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It's an interesting cycle. Lots of people from my home town have never had any sort of technical work and thus the people in my age group were sort of compelled toward the non technical also. So when you're 16 and you try to get your first job at the pharmaceutical factory they will ask you what kind of skills you have. If you have technical skills then the manager assumes that you will leave when something else comes along and so won't hire you. So you lie about it and say you're a hard worker etc. Later, you go to your first IT interview and they ask about previous jobs. Depending in the interviewer they will be glad that you've had a physical job or they will assume that you're not really all that skilled and be cautious in hiring you. Either way, it's difficult in many small towns to get better and better jobs. And stagnation isn't much better than being unemployed in the first place. And as you said, it's helpful if you can move to somewhere else. But lots of young people feel responsible for their families and want to try to contribute financially and emotionally. And it's difficult to do that from too far away. In my case, my wife and I have almost no attachment to any particular place, and as such we've both been fortunate in the job market. But others find it very difficult to let go of home.
I remember hearing a quote from someone who used to work at a fairly high level in the UK Civil Service - they described someone saying "Incompetence shouldn't be a barrier to a chap having a good career" - and it wasn't a joke.
> there would be much fewer critical reviews

I'm not entirely sure about that. But even if it is the case, so what?

People who know each other could continue to send everything which could have been in a critical review via private email as they do today to help improve the papers.

If what you assume is true, then it would mean that an article with no reviews must be one which would have had critical reviews, so just ignore it. No one can force you into writing a review saying in your name something you don't believe in. If you only want those with positive reviews it's okay, since those reviews still exist in your model.

Nonetheless, a review is not an upvote or a downvote, it's a small summary of the paper, plus comments, plus an overall impression of what are the contributions and their qualities. So I think that signed, public, and citable reviews would actually be better than what we have today, if only because the shitty reviews we sometimes get or write would just disappear.
on osx the shortcuts are different for emacs between the terminal and x forwarded sessions. it kills me inside that this is the best hardware I can afford for now. oh I also had to remap OSX shortcuts to keep from closing my xfowarded emacs session.
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Another way of looking at it is this: had the pound remained on the ERM, Britain would have remained on-track to join the Euro. Assuming no devaluation of the pound (the incident that caused Britain to leave the ERM), the pound would have become part of the Euro at a ruinously high exchange rate relative to the Deutschmark. In the financial collapse of 2008, Britain would not have been able to lower interest rates or run quantitative easing. This is basically the predicament that Spain, Italy and Greece are in (though Greece has other problems). They have been forced to carry out "internal devaluation" by cutting spending and wages, and due to the sticky prices effect this basically means making very large numbers of people unemployed.

Of course, you could argue another counter-factual, that Britain within the Euro would have tipped the balance of power in the ECB in favour of a much more doveish monetary policy from 2008, and thus saved Europe from calamity. It's really hard to speculate about these kinds of reflexive dynamics.
I think a £3.3b loss is hardly devastating.

GDP in 1994 was £693bn

Govt. spending was £4,687 per capita and this loss was about £54 per capita.

Not zero but hardly devastating.

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/piechart_1994_UK_total

£3.3b in 1994 would be £6bn today.

As a comparison, in 1999 Gordon Brown sold the UK's gold before the market moved up, the equivalent of a £9b loss, £13b in today's money. He did this to give the banks an under the radar bailout by manipulating the markets.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/thomaspascoe/100018367/...
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The $10,000 investment just won't cut it
This seems like a good opportunity to post RMS' rider again:

https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developer...

Fabulous stuff. I wonder how often he has/gets to hang out with random parrots since this document became widely known. In my mind he is surrounded constantly by sandal-wearing acolytes wielding exotic birds of every variety.
If you Google around Adobe released a statement saying that those CS2 downloads and provided serial number are for customers who bought CS2. Adobe switched off their activation servers but made the serial numbers available to mitigate that.
Kids are fun ... in moderation.

After all kids are inexperienced, don't know much, making mistakes ...

> My kids are not going to scrape by on ramen

Why not? The less they have, the more they value work.
I feel like somewhat is really underselling it.
I never understood that argument. The reason you can have nice text based formats is that it will all be compressed by the server anyway, or am I missing something?
Considering the language barriers, I was extremely impressed with the clarity of the presentation in the English language. Best wishes I hope that you make your goal.
Some people, sure. Enough to account for this trend? Doesn't seem like that'd be possible.
I hadn't considered that - my own experience (obviously) colours my view, at least when younger I was eager to see new places, meet new challenges and new people.

That did lead to losing touch with almost all my school-era friends at least initially - though in some ways it also taught me who were the best friends amongst them :) They're the ones you meet after a decade apart and can pretty much pick up where you left off.
I find it funny that my graphics card is now faster than the world's fastest supercomputer in 1997, yet I am forced to "offload" stuff to cloud.

I bought CS6 suite as it became clear Adobe is moving full steam ahead with CC. I think it is one of those examples where the move serves only company's interests and doesn't make much sense to users (except for continuous updates that might accidentally break things as well). The initial pricing might have been competitive for some packages, for many users however caused substantial increase if they used to skip one cycle for upgrades. I understand Adobe needs a predictable revenue stream though I consider this as a flop.
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I really thought I found something rather new as I've been looking for such a topic for some time now. But there is a sub-reddit for that http://www.reddit.com/r/CompressiveSensing/

Oh well, it is still interesting and still useful to me to find this term of Frugal Streaming and Compressive Sensing. I can foresee lots of time wasted on this instead of my real project :-)
The PIGS countries would be much worse off outside the eurozone than inside, to see this, just compare the recent economical dips to the massive increase in activity following the introduction of the Euro in 2002. And to say that a country without any industry is even remotely in a good position (implied by “beneficial in the long run”) is a rather curious thing, too.
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Yes its quite common now. Working in my high schools theater which was the largest in the town we'd get these types of requests so I imagine in they would be even more common for something that mattered
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There wasn't really a "control code context" - it was (2 second silence)+++(1 second silence) to switch to command mode, and then ATH to disconnect.

Bad firmwares would also accept same from remote side, although supposedly it should only have come from the local side.
What would make you think that foreign governments would be any better? Supposedly privacy friendly European governments engage in plenty of wiretapping[1][2][3]. What I find different about what happens in the US is that these events are highly publicized, scrutinized, and court battles over wiretapping are extremely expensive for the US government, compared to other countries. I don't see that happening elsewhere.

1: http://ccc.de/en/updates/2011/analysiert-aktueller-staatstro...

2: http://falkvinge.net/2012/04/02/sweden-paradise-lost-part-1-...

3: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/09/fran-s09.html
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Interesting - I have been meaning to look into how the blockchain works (I missed the get-rich-quick rush and dismissed it all until heard Andreessen explain the reasons)

Anyway - what does being a full node entail?
Contrary to Snopes' last-updated, this is at least 10 years old.

Summary/spoiler: It was to ensure the contract was read thoroughly.
As far as the implementation goes, I believe it's more or less the same as Flash and Silverlight.

But EME has an advantage that Flash and Silverlight don't have: it has W3C's stamp of approval. That makes it much more difficult for people to argue against using it.
How many times did Adobe failed? Total minutes outage per month would be nice to know.
Few cyclists will reach a top-end velocity of much over 20 mph on city streets. A car can be moving at 30 miles an hour quite rapidly from a stop, and 60 mph+ within a few seconds.

And I write this as someone who's drafted behind tractor trailers at highway speeds, ridden in 30+ mph pacelines, and topped 60 mph on descents.

There's a reason the word "generally" was loitering near the opening of that sentence ;-)
It's less about the total loss of money and more about the valuation of the currency. The mid-nineties saw the pound drop even further in value and it's only recently begun to grow stronger again.
You mean "cloud" all by itself. Don't let the current focus on the NSA fool you into believing that other countries aren't taking low hanging fruit like "your data on a remote server" for their intelligence.
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Purely out of interest, why the downvotes?

I'm curious as to whether my pessimism about government, or my disillusionment with democracy or my 90 year old Gran's revolutionary tendencies caused offence?
So the EFF is now becoming the lobby for the US surveillance companies?

Several of these companies built their business model on commercial surveillance of their users with the purpose of monetizing their data directly or indirectly.

And these are the companies that are supposed to "have my back"? Really?
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It's even worse!

His purchase was for $23.44 at Overstock, yet when he viewed it at Circle, the price was now $23.55 - shown as 0.05264624 BTC on both sites. As soon as he clicked the USD/BTC button, the price stays at $23.55 but the BTC is now 0.05265041. After he confirms the transaction, the price has now jumped to $23.65. So the numbers really don't add up.

And as you point out, there's a big balance difference. Start with $210.01, spend $23.65 and your balance should be $186.36. Yet he has $187.27. What?
There seem to be a lot of these things. Circle, Square, Stripe. I'm expecting to see a Triangle enter the fray soon.
Facebook is fighting for users' privacy? is it the joke of the day?!
The thing about taking risk is that you may not overcome problems. If you are sure that you will overcome all problems, then it was not a risk to begin with. Those who plotted adventures always either graduated into booming economy or had rich parents to help them.

Thinking about your ability to find job in bad economy after you take all that debt on you does not strikes me as excessively risk averse. The opposite strikes me as irresponsible.

And punishment for not finding job and being unemployed for months is hard. There is a big difference between "I send application and a job with benefits is found in a month" and "it will take a lot of time and may end up as long term unemployed". America is not exactly nice to those who failed and even yours kids will have it hard to impossible to get better life if you fail.

We have the idea that 18-19 old should be worry free because we graduated into exceptionally good market and economy. We were privileged so to speak. If you look at history, non-priviledged non-rich adults did not used to have worry-free-do-not-care about income periods in their lives.
Care to give an example of the sort of thing you encountered? Purely to satisfy a curious mind :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839581
They are basing this largely on statements by the companies in question, not on their actions or any proof that these companies actually abide by their promises. Seems a bit hollow to me.
It will ultimately come down to convenience as you say. Never mind that using the bank system is supporting literal criminal organisations like HSBC. And don't forget they can decide who you can and can't send money to (no Wikileaks). But convenience and a little bit of Someone Else's Problem is what the people want.
The bank you use is in actual control of your money. They let you access your money on their terms. They reserve the right to revoke access to your money in many circumstances. You don't get to opt out of having a bank account in modern society. You get to choose from multiple banks that act almost identically. All of them record every thing you pay for. All of them store your data and make it available to thousands of employees and any two-bit hacker that ever breaches their security.

A massive increase in personal freedom and personal privacy is all it took to convince me. I doubt it's an American thing, but maybe it's an easier sell here.
Well done, Really great work!
Why not redistribution of work?
I don't really agree with this. 50 years ago those 18-19 year olds were working and getting married, and at 21-22 being fathers and mothers. But now we accept that 18-19 year olds are still 'kids'. I don't know if this has anything to do with the problem we are discussing, but I'm pretty sure at 19 you should be worried about a stable life. It is the best time to do so, maybe just not 'go to college, get a job' stable since that doesn't seem to work anymore.
If you want to run operations in parallel and then "join" them, you need some joining mechanism. A fiber itself can be joined and return a value, so in Quasar, Fiber implements Future. But that's semantics: with fibers, if you want to run operations in parallel, you spawn more fibers; if you then want to join those operations -- you join the fibers.

Of course you can have long-running fibers that interact with one another through channels. See: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/02/20/reactive/
It's funny how their newly appointed CEO resigned over a donation made years ago, yet the community backlash for supporting DRM has been underwhelming. Flash is dead. Now meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Yes but it is really interesting though. If you have the time to read it later, I recommend you to do so.
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I think they changed the categories, and now they are only about whether they fight against the government or not, and even those aren't that great. Take AT&T for example. Yes, they "publish transparency reports", but very weak/misleading ones. They don't publish everything. AT&T gives NSA the whole firehose to their cables, and they still get to get a star for "publishing transparency reports" which don't even include that important tidbit of information?

They have nothing to do with how invasive their privacy policies are against their users, how much they track you, how good of an encryption they use or anything like that. Maybe they should make a separate benchmark for all of those, too, if they're not going to integrate them anymore. Because soon we'll be seeing headlines like "Facebook has 5/5 stars on privacy!" - which is just misleading to most people.
>increments to that coming based on ... specious things like their popularity ... maybe? (I shudder to imagine this)

What about being allocated money based on your positive (and negative) contributions to society? You currently can earn millions doing absolutely nothing useful ripping people off in wall st or earn pennies devoting your life to helping others
If every client uses his own keystream, then not.
Well, it is surprising, but between all these lists of funny gifs and celebrity photos lie a solid, proper journalism stuff. For example, they recently started a political ruckus with a single article: http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/bidens-son-polish-ex-presi...
Apart from people who are mentally ill (an immediate family member included) I have very little sympathy for young people who can't find their own way.

I'm pushing 40 and have older siblings in their 50s. Only one of them went to college right out of high school (more went later on when they could afford to pay for it) and the others joined the military to get a start in the world. All of my siblings -- minus the one under lifetime treatment for depression -- are successful today. They all have fulfilling careers and healthy families. None of them had it easy.

My parents (begrudgingly) paid for (most of) my college. There was quite of bit of resentment in my family as I had grown up assuming that I would go to college and someone would pay for it, a fairly common belief at the time, at least among my peers. After changing majors a couple of times my parents told me I was on my own. I was angry at first and then I started a small business with some friends, worked hard and finished.

After college I moved to another country and worked hard to get a career-path job. After that I worked hard starting my own company in that field. Apart from the degree my parents helped pay for I did it all on my own steam. Those decisions I made -- finishing school, moving to another country, quitting a job to start a company -- those were the ones that defined my life and paved the way for the things that I enjoy today. (I'm not suggesting I've arrived anywhere, just that I've acquired the tools to live a fulfilling life.)

Whenever I meet young people (and by young I mean just out of college) I'm sometimes very impressed though I'm often shocked at how much they expect from the world. The impressive ones seem to get it and are working hard either on their own businesses or taking the most aggressive route through graduate school somewhere interesting -- doing what it takes to carve out a niche. The ones that don't impress me think that getting a degree (or even not getting one) means they're going to have a comfortable life, free of hardship.

It's not just young people though. I see a lot of people my age who cynically pick up a paycheck every month in a field they're not passionate about, that they're not truly invested in. Then they completely fall apart because they "got downsized" and they go frantic on FB looking for a lifeline. These are the same people at different stages in life. If you're willing to dig in and make your own way then you might get what you want out of life. If not then don't be surprised when life goes sideways.
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"Eventually only super highly skilled and creative jobs (writing, art etc) that can't be handled by robot/android/humanoids will be left to do and we'll have to figure out how to allot a basic living wage..."

That vision was sold to us in the 70's, but despite the technological advancement, we are all working a lot more.
Macroeconomics. Millions of people didn't just suddenly get lazy the day the 2008 recession started.
Well, it doesn't answer the question of "what is my purpose?" for people who have no work, so it's not a perfect/complete solution by itself.
Could anyone explain how that list was assembled?

Why aren't there any of the services that actually have our backs on this list? Companies such as https://MyKolab.com clearly seem to belong on that list.
Dibs on icosidodecahedron.
Yes it was, but that's nitpicking. I think you get my point: buying burgers and trying to manipulate the market are two rather different separate things.
Criteria like "Tell users about government data requests. To earn a star in this category, Internet companies must promise to tell users when the government seeks their data unless prohibited by law" doesn't inspire confidence either.
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DCC SEND startkeylogger or such combined both exploits. Ah, I had quite a fun with that a couple of years back.

IIRC it still bites a couple of people on Freenode, but the most networks have auto-kick bots in place for these scriptkiddies.
Full nodes host the memory pool for the txid's - So they serve a purpose: Making transactions propagate over the network. And serve blocks to nodes that are not up-to-date (And clients).
If you're pushing 40, that means that you came of age in the boom years of the mid 90s. Do you see how that could be very different from those coming of age now?
I think we understand how the human brain develops now a bit better than we did 50 years ago. And that at 19 you're basically not fully cooked yet. So yeah, at one point you were thought to be fully developed by 19 and that meant you should go get a job and put an oven in the kitchen for the little lady. But now we know that your attitudes and opinions will (or at least are likely to) change a great deal between 19 and 25. This also means your motivations and what makes you happy will change. But if you're concerned with locking down the 9-5 as soon as possible, then you're much less likely to find something that actually makes you happy.
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Personally I have become quite fond of Ninja Framework ( http://www.ninjaframework.org/ ); as simple as Play, but pure-Java (Java 8 too!). Even has a similar hot-reload mechanism as Play!
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You don't need the entire blockchain to send/receive. Only when running a "Full node". If you are not intending to keep your node online for 24/7 you can use a SPV style client like Electrum or Multibit. They are lightweight clients without a blockchain attached.
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