that amazon needs a lot more storage for its own uses in november and december to hold all the extra product they will shift in the run up to xmas, hence the price increases because this is more in line with what they would be paying elsewhere.
I don't see the prisoner's dilemma aspect to this. If a hotel lowers their prices considerably, they will probably fill up fast. Some of the other hotels may lose some business, and have to lower their prices somewhat, but they will probably not have to lower their prices down to what the "defector" hotel did.

A prisoner's dilemma situation requires good outcome if everyone colludes, and a terrible outcome for all if even a single prisoner defects. I don't see a terrible outcome for all if one hotel greatly reduces their price.
Because secrets.yml is a better solution. A lot of rails developers have been using non-committed YAML files instead of .env anyway.

The environment variable pattern comes to most rails setups from Heroku (whether directly or inspired by it), not from the rails core team.
> An Econ 101 model of the world breaks down in many ways - this is one of them.

Nope, this is exactly what would be predicted by Econ 101: Microeconomics. The demand curve during the shareholders' retreat is shifted up/out relative to a normal one during other weekends, leading to higher prices even given no change to the supply curve.
So, these are dumb questions; but,

1) was this list made legally?

2) is viewing the list legal?
I know it's not strictly NameCheap's fault, but I moved all my DNS off of their servers after the recent DDOS had them down for hours.
Nullsec is dominated by the nullsec alliances, and big battles, which are the only thing non-EVE media reports on, happen almost exclusively in nullsec.
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Price gauging is simple Econ 101 theory. It is drastically raising the price in response to a drastic change in the demand (or supply curve). The shareholder meeting causes the demand curve to become much steeper (i.e. the demand is more inelastic). The hotels know they will sell out supply at a much higher price, so why not raise their prices much higher? It is no different than doubling the price of umbrellas when it rains or raising the price of bottled water immediately following an earthquake. In the theoretical profit maximizing world of Econ 101, it is good business. In the real world of morals, ethics, and public perception, pure profit maximization isn't always the best long term business plan.
I agree that "gouging" seems like the wrong term, but it was used once in the title and once more in the article: "This price-gouging annoys Mr. Buffett..." So, we don't actually know if Buffet himself called it gouging. He is quoted as saying he wants his shareholders to not have to pay as much, and points them toward a service that might provide a lower price for accommodations. Seems reasonable to me.
> which is unlikely if they want to maintain the aurora of attracting and educating the best and brightest

aura
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FYI, schools deliberately try to drum up interest from students they would never dream of admitting. The way US News & World Reports ranks schools, they look better if their admit percentage is lower, so the more chumps (no offense) they can talk into paying the application fee and then reject, the higher their score.

When I was in high school, I got all sorts of recruitment mailers from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. and there's no way those schools seriously considered me a viable prospect.
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Er actually I do know quite a bit about how employment law works and both of those grounds I mentioned are can be valid reasons to dismiss fairly.

And that is not considering the fact that CA is an "at will" state
We use figaro and have a table called variables that overrides the former. Also, we can restart the app from itself and see log files live.
I was referring to calling it unauthorized access. If I do this to my own machines, which is how I wrote and tested this code, then it is entirely authorized.

I would agree that collecting session ids on systems that you do not own or have legitimate access to is almost certainly illegal.
I'll let you know if I find anything cool, I'm following you on github now.
Top schools are always looking for "leaders" (by which they mostly mean people who go on to be prominently successful in business and/or politics). Speigel certainly fits this mold, far more than a math prodigy who'd be more likely to wind up an anonymous quant in some financial firm.
Their git service is really first rate. I have always felt a little guilty that I don't pay them for services rendered, so I would like to at least give the Atlassian crew my best wishes.
It's funny (not really) that the set of people who actually do things and the set of people who reflexively post negative comments on the internet barely intersect, if at all.
Yeah we use figaro for local dev and non-heroku production apps to override already sane defaults (extra cruft in config/ and initializers to do that), which the "variables" table can override and is app-admin configurable.
I don't see this as price gouging, though. Maybe that's just because I have been conditioned to expect lodging to be expensive in places where a popular event happens. But in this case, I see it as normal things-cost-what-people-will-pay effects. Part of it is that I don't see a hotel room, or even an investor visit, as a necessity. Both are luxury goods.

Jacking up the price of water after a hurricane? I see that as price gouging, even though it's also following basic supply-and-demand. But water is a human necessity, and I find it repugnant to exploit the circumstances of a natural disaster to charge more for a necessity.
I was thinking more along the lines of being able to do binary arithmetic on pointers for validation,

ptr & prefixmask != prefix

means its out of range. That is a pretty cheap optimization, VMS and SunOS both used that sort of check in kernel space to insure that the kernel wasn't about to dereference a pointer outside of kernel space (potentially in some random process).
Note that experience was entirely negative. Nobody offered to help write any code, invest any money, do any marketing of any kind, etc.

Even after I wrote the compiler and was shipping it, a different colleague asked me one day: "Walter, I have a friend that needs a C compiler. Which one do you recommend?"

Me: "Why, mine (Datalight C), of course!"

Colleague, laughingly, "Not yours, Walter, a real compiler!"

A friend of mine, who was in earshot of this little exchange, thought it was most hilarious.

If you want to do things like this, you've got to have a pretty thick skin for this sort of "help" from your colleagues.
Tagged TLBs should make multitasking faster, not slower, unless I don't catch your meaning at all. On a non-tagged cache you have to dump the entire thing whenever you change address spaces. With tags you lazily invalidate only the entries that aren't part of the active virtual id.
Ouch some very large sites have some very large holes in them right now!
"If the supply is not in doubt, but the hotels all raise the prices collectively knowing that the investor meeting is being held, it could be interpreted casually as price gouging."

No, that would be collusion. They would be running a cartel and that would be illegal.

Worse, your speculation that Buffet is doing this to get hotels 'to break rank' is absurd. Metropolitan Omaha has ~10,000 hotel rooms (source - http://www.visitomaha.com/meetings/faqs/#.U0R2_61dUnI) compared to the 30,000 people who plan to visit _just_ for the shareholder's meeting. There is far more demand than there is supply of rooms, this is simply a rational response to that.
I think what's different here is:

(1) The surprise factor -- there is plenty of time to plan for a conference and nobody should be surprised by the going rates.

(2) The business factor -- attending an investor conference is a business-to-business transaction.

So I personally don't see anything indecent here.

Charging a high price is not bad by itself, and can actually have a number of good effects. For instance, if prices are high during times of high demand, then people might naturally share rooms. That's more efficient than a family deciding that the price is low, so they might as well get two rooms; leaving another family with no room at all. An innkeeper who sells out all of the rooms at low price and low density isn't really doing any favors to the people who are out in the cold.
> it comes down to whether your personal values prioritize cash flow over being decent to people

This is absolutely false. My personal values prioritize decency and integrity, but also logic, and my analysis of the facts leads to the inescapable conclusion that shocks to demand/supply should lead to shocks in the price, and suppressing those shocks just leads to more negative distortions and less value for everyone.

It is counterintuitive that, say, when a region is hit by a hard storm and supplies are hard to come by, that those holding the supplies (i.e. gas, water, food, etc.) should experience a windfall, but the windfall is only the consequence of making sure that those precious supplies are only consumed by those that absolutely need it. Are inequalities exacerbated in this scenario? Of course. But there is no good way to get around this fact through the price system (there are other, better ways of addressing inequalities here and elsewhere).
Every single communication? That would be impressive, if it were possible.
Successful businessmen only like supply-and-demand when it benefits them.

They squall like babies when it works against them, however.

And, this will only work until the hotel goes out of business. Then the AirBnB crowd will lift their rates, as well.
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