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> Google treat the http and https versions of a domain as SEPARATE PROPERTIES.

That's not quite accurate. It's on a per-URL basis, not properties. Webmaster Tools asks you to verify the different _sites_ (HTTP/HTTPS, www/non-www) separately because they can be very different. And yes I've personally seen a few cases - one somewhat strange example bluntly chides their users when they visit the HTTP site and tells them to visit the site again as HTTPS.

> This means that even if you 301 every http page to https when you transition, all of your current rankings and pagerank will be irrelevant.

That's not true. If you correctly redirect and do other details correctly (no mixed content, no inconsistent rel=canonical links, and everything else mentioned in the I/O video I referenced), then our algos will consolidate the indexing properties onto the HTTPS URLs. This is just another example of correctly setting up canonicalization.

By the way, if you're moving to HTTPS, following our site moves guidelines:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/6033102?hl=en&re...

specifically, the site moves with URL changes:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6033049?hl=en&r...

But you did say you have a client with an issue. I suspect they either implemented the move to HTTPS incorrectly or something else is going on. Please ask for more help at our forums:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/webmaste...
Possibly it refers to him being allowed to _return_ to Russia if he travels abroad.
For me personally both objective c and go are not that interesting, so I find http://www.coolgithubprojects.com/ more useful.
Likewise, hold Shift and click the minimized window icon in the dock for the reverse.
One of the problems is that he has no valid passport. The US has cancelled his. So he cannot take a regular flight. Also, any country would need to proactively make an exception to their rules to have him enter their territory, welcoming the wrath of the US administration.
Marketing takes calendar time to spin up. I don't think that's naturally intuitive to developers. It certainly wasn't to me.

Launching now won't suddenly bring Every Single Customer to your homepage tomorrow to notice that that one feature is missing and dismiss you forever. Rather, it will bring a few hundred people this week, four of which will ever make it far enough into the funnel to notice that feature (that they don't actually need).

Just pull the trigger today. Do it yourself if you like, and let your partner catch up with things like "add a way to process credit cards" later.

The quicker you get your thing out there, the sooner you start that long slow ramp towards profitability.

Good luck!
I work in a clojure shop with about 10 other developers. Until very recently, we hired folks with zero exposure to clojure or even function programming. Do we use all the new bells and whistles that Rich and the folks at Cognitect develop for clojure? Yes, but we're not jumping into the existing code base and refactoring everything to use core.async or reducers. Usually, one or two guys will use it in a less public, less critical piece of the infrastructure as a real-world application and then we do a code review with the whole team.

So, how do you build a clojure team, exactly? Don't try to exclusively hire developers who have been exposed to it yet or have masters degrees from elite universities, focus on finding people who love to program, who are genuinely interested in improving their own abilities, but can clearly hold their own in the language they currently use. You will soon have a team of developers who love the challenge of keeping up with what guys like Rich Hickey (and Cognitect) are doing. We have been very successful with this.
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If you imagine Putin behind him with a gun pointed at his head you will understand his situation.

He's got him by the balls and can make him dance like a puppet if he wanted to.

That doesn't make his past actions any less heroic.
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No, I didn't mean that.

More like trying to turn people who are life-long friends into blood enemies. It's an inherently same culture, similar language, mentality and drinking habits, same religion. If you look at the beginning of the rebel conflict, you'd see a great deal of resistance on both side to engage in active hostilities. On more than one occasion Ukrainian troops were talked into turning back. People don't want to fight, but they are being actively coalesced into it. There's no simmering feud, no age-long hatred, no real reasons for fighting except for high-level geopolitics, which is why I think that Ukraine's anti-president revolt didn't happen in isolation, but as a response to something that happened earlier, of which Snowden seems to be the simplest explanation.
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Well yes, without those it wouldn't even be worth talking about. I don't think the several experiments so far rise to the level of "extraordinary", but now that this is capturing so much attention, I don't doubt we'll get there soon.
> I assume they feel it is their honor and duty to do so

Free advertising.

Why should a commercial entity have a donate button? Why would I donate to a business?
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Hey Pierre,

Quick question. Is the type of certificate also a signal? i.e. self-signed vs plain vs EV?
Except you are not trying to spread the message about oppressive internet laws in Russia. Nor are you informing and complaining about Russian freedom. Instead, you are complaining about Snowden not instantly becoming Russia freedom activist and general expert on Russia freedom.

Because if he does not get himself involved in freedom of all countries in the world, then his own message about freedom in country he is actually citizen of does not count. Because he should voluntary spend the rest of his life in small box to prove his is not hypocritical, right?
Works fine if you use requests, or any other HTTP library which hasn't been left to rot like the one in the 2.x stdlib.
Check out the StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com podcasts . . . there are a few episodes on shipping with an initial feature set to start getting feedback from paying customers . . so you can see what real customers want/are using before you spend time on features/additions that might not even be useful to paying customers.

There are also some episodes on marketing, SEO and building an email list . . . I would recommend getting started right away on a website/landing page and building an email list. If the feature he wants is a 1 or 2 week thing maybe you can start ramping up marketing while the feature is being completed.

Check out articles/podcasts with patio11 and amy hoy as well . . . they are all fans of launching early to validate your idea, get feedback from paying customers and start generating revenue.

Good luck with the launch.
No, but that was my point. Snowden cannot safely fly anywhere without risking a sudden and abrupt rendition to the US.

He cannot risk flying. The Bolivian incident showed just how powerful the US is when it comes to Snowden and flying. They forced down a presidential jet for god's sake! They were willing to risk a massive diplomatic incident and outcry (toned down) by doing so.

He could travel by boat somewhere quietly, but (in my opinion) countries that have offered him some degree of asylum, such as Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela are not stable or strong enough to oppose the will of the United States of America. If I was Snowden I couldn't imagine anything worse than landing in Bolivia, only to find that two years later a pro-US president miraculously wins the election. The US-CIA have a rather impressive record of subverting elections in South and Central America, so he would be a fool to risk it.

Therefore, he is confined to Russia until Russia finds a reason to become the USA's best friend. He can travel overland to any country that is pro-Russia and protected by Russia. That's about it. Most of them are (ex)war zones.

Considering the current geo-politics, that scenario is highly unlikely. The status quo is likely to remain, as long as oil, gas, and other natural resources are fought over by the world's major league countries.

The US has little (in comparison) natural resources, whilst Russia has more than any other country. Long term, the power scales will tip. The only thing that may change that is a pro-USA Russian government.

Oh, and pigs might fly over the Kremlim before that happens.
Is this the same thing as the Q-thruster?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_vacuum_plasma_thruster
Please be true, please be true!

How big is a two megawatt nuclear power source anyway? A quick search showed nuclear power plants are in the hundreds to low thousands of megawatt range, and RTGs are in the tens to hundreds of watt range. I have no idea what something that lies between those two would be.
Welcome to office politics at bigco! You're upheaving the existing processes and people don't like that. You have to remember that the trade-off for working at a big company is larger scope projects, higher pay, more upward momentum in exchange for working fewer hours, dealing with more bureaucracy, and having a more limited scope role. Most of the people you work with really want 40 hours a week, and you will really want 40 hours a week in 7 months. I can't tell from your original post if you're working 60 or 40 and just being more efficient. If it's the former, stop now. Go home at 5pm, have a beer, enjoy life, and try to repair some of the relationships with your coworkers before they turn into backstabbing assholes. If it's the latter, you might want to slow down the rate of change, or at least change the way your coworkers do their jobs. Change how you work. If you need to change how everyone else works, get buy-off from other people before you impose. Sometimes you need to impose changes, but that burns political capital and goodwill until they can see it's better. (Note, if it's not better, this obviously means you'll never regain the expended social capital)

With the exception of your coworkers begrudging your work output, are they still generally cool & interesting people that you can learn from and get along with? Then you should really consider staying.

As far as challenging work, you're what, 3 months into the new job? Depending on your boss, he could be holding back some cards so you get a slow exposure to the company. I'd highly suggest talking to him and reconcile what you thought the position was versus what you perceive it is now. He's obviously impressed with you now, so you'll have much more slack to do what you want.
You talk about Factor as if it (community, development, ecosystem, etc.) is practically dead. Is it?
Coming from an almost totally Windows experience, how restrictive is 2GB of RAM going to be in Ubuntu, because Im not even sure a Windows machine would function on 2GB these days haha.
You don't need credentials to be identified, your browser can be identified quite accurately (see https://panopticlick.eff.org/).
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The boldest move would be for Putin to let Snowden board a nuclear sub and let him go freely to his chosen destination, under the protection of the Russian navy.
The point is that basic understanding of programming is basic computer literacy. The gist is that if you can't automate with a computer, you aren't really able to use the computer as a tool.

One could argue that if you're able to use the computer to catalogue and enhance data, turn data into information (like visualizations) -- then you're able to use a computer. A lot of this can be done in Excel (or another powerful spreadsheet program). But then most will also tell you that spreadsheets are visual programming tools. And that you might need to do (and automate) transforms on data that still need some form of "actual" programming -- be that VisualBasic, PowerShell, Awk/Sh -- or "proper" programming in a "proper" language.

Another side to "everyone should know how to program" (a side I find less interesting) is the growing need for software engineers, as we move to computerize more and more both public and private sector "systems". I think the lack of engineering talent is real, but that's not my main motivation for showing kids how to code -- just as I don't teach kids how to do math because I hope they'll work as mathematicians.

Math helps you think, helps you invent, and so can computers. If we want the next generation to be impatient for the kind of programs that we had, like Sketchpad. Or even an environment like Smalltalk -- I think teaching them to program is a good start. It's also a great way to educate them how crappy (and simplistic as opposed to simple) many of the "apps" and games are.

For more, see eg: "Doing with Images Makes Symbols" by Alan Kay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oonXT-gYjU
This is the first step to curses.js.
So what's the difference between what NASA does, what Chinese did with Em drive and what Russians have orbiting in Yubileiny satellite?

More interesting question: can I make one at home? I can do magnetic levitation, both pushing and pulling with high-frequency electromagnets; it would be cool if I could do this as well and having floating objects in my home 8-)
I'd love to see it as ice skating competition(or any other kind of sport event), means no weapons and deaths, unfortunately it is not. Trying to stay on a field of well known definitions not emotions.

Theres well documented cases when ukrainian representatives of law enforcment forces taking a LNR/DNR side. Not only ex-Berkut.
This is very exciting; a new propulsion method that already works much better than existing thrusters, doesn't need propellant and without requiring years of research.

It sound too good to be true. My bet is on experimental error.
I'm reading Contact by Carl Sagan right now and my heart kept fluttering as I read this article.

I'm unqualified to comment on anything in this article, but this is really cool, and I didn't know Wired produced science journalism (or a highly technical Q/A) like this.
It used to be like that for all citizens. But that practice has been abolished quite a while ago, if you have a valid passport and you're not on a list of 'persons of interest' you can leave the country like everywhere else.

But you are right in Snowdens case, since foreigners resident in Russia need an 'exit visum' to be allowed to do trips abroad, and clearly Snowden is one of those.
Besides the frequency of the electromagnetic waves , is this the same concept as the "Pioneer Anomaly" - where they eventually figured out it was thermal radiation emitted from its satellite dish which slowed down the spacecraft ?
It might be that the problem is not in Factor itself, but in how is it positioned and marketed?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_nuclear_reactor

Toshiba 4S gives 10 MW.

"a 50 MW version [will be] available in the future"
Wikipedia gives the generator of Loss Angeles class nuclear submarines to be 26 MW [1]. I don't know whether you can make them as successful in space without the access to ambient water.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_class_submarine
> People seem to begrudge that I’m bringing my small company pace to the team. My boss though, seems pretty satisfied...

Well if you're just going to be your boss' new secret weapon, and no one else benefits, it's going to be weird. If your boss is well-liked, you might not have to do anything. If your boss/work has a tendency to upset people, be cautious & extra-willing to help out others within the lines. There aren't a lot of good reasons for other people to not like you. It can be fixed, moved past.

The best commutes I remember were the ones I listened to audiobooks on. The Count of Monte Cristo is a good one (though I can't recall the narrator).
Snowden is not a citizen.
Stop with the conspiracy talk. Euromaidan was not orchestrated by the US. Ukraine, ever since its independence, has been divided by pro-Western and pro-Russian fantions. It is hardly surprising that protests in the West sprung up when Yanukovych delayed signing the Association Agreement.

Even if we forget about the US/Europe thing, remember that Yanukovych was previously ousted from power in another revolution 10 years before: the Orange Revolution.
Some easter egg, like opening a portal to another dimension and (perhaps) destroying Earth after 'too much' research on Higgs boson would be nice, I think.
I'm sorry, but the background (behind the text) is essentially noise. It will impact your reading which will, of course, impact typing.

And about the "at least me" argument... I'm all for personal inspiration and taste in personal projects, and applaud you for following what you like. But you're trying to provide distraction-free writing for others, so you have to consider their characteristics, you have to consider what science knows about attention, reading and typing - not your taste.

I've noticed that you replied elsewhere that your typographic choice was also motivated by personal taste. Both noisy backgrounds and typography will deeply impact how your product performs in providing distraction-free writing. I think you can balance your personal touch with improvements in the fundamental dimensions of your product.
Wired gets some flack these days but that was a thorough article. Maybe I need to read the actual paper now instead of just dismissing it off-hand.
Dawkins problem is that people stopped asking him for his expertise and started asking for his opinion. He is the victim of society's willingness to appeal to authority[1]. While he's a fantastic scientist and thinker on the topic evolutionary biology, he isn't a particularly great communicator when it comes to everything else. Outside of his subject he doesn't explain his ideas well enough. He should be communicating at the sort of level a layman would need in order to understand what he's talking about, but instead he leaves giant gaping holes in his arguments because he doesn't feel he needs to explain himself in. Consequently he's often misunderstood.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority#Appeal_...
As far as I can tell it wouldn't matter what the cause of the apparent effect is. Not requiring reaction mass is what makes it interesting.
Indeed.

As to the whole "we don't actually understand how it works" - we still can't make up our minds as to how wings work, so this isn't overly novel. Sure, we can explain the outcome, but whether it's Navier-Stokes or Bernoulli or something else, we can't make up our minds.

I suspect this will be similar for a long while - although puts physics hat on I think this is likely a relativistic temporal quantisation effect.
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I never claimed he was a citizen, but he is a resident and that's the bit that matters here. And that's exactly the situation that part of the law applies to (and it is one of the reasons I never wanted to live in Russia, I don't want to have to ask permission to leave a country).

So Snowden needs permission to be allowed to leave.
I think it is pretty clear Ukraine was tired of being a puppet state of Russia. No conspiracy necessary. Actually it is kind of insulting to the Ukrainians who want EU style freedom.
this is a different direction than processingjs with different goals, read more here: https://github.com/lmccart/p5.js#how-is-this-different-than-...
90% our visits are from Japan! Because we was on lifehacker.jp ;)
Well, what if being a "Programmer/Analyst II" is precisely what you want? In my case it is absolutely true, both of it.

For once, I would love to see those despisers of hands-on-technology honestly describe what they want for themselves. Just admit it, you 'people-persons' (or hedonists maybe) just want a lazy convenient live with consumption to the hilt.
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Target seems to be doing ok.
The principle problem to be overcome with this tech is going to be cooling - both for the power source and for the drive. It's going to require radiators the with a stonkingly huge area and Peltier shunts, unless we come up with a cunning means of dumping excess heat - potentially turning it into more energy to drive with, even, using the seebeck effect.
PositiveSSL Multi-Domain certs allow enterprises and web hosts to secure multiple websites by including up to 100 domains within a single certificate.

$29.88/year.
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No, Russians don't require a permission to leave the country.
You are just babbling some made-up factoids.

Sincerely,
A Russian citizen
On some layers of logic, I agree. On some layers of meta-logic, I don't know.
The Crimea isn't "abroad" anymore if viewed from the russian side/perspective.
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What? Of course the apparent affect matters. If the underlying physical principles can be understood, there is a possibility of increasing its efficiency for larger throughput. And if the underlying process isn't understood, there is no way to rule out something that isn't actually producing thrust or some other fluke.

Finally, the whole point of science is to discover things. Not make magic :|
Has anyone here looked at the software? It requires you to manually run a command from the command prompt for every file. Decryptolocker.exe --key "<key>" <Lockedfile>

If I have thousands of files, that will take forever, anyway to batch decrypt?
Project's page with a live demo: http://bem.tv/
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146433
If people were held back by not being able to build production ready web apps, we'd have much fewer apps. We'd probably had much fewer SQL-injection and other silly vulnerabilities as well -- but on average broken tools are better than no tools. Broken tools can be improved.

See eg: Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

For what it's worth, I still think BrandonM's comments are spot on. But I think it was also obvious that easily "dropping" files "in the cloud" was a great service to those that weren't inclined/could set it up for themselves.
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Let's imagine that Mexico suddenly became Russia's best buddy. How do you think the US would feel about that?

I don't have to like spheres of influence to believe there is some reality to them.
Cheers HN for downvoting a factually correct statement because the parent post got edited after I pointed out an error...
So none of the former Eastern Bloc have ever wanted to, you know, have their sovereignty respected? Considering how Russia treats Ukraine (cutting off the country's gas supplies at a moment's notice), I'm hardly surprised a lot of the country is pro-EU.

We didn't have to convince most of the Eastern Bloc, they came running to us with open arms. Why would Ukraine be any different? Sure, some of them speak Russian, but that doesn't mean they want to be Russian.
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Yes, the that wikipedia article eve references the very same device in question built by Guido Fetta that NASA tested.
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Why is "quality content" an objective measure and "user security and privacy" a political agenda?

I agree that it's dangerous for one entity to have so much power over the web, but I don't see how is this particular signal any different from any other they already use, including those which define the quality of the content.
Ukraine didn't "suddenly become the US's best buddy", you know. The country's been bitterly divided over whether to be pro-West (and largely pro-democracy by extension), or pro-Russian for more than two decades.
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Given the steady push of this drive, if it actually works can it be said that a significant percent of light speed could be reached?
Not sure where you're located, but if you're in the US you should be able to order green, unroasted beans from Sweet Marias.