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We had something really great back then: Usenet. We used it much like most people use social media nowadays I guess, talking about stuff, sharing images, etc

Usenet even allows noting threads, blacklisting users, etc. But not controlled by any single company... I miss Usenet.
Modern interpretation of the commerce clause, as spoken about in Thomas' dissent in Reich v. Gonzales, means that the 10th amendment is relatively meaningless nowadays. Combine this with the Unitary Executive (bush/Cheney's keystone), and you have a congress with all the power to ignore government limits, controlled by the executive branch.
Your vision of a suburb has very little to do with the reality of my suburban existence. It's like someone from the country talking about the horribly dangerous ugly city with its filthy air, roving gangs shooting strangers, and huge rats running in the streets.

I'm not saying suburbs are perfect, but you've basically thrown up a stack of strawmen here.
I'm not sure I follow your middle point. Per capita, density does not necessarily equal worse crime rates.

E.g. NYC (Dense - http://www.city-data.com/city/New-York-New-York.html) vs. Houston (Sprawl - http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Houston-Texas.html)
You're missing the point. Doing something hard doesn't automatically bring you income. But if making apps required so much that you couldn't support yourself on the side, everyone who wasn't supporting themselves in the app store would leave.
Is Amazon rolling out a new design?
Maybe just testing but looking good so far! http://oi58.tinypic.com/do2r2c.jpg
I still don't get why there it no baseline HTML-only drag-and-drop functionality. It would cover a lot of cases with zero effort from developers:

<dragarea group="groupX">
<draggable value="abc">
whatever you want here
</draggable>
</dragarea>

<dragarea group="groupX" name="variableName">
</dragarea>

You drag element from first dragarea and get variableName=abc on the server. Multiple values work same was as checkboxes.

Fancy events could be added incrementally, later.
Scratch out "government" above - the overall failure rate of IT projects in general is crazy. The difference is that private project failures don't get news coverage (barring utter disasters that bankrupt the company).
Small towns can be fine if they have a compact walkable downtown, and are suitably close to job centers. Rural small towns and old rust belt towns are likely to die slow deaths regardless.
Some people are so much luckier than others because nobody writes articles about Bob Jones, the failed actor, even though the Bob Joneses outnumber the James Garners by orders of magnitude.

I'm now convinced survivor bias needs to be taught in kindergarden and every year thereafter.
Yeah, but what happens when all of the police officers and fire fighters have been priced out of San Francisco and can't get into the city from the East Bay during the event of a major earthquake?
Crime rates and school rankings are the two places where the general populations inability to understand statistics really come home to roost.
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>> I'm not so sure why people care so much, but it must be because people have this romantic view that their beverages should live up to some farm-to-table ideal.

People care because the bottles are straight up dishonest.
The idea is that when a security bug is found, Mozilla writes a patch against the current Firefox version, but Debian must patch whatever version is the Debian Stable, so they must write a patch to the earlier version of the source. Since the code has changed in between, the patch is different, even if it fixes the same bug.
Wickard v. Filburn established that all activity, including washing your dishes, is economic activity that congress can regulate under the commerce clause.
I wouldn't mind ads if they didn't completely destroy the viewing experience on many sites. From the long load times (oftentimes the browser rendering will hang because some stupid JS from an ad server has trouble loading), to the distracting ads, it's a huge mess. That is why I use Ad Blocking.
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I read that they have static analysis tools to track the flow of Contexts, making it much easier to verify that Contexts are threaded through correctly, which can make things a bit safer statically. It seems Go-like I guess: instead of language support for that sort of type system, simple enough lang and good enough tooling to implement the analysis externally.
Privoxy can not remove content Ads from encrypted sources. For example, the Ads google places before and after search result content.
You are never on the tracks. That would change the experiment, right? It would be self-defense and not much of a moral dilemma (that many people would struggle with or hold against you, I assume).
Sure. And there's no reason why things went so differently for James Garner than they did for Bob Jones. Just luck.
Indeed ^_^ I'll try to add reflog as soon as I can, or pull-requests welcome!
IME of suburbia, the grandparent's comment is spot-on.

I live in a city, and it's kind of ugly, kind of dangerous in many places, there are random shootings of strangers. The air, thankfully, is good. The rats in the streets would be kind of awesome! :)
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I have actually worked on the DCPS product as a former LM employee, so here's what I saw: there are two sides to the problem. The biggest problem is the number of stakeholders. Currently, each state has their own system to process disability cases, and each system has its own way of doing things. SSA & Lockheed are trying to consolidate these 50+ systems into one national system. Every state this product is rolled out in creates some new challenge to make it work the way the state's SSA office expects. Hopefully this new exec will have the power to make some decisions and say "no" once in awhile.

Lockheed has their own set of problems, mostly hinging on the contract they've signed with SSA. They are forced to hire a certain number of subs per their contract - hiring a percentage of subs is not unusual, but the level in this contract is very high. As such, the subs know they can force feed trash into LM. The resumes coming from the subs were complete bullshit. Things like "10 years of experience administering X", but then in the interview, you find out they know next to nothing. Especially bad with databases when you even try to ask them how to write a join. One meeting we had while I was still there was a "skills assessment" - from 1 to 10, how well do you know X? There was no negative to this meeting, we just wanted to know who knew what. The number of "10s" in that meeting was beyond belief.

So sure, Lockheed may not have a lot of experience here, but that problem is exacerbated by the stakeholders and the contractors they are forced to hire.
Great suggestions, thanks :)
@enjo Especially since the best marker for performance in school is parent involvement, if you're a really involved parent the school your child is in ends up having a lot less effect than people think.
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Hm, really? Works for me on http://kangax.github.io/html-minifier/
Yes but with a bit of electronics you can stop this from happening. Source: Institute of Physics.
> things in Git are never really deleted until you run `git gc`.

wording there is a bit dangerous, see this snippet from `man git-gc`:

Some git commands run git gc --auto after performing operations that could create many loose objects.

It doesn't say what those commands are. I've always found what I'm looking for in the reflog, so either I've been lucky or this cautionary note in the man page is conservative.
Android 'Fake ID' flaw could leave millions open to attack
The Internet is a Human Evolution
LOL, an article about 1996 Internet that doesn't contain "Usenet" once. #slatefail
Very nice! I've never had to work with Markov chains but I've read about them and they seem to pop up in lots of places.

Nice and simple and interactive explanation.
Yeah, this should rather read: "Never ever rebase pushed commits, unless you absolutely know what you are doing".
> and you get a neighborhood where everyone seems actively discouraged from knowing anything about their neighbors

This is completely unfair. I can tell you that from living in my suburban home over the past 10 years that over time I have come to know every single person who lives on my street. You have children that play together, that goto school together (and you may serve on the PTO together with those same neighbors), you have trees that you plant, fences that are built together. You see each other at garage sales. If you have an HOA, you likely maintain a common area together (maybe a pool)

On the other hand, there are those who complain how "up in everybody's business" the neighbors are.

All I can say is that everywhere is different, perspective is everything. I've live in major cities and talked to people who in major cities and "knowing your neighbors" is more reflective of who your neighbors are than it is of the geographical layout. (I also have neighbors who I have little interaction with, and that's just fine)
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Your email address is private if you put it in the email field. You will need to put all your public information in the 'about' field, so people can see it, I think.
Why? So the European governments can spy on you?
"The harder I work, the luckier I get" --Henry Ford.
I'm going to get down-voted into oblivion, but I never saw the love for Usenet. Sure, every topic under the sun was covered and anyone could access it, but it was far from perfect.

Impossible to search until things like DejaNews came along

Even going back a few months was a huge PITA on slower connections

Your ISP might not have carried every newsgroup, or it might update very slowly

I never cared much for mailing lists either, but at least many of them had a search interface that worked well.

For all the problems that web-based bulletin boards had, they were a huge improvement over Usenet. Much easier to use and faster to browse through. You can argue that if you want to, but they were adopted so much faster.
Force pushing to your own remote is fine in my opinion, when making a pull-request -- necessary for our particular workflow (I originally created this for contributors on my project)

More needs to be written on this though, thanks for pointing it out
If you don't think there are actors right now trying just as hard as anyone in history to get a break, and not getting it, I don't know what to tell you.

I guess the point is that looking at the .01% of successful people and ignoring all others who didn't succeed will give you a very biased view of what's necessary to succeed.
A smart move for everyone involved.

FEMA trailers for Katrina were a boondoggle. Costing $15,000 each, most were never used.

http://i.imgur.com/kdzzG8U.jpg

But that's just the tip of the iceberg. The total cost of ownership for many of the trailers ended up being north of $100,000 or even $200,000.

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08106.pdf
Since you're using a flight metaphor, let's continue it: when doing things like this, use your instruments! It helps a lot to have gitk (or tig) open next to your shell when doing things like this. Git is a DAG editor, you can treat it as such with the proper visualization.
Ok, I didn't read it. But I am of the strong opinion that what is for sale is political expertise and connections, not any particular technical expertise.

Perhaps toss in some particular narrow-band legal and program (as a human endeavor, not a technical skill) knowledge.

Most "revolving door" activity in DC centers around these areas of expertise and influence (politics, connections, legalese), as far as I have observed from my distant perch.
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Hey, thanks for your comment. You are the author of both of these extensions. Nice.

You certainly appear to have a winner of a service. However, it already appears to be complicated to go through the list of options in uBlock (what is checked and not checked by default - I will need time to understand).

I like how uBlock is running and your efforts, but it can possibly use some help in simplifying for typical average users, who should also use this (Ghostery is a winner in this regard with their wizard and simplified setup).

Edit: The two things I like in Ghostery: ability to selectively enable the individual blocked item; and be able to see the list of items being blocked.
Well Coinbase is essentially a broker and they support ACH transactions. Brokers don't typically show their order books and it doesn't look like you guys do either.

CoinSetter is kind of a hybrid broker / exchange and they offer fee rebates on coins purchased via ACH through coinbase.

I guess my point is why would I want to trade with you, a new and unproven company, that out of the gate is making a dubious claim of being the "first" of something of which there are already many. This is Bitcoin if you are making dubious claims on the small stuff how can we make the leap of faith that this isn't just scam company n+1
It's not the same (tasting) stuff in each bottle; everyone adds their little touch to it - a different mash bill, different wood for aging, different types of woods, different blends, etc.

There is some labor & R&D here that can't strictly be - ahem - distilled to dollars and cents.
I generally agree, except that the not being able to get around without a car bit is really True in my experience.

edit: It's easy to know your neighbors in suburbia if you're outgoing, and things vary from street to street. But there generally is way less interaction than if you were to have a neighborhood pub at the end of your street, or side-to-side porches everyone lounges on during summer nights.

It tends to be that you know the neighbors you get along with and ignore everyone else. In city environments, it's more like you interact with everyone because, well, no choice.
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." -Seneca
HN tends to punish people using Tor or other methods to obfuscate their tracks. On the four or five other accounts I've abandoned, this is then first that allows me more than 3 minutes on the site without invalidating my token due to inactivity. I suspect because it's been a valid IP every time (or so they think).

You should not expect privacy on computer systems you do not own. HN included.
People, especially with the libertarian thinking so popular on hn, don't like to admit that maybe they had little or nothing to do with their success.

No one lives in a bubble.
Had to explain to clients last time this happened only a week or so ago and now have to explain again. Not good.
No, Wickard v. Filburn didn't establish that that is true of "all activity", and if one thought that it did then one would be forced to conclude that that result was overturned in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995) and United States v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000).
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Why the hate? Did I miss the stories?
AdBlock Plus sold out. Google's Sponsored features continue to be automatically white-listed as part of that deal, even when "acceptable ads" is not selected. You can't block them using Element Hiding Helper.

AdBlock Edge is the only true ad blocker:

http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1mcsko/adblock_edge...
Your theory revolves around "snapshots" of people/pay/hours. Adults seldom stagnate in one income class their entire lives.

I don't believe a body of politicians should have the power to create income floors and ceilings with my tax dollars. An individual's actions determine whether he/she will climb up or down the economic ladder. If you're willing to pony up more of your money towards "public assistance" there should be a way for those that disagree to opt out of paying those taxes.
If you're in NYC, check out King's County distillery, just over the manhattan bridge in Brooklyn.

The proprietor gives tours every Saturday. It's a really interesting little place
Best post on luck, similar to this one, is by Paul Buchheit, "Serendipity finds you" - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/10/serendipity-finds-y...

And the best book IMO is by Michael J. Mauboussin, "The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Sports, Business, and Investing" - http://www.amazon.com/Success-Equation-Untangling-Business-I...

Way better than Nassim Nicholas Taleb's work, he's got his head up his ass way too much and makes too many hyperbolic remarks.
No wonder taxes are so unbelievably high. The FBI did the same thing a few years ago. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/03/fbi.computers/
This is fantastic. I have encountered markov chains in my career and always thought of them as a black box. This simple visualization makes it so easy to understand what has previously been so hard for me. Thank you.
I wrote a quick and dirty AdBlock detector a while back: https://github.com/elidickinson/ad-block-test

Haven't looked at that code in a while. It probably needs some updating, but the core idea is simple: create something that looks like an ad and then check if it's still visible.
Being able to relate attractiveness to a linear scale doesn't mean attraction operates on linear terms. In reality, there is no threshold nor is there a higher or lower. I agree with you in the sense that people will disregard personality or shared interests if they don't find the person physically attractive but there's no answer that's more correct than another.
I loved this one. I feel is really helping me understand the USA.
http://books.google.com/books/about/American_Nations.html?id...
Maybe it sounds stupid, but I have both on my Chrome so whichever whitelists the other will remove. Problem solved!

I have never ever seen ads since then
I don't like suburbs.

Why?

- I don't like the constant driving to get anywhere.

- I don't like the malls, the big box stores, the "clone" button that seems applied across the landscape.

- I don't like the giant roads carving their way around, splitting communities.

- I don't like the squandering of resources on lawns! individual houses! low-density housing!

I can say, with confidence, I'd like to live in a place where I own my house, where I have some property to do with as I please, where children can play nearby on grass, and where I don't sweat getting rent raised. On the other hand, I can easily see own a very small piece of land and having access to some neighborhood commons as part of a community.
I'm not sure how much I agree; wine and coffee work quite differently than distilled spirits.

In wine, you have never needed to own the vineyards to be a vintner - as far back as medieval Europe, we had merchants purchasing grapes from various regions and blending their own house wines. There is still skill in matching various grapes, yeast, water, and oak - much more so than simply bottling someone else's spirit.

It is similar in coffee; individual farmers tend to the crops and produce the green coffee (sometimes a commodity, sometimes a specialty product). Roasters purchase the green coffee from a middleman who takes care of sourcing, shipping, and storage. Often this is done after a sample has been sent and roasted and the price has been negotiated. The roaster is then responsible for the majority of the final flavor profile of the bean. His (or her) level of roast, airflow, timing, etc, will determine how the coffee should be brewed, and what notes will be present and what will be absent.

So again, it's a little different in coffee than spirits... the grapes and green coffee beans are closer to the raw grain used in making whiskey and rye, than to the finished spirit. There is no deception in selling wine made by another vineyards grapes or coffee purchased through a middleman.

As a side note, all of the largest artisan coffee producers (ie Stumptown and Blue Bottle) have started Direct Trade relationships with coffee farms, and pay a price premium to the farmer to increase the quality on the farm side - investment like this has yet to happen in the distilling industry.
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Probably like that...?
Not blackmail (threatening to reveal a secret, esp. to the police) but more like extortion.
Beautiful. I had seen Markov chains mentioned before, but had not looked them up. Skimming the wikipedia page made sense (it's a state machine with transitions determined by probabilities instead of defined events), but I would not have had an intuitive understanding of why they are useful. The explanation mid-way down about modeling the distribution of sunny and rainy days really made it click for me.
Some people are just lucky. You know that person at work or school who always seems to win drawings, etc.
India is a huge opportunity, true. But nearly 30% of Indians live on less than $2/day. I do not believe these are part of that equation.
> Then don't use xcode as your C++ IDE.

if the native IDE is not adequate, I don't think I'll find anything else. Most native apple things are cocoa-centric.

also the last version of Ogre3D engine is not even available, because of XCode and how apple builds its stuff. I hate hacking through galaxies of makefiles. I've lost patience :) It's just exhausting to rebuild everything everytime there's a xcode or OSX upgrade. I'm done. Microsoft supports backward compatility much better.
> A mischaracterization of Wickard v. Filburn, which is nonetheless one of the worst decisions ever handed down by the Supreme Court - taking an unusual circumstance that obtained during WW@

While, the court process and decisions occurred during WW2, the law and the acts which, under it, created the controversy occurred before US involvement in WW2, it was more about the Great Depression/New Deal than the War.
That was my first thought too. Uber's having varying affects on medallion prices on different cities. The price of medallions in NYC, for example, have gone up: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-28/if-uber-is-k....

I suspect the potential for gain from the current economic conditions in Argentina outweigh the potential for disruption from Uber in the near future.
While I'm on board with the suburb criticism, I'm not sure that "per capita" is the relevant metric here. I'm concerned with the number of crime incidents per unit area, over the areas where I will most be. Is there a reason I should prefer one metric over another?
> In the second, Flashlight has been promoted from number 10 to number 9, falsely inflating its ranking.

This is a concern that goes away in a user-centered design process. The "ranking" does not matter to anyone but app developers or journalists keeping score. The only reason a user looks at those lists is to find new apps to download.

Consider Google SERPs, which are now highly customized. Who obsesses over whether an item is at #7 or #9? No one but the people who own those links. Everyone else just wants an answer to their question.
FYI you're being downvoted because your comment basically amounts to, "I'm not going to contribute to this conversation," which is self-admittedly worthless.
"Dixie" generally refers to states south of the Mason-Dixon survey line where slavery was legal. This map's concept of Dixie includes some areas above that line and excludes some areas inside it, like most of Texas and Missouri. "The Foundry" seems like a euphemism for the more commonly used term "Rust Belt." It's an area that traditionally has had lots of heavy industry, but has largely been in economic decline in the last 20-30 years.
Small towns and suburbs are not one in the same.

Traditional neighborhoods are great. It's the isolated, curvy, car-centric suburbs made by developers that are the problem.
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