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This seems to be the prevailing ideology, that all would be solved if only we could achieve perfectly free markets, stripped of regulation, politics and government influence.

This is a thought-terminating cliché[1] that either ends rational argument or results in an evidence-free opinion war.

Naturally, ideology trumped argument here again, as a thread about inequality gets hijacked by utopian economic balderdash.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Reform_and_the_Psychol...
unbounce.com has a pretty nifty system going, especially if you want to try a bunch of different systems quick. beyond that you can just grab a template from some place like themeforest and try out a few different WP landing page themes.
I don't understand your "build settings" comment. Why would there be any build settings originated from a library?

As for "making too many assumptions", it sure would be nice if you could, say, explain yourself instead of just saying I'm wrong and that my wrongness upsets people. Your FAQ link doesn't explain anything.

To explain my side: third-party code tends to be of low quality and interact with other third-party code in interesting ways. When things go wrong, and they always do even with the best programmers and the best code, the more bad third-party code you have, the more you have to dig through to find and fix the fault. This objection largely goes away if you only use dependencies of extremely high quality, but to be brutally honest, there aren't enough such projects out there to be able to make a mess from them.
Two things.

1) The content that got my site kicked off adsense was text only, and it was a girl writing about going skinny dipping. It was tamer than much of cable TV, but I'm guessing some word frequency algorithm thought it was more than that. We aren't talking ads showing up next to porn. The great frustration is that if you aren't a big player, google doesn't give a shit and maybe they will turn your ads back on, maybe they won't. I'm guessing there are a lot of people out there that would jump on any ad network that didn't make you fear this all of the time.

2) My assumption, and I could be wrong about this, is that there are a lot of companies willing to advertise that aren't as paranoid. They may be able to pay less per click for the same quality of traffic, due to less competition for opening up to content that is less than PG
Like I said somewhere else, some courts have agreed with this analysis, and others differed. Obviously each case is fact intensive, but I imagine we'll have many more discussions as more cases come forward, a circuit split emerges, and it is eventually considered by the Supreme Court.
Let's see:

symbolics.com, Lisp Machine manufacturer, first ever .com domain. In 1985.

bbn.com, Lisp Machine developer, second .com domain in 1985.

Thinking Machines, Parallel AI Machine for Lisp, third .com domain in 1985

MCC, had hundreds of Lisp Machines, fourth .com domain in 1985

DEC, co-sponsor of CL, fifth .com domain in 1985

Xerox, Lisp Machine developer, seventh .com domain in 1986

...

I'd say all the companies who participated in the CL development from 1981-1994 were commercial entities on the Internet. All of them offered a variety of network services in their operating systems: mail, chat, terminal, X11, file sharing, remote printing, remote booting, name server, ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_re...

All were having networked machines and networked operating systems.
Two reasons spring to mind:

1. Legacy systems. The system that was built 15 years ago might have limited the field for performance or storage reasons and it was never updated. Or maybe the Palm Pilot app only supports 20 characters in a text field and nobody has the source code but there's still a dedicated bunch of 200 users who do $50,000 in sales every year and nobody wants to piss them off. Or maybe they're just afraid the monster has gotten too big and they don't know what'll break if they change anything. Better to play it conservative so you're not the person who shut a group of users out of the system.

2. Just because. True story: I was working on an internal app for a company years back and I asked my manager if there were any particular password restrictions we needed to honor, any kind of company policies or weird accessibility concerns or something [1]. So what does he do? He emails the marketing stakeholder and asks her what the password rules should be. She doesn't know anything about security, so she concocts something completely arbitrary based on stuff she's seen on other sites. 6-10 characters, at least one number & one symbol, etc. And those were the requirements I had to implement, because that's what the stakeholder wants, even though that was the answer to completely the wrong question.

> if passwords are being hashed, which i guess i would have to believe they are

I wouldn't assume that. Think about a bank where you have call center staff who know a certain customer by name because he calls every Thursday saying he can't remember which of his grandkids' names he used as a password and could you please tell him because the rent is due Monday and he needs to transfer money from savings to checking because his Social Security check is late this month. And so on. You know how old guys are with their stories. You're reading one now. The CSR doesn't want to walk him through the steps of resetting his password over the phone…again. The faster he can get him logged in, the sooner he'll go away.

"We need a way to display that guy's password to a CSR," the head of the department tells the CEO over golf, knowing if he gets the department's average call time under two minutes he gets an extra $100,000 this year. So, the edict comes down from the highest levels of the company that the passwords have to be encrypted & reversible instead of hashed.

Now, this story is completely fictitious, but I've been in similar situations where the all-important call-center & support metrics trumped security. It happens. It shouldn't, but it happens.

[1] Maybe even a legacy Palm Pilot app…
Sorry, this is an internal bug tracker, so I am not allowed to share any detail.
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It's an attempt at poetic exaggeration - the point is the comparison between India and the US. India has a Gini of 33, the US has 45. Yet simply compare poverty in the US to upper middle class status in India, and you quickly realize that inequality isn't the most salient factor at play.

I'm not sure why you believe we need some sort of "global standards" for open borders to work. I'm undecided on the issue, but I can't see how "global standards" play a role.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ...

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t...
You would think so. But I assure you, it occurs. It may be more the dealers themselves with the "casino" turning a blind eye. Maybe they themselves would face suspension of their licenses. Maybe ratting out a casino is not a good idea *looks over shoulder. I don't know.
I'd put the blame entirely on Time Warner for that one. The Target breach is entirely incidental to the store. The same thing would have happened if the card had expired naturally, or been closed for other reasons.
Rolling Shutter Correction using Gyroscope (2011)
Panda 4.0, Payday Loan 2.0 and eBay's Very Bad Day
Excellent questions. Regarding climate: there are many indications that measurements of atmospheric pressure are useful in forecasting longer-range trends. For example, the pressure over the Tibetan plateau can have a large affect on El Niño. Additionally, we've collected atmosphere data over a period of years, and we expect to find interesting climactic trends as well as shorter-term weather trends.

Here's a paper by Cliff and Luke regarding dense surface-level pressure observations: http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-13-00269.1...

> I wonder if it's possible to quantify how much a perfectly-accurate ground-level pressure field could constrain upper atmosphere dynamics

Yes it is possible and we're working on this currently. There are some neat math techniques that we can use to estimate what kind of forecast accuracy increase we'll get with a dense network - but the only way to actually know is to scale up and start running experiments to find all the thresholds for improvements and diminishing returns.
Interesting enough, Thomas Paine argued the exact opposite in his famous pamphlet arguing for Social Security. Paine is that American revolutionary you always see quoted at anti-tax rallies. His pamphlet on Social Security shared the same conclusions as Piketty's "Capital" except written two centuries earlier.

"It is wrong to say God made rich and poor; He made only male and female, and He gave them the earth for their inheritance." -- Thomas Paine, On Agrarian Justice

http://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html

The Social Security system Paine advocated was more targeted to 21 year olds and was designed to offer everyone opportunity at the height of their lives. While he also theorized keeping the elderly from poverty, it was not the core idea of his plan.
So, then this whole idea that Level3 is the only one having problems with these five last-mile ISPs is bunk? Level3's wikipedia page still says they deliver Netflix. Now you're saying they don't even host Netflix. What are Level3's other major clients? I have to imagine there are bigger fish than Apple/iTunes (maybe I'm all wet), they are the only other major client mentioned on the wiki page.
If I'm remembering correctly, only certain characters get transformed. So maybe you could use Huffman coding to map the text into a safe character set before you sent it. (might still have to strip out unacceptable characters to get rid of the ...hic)
How to build a hybrid iOS app
For those who aren't so lucky to have an understanding manager (though you didn't say your manager then agreed to let you start writing everything in a lisp...), I just wanted to bring out the punchline of this hilarious and melancholy comment[1] from a couple months ago: "And yet: the money guys are offering money. Just swallow your pride, play 'Stairway to Heaven' at the wedding, and pretend you've never had crazy eyes when talking about homoiconicity, and the rent will be paid."

[1] Don't upvote me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7423626
Thanks - noted / done
It still takes a long time when sandboxing if you're on a project using yesod and you get to re-build the entire dependency set for each project.
Perhaps it's evidence that -- at least at many companies I've worked for -- time in office is used as a proxy for productivity. And in some it matters more!
> I wish there were a single federalized syllabus, because it's not like Math works one way in Connecticut or Rhode Island and another in Texas or Arkansas.

So we can replace 50 extremely politicized and corrupt processes with one massive, impenetrable, extremely politicized, and corrupt process?

Otherwise, I agree. The problems are with implementation, not the standards themselves.
I think it's safe to assume that a drunk checksum would fail to match the message, drunk or sober. So check summing the checksum may not be needed.
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Live Consciously. Question Everything
I wrote this during a very tough run at the startup. Perhaps let me share a little bit more so that is it in context.

First and foremost, most credits, indeed go to my wife and family. The reason why I didn't mention my wife in this piece other than "You’re the only cool shade in the hottest of days/For a weary soul/that your Mother saved many years ago" is because this was a letter to my daughter. This piece was part of a collection of my thoughts from last year (when I was thirty) and I did thank my wife and family when I publish it: http://vuongnguyen.com/thirty-ba-muoi.html.

I'm 31 last month and I've been with my wife for 11 years now. We're best friends in many way and we support each other in our own dreams. Before my daughter was born, I was mostly doing consulting. I made sure I spent time walking and taking care of my wife. I made it a point to never miss a doctor appointment or any pregnancy/childbirth classes we have together. I really appreciated every step of the way.

Then my daughter was born, I stopped accepting new clients (as mentioned in the piece). Spent time with my wife and newborn. Then I stayed home for another three months with my daughter so my wife could return to work.

When I joined the startup, after much discussion and encouragement from my wife, I also made a promise to never miss any doctor appointment. That is still true. I feel blessed that I was able to afford much flexibility with my family and I never take it for granted. I know many other folks who go through a much more difficult time.

I think there is much more I could do and of course I'll continue to do my very best to be a good person every day. This was written as a personal thought and shared because I wanted to feel for myself and others, that we are not sitting alone on that home-bound train, if that makes any sense.

I hope that clarifies things a bit more.

-V.
If those are the 600 users you'll ever have, it's bad.
If in the next 3 weeks you get 600 more users, it's average.
If in the next 3 weeks you get 6000 more users, it's good.
So you're saying it's a lossy format.
Even better cleaned up footage of historic SpaceX powered descent into ocean
Online Grocery Startup Takes Page From Sharing Services
No idea why this is here ...

Anyway, this is one of the first things I learned to say and spell when I first moved to the UK. The full name is Llanfair­pwllgwyn­gyllgo­gery­chwyrn­drobwll­llanty­silio­gogo­goch, although read the page to see the history.

Curious, yes, but ... ?

Anyone who's interested, I will later this year be giving some math workshops and a lecture later this year in Bangor. I can probably get invites for guests if anyone is interested.
Okay, I'll explain that in detail:

> Yeah you're right, it's not turtles/functions all the way down. At some point, your functions are defined in terms of special forms.

Functions are defined in terms of special operators, built-in functions, user-level functions, built-in macros, user-level macros and data.

> Your special forms will either be natively supported or they'll be written with a defmacro in terms of native special forms.

DEFMACRO can't define special operators. It can only define macros. Common Lisp lacks the facility to define special operators.

> The definitions can't be circular, of course: if defmacro was used to define if,

IF is a built-in special operator. No macro.

> then if cannot be used in the definition of defmacro.

Generally it could. Macros can be recursive, for example.

> So my "rule" isn't really a hard rule. Macros/forms are the exception. But it seems more intuitive for me to think in terms of functions whenever possible, then to bend the rule when macros get involved.

Macros and special forms are everywhere in Lisp.
I think blaming "money" for so many problems is wrong. Like any writer reporters want to see their work published and read. This is what it means to be a successful reporter. And while it may eventually lead to more money given the very low compensation of the vast majority of reporters if their behavior was really driven by money they would change professions.
That depends on your definition of open.

The short answer is no. I've searched long and hard, high and low, for free (beer) horse racing databases for UK/IRE and Australia. To a lesser extent I've searched for HK, FR and GER data. I'm yet to find anything that is comprehensive and no cost.

There's a couple that I do use for UK/IRE racing which cost in the region of £35-£45 per month for access. Betwise/Smartform provides an historical database in MySQL, and daily race card/results updates. UKHorseRacing.co.uk provides CVS files with historical race data, their ratings and race results. I take these CVS files, combine them into a SQLite database and interrogate with R.

A slightly longer answer is, sort of. The Betfair API is currently open access for non-commercial and low volume use (as far as I'm aware). This will allow you to retrieve basic racing data - the cards before that race with horse name, jockey, barrier etc and the race results post-race including the Betfair Starting Price. After interrogating the API, you'll need to obviously compile the data into your own database. A bit of work, but feasible. Betfair has a developer programme and their are API bindings available in a number of different languages. I use R (R package developed by Betwise mentioned above), but I know Python is available. One caveat to mention is that Betfair are upgrading their API, so this will obviously have an impact on existing programs using the old one.

If anyone else has additional information or could point me in the direction of something else "free" I'd appreciate it as well.
For Italians it is easy explained: our average level of foreign languages' knowledge is ridiculous and if a movie is broadcasted in Original Version most of the people will not understand a bit..
Things are improving with newer generations (e.g. various MTV sort-of shows are subtitled - in Italian) but it will take time, and I'm not sure we will be ever be at the same level of Northern countries..

On the other hand I could say that many Italian dubbers are very good compared to other countries (sometimes they are italian actors as well)
Hackers claim iCloud/Activation Lock compromise
Silent Circle raises $30M, moves to Switzerland
Any chance there's a video of that talk?
Cool. You may have some tough competition with Treehouse.
RE: 2), the difficulty there is that you're now chasing the long tail of small dollars in a high-initial-touch business. Maybe a self-serve model could work, but the big corps and ad agencies representing the big money in the market are really really big on the brand safety thing. I'm not saying they're right, but as long as they're the ones signing the big checks, they don't really have to be.

I guess a self-serve business would be possible, but since your costs are the same for non-sketchy (for whatever silly definition of sketchy) content, you basically become a remarketer for the content that everyone else doesn't want to advertise on. You can sell it, sure, but it's a hard pitch.
Sandboxing is merely a stop-gap to reproducible builds (I hope). Nix style multiple instances of the same version of an installed package will lead to better reuse, thus faster builds.

If the fingerprints can be made precise enough, binary caches can be distributed from trusted parties, similar to what other package managers do.
Ah, I remember summers on Piketty. The fresh seafood, the smores, the fireworks. Ferry horns in the distance. And, oh yeah, the global wealth tax.
I told my friend he should list his, Zodiac, on there. https://github.com/nuex/zodiac
The point isn't to just not call a 'mentally handicapped' person by a slur. It's to prevent the stereotyping of a whole class of people by comparing them to someone doing something wrong or unintelligent. In "Paypal went full retard", what you're really saying is that Paypal did something that is so wrong that only a mentally challenged person would do that, which promotes a stereotype that mentally challenged people do bad things.

By the way, the euphemism treadmill of this subject has proceeded to the point where "mentally handicapped" and "mentally challenged" are also now politically-incorrect. The preferred term is now "intellectually disabled" or "learning disabled" (which to me is far more insulting than "mentally retarded", from a literal perspective, but less evasive than "developmentally delayed").
Microsoft's Surface Pro 3: the Toaster-Fridge Makes its Formal Debut
The 30% commission applies to in-app purchases made using the Store Kit framework. Generally, only digital items are sold this way.

See

https://www.quora.com/In-App-Purchase-IAP/Do-companies-like-...

or

https://developer.apple.com/in-app-purchase/In-App-Purchase-...

Hope this helps
> there have always been rich and poor - and always will be

Yes, and Jesus said[1] "ye have the poor always with you."

Likewise, there will always be crime, and disease, and suffering.

But do you agree that extreme inequality is a bad outcome? That putting more and more wealth and power into the hands of fewer and fewer monopolists and oligopolists is toxic to democracy and freedom?

If so, then working to reduce extreme inequality is a noble cause just like reducing crime, disease and suffering is worthwhile.

Even if these maladies will always be with us.

[1] http://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/26.htm#6
BusinessInsider: "…tech experts agree that net neutrality is a really bad idea."
As a software developer, I become "that computer guy" to everyone in my family. Which means I know everything about everything wrt computers.

Is this true in your experience? Do you think it's a good idea to have your run of the mill web developer creating device drivers for your embedded device?

Why then, do you think it was enough for him to simply speak with "dozens of lawyers" rather than finding one that had both knowledge and experience dealing with the specific area of the law dealing with this issue?
I would prefer a 1 time paid app. Reasonable is subjective, but I would be willing to pay $5 or $10 for it.
You might want to check out Metalsmith — http://metalsmith.io/ — the archive pages could be pretty easily made using the collections plugin. And if you needed anything custom, the plugins are super easy to write and can manipulate however you choose.
what's the difference between a wealth tax and a progressive tax ?
Grimm is the most hilarious series - if you know German and watch the original seties. Dubbing a series that is full of 'weird' references in a language to just that language is.. a stupid move.
If you're caching feeds, would you require thousands of requests to the db per second, or just thousands of web requests?

It'd be an interesting test to try setting up a simple stack of psql/nginx/memcache and your go processes behind, and serving up the same data from it, to see what sort of performance you get, but I understand why you wouldn't bother if your app is somewhat tied in to the datastore already and works fine for you as is. Just out of interest, did you start on something else and move over to Google App Engine for performance, or start there?
Good point. Noted and amended.
> The long form of the name was invented for promotional purposes in the 1860s.

So this was done as a marketing stunt, just a long time ago.
> I imagine Piketty would consider that a problem if he knew India existed.

I have no idea why people keep saying this about Piketty. You know that he's written on India quite a lot, both in the book and seperately where India is the sole subject of his work, e.g.: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fichiers/public/BanerjeePiketty200... as well as China: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fichiers/public/PikettyQian2009_AE...
New two factor-authentication gem for Rails
Don't require a signup just to find out how you approach teaching. Also, nice landing page but you don't explain why you're qualified to teach.
It is unclear to me how the $1000 of fiat gets transferred from the buyer (Bob) to the seller (Sam) in the example.
Okay, thanks for your response! Sandboxing seems to give ypu guys a hard time. I think the noise issue can be very problematic if you are using it on a real machine with plenty of web requests and not a virtual one.

Do you know if there is a way to setup the proxy manually? This way we can setup an instance of firefox doing the requests that matters but also monitor our ruby scripts that replicating these requests. It will make comparison so easy for our use case.