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I don't think you're giving Rockefeller enough credit. He learned a lesson from the Pennsylvania oil fields and their destructive competition, i.e. competition isn't always good. By monopolizing the oil industry, he actually lowered the cost of oil for consumers something like 10x, while at the same time standardizing its quality.

Right now companies like Uber and Lyft are breaking the law providing their services. If the cabbies win their fight, should the founders of both companies be demonized? You could call what they do shady, and the same goes for Airbnb.

Further, if the daughter of a medallion owner that was put out of business by Uber came to write the definitive biography of Garrett Camp, do you think it would be unbiased?

That's what happened with Rockefeller.
That's extremely true, but at any rate, I can't see any way around the fact that the actions of their child and the use of their credit card are more their responsibility than the server owner's. (Even if they don't control their child, neither does a random Minecraft server owner!)
TaskRabbit is blowing up its business model and becoming the Uber for everything
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Most of the time in the USA you end up with iron deficiency in soil by having it too alkaline. There's iron but the plants can't use it above pH 7 or so. Very much like dehydrating in an ocean, plenty of H2O just can't adsorb it from the seawater. So most iron problems in the USA are actually pH problems causing a lack of iron not a lack of iron itself. So most commercial "iron fertilizer" etc is something to acidify the soil and only a little actual iron sulfate.

It takes VERY little iron sulfate to provide the required iron for soil. It takes a lot of stuff to drop the pH a point or two.

If you research this you'll find that fixing iron deficiency in the USA caused by excessive use of certain fertilizers and it is REALLY EXPENSIVE and labor intensive because most of the money is blown on fixing the pH to make the plentiful existing iron available.

In the unlikely even you're low on actual iron in the soil, iron sulfate is ridiculously cheap and it doesn't take much, like a spoonful per 100 sq ft, so a $10 bag should be something like a lifetime supply for an entire village...

Also some fertilizers are good iron sources so supplementation is not necessary or even a good idea.

Given where I live banana cultivation isn't a serious issue so I don't know how bananas and their fertilizers interact WRT soil pH.

The TLDR is don't confuse soil pH repair with Fe supplementation (especially since one costs 100x more than the other) and iron may not even theoretically be a possible problem depending on local fertilization practices.
I live in Greenfield now. Able to easily afford a big house for very little money. Easy access to all of the neighborhoods you mention, as well as downtown. I walk to work in Squirrel Hill, for example.

Just to say, some of us actually like your old neighborhood. :)
Excel immediately comes to mind.
I'd be quite skeptical that she was ever able to successfully trick anyone into undergoing SRS. For one thing, it's fairly expensive. Secondly, no reputable surgeon would perform the procedure without verifying that the psychologist who wrote a letter was actually a licensed practitioner. Third, the WPATH Standards of Care specify that SRS should only be performed on patients who have two letters of approval from two separate practitioners.
For those who do suffer from motion sickness (like me), be aware that while the effect might not be severe (no vomit for me), the headache lingers quite a while (~30 min for me) after watching the video closely full-screen....... Still, a fun experiment.
Kickstarter makes this a bit tough. I'll see what I can do to add some varying sizes.
This looks like something that iOS will incorporate as a native feature. When they do this, do they usually buy the technology? Or the entire company?
Would be a good idea to market it for those two verticals.
You can't exactly route real-time game traffic over proxy designed to filter http traffic.
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Ah, I'm glad someone beat me to suggesting Udipi! Everything there is lovely, and I've never seen anyone else make puri (the fried balloon bread) as spectacularly large as they do. Probably the best Indian food that I've had in Pittsburgh, though Tamarind (http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/23/271746/restaurant/Oakland/Tam...) in Oakland has an amazingly affordable lunch buffet.
Actually yes they do! I have a few symbol fonts in my library that cost way more than he's asking for the 4 weights.

My personal hesitation isn't due to paying for a symbol font...I'm waiting to see a bit more of the font so I can decide if the style is neutral enough that I'll be able to use it in enough places to make the cost worthwhile.
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One could argue that Amazon just simply couldn't function if it wasn't as organized as it is. If the employees could take as much time as they like to walk to get the items they would need more people just to make up for the uncertainty, if employees could bring their own possessions in and out, inevitably things would get lost, and if they got lost, the system would not be accurate anymore,orders could not be shipped out and would have to be delayed/cancelled = reduced customer satisfaction. I have read this article you linked and I really find it hard to sympathize with the person who wrote it. She was paid a wage to do a job and to do it well - I cannot blame Amazon for making sure she was doing what she was paid to do.
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I don't think it's really paying for 'font' symbols but paying for something that's easily droppable in your HTML using <i> tags. At least that's why I use FontAwesome.
It's a question of the "all together other topic": In the sense of a theme, it has much in common, but the PI puts its questions there, were the TLP would be on the ground of an established knowledge. So it's partly the same, and at, the same time, if would go with the notion that the kind and level of the question itself would matter, something quite different.
1. IMAP is powerful and ubiquitous, but it does put a lot of work on the client: implementing a parser, caching values, correctly handling unsolicited messages. Switchboard tries to carry some of this boilerplate weight.

2. Yes! We still have to work this into Switchboard, but conversations in the JMAP (http://jmap.io) spec give an idea of how it will be implemented.
What does "pay for stability" mean? Is this actually an actionable business plan?
I use to live in Bay Ridge as well, I was at the end of the R (then RR) line at 95th St. The subway is local from there and it takes a good 45 minutes to reach Wall Street and an hour to reach midtown. On top of that you need to add in the time to and from the station at both ends.

Its been a while since I lived there but living in Bay Ridge is not what people think of when they think of living in NYC. There are no museums or shows, great libraries or parks with concerts. (Although there is Shore Road which is a great place to jog.) Going into Manhattan on weekends is a drag when you ride the subway all week. Honestly, comparing living in Bay Ridge to living in someplace like Pittsburgh, I don't see where it's worth the time that the added expenses costs.
This could seriously open up the market for a new contender. Didn't Twitch take off thanks to how onerous it has become to handle game-related videos on Youtube? Perhaps something similar could happen for music, since as far as I know youtube is a HUGE source of exposure for independent artists and labels.
No one besides you mentioned a degree.

They're questioning if you have any relevant experience with the topic which informs your opinion, or you think that the solution to a complex environmental problem is the first thing that "felt right" or "made sense" to you.
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We changed the title to the first part of the lede, since it says what the article is about.
>The highest concentration was found in Lake Ontario, with counts of up to 1.1 million plastic particles per square kilometre.

1.1 million 1mm diameter beads in 1 sq km doesn't seem like much, like 1 bead per million sq mm. But there shouldn't really be any of these. Kind of a ridiculous idea to begin with.
I get that you don't enjoy their content, but it seems like you are missing the point on purpose just to shit on those creators.

Every basic cable channel has ads, including ones mostly watched by children. Nick Jr type shows are pretty intolerable to me, but I get it - it's eyeballs.

The channels you're describing have long videos with high engagement, viewers watching multiple 15+ min videos in a row are some of the most valuable on YouTube.
Of course he can send you executable content right away. He can also send you to a page and instruct you to download something.
These seem like pretty weak arguments to me, especially if you were able to restrict execution to resources in the bundle (maybe that means no "eval" -- fine)

Most languages permit similar amounts of runtime dynamism, they just don't make it as easy as JavaScript. Actually, in some ways JavaScript is better than other languages in this respect:

* Using closures to encapsulate "private" variables is pretty bulletproof, AFAIK.

* ES5 features like "Object.freeze" and "strict mode"

* Object-capability safe subsets of the language, e.x. Caja, SES, etc

* CommonJS-style module system
Here's a principle from which you could derive "use unique tokens to identify the user": effectively, TLS already has a mechanism of fingerprinting users, called "client certificates." Their current browser UI sucks (much like HTTP Basic Auth) so nobody uses them (much like HTTP Basic Auth), and instead provides poor reimplementations of them (much like HTTP Basic Auth.) If you think about what you need to simulate having a client cert--a persistable shared secret generated by the host and securely sent to the client--then "a long random key inside a cookie" is what you'll be naturally lead to.
Elderly people who are incapable of understanding their own actions also shouldn't be left to care for themselves, and generally aren't.
The x86 images provided by Google run just as fast as the Genymotion images, and have Google Play. Just FYI.
I started learning Emacs and then forgot what I learned after a few days. Steep learning curve is quite depressing. And then their are great IDEs like Android Studio and Qt Creator for programming and LibreOffice for writing. What would I gain if I put time and energy in learning Emacs?
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Would it be possible to add a git remote so it would push to my Stash server or Github?
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Since this article was written, Google released an alpha version of a JS-based crypto tool: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-...

They directly address some of the arguments against JS crypto: https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/

When End to End was released I was curious if any proponents of "JS Crypto Considered Harmful" would have a response, but I didn't see one, nor do I see one here. I would be interested to see a response for why the Google approach is flawed.
We'd also need a Federal-level "Microbead Czar".
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If you care about maximizing your take home pay, you will not use a recruiter.

Regardless of what they tell you, their fee will factor into your salary negotiations and give you less leverage to the upside.

While the potential employer won't tell you the recruiters fee, behind closed doors the conversation goes "Well, he wants 125K and the recruiter has a 10% fee on top of that, so..."

You're automatically a more expensive employee if you go through a recruiter and that's a bad thing. If you're half-way good at what you do, reach out to the company you like directly.
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I generally have the suspicion that "boots" and the like offer only micro-optimizations. Buying a $100-150 bag advertised for durability versus a $30-40 generic brand backpack. Or buying a MacBook Pro versus a midrange laptop with Windows.

While there may be optimizations to be found in these situations, I also wonder about the cognitive cost per optimization, and I wonder if it might not be better to put the most of your mind on a job or geography transition.
As I said, run a seperate service for this. That way you only have to load the model (or even train it) once per service process. That is one thing the Openscoring service also does...

If you are more familiar with Python than Java, like me, then that would be a more attractive option.
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I send my kids to a Catholic school.

That said, I know several people who have gotten their kids into Pittsburgh charter schools and seem to be happy with that.

If we go the public school route for high school, my kids would feed into Allderdice, and I hear their advanced program is outstanding, with many kids going into Ivies from there.

Also, there's the Pittsburgh Promise.

https://pittsburghpromise.org/earn.php

"The Pittsburgh Promise scholarship is a big idea and a real commitment: if you live in the city and attend Pittsburgh Public schools from 9th grade on, up to a $40,000 Promise scholarship will be waiting for you at graduation."

Only applies to PA schools, but still, an impressive program.
Though I don't agree with all of it, I like this comment. Your SSL example is excellent. In the context of online shopping, SSL may protect your credit card number in transit, but it can't protect you from keystroke loggers that intercept the information before it is ever encrypted. Yet, the industry still uses it and people are consistently compromised by malicious software.

On the other hand, I'm still learning about crypto, so I find these conversations illuminating. Thinking about ways to attack security, or trying to understand how other people approach attacks has given me a far deeper understanding than merely reading about it.

However, that's a personal bias because being critical of what I learn is how I learn. Needless to say, I used to routinely drive teachers crazy...
> a completely new icon set designed from scratch

FWIW this was not what I got from a quick glance through the KS page. I left with an impression that you are just adding extra weights to the FA.

Also, making a completely new icon font ... damn, that's going to be a tough thing to market. Every second person on Dribbble considers it their blood debt to release at least one icon font, usually a freebie. There's ton of established icon fonts too, some of which are extremely well marketed and are essentially the go-to standards in the designer (paid) circles. Granted, you've got a great name at your disposal and an attention of a large user base, but given that FA is free, I just can't help but wonder what your conversion rate is going to be like.

[1] http://hlvticons.ch/

[2] http://pictos.cc/font/

[3] http://www.entypo.com/

[4] http://icomoon.io/app/#/select/library
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It sounds like you're referring to a particular article I must have missed. Any chance you have a link? I've read enough vitriolic back-and-forth between these two that I'd greatly enjoy hearing them discuss what they actually agree about :)
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Huge release this time around. Congrats guys & gals!

`r.args` isn't very flashy but is a huge step forward for ReQL.

Removing protobuf makes deploying to certain platforms (e.g. heroku) so much easier.

Promises support for the Javascript driver brings it to the modern age.

And of course changefeeds and `r.http`!

If you've been hearing about RethinkDB and thinking about trying it out, now's a great time to spin the wheels.
Millions were killed and forced to convert by christian fanatics during the Crusades, the Inquisition and the "Ages of Discovery".
I am Portuguese and find it appalling what was done in the name of Religion back then.
No I only consider new database tech if the application really requires it - not just to paly with the new shiny.
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This related article is interesting:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/why-king-geo...
I'd want some verification before taking that tidbit as fact, for sure. The way it's written, it sounds like an urban legend.
A "good kid" who breaks the rules isn't a "good kid", it's a bad one. If the parents never found out about the child spending the money, then the blame would not fall on them. However I don't consider this a very likely scenario not only because money doesn't tend to vanish into thin air, but because a responsible parent would monitor their child's spending. They might be able to get away with it for a while, but eventually they'll find out. If they gave them a $5000 check then they can't just forget about it, it doesn't magically vanish from under their noses. Even if they do just give the check and forget about it, it is again, their fault and theirs alone. They caused the scenario in which they couldn't monitor the child's spending. They can't assume the child will act responsibly; they need to monitor their spending. Kids aren't the exact molds their parents have shaped, but they should at least be taught basic survival skills, such as the ability to spend money responsibly.
> Maybe this is just me being stuck in my ways...

Probably.

By default Emacs is passable Elisp IDE and nothing more, really. Sure, it has a bunch of neat (disabled by default, mostly) built-in plugins (also tetris and doctor mode), but its main strength lies in how easy it is to extend and customize it. With plugins you first promote Emacs to absolutely outstanding Elisp IDE, then you get beautiful Elisp stdlib (strangely missing from core distribution) and from that point onwards you're already in editor heaven, because you can very easily install and modify every conceivable piece of functionality.

Right now I have 143 packages installed with package.el, about 30 packages installed via git (and cedet via bzr, I also build Emacs from bzr repo for ease of dumping it), 3051 lines of my own Elisp scripts, one package I installed from package.el but later rewrote completely (fuzzy-find-in-project, another 423 loc), another 254 loc in custom-set-variables and dependencies on thousands of lines of Python, Ruby, JS, Clojure, C (for example the-silver-searcher, among other more standard tools) and others.

The thing is, I'd probably have exactly the same Emacs config as you instead were it not for package.el. It's a scary thought for me now - going back to vanilla Emacs (I sometimes use Zile instead of Vim on remote machines) feels like I reverted to using notepad.exe, the difference is just that great. Without an easy way to install and experiment with packages I would probably install manually a few plugins I knew I wanted (because I used them before in Vim) and I wouldn't have moved forward at all.

For example, there is this wonderful info+.el by Drew Adams. Take a look at its Emacs Wiki page - to install it you need to manually download and require some 5 files (which is good, modular design and should be encouraged) which is a pain by itself. I probably wouldn't install it out of laziness. Then I'd never read absolutely fabulous Emacs, Emacs Lisp, Org Mode or Fugitive (cover to cover!) Info manuals, because really, documentation in black-and-white without syntax highlighting just isn't my thing any more (my eyesight getting worse and all). In effect, my Emacs would still be just Emacs instead of being MY Emacs, and I'd probably left it sooner or later (but now I'm being vendor-locked-in with myself being a vendor for most part, which is kind of scary too ;)).

The Emacs I use beats Sublime in terms of features easily and has - after a year of using it - literally thousands of little (and bigger) functions which make me more productive, more comfortable, better informed and plain happier than I'd be with vanilla Emacs. And it was package.el which enabled me to make my Emacs like this.
Posts without URLs get penalized. You'd be better off posting a story with the url, then adding your text as a comment to the thread.

However, people here are more likely to respond favorably if there's something they can try now (without requesting an invite) or at least some in-depth detail about it.
A conceptually simple way to version a relational database and keep the versions in Git (or any other VCS) is to reduce each version to a set of SQL scripts that build the database from scratch to its current state, and then commit those scripts to the Git (or other VCS) repository.

To make it tractable to do so with small, frequent, incremental changes to a DB, you'd need to be smart about tracking which scripts need to change rather than running a process to reduce the whole DB to scripts each commit.
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From a seemingly more evenly sourced article on gizmodo:

"Some labels are refusing to sign up because they say they're getting a raw deal from Google. They say that while the major labels have negotiated lucrative contracts, Google is offering indies comparatively bad terms. It's their right to say they don't want to sign up if they don't like the deal Google is offering them. In response, Google is drawing a line in the sand: If your label won't sign on to Google's crappy licensing deal for a new streaming service, you can't host videos on YouTube at all."

http://gizmodo.com/googles-about-to-ruin-youtube-by-forcing-...

Google has a reply appended at the end that is absolutely the worst bit of corporate puffery-non-response I've ever seen from them and IMO as bad a sign as any of the actual things they're being accused of plotting.
Sorry, it was not open source. BTW, it is just standard embedded firmware that control 3 axis motors + pump, CCD camera, etc. Highly couple to that particular instrument' HW. I am not sure what you can learn from it even if it was open source.
Found it. "The driving force in society is not love, but fear". It's on Youtube, but it's from this site: http://metanoia-films.org/films/
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You can make your own with equal parts coconut oil and sugar. Searching for "sugar scrub recipe" yields dozens of homemade recipes for facial and body scrubs that are natural and relatively inexpensive. Depending on where the ingredients are sourced, they're fairly environmentally sound.
>a lot of what's being offered is actually good...meditation...society

Indeed.

>I don't see too many gen-x'ers and gen-y's dying to get up early to go to church to be sermonized by the ravings of 1st century zealots. I don't see how that's remotely in their interests.

Here you hint at a problem: when you take away religion you leave a vacuum. What fills that vacuum? In our society, today, by default it is filled with "the pursuit of wealth". Gordon Gecko was a fictional villain in 1987 cinema. Jordan Belfort is a real hero in 2013 cinema. People sense the emptiness of greed, and our nascent popular skepticism prevents them from filling the vacuum. Who can read this riddle?

Clearly, we need something to fill the vacuum that religion leaves that is also compatible with our skepticism. What replaces it is not necessarily a religion, but it serves the same purpose: morality and self-restraint. Secular humanism is clearly not enough.