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I think you'd be right about BuzzFeed if this happened ~a year ago. Now, BuzzFeed has so much content, and they push it so hard on visitors, that I would be surprised if they didn't actually score pretty highly on this metric (although I was a bit unclear on if this was referring to URL level or domain level time on site). Also, so much of BuzzFeed's content are long lists with large images or gifs that people stare at that they aren't going to be hit as hard as UpWorthy (who pioneered the "You Won't Believe..." headline. Finally, BuzzFeed has actually gotten enough traction to now be able to hire real journalists to create actual content.
> The point I'm making is that there is not need to fret or worry about "historical accuracy" or anything of the sort. Just use the name and pronouns this person explicitly announced to the world as what to use.

I can't help but feel you keep misconstruing my argument to be that people should not be able to change their name or gender, or that we should ignore their name and gender preference, which I've very explicitly made clear is not my case. I do, and will continue to "just use the name and pronouns this person explicitly announced to the world as what to use" for the present and future tense. It's only the past tense I have questions about, and am seeking a valid argument for.

I'm unclear why there is a special case where people who decide to change their name (or gender, but that's irrelevant to my argument) have special rules about how their past is represented that nothing else follows, as far as I'm aware.
With iPhones for example, you can't activate the OS without logging-in first with the same iTunes account that was used before reinstalling the OS.

Well... this is the intended behavior...
I thought for a moment you'd "stolen" my idea. (stolen in quotes, because I never told anyone, and ideas can be arrived at independantly, why not?)

The idea I had was extending ansi codes to contain specific instructions for NES graphics hardware, along with a special NES rom that could decode them from say, some audio signal via the microphone port, or controller port 2 keys, or whatever input is most convenient.

Such an ansi protocol extension would include things like sprite graphics, tile graphics, sprite positions, in addition to the normal character mode telnet stuff that maps naturally to the NES's tile based background graphics.

That would be pretty neat.

It would let you put a modem attachment on an NES and dial into a server to play games remotely. Such games could even be multiplayer by nature, with a centralised server infrastructure kind of thing.

You can steal it now if you want. I'm not likely to act on it any time soon.
There's something unhealthy about an industry's educational materials requiring essentially large financial donations. If it has to be a work of passion, I just find it... unhealthy. afaik most industries don't require what's essentially volunteer work to build training material.
“I very politely and truthfully told him, ‘I’ll show you where it is.’”

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It's kind of remarkable that they kept the lid on this on long as they did. With so many local/loosely-related agencies involved, I'm surprised somebody didn't leak this much sooner.
I like this update. The legacy of BuzzFeed and Upworthy can live on with click-bait in headlines and titles, but now, they'll have to be backed by engaging content. The reason clickbait emerged is that those headlines were engaging and interesting to people. It would be fascinating to go back to the most egregious clickbait/low quality content examples and actually create the content the headline teased.
The combo of C(++) and Python is very strong. A friend of mine works in a research HPC lab (think around 16000 cores); they use Python for the IO and interface glue and C for the heavily parallel science code. It's the best of both worlds.
I can guarantee you this is very rarely the case for hotels. Like airplane seats, the room is there, the show must go on (ie the hotel cannot close), and the room costs X whether it's filled or not.

If the room is not occupied, they miss out. This explains also why companies like HotelTonight (and Priceline bidding option) have such great last-minute deals. Hotels maximize occupancy by making remaining inventory available last-minute at reduced rates (without that rate being published).

By the way, AirBnB's demand, according to Mr YCombo, is driven by 'the experience' vs 'the price' (but I doubt that).

In NYC, the 15% hotel tax that is skipped, plus getting away with non-payment of income taxes on AirBnB revenue, plus avoiding regulations for hotel safety allows hosts to make AirBnB rooms cheaper.
Is Square not doing well? I've actually been seeing it a lot more recently -- lots of food carts and street vendors do the iPad-and-cardreader setup, and I've seen a number of the POS systems in coffee shops and the like. I've also noticed cab drivers using it.

I'm not seeing people use it for splitting bills and the like as much, but I got the impression Square was making a conscious shift away from that market and toward small brick-and-mortar (or truck-and-van?) businesses.
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some of that has always been the case. getting to nevada is never gonna be that cheap if you don't live there already.

It's also a desert. So you definitely have to be properly prepared, like making sure you have enough water. I don't think a lot of folks are used to handling those kinds of conditions
I feel like most of the time savings were eaten up by making a bunch of little screen grabs to show us it was done in Wolfram Alpha. And it makes the information take up about five times as much space as it would if it was just written out in a sentence, and since the alt-text for each PNG is "Wofram IBM Apple Revenue" and "Wolfram IBM Apple Profit" the information is entirely lost for, among others, search engine bots, blind people using screen readers and any cached copies that have the text but not the associated images.
Un-fucking-believable. PACER has always been awful (I've used it since about 2005), but this is a new low---this is ACTIVE awfulness.

I assume, based on the weird specificity of what they're removing, that the PACER office is doing this at the request of the individual courts. Which just sort of underscores how awful this is---that courts get to decide how public their own opinions are.
Shorter Taylor: "No one wants to listen to our warmed-over Marxism, so we need the government to make people listen to it."
In the case of Dropbox, 4 months ago, I speculated about the motivations behind the Carousel product: http://kiyototamura.tumblr.com/post/82662241570/dropboxs-car...

While Carousel itself is considered to be a flop by some (http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/04/why-standalone-apps-are-sup...), I think the overall strategy seems correct, or at least, less wrong: go up the application stack based on their strong user base in the data storage layer.
Its even worse for the PL designer inventing something new without even a small ecosystem in place; I ask myself everyday "is it worth it?"
Good point, I should probably be more worried about CO :)
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I've noticed three times now that non-positive AirBnB posts disappear from the front page in very little time.

How can one find out if an article was penalized?
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It's not possible as long as your language has:

- non-discriminated unions mixing pointers and non-pointers

- linking with C or other languages (as you can't scan their stack frames precisely)

- void*, memcpy, or other ways to move around memory which might have pointers.

A language without all of the above would be of limited utility. However, it's possible to dramatically improve the situation using:

- precise heap scanning - by knowing the type of each object allocated;

- precise stack scanning - by knowing the stack layout of all functions at all points throughout their execution;

- GC hooks for user-defined union types.
traveling with pot is not smart.

also little sympathy for people that dont use the car turn signals
People always assumed they did this but now we have proof.

I thought it was amazing that the government spent so much time discussing the call records being logged.. when they are doing so much worse. Maybe that's how they keep people focusing on what the government wants to talk about? (aka look over here, nevermind that thing over there...)

This find is way worse than call detail records..
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Reddit's /r/fitness, its FAQ, Starting Strength, and The New Rules of Lifting (men or women) are a damned good start.
>Their religion says they have been there since the beginning of time

So? They haven't.
Great idea. You could start smaller though. I particularly like Blackstone Bicycle Works & The Chicago Jesuit Academy.
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Not so. The AO forced the courts to do it according to two people at the Second Circuit.

The most likely explanation is that as part of the "upgrade" of CM/ECF (the write component of PACER) they needed to jettison old databases that used a different schema. This is of course nonsense. They've likely spent over $100 million on this upgrade since 2007, though actual numbers are surprisingly hard to come by. For that price they could have probably afforded a few coders to convert the older databases over.
If you RTFA, that's pretty close to the author's point: that both men and women tend to not pursue opportunities at pretty equivalent rates, for rather similar reasons.
what are the pro/cons compared to TMS z/x/y system?
Marijuana laws are much like gun laws - you live in the US, but legal activity in one place is a felony worthy of decades in prison a few miles away - in the same country. It's mind-numbing that a citizen of the US would have to know 50 sets of laws just to travel around their own country.
As already pointed out in another comment, don't volunteer that you have pot on you. At least make 'em work for it. Oh, you were thinking they were going to go easier on you? It doesn't work that way.

On the one hand, yes, current marijuana laws in most states and at the federal level are ridiculous and unproductive. On the other hand, as a Washington resident what do you think I left at home on a recent motorcycle trip out of state? There's the way we think things should be, and then there's reality. And the reality is that the states through which I would be traveling are not quite as enlightened as WA when it comes to pot possession.

I mean, come on, it's not like pot laws are the only laws that differ from state to state (I refer the skeptical to state liquor laws). I understand that folks will say "I didn't know." and "But I thought that..." to the press, and it's probably the wiser answer should one be interviewed by a reporter. But I don't seriously believe that someone buys pot in WA and thinks that driving through ID with a quarter ounce is a-okay.
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Upvote for the turn signals. Traveling with contraband? Be a model driver.
They only complain about regulations when someone they know, or want to be on the board with, wants that regulation to go away. It's exactly the right size government when it happens to be a massive handout to those same people, or buys off a social group who literally do want to control what you do in the bedroom, for example.

The point is, its all misdirection anyway - the correct question about governments is always to focus on issues and results. When someone has to declare ideology as a motivator, and can't imagine step-wise plans or trials, then they should be ignored.
This is some sort of No True Scotman. If you are truly going to follow this road, then there hasn't been a truly Socialist or Communist nation either, not truly.

In this case, we haven't made any inroads in deciding about the relative merits of Capitalism, Socialism or any other -isms, since there haven't been any nations that implemented them. Not truly.

I don't know about you, but it seems like a fruitless viewpoint. I believe Capitalism as practiced in the real world has run its course. This, of course, doesn't mean it's going to go in the next few decades, but I believe its days are counted. Call it optimism.
If you're going to rant, you might want to actually have a clear point to make.

> college kids on comp.lang.lisp asking for the answers for problem-set 3 on last night's homework

Surely not during the Naggum days. CLL was a hostile wasteland.

> That is the lesson of perl and python and all these other languages. They're not good for anything. They suck. And they suck in libraries and syntax and semantics and weirdness-factor and everything.

What? How have you not heard of CPAN? There is not a single language in the world that can touch Perl's libraries. I'm not sure why you feel the need to toss either Perl or Python under the bus to make some petty point about Dylan's lack of popularity. Python replaced Scheme at MIT. It's time to move on. I know I have.

You have to have your head pretty far up your own ass to not see how much Common Lisp sucks. It's a language designed by committee, and it looks like it.

I've used Erlang too. For everything Erlang does well, there are countless areas that make you want to bang your head against the desk.

Languages don't matter. Platforms matter. APIs matter. Playing nicely with the rest of the world fucking matters. Common Lisp wouldn't.
Have to figure it takes 10-20 years to grow an industrial strength language. It takes a lot of faith in an idea or stubbornness ( probably both ) to go through that struggle. I admire people with that kind of dedication and I wish exploring the language design space wasn't such an enormous investment.
Hmm.. Guess we just have different experiences with the user base this is targeting.
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I'm not totally sure what you're saying...if by "AirBnB renter" you mean people who rent their space out on AirBnB (not people who rent space on AirBnB), then I disagree with the parent's comment that educating the renters makes sense. Instead I think we need to make a place for the renters' neighbors to file complaints. Does that make sense?
Impressive software. Simple (looking, and to use) and beautiful; but with plenty of technical depth/value. I've been running it on my machine all day, and plan to roll it out to others in my local network.

I'm definitely curious to see what the paid features will be...
I use to think it was funny messing with people from poor countries who participated in activities that wasted our time for little $ benefit to themselves but not so much any more.

Humiliating other humans beings for enjoyment isn't a great trait to encourage.

These sites are also, whether that say they 'aren't' or not, are racist on some level.

I'm sure there are some real a@#holes participating and running these scams but often the people on the ground are just human beings who have no other way to earn money.
As far as I can tell, it is because they are either lazy or the systems are not exposed to the underlings you can actually call most of the time.

I worked closely with carriers and they would resist any attempt for you to do anything in their system and insist it wasnt possible unless you had the cops or the legal system behind you.
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By definition the invisible hand metaphor stands opposite to any kind of centralized planning.

But you're nitpicking. The central of my comment is that you absolutely cannot assert that Capitalism is "objectively" better than every other system. Objectively better at what? By whose objective measurements?
The way to reduce lines of code is to create good abstractions. Some languages may be better at this than others, and I think this is more important than the type system of the language.
>Their religion says they have been there since the beginning of time, so to them these ancient bones are their ancestors.

They're entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.
Performance is going to be pretty bad with all of those re-executions, logging of state and so on.
oh wow it's so shiny. Seriously people are downloading this and it's not open source, maybe they should blog about it on medium.
Why does that matter to you? It's citing a source and the png files were probably easily generated by taking a region screenshot... most articles on the web like to include a picture or two to liven it up. Why are you so angry?
> It's a language designed by committee, and it looks like it.

This means nothing. When a design succeeds, we say it was designed by the community; when it fails, by committee. You can produce examples for any language: In Common Lisp the committee that designed it and the community of previous Lisp users that backed it. For Python, the community of users and Guidos' mailing list pals. There is nothing inherently superior or inferior about design by community or committee, respectively.
Interestingly, I've seen the same argument applied as a refutation to the traditional argument that dating site profiles should be kept short and simple. Perhaps it's applicable to writing in general.
Does CO cause harm beyond killing you if there's too much of it? It probably does, seems like everything causes cancer or something, but I'm not too familiar with it beyond the part where it displaces all your oxygen and suffocates you.
We offer our authors a choice of royalties -- from 12 to 15 percent. Most choose the 12 percent option but many still take 15 percent.

Several of our technical titles have sold well over 20,000 copies but we've also had the rare title sell in the 2-3,000 copy range. That is definitely rare and only on very niche topics.

Writing a technical book is a lot of work on both ends, especially when a publisher provides real editorial and marketing support. Unfortunately, most no longer do, which is unfortunate for all involved and a good argument for considering self-publishing. After all, if publishers aren't offering added services, why not self-publish?

We read and edit every word before a book goes to copyedit. I've personally spent well over 300 hours editing individual titles. If you were to hire someone to do that work the minimum cost would be $15,000.

I'd love to see more people writing technical books -- good technical books -- for love of the subject and out of a desire to share knowledge. Sure, a good book will build your brand, but make it great, first.

The world always needs more good books. Our watchwords are "fewer, better books." Aim to be great.
o hai edna_piranha i ate half a sandwich leftover from lunch i tried ordering it from orderahead to support the sharing economy (i share my credit card info with them and they share sandwiches with me, it's win-win) but they said it would take a few days to deliver it from the Mission to Tennessee, so I went to a local deli instead. also I had an apple and an ice cream bar from a gas station.
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The market size breakdown is pretty insightful--looking at these numbers, they seem really attainable when broken down into their component parts.
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yeah they always make me happy. i wish i had chocolate around the house tho but i don't so i'll just drink this glass of water instead. can you send me a gif of chocolate maybe to cheer me up?
I'm in Chicago and I pay real-time prices, averaged by the hour. The program is entirely opt-in and has been around for about 4-5 years now.

You're right that the increasing number of grid-connected devices could lead to problems like this, especially as more and more appliance makers start to add this ability. At the moment I've seen grid-enabled devices used to back down on electricity use during peak times. ComEd offers a GSM-connected box to modulate your A/C compressor during brownout times.

But I've tinkered with a thermostat that superchills my house when the price dives into low or negative space. I guess I never thought about what could happen when 1,000,000 homes do the same thing. Law of unintended consequences I guess.
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You cannot "certainly" say any of those things. They are debatable, and you'll find plenty of educated people to debate them, and dismissing them as cranks is probably too comfortable a position to take.

I don't know what will replace Capitalism, or even what shape it'll take. As you say, flawed alternatives have been attempted -- and some were better at particular aspects, and some even forced Capitalism to take its current form in order not to perish. So you could argue modern day Capitalism owes its shape at least partly to competing systems.
Where are you located?

COBRA is the standard answer. The ACA provides for coverage, though the general enrollment period has closed for this year. I'm not sure if a job transition counts as a qualifying event for a new enrollment, but there are counsellors (free of charge) in some states who can answer your questions on that.

My experience is that there tend to be a few tiers of coverage, and that you'll want to balance your anticipated healthcare needs with the dues. From what I've seen, middle-tier coverage tends to be the best bet.
Stock prices reflect investor expectations of what will happen, not just the current state of the business.
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For this to be valuable, we need more people. Would you be willing to make a independent post about this?
We have a Federal system, though states' rights have been weakened over time. A US State has sovereignty that the Feds may not impede on. The boundary between state sovereignty and national sovereignty has been contentious throughout history. States rights are good because it allows California to be a leader in emissions laws (example.) States rights are bad because they make inter-state commerce and travel more perilous.
Holy crap, this got popular fast.

This will probably stop some drive-by hacking - great. But my understanding from some well informed people, is that increasingly rootkits can hide their network traffic.

So, whilst this will add piece of mind, you'll still need to maintain security - because all this will really do is let you know you've been "hacked" again. Sure, it may prevent the dropper from connecting out - but often that would look like Flash or Java just connecting out to a random host.

As someone who got hacked, and installed NoScript, I'm amazed at the number of hosts that even mainstream websites connect out to. I struggle to stay on top of my whitelists. I just don't think you're going to see the dropper in time and stop it.
This seems like a great feature but doesn't California have bigger issues to worry about? Why not let the market decide?
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This earthquake (MB4.6 Kuril Islands, Aug. 24, 2014, 9:45 p.m. UTC) matches closely to the time and location, but it doesn't really explain the claimed observations.

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