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From the faq [1]:

> Why an email address instead of a username?

> Password resets.

> I tried usernames with Instapaper at first, but people forgot their passwords and got locked out of their accounts all the time. It was by far the top support problem. Email addresses fix that. (Nothing’s stopping you from entering a fake address, but if you forget your password, I won’t be able to help.)

[1]: https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq
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Are there any Go events in the San Jose area? I heard there are some in San Francisco but it is kinda far in a work day!! So far all the Gopher major events seem to be in different states.
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I like this, surprisingly I actually prefer the black and white versions of many sites. A reminder to keep things simple and not overdo it.
There are 2 different things that the author is conflating:

- Snowden has decided to slowly diffuse the documents piece by piece to keep the public interested in the matters, even years after the initial impact. This is crucial in changing the masses mindset: ecolo stuff has taken 40 years to be something people care about.

- Snowden and his partners have decided to exclude some information because reasons. They have taken an editorial role in the story.

While I agree with the author that the 2nd point can be problematic (because they are their own judges of what is good and what is bad, and that is not up to them to decide), the 1st point is really useful if you want to have a real impact.

So I'm globally positive about what Snowden has done, because the important thing here is for everyone to realize the massive surveillance on populations in direct contrast to our values. The exact details are interesting, but not as much.
In the long run their only real hope is to disrupt the Kindle ecosystem with a paid subscription model — a “Beats for books,” if you will.

Not sure what "Beats" means in this context - essentially he's talking about Netflix for Books, yes? I'd also love this, not least because most publishers still adamantly refuse to drop DRM and the paid-subscription all-you-can-eat model is pretty much the only one (aside from rental, which isn't going to happen) where I consider DRM to be morally defensible.

But I just don't see it happening. We'd just end up with a separate subscription service per publisher/imprint; it's the way they think. It's as if the whole concept of convenience isn't even on their radar.
Shifting away from desktop Ubuntu has probably nothing to do with release cycles, and everything to do with Unity.
Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu got very popular when Unity debuted :)
If you think that's cool, check out the generalized full color version: http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/prfdisplays/
This is awesome. love it. Thankyou Erik and Shaun.
Oh it's you who has this hypothesis. I thought you were referring to something in on of the links I posted. So if that's your hypothesis, why not look for a study that tested it? http://www.economist.com/node/11449804 http://www.voanews.com/content/girls-get-better-grades-than-...

But aside from that, wouldn't you like to get the women are are actually good at math and science to get into STEM fields, even if they are a minority? I think that's a question we can actually do something about, even if we can't change how good women are at science. http://www.macleans.ca/general/girls-good-at-math-half-as-li... I'd like to encourage good female programmers, however many of them there are, to go into programming jobs.
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I just bought the in-app upgrade. Overall I really like the app, and how easy the search for shows is. It deserves to be on my homepage and replace Swell (the current app I use). Having said that, I do wanted to make the same comment (at the expense of sounding superficial too): the icon needs a facelift, it's plain ugly, and i want to have a 'good looking' homepage.
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So it makes sense that the surveillance will never be curtailed politically, but what about technologically? Is it possible that software that fights surveillance will become prevalent?
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Violence is accessible. Tom and Jerry could have a nice philosophical dialog in the park, but that would put Tom and Jerry beyond it's target audience. Instead, they smack each other around with frying pans.

Even shows that shoot for the more pacifist/philosophical angle tend to prominently feature violence (Doctor Who seems like an obvious example).
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Love the spinning animations! Reminds me of the "tech" look and feel from early 2000's. Think Winamp skins.
I think it's a neat premise. We've had several critically acclaimed games that dealt heavily with "realistic" things -- Heavy Rain, for example.
He was referring to Beats Music, a Spotify/Rdio alternative [1].

[1]: https://account.beatsmusic.com/
That's the thing about getting woken up every two hours for years on end when your kids are babies - it erases your memory of what it was like not to have kids. Which is probably a good thing, really, because if you could remember, it wouldn't be good for your sanity or your kids health. You only really start to understand your parents when you have kids of your own.
How is USC not there? Alumni founded Salesforce, Box, Myspace, Kinkos, Intuit, Qualcomm...etc.
The threat model isn't "what if someone tells everyone their username and password", it's "What if someone gets your username and password". I think most of the time people have one number they connect to, and everything else will be fringe cases. If you're worried they'll forget what phone number it's sent to, you can do the same thing you do with other verification/reset loops - "Enter your e-mail address and we'll send you an e-mail with the phone number you used". It might not always be the best authentication method, but at this point almost all authentication falls back to "I control the e-mail address that I controlled when I started the account" at this point anyway.

Plus, at the very least you could just reveal the last 2 digits of the phone number upon request. That's still side-channel data leakage, but at least it's much more contained.
Huh, I like the icon.
You're welcome. Saving is broke right now.

Be sure to check out the Less Mixin mode where you can name your rows and columns and use pure Less to make the grids.

Fun fact - it's all clojurescript.
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Hm, most of my bullying was emotional …

I was never hurt or even just beat up. I don’t think I was ever in a fight or ever threw a punch (to this day). I can recall two incidents of physical bullying. One was two bullies blocking my path to the school with their bikes (I drove into them full speed which made them call me crazy and go away), and one was the same two bullies taking away my backpack and throwing it down a bridge.

Also, I find the way you discount non-physical bullying extremely troubling. No, you can’t just ignore mean words if that means isolating yourself from many vital social interactions. It’s not like you have much choice on who to interact with in school. You will be together with those people, you can’t flee it, you can’t close your ears. They can get to you if they want to.

This pervasive violence must be an American thing or something, or maybe it’s a class thing in Germany (where I grew up, middle class, school that directly qualifies you for university)? It just never happened to me at all.

I also don’t have a solution when you are being bullied. For me it just stopped at a certain point. Bullies turned into people who just left me alone. They didn’t want to have anything to do with my, but they also didn’t bully me at all. I think they grew out of it and it had nothing to do with me at all, only them.

(Hm, maybe I should add an example of emotional bullying to balance out the descriptions of physical bullying: We were on this trip to Berlin in the huge lobby of the foreign ministry and a kid was driving around the huge space, all alone, on his tiny tricycle. I was really into photography at the time and this made a great motive, so I snapped a few photos … which lead one bully to constantly call me a pedophile for the next two years or so. He even managed to sneakily and in an obscure way put a reference to that in our graduation newspaper. That’s emotional bullying and it was much worse for me than any physical bullying I ever received. Also, hard to ignore. We were lining up to get security checked before going into the ministry, so hardly a place where I could ignore him. Also, am I supposed to ignore our graduation newspaper?)
No love for KeePass in that article? I recall all those password managers being broken by tobtu.com or various users on Hashcat forums. http://www.tobtu.com/lastpass.php
Well, printed books have been around a lot longer than "printed" music, so of course, there was a time when people (who were lucky/rich enough to own books) displayed books because they had nothing else to display. That's not really a fair comparison, nor one that makes sense in this context.

I also think you're really underplaying how people enjoy their music collections. I hold on to records for the same reasons you hold on to books.

The next few decades will be interesting. Just like how vinyl has received an increase in popularity for many reasons, if this Kindle Unlimited type of distribution for the written word takes off like digital distribution did for music, you should fully expect hip young people in 2044 to start buying books again.
I'd be okay with that, I just hadn't considered it. By format do you mean design or content (or both)? And are you thinking a Creative Commons license?
> For desktop systems it might be different, but then again in our lab (~50 users) most of our Ubuntu's users shifted away to Mint over the course of 3 years. Only one is still using Ubuntu.

That is due to the awful UI decisions Ubuntu made.

Then again I run Ubuntu Gnome instead of Mint.

> This is not what "support" in "long term support" is. Predictable release cycle in these terms is not worth much.

That isn't related to the OP's argument. The OP is basically saying that predictable support cycles of 5 years is something Debian should do in the interests of keeping big players in their ecosystem instead of them drifting into Ubuntu's orbit. The quality of Ubuntu's LTS is irrelevant if people switch purely because of marketing.

https://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140424

It was done for Debian 6 and I'm pretty sure the OP is trying to encourage Debian to continue that on Debian 7 & 8. However, with no guarantees, people will switch to Ubuntu since Ubuntu's quality is "good enough".
For many, libraries just aren't convenient. Even if the location itself is convenient, navigating the the eBook collection might not be. Even if navigating the eBook collection is convenient, there is often (in my admittedly limited experience) a wait time for the books I'm interested in. Perhaps there are some who would admonish me for sticking almost exclusively to eBooks, or for my laser focus on What I Want rather than other available options. Whatever, let them. The point is that time and convenience are worth money to me, and many others.

If my Library let me donate $120 to them annually with the ability to borrow from an eBook collection of 500,000+ without having to go to a local branch or waiting for someone to "return" the digital file then I'd write the check tomorrow. I just get so tired of everyone on social media so smugly pointing out that libraries exist and have books you can borrow for free. Yeah, we get it, but many libraries don't provide the service I'm (and others, it seems) looking for. I have the means to be flexible in my selection of service/product providers, and I choose to spend money on those that match my habits and preferences.
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I'm a regular user of the local library, but I notice that most people in my "class" (i.e. tech people earning a lot) don't go there. It's easier to buy it on your Kindle for $10-$15 than to make a trip to the library. I'm gonna be a jerk and say that most people also like to hang out in expensive coffee shops with other members of their class, and not in the library where there are lots of poor people.

It's a little bit like grocery stores... you can often get a better deal if you go to another neighborhood. But most people want to hang out with their peers in the nice grocery store. The savings isn't worth the trip either.
Apparently so (from http://www.revk.uk/2014/07/dripa-and-aasisp.html):

> It was so close I did an edit :-)
True. But we're not talking about used paperbacks anymore more than we're talking about used CDs. Digital copies of books are not discounted once they're "used" so you aren't going to collect as many ebooks for $120/year. It really just depends on the usage patterns. My kids could probably put a $10/month book service out of business. I would probably be their best customer with like 1 book a quarter. :)
I'm not suggesting that combat-based games aren't fun. I've spent countless hours playing first-person shooters and the like, and they can be absolutely wonderful. However, I am also interested in video games as an artistic (not -commercial) medium, and I think that going to combat as the core mechanic just by reflex can limit games in that respect.

As far as Bioshock is concerned, I think it does a decent job with the story, but more importantly I think it represented just another step forward for video games as an artistic medium. It showed that games with a concept or philosophical point could have market appeal, and it paved the way for greater interest in such games down the road. There are stories and ideas that video games, through their interactivity, are uniquely suited to tell, and as a relatively new medium people are still figuring out what its strengths are, and how to make real art with it.

You may not care for video games as an art form. You may only be interested in them as a source of entertainment. That's fine! That's wonderful! We can have both! I am simply happy to see increased interest in video games as art, and I think that something as simple as moving beyond the idea of combat as the core mechanic is an important step toward realizing all that video games can be.
That wasn't my experience. I received issues with both. I wouldn't say that one was worse than the other, but types of bullying aren't specific to gender.
My guess: because you used "just", which has the linguistic effect of belittling this four-button-toolbar innovation. I guess you didn't mean to do that, but you did anyway. I didn't down vote you BTW.
A very quick Google search leads me to believe otherwise.
Everyone down voting you is most likely a guy.

Not that I agree or disagree with your statement, it's almost impossible for someone of the opposite gender to fully understand the extreme differences between genders in high school.

Edit: And everyone down voting me is also a guy.
Not relevant in this context at all.
It seems this issue was only recently closed (May 9) [1] .. and it seems a websocket library with full duplex support is still in the works.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/11165
Imagine if the principa mathmatica was decided upon by democracy.

That hard.
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I was really excited about seeting this as I am a big purchaser of photo books as gifts. A number of things confuse me in creating the book:

1. Is there no ability to reposition a photo placed on the page. Even in the demo some of the pictures are cropped badly, and I could not figure out how to adjust them.

2. It states "It will be same price no matter how many pages or photos you have." -- is that "as long as you don't go over 120? So..The "Large" book is $1 per photo? How do you differentiate from other book makers that are much less expensive?

3. Is there no crop, rotate, rearrange or ANY kind of adjustment to the photos in the book? There is no way on earth I would pay $119 for a book that I couldn't tune. Your "automagic layout" didn't get it right for me at all.

4. How are the books bound? I don't know what lay-flat binding means. Are they glued, sewn? How do I know that in a year the pages aren't going to fall out?
You could use justin.tv which is much more generalized.
Whatever they're for, I think downvoting for a comment should only become available after replying to the offending comment.
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> A Swedish court has ruled that an arrest warrant against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on charges of sexual assault will stay in place.

This article uses certain terms very loosely and irresponsibly.

No "charges" have been brought against Assange (yet). The prosecution claims to want to question him, but has turned down offers to do so in the embassy or remotely.

Indeed, this FUD-like assertion about "charges" keeps floating about so much that the Wikipedia article about the case has an explict section[1] about that.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_A...
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That's hardly surprising, given how Swedish courts have no problems with keeping people in prison pending judgement in cases like this. If they see that as justified, then self-imposed "house arrest" in an embassy is hardly going to strike them as particularly onerous.

What's more interesting is whether or not his lawyers manages to get anywhere with their demand for access to the remaining prosecution evidence. E.g. the SMS's the women sent, for example, which Assange's lawyers have previously been allowed to see but not get copies of.
Oohh, memories of Turbo Vision resurface...
This type of thing makes me wonder about the business model for authors. An obvious comparison is the music industry. It is common knowledge that almost no musicians make a majority of their money from sales of their music (and only elite acts really make any substantial money). Musicians basically give away their content in the hopes that it attracts people to their live events. Authors do the exact opposite and do numerous free events in hopes that it attracts people to purchase their books. I wonder if this will change over time or if these business models are caused by the inherit value of the content vs experience of each form of art. Stand up comedy probably exists in the middle ground of the two regarding the value of the content vs experience and standups generally follow the musician business model of giving the content away to attract people to their live events.
A lot of libraries are starting hackerspaces. You should see if you can mentor at one.

I mentor at a program at my library every week, and it's been really awesome.
It's not like violent revolutionary movements have an outstanding success rate by comparison.

I am amused to see you arguing this just minutes after asserting on another thread that the best response to bullying is to not allow bullies to make you feel bad about yourself, though.
A slightly more detailed explanation: http://www.fransmaes.nl/genk/en/gk-zw08-e.htm
I'm thinking of https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/15363 as one example.
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It also has somewhat to do with release cycles.

If the package you're having problems with is an old release that is not maintained anymore upstream, and/or ubuntu shifted to another package, you can kiss your "support" goodbye in most cases.

Now I'm a bit too pessimistic, because in Debian such cases do also exist, though it's much more rare due to the way the stable release is managed.

And I have to say that for true long-term support, with support meaning=capability of debugging issues in-house for all the core stack they release (most importantly, the kernel), RedHat is probably the only real choice you have actually.
Hacked this up in a day or so to let me explore APIs more easily (and to test my own APIs). Whatcha think?
It seems like there is a good amount of posts hitting the front page lately that are simply collections of tutorials, libraries, or other references without much substance.

I'd love to read about some in-depth experiences with said tutorials and libraries, why some options might be better than others, or the tradeoffs made amongst them.
This guy's output is awesome: http://www.hineslab.com/digital-sundial/

Check out his other inventions.

*link from the wikipedia.
I think they meant "It sucks for OysterBooks that Amazon is doing the same thing", rather than "OysterBooks sucks".
You're welcome. <3.

0.11 was the first edition I _completely_ re-read all the text and fixed things, and I still had something like ~10 errors. Editing your own writing is hard.
My reading of LTS has always been that they will continue to provide the updates from upstream, whereas a release that has past end of life will recieve no updates.
Sorry if this sounds condescending. I'm asking out of total naivety. What is the background of people who typically run A/B tests? Are they often unfamiliar with things like multiple comparisons, stopping problems, and the like?
No, I totally understand about music collections. I still buy new albums on CD, despite the fact that I mainly take advantage of Amazon's instant MP3 delivery (autorip?) [1] which means the original CDs might even never get played. I simply cannot shake that sentimental need to own/collect an object that I can associate with that album. I truly think this is unhealthy behaviour, though, one which the human race will overcome, but that I personally probably will not.

I'm guessing [2] you hold onto records not just because of your attachment to the physical object, but also because you get them out and play them from time-to-time. I hold onto countless books that I will almost certainly never read again.

[1] Yes, I'm aware that, in some people's eyes, this makes me the worst kind of philistine, but I'm a music fan, not an audiophile.

[2] With apologies if that's not the real reason you hold onto records :)
Hmm, it's possible that my contacts and friends in health IT have led to selection bias on my part. A quick google seemed to confirm my original train of thought but lacked any real numbers so it's entirely convincing that it's all marketing fluff like you say. My personal heath IT experience was aimed at individual doctors office level systems and the test users tended to tie back to Watson and IBM cloud services. That said I know A LOT of heath is still woefully bad at having e-records so it was likely a tiny slice of the market that we targeted.
Yes, cracking down on companies pulling these sorts of stunts is a good idea.

However, I think a better idea is raise capital gains taxes on foreign companies since this "trick" only really benefits the investors. I suspect if the Board's stockholder backers finds themselves paying more for their foreign investments they might reconsider...
Just a note that despite a downvote on this response, my specific example is enormously vindicated 3 days later as Tesla just announced the Model 3, which sites headline as "Tesla Model 3 to challenge BMW 3 Series", writing: "Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk has revealed plans for a new electric BMW 3 Series rival, including its name – Tesla Model 3."

https://www.google.com/search?q=model+3
And if we had that information, we could use it.

Without it, all we can claim is that a non-insignificant population has these issues.