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I'd like to know what the court would think about a service that really is not much more than an antenna with a long cord. But doesn't seem like we will get that here.

So, an antenna with a long cord. A cable, you might say. We could call it "cable television." And therein lies the rub -- if cable TV providers pay for the right to retransmit local television stations, then the "long antenna" defense might not get them very far.
They're suggesting that EFF is biased in this.
Internet display advertising dates back to the early 1990s (the first clickable banner ad was in 1993). I can't find any exact information on when ad blockers became widely available, but I suspect it wasn't until at least 2000 or so. I certainly don't remember them being a thing before then.

Most of the early banner ads that have been documented were run by generally reputable advertisers (and on reputable sites), not on the "low quality sites" you're implying. There weren't even very many such sites back in 1993; the Web was a very small place back then.
My C# monad and parser combinator library (based on Haskell's Parsec). Still very much v0.1 but coming along nicely :)

https://github.com/louthy/csharp-monad
I agree that your comment added value to the discussion, and gave a counter-vote.

However, arguably the term could make more sense there, if we ignore the earlier definition and instead assume "trans" is short for "transcendent", as in "climbing to a higher level".

If we then simplify that to "compile from one language to another of roughly equal or higher level", it becomes a useful word to indicate a specific subset of ways one can do compilation.

Of course, I'm completely pulling this out of my ass and I might piss off actual CompSci people who use very specific and strict definitions in their papers (kind of like how some get annoyed with the procedure/function mixup), so take this with a grain of salt.
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>> because alcohol _tastes_ good????

> Hell yes! As far as I'm concerned a great wine is probably among the most delicious things you can put in your mouth ...

Wait -- your answer doesn't even respond to the OP's question, which was whether alcohol tastes good. Alcohol (ethyl alcohol) has no taste. All the drinks you list could in principle be created without any alcohol content, and some of them are. Would you express the same enthusiasm for non-alcoholic equivalent drinks?

> Being able to drink as much as I want without any of the side effects would be a dream come true.

But most alcoholic drinks can be duplicated without any alcohol and taste exactly the same (because ... remember ... alcohol has no taste), so you can get what you say you want. What remains to be seen is whether you really want what you say.
Sounds nice in theory, but it totally breaks down with airlines' policies of charging for checked luggage. Getting onboard first guarantees you a coveted overhead bin spot, aisle clogging be damned.
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> "What if multiple services are utilizing a shared library? For each service to be independent in the way I think you are advocating for, you would need multiple copies of that shared library (either via separate copies in separate repos or a shared copy via something like subrepos)."

No, you have a notion of packages in your build system and deployment system.

You want to use FooWizz framework for your new service BarQuxer? Include FooWiz+=2.0 as a dependency of your service. The build system will then get the suitable package FooWiz when building your BarQuxer. Another team on the other side of the company also wants to use FooWiz? They do the exact same thing. There is never a need for FooWiz to be duplicated, anybody can build with that package as a dependency.
I felt the locations were too exotic.

"Some of the connections made are too obvious, like following images of ammunition with a portrait of a severely wounded veteran, while others are completely elusive. Shots of the devastation Katrina left behind in New Orleans are beautifully spooky, but does it say anything useful to follow that with images of Versailles? The makers of 'Samsara' want to free our minds, but their technique makes us their prisoners more often than not." ~ Kenneth Turan
He may be in the 'youth-obsessed Silicon Valley', but aren't non-startups less youth-obsessed, and youth likely don't want to get involved in old-staid big business.

I say this because here in Sydney, Australia, I'm amazed at how many positions there are in finance for a Java developer, or C developers at places like Dolby Labs, or .net developers all over the place. I'd suspect a 55 year old generalist to have the abilities to get into one of these more stable jobs. Do they really not exist in San Francisco? What about in other states?

I'd think most start-ups are using more modern languages/frameworks (Rails or Node.js specifically), so that may not be appealing to an older developer either.

I say this as somebody who is approaching older developer age. I've just turned 40, and though I have kept up to date with the latest languages and frameworks, I suspect that if I continue to develop for another 20 years, I may not always be up on the newest thing, which is why I'm trying to focus not on what's hot today, but what I think will be a solid background in 5 years. If I get that right, then hopefully in 15 years, people will still be using those systems or looking to migrate to something newer, and hopefully there is an opportunity for me there.
The boarding time for an A380 is 45min to 1hr before departure. When you count how much money is being spent, they probably wouldn't mind printing sequence numbers on the boarding pass.

The article doesn't state how much time would be saved for a big plane, though.
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There are people working on 'slow investing', but they are primarily focused on local food rather than tech (though there is some overlap): https://slowmoney.org/
I read that also, but IIRC that's not how the BBC presented it. Either way, we know that both early pictographic art and settled agriculture happened around the same time and around that area of Turkey. Which one came first is unlikely to establish a purely causative relationship anyway, so while more information is always interesting, worrying about the ordering is basically hair-splitting.
>physically destroy the offending devices.

That would probably not go over super well with the various airport police organizations.
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Do any airlines charge to check luggage once the overhead bins are full? I'm generally too lazy to board in the proper order, and I always get my would-have-been-a-carry-on checked for free.
That quote at the end from Kagan is just utterly damning. It sounds like a magistrate ordering the burning of a witch for the seeming similarity, from an observer's perspective, of a telephone and magic.
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Better even: I once waited by mistake until the departure time instead of the boarding time. They search for your case in the checked luggage to expell it. If you arrive before they found your case, you're allowed to take the flight.

Hint: Don't do that.
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Yes, it's called "wiring" a contract. When I worked at a company that sold specialized processors to the government we ran into that all the time. Usually it was something defensible on its face, at least, like software compatibility with a previous piece of hardware.

But sometimes we would see unimaginative stuff like a specification of the LED layout on the front panel or very specific weight restrictions that happened to fall between our hardware and the preferred vendor.

In the government's defense, though, the system is set up to combat this tendency, at least for smaller contracts. When I was on the other side (having left the vendor to work for our civil service customer) we would routinely get pointed questions from the purchasing people regarding this or that line of the RFP - was it really required, or were we trying to wire the contract?
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This.

This is what causes at least 50% of queues. Everyone can take 1 small bag. Nothing on wheels. If you can't lift it above your head it's too heavy. No exceptions. Overhead bins will be sufficient, no hunting around for a space, easier to get your bag at the end of a journey.

On the other hand; I have taken a 35 liter backpack on many trips. No waiting at the carousel to get my suitcase; just walk straight out of the airport.
I'll bet that could end you up in jail.
Although it's fine to be critical (and I don't think people here are particularly vicious in their criticism, just sceptical about the utility of this technique), I'd like to remind everyone that the only way that we can say with certainty that there's nothing valuable in pursuing a particular direction is by actually taking a close look at it.

I think it's great that there are people who take a concept and work it out until the end in precise detail, even when it is not directly clear what the benefits would be, if any. It's also wonderful that this person decided to share the result of all of this work so that others might be inspired by it or find a useful trick or technique in it.
I grew up in Hong Kong and way back in the early 90s, if you hit the MTR (the underground/metro/subway system) turnstile hard enough with your thigh as you were walking through, it would give way, so you could basically travel for free. No jumping required, which might explain your observation!

I think they've changed them now, and I think it only ever applied to the turnstiles on the Kowloon side of the line.
I tried that cipher suite list with Apache 2.2 and got my grade reduced from A to A-:

The server does not support Forward Secrecy with the reference browsers. Grade reduced to A-

Maybe I need to upgrade to Apache 2.4.
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Agreement reached on deep sea mining
Good luck spreading the word about your own IP. You'll have to either be that one in a million viral hit, or sink a lot of money into advertising.
I was addressing the idea of committing directly to master, protecting your code with feature toggles so it doesn't break things. Maybe I misunderstood the OP.

I think feature toggles can be extremely useful, but still develop in a branch and merge after review/qa.
Depending on tech capability, Statamic is a good option http://statamic.com/

The team at Asana have used it to scale as we ll http://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/
>stereotyping, regardless of what kind it is, stands in the way of equality and fair dealing.

I agree, but I don't think I ever said that racism was "good", just that it is not always negative or arbitrary. One thing it always is is lazy. Individuals should always be treated as an individual and not as a member of some "convenient" grouping that enables a person to avoid having to think.
It always worries me when a case that's even remotely technical makes it to the Supreme Court. Sometimes it feels like trying to teach a dog a card trick.
I was under the impressions that old disks generally fail by getting stuck. If they spin them up a few times a day that would seem to solve that problem.

They could even have them just plugged in to power and laying in racks with custom firmware that triggers drives to automatically spin up ever few hours/days. Then they could just be manually plugging them in to retrieve data when data from a drive is requested.
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I have a rule, if I can't understand what your start-up is about from your home page then it won't work.
Definitely Sartre reference, These guys going through the misery of start up life has a 'myth of Sisyphus' feel to it, especially when Martino suggests that the best thing that could happen is that they miss their round of funding and are able to quit.
2PB per rack sounds about right for a very tightly packed rack. Most DC's can't supply power and cooling for that kind of density, though.
I don't get it. Why not just allow duplicate submissions, but show a warning and link to the previous submissions before confirming the submission? Or if you intend the URL trick to be semi-secret and thus limited to "power users," then just allow duplicate submissions for users meeting some criterion, like account age or a karma threshold.
For those without background in genetics the FAQ page of the paper author (Steve Horvath) is worth readings as it is a bit easier to understand than the main paper [0]. For those that think this is still tl;dr he has posted the following summary there:

What is new in the article? Where is the beef?

The epigenetic clock is the first age prediction method based on DNAm levels that accurately predicts age in more than one tissue or fluid. As a matter of fact, it works in the vast majority of tissues/fluids/organs. It is arguably the first accurate measure of age that allows one to compare the ages of different parts of the human body. Researchers who develop genomic biomarkers will appreciate its astonishing accuracy, the fact that it works across two Illumina array platforms and that it is remarkably robust to batch effects. The epigenetic clock yields many interesting insights. Here is a top 10 list:

1) stem cells and iPS cells are perfectly young,

2) the epigenetic clock works in chimpanzees,

3) age acceleration effects (measured by the clock) are highly heritable,

4) normal female breast tissue (adjacent to tumor) exhibits positive age acceleration effects while heart tissue appears younger,

5) cell passaging increases DNAm age,

6) the ticking rate of the epigenetic clock is fastest during development,

7) tumor morphology does not relate to age acceleration,

8) there is a weak inverse relationship between the number of somatic mutations and age acceleration in many cancer types,

9) mutations in steroid receptors are associated with lower age acceleration effects in breast cancer tissue,

10) TP53 mutation status relates to age acceleration.

The big picture: Most (but certainly not all) prior articles propose that age effects on DNA methylation levels represent noise or epigenetic drift, see for example the excellent recent article by A. Teschendorff et al (2013). Hum Mol Genet. PMID: 23918660. While epigenetic drift may explain age related changes for most CpGs, Horvath (2013) presents compelling data that the epigenetic clock relates to a purposeful biological process. Further, it proposes the epigenomic maintenance system (EMS) model of DNAm age.

[0] http://labs.genetics.ucla.edu/horvath/htdocs/dnamage/faq.htm
Did you try contacting the author/maintainer directly? I don't know why people like to make a public issue before actually trying to talk to the person responsible first.
Security would be an issue

Encryption would solve that.
I posted on reddit about how you could build this using open-source components: http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/23zjxr/new_super_fas...

tl;dr use noVNC in the frontend and the websocket proxy bit is easy.
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Is the EFF helping Aereo in this case?
> Assuming 32 bit instructions

You don't have to assume, the article itself says the author is contemplating 9-bit instructions.
I'm visually impaired, not legally blind although not far off it. I'm also pretty photo-sensitive. Some things that have helped me in no particular order:

- Get a large (27" in my case) monitor so I can have the text large without having to constantly zoom in. High resolution + higher DPI is easier on the eyes than getting big text by lowering the resolution.

- Learn a terminal based text editor (Vim or EMacs) and get good at using the terminal. Many GUI based applications, particularly IDEs have limited options or don't work well with larger text sizes. Working within a terminal makes developing less "visual" while maximising the amount of information on screen. Now I spend 80% plus of my day in a terminal and my eyes are significantly less tired at the end of the day.

- Use a tiling window manager. On OSX I use Slate (https://github.com/jigish/slate), or on Nix you could use something like XMonad. The screen-snapping stuff in recent versions of Windows is helpful too. The idea here is to rely on the mouse as little as possible.

- use a dark color scheme. I like Solarized-dark but there are several other good options.

- pick an easy to read font. I use Menlo and have the size up around 32pt.

- use a terminal prompt that makes it very clear where the prompt is when scrolling back through history. I use this one https://gist.github.com/agnoster/3712874

- get an adjustable monitor arm so you can bring the screen closer to you without craning your neck. I've had the same one for 15+ years but am planning on buying one of the Ergotron ones in the next few weeks

- use f.lux to take the bright blue tint out of screen colors https://justgetflux.com/

- work in a room lit by lamps positioned so that they don't add any glare.

- if you often find yourself working at the same screen as other people, set up a second monitor in mirror-mode or investigate using TMux if you're both in terminal editors so that you can have your terminal configured so it's comfortable for you, and so can your partner.

I'm happy to provide more info on any of this.
Definitely more power than a small factory. A six station supercharger could be pulling 500 kW.

Up until 2012, demand charges from Souther California Edison kicked in at 20 kW at a rate of $17 per kW. One of the first 50 kW quick-chargers in LA county was shut down for months after the owner realized that operating it would tack on an extra $1000 to his monthly bill.
Anyone else see almost all of these as stuttering 2FPS animations? That's on most recent FF on a high-end W8 laptop.
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Which is silly in a number of ways. The only editorializing is the part saying they're "rightly" skeptical. I don't think anyone is disputing that they asked some skeptical questions and said questions are quoted therein.

That aside, being harshly questioned is not necessarily predictive of which way they will vote. If anything, they're harder on the side they rule against and are using the questioning to find the strongest arguments to put in their rulings.
"those who pay extra are sitting on planes longer than necessary"

Only if the passengers boarding is the thing that takes the longest (as opposed to refueling, inspections, loading luggage, getting clearance). This may very well be the case some or even all the time, but I don't know that it is.
Those personalized letters won't be comparable unless they are so generic that they're still spam. After randomizing which name goes to which letter, you're stuck with an infinite number of dimensions of variation, where one dimension is the ethnicity of the name signed at the bottom of the letter, and the other infinity represent the "quality" of the personalized letters. You won't be able to conclude anything about the influence of the name.
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Thanks for telling where the data was, as it was indeed disturbing but for the complete opposite case. The abstract is just bad science, and it was disturbing to see how much the truth was twisted.

Lumping together women and minorities is bad math based on the data they provide. white female has a 1% difference compared to white male, which is within the margin of error given the size of the study. Minority Male compared to minority female seems to show the opposite data, in that minority male is more discriminated against than minority female.

So the research found that A), no discrimination against female students, B) male minorities get more discrimination than female minorities, and C) minorities get discriminated compared to caucasians.

Compare those finding with the title, and even the abstract.
If you want to be cast, you want to be in LA or NYC. If you want to PA, it may be advantageous to be in the shooting city, but local PAs will still be lower on the totem than the PAs from the production company, until they prove themselves.
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Have you tried using one of those USB-over-CAT5 adapters they sell on eBay? I've always wanted to but never had a real application for it, and robotics sound perfect. Just bolt down the adapter on one side.
"I understand the impulse to get on the plane, but it's irrational if you aren't using the overhead bins."

I disagree. Continually paying attention for an important prompt is stressful and distracting. I'd much rather be waiting on stuff I can't miss.
So does it mean my 20 btc is permanently gone?
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Exactly! While some people claim that this robs USB of some of its strength, surely having a 10 line cross platform python script control your ADC/blink the LEDs is the ultimate deal breaker for USB2uart.

And even IF your micro comes with built in USB, it's just so convenient to just let it emulate a cdc compliant serial port working everywhere out of the box.

Libusb is almost as good on non-windows (which needs some pseudo driver to allow the library to generically talk to the device)... but then one would need a serial-terminal substitute to send packets off data to arbitrary endpoints.
For me it depends on whether the couple minutes I save getting an earlier place in that line is going to make any difference. If I have a tight transfer to make in an unfamiliar airport, I'm standing and have my things and have moved up a few rows before the aisles get crowded. If I'm going to be waiting for baggage, you're damned right I'm staying seated, both for my benefit and anyone like me in the other case.
This does sound like a fantastic idea. Github issues are "things that are broken", so something that's "things people can work on" is great to have. Bonus points if you can sort issues by difficulty, so newcomers know what the easy pickings are.
Gone? Probably not. In the possession of someone who will not give them to you? Probably.
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> I agree, but I don't think I ever said that racism was "good", just that it is not always negative or arbitrary.

That doesn't change the meaning. My rejoinder says that racism, regardless of whether it elevates or degrades the subject group, always has negative effects.
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> Ethernet/RJ45 is much better without requiring thumbscrews.

I think I have more RJ45 cables with broken tabs than ones with the tabs intact. And trying to keep RJ45 in place without the tab is hopeless.
To me they are gone
What data sources are already available in dat format (aka which data producers are publically trialling dat)?
You could probably modify Mercurial's largefiles extension to use S3, etc as a central store.
Do you really need USB specifically? Gigabit ethernet has several optical varieties and provides similar bandwidth.
Gone sounds so permanent, they're somewhere, will you be getting them back? Probably not. At most you might get ((sum of MtGox assets sold at liquidation prices) - (amount owed to non users, past due bills, etc))/(number of bitcoins they owe their users) * 20. Read: Not much
That density is doable if the drives spend most of their time powered down, which would fit with the potential Glacier restore delay while they wait for the discs you need to come round in the power cycle.