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My how history gets rewritten so quickly.

If you want to assault Andrew's credentials as a staunch defender of free speech, etc, you are going to have to do better than "he worked at Google".

He worked at Google at a time when Google really was on the front lines of defending this stuff, and he was the one doing it.

If you want to blame Google, blame Google. Amac is pretty much unassailable, IMHO.
He was on the right side of every legal/policy decision I can think of during his tenure. He eventually left, IMHO, precisely because he saw an opportunity to be a staunch advocate for these kinds of things at twitter.
Depends on who is paying for the dig right?
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This is a false dichotomy. Calculus and measure theory underlie probability theory which provides the foundation for most of statistics. Stochastic calculus is another tool for dealing with noise in systems. Good luck understanding stochastic calculus without regular calculus.
Western public didn't care and let their politicians loose. This negligence had tragic and undeserved consequences for three hundred of them.
This equally applies to Russians not caring about war crimes in Chechnya.
I wonder how well Twitpic is doing revenue and profits wise and how much that affected the decision?

It's hard to believe only the patent issue is the cause here. Open closing down announcements are nice, but should list all the facts and circumstances, not try to spin it PR wise.
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Leo Laporte likes to play up having "twit" in relation to twitter, but as far as trademarks, his claim would have been laughable. They aren't in the same business.
> "A few weeks ago Twitter contacted our legal demanding that we abandon our trademark"

Guess it's time to abandon Twitter.
Many system admins I know don't use AV on their personal computers.

My thought is that a properly secured computer and network are far better defenses than AV. If you add to that system an expert user then AV becomes mostly useless, creating more problems than it solves.

I think NoScript and Request Policy are much more valuable to my security than AV.
It's not like they are looting them to Philly to put them on display. They shipped them to Drexel university to do additional research like extracting proteins and trying to extract DNA so they can make Jurassic Park.

"The researchers performed laser scans of all of the bones and published 3-D models of each. That could allow other paleontologists to study the fossil from afar and even print three-dimensional replicas of the bones. Dr. Lacovara and his collaborators are undertaking additional research to use the models to study how Dreadnoughtus moved.

Even some softer tissues like tendons were preserved, and the scientists are trying to extract proteins and possibly DNA from some of the bones."
Yeah, they do. It's hasn't been 5 years without any problem, it's was 2 years without any problem, and 3 years of being slowly strangled by Twitter.

Plus, if the definition of success is "last 5 years", then that's not a very lofty goal.
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I have seen both academics, small and large corporations. I think startups are the worst, but other than that, the rest is pretty much the same. Of course if you are only in one or the other, it may seem that your particular situation is the worst...
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>> "Unfortunately we do not have the resources to fend off a large company like Twitter to maintain our mark which we believe whole heartedly is rightfully ours. Therefore, we have decided to shut down Twitpic."

Is this supposed to be serious? You're shutting down your company because you're stubborn and not getting what you want??
Russia has a complete ban currently on dark meat. And Perdue is publicly quoted as exporting zero meat to Russia anymore, dark or white.

Either way, it's the American Consumer that demands white meat... personally I'm a dark meat chap myself.
The plugin API uses file names, so discovery would be at a higher level. Go packages impose their own namespace, so there shouldn't be any namespace issues. Introspection is useful, but would be a matter of examining the files using existing packages like debug/elf; it would not be part of the plugin API.

Basically the plugin API is isomorphic to dlopen/dlclose. Everything else is built on top of that.
Anyone here get resistance from your sales people when trying to get them to use CRM? If so, how did you overcome it?

At my company people basically refuse to do it, saying it turns them into a data entry person instead of a salesperson.
But it's in the map, so it's in use.
I was wondering that - maybe they are losing money and low on cash. There don't seem to be any patent issues - only that Twitter does not want them to register Twitpic as trademark which I can understand.
> Don't base your entire business on another business' product.

That is a terrible generalization. That pretty much covers every ISV ever. And large companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple all have a history of "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" when it comes to closing out 3rd parties.

However I think your point is valid for companies like Twitter, and to a slightly lesser extent Facebook. These companies don't have a vested interest in 3rd parties building on their platforms.
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That is the big take-home problem here. I looked up the address that they said was in Nigeria (it's actually in Mali), REJATE-POKAJA. I wanted to know, "well, what's the address of the building across the road?" and it turns out that that is: RIJATE-PIKAJAS. I think my first thought is, "Is that really what you want?" Those sound pretty darn similar, and it'd be easy to get confused. In reality you already have a lot of info about a place implicitly, so you want to focus on the stuff that you don't know, magnifying that to cover the whole number.

It seems that they get something like 16-20 bits per word or so. I think my first approach in this case would be to feed lat/long through a cylindrical equal-area projection, since the math for those is pretty simple (so it can be implemented in diverse systems easily) and at least there is a semblance of fairness to the resulting numbers -- but really, I think what you want is to cover the Earth with a massive geodesic dome of points and just number the vertices with some algorithm, perhaps placing a great circle on the Greenwich line and then descending around in some sort of spiral. There's no fundamental reason I can see why we'd need to project at all, really.

So, you form two numbers with the Gall-Peters projection:

2^9 * (most significant 9 bits of x) + most significant 9 bits of y
2^9 * (least significant 9 bits of x) + least significant 9 bits of y

or else you label each of 2^18 geodesic faces in a spiral and do coordinates on the faces; either way.

You take these numbers, and multiply them by some large prime, modulo the number that you've got. Prime multiplication is a simple way to permute the numbers so that adjacent vertices are unlikely to be numbered similarly. If you really wanted, you could then XOR it with some fixed pattern and multiply by another large prime, which may help with names being similar at the poles themselves or something (depending on the size of the prime). Any quasi-random permutation will work, I just figure "let's take the ones that are only a couple fixed lines of code." The nice thing about these permutations, too, is that they're invertible: someone gives you a name, you convert it to a number, you pass it back through this, and you get map/geodesic coordinates.

Then you convert those numbers into syllables. This way you can know that your city is mostly DAFAXO except the northeastern part is part of LINUZU, completely different names. The most significant bits are thus scrambled but isolated. The least significant bits are scrambled separately and give every point on the ground a wildly different name, so that nobody confuses your place with one down the street.
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I'm one of the authors of react router.

How do you feel about <script/> tags, or <link/> or <meta/> or <base/>?
> Don't base your entire business on another product.

Possibly the most naive statement ever made about software business models.

> 2. Don't create a similar name that will give you trouble in trademark disputes

Often this is not a problem, as once you've gotten your foot in the door you can relinquish the conflicting mark and continue your business. In any case, the trademark didn't really conflict anyway, it was just a legal tactic. The API block was the end goal.
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Amazingly, that was one of the most entertaining AMA's I've read though. Thanks for the link.
This is why you want to run your own server for this sort of thing... or at least use something standardised and portable.
Typical commercial sexing methodology is by holding the wings of the chicks out and looking a the feathers on the wing-tips. There are two sets of feathers there; if the feathers are of equal length, the chick is male. If one set of feathers extends further, the chick is female.

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Are these standards that you are saying were lowered applied at entry to police training or at graduation?
Then use them as JavaScript functions, because that's what they are :)

The point of JSX is to express attributes and hierarchy, which matches with our route configs perfectly.
Here is the relevant Archive Team project for Twitpic: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Twitpic
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There is fresh meat out of school every day and they are replacing the old ones already and continuing the same way.
Here's few real timetable examples from Finland:

Grades 1-2 (4-5 hours per day): http://www.kopunkoulu.fi/lukujarjestys/luokka_1-2/

Grades 5-6 (5-6 hours per day): http://www.kopunkoulu.fi/lukujarjestys/luokka_5-6/

Grades 7-9 typically last 6-8 hours per day (I couldn't find examples)

Abbreviations: AI=Finnish language, MA=math, YL=natural sciences, LI=sports, KS-ASK=handicrafts, US=religion, EN=english, KU=drawing, MU=music, BIMA=biology/geography, FYKE=physics/chemistry, HI=history, TS=textile works, päivänavaus=start of day, lounas=lunch

Every lesson is 45 mins and then there is a 15 min break. During the break children go out and usually play some games by themselves, to relax and to be prepared for the next lesson. During winter, if it gets below -15'C (5'F) children can stay in (depends on school and grade). Also, during grades 1-6, all lessons typically take place in the same classroom, so no need to carry books or rush to another classroom.

Schools also have optional activities for children during afternoons, so they don't have to go home alone. But that is really optional.
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You mean, like http://what3words.com/ ? I really like the idea.
Did he define exactly what these "Standards" are?
> There's no faculty in US tax code for reporting earnings on this kind of investment.

That's not true.

> Also, as far as risk-adjusted returns go, it still beats equities, right?

The S&P 500 was around 1,140 at the beginning of January 2010. It's now above 2,000.

If you had bought SPY in January 2010, you'd be sitting on a gain of around 75% not including dividends. SPY is highly liquid (more than 80 million shares trade hands on any given day) and optionable, so you can exit your position quickly if necessary and easily hedge your position if desired.

Needless to say, comparing the S&P 500 to a pure debt instrument is like comparing apples to oranges, but if your goal is to maximize risk-adjusted returns, you have to compare asset classes.

Obviously, this isn't 2010. The market today is a lot harder to navigate. On the whole, equities look expensive and with a shift in interest rate policy almost certainly coming, the debt markets are tricky. As Sam Zell recently said, "This is the first time I ever remember where having cash isn't such a terrible thing."
The mice showed a ~20% loss at high dose.

At the low dose, the mice showed no significant loss but were vulnerable to a sub-threshold dose of a toxin and toxin+MPH mice showed a ~20% loss.

This is in figure 1, and in the discussion. Exactly what behavioral effects result from a 20% loss of DA neurons is still an open question.

So, the clinical implication is that people on methylphenidate might be vulnerable to things (rotenone, heavy metals, etc) which aren't toxic to "normal" people.
Inasmuch as it came to a sudden, screeching halt even after five years highlights the value of those lessons even more so, IMHO. Five years is long enough to get (falsely) comfortable and that's when ignoring those lessons really gets dangerous for a business.
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That seems like it would make it difficult to be a working parent, unless they provide for after-school programs. For a household with no stay-at-home parent, a long school day isn't just about education; it's about not having to sacrifice a career for you child's education.
We've almost tied all the knots we need to meet this requirement of a router.

Every application has UI nesting at the core of its state, though.
This is not to minimize a plethora of issues that I have with modern day policing (i.e. their militarization, lack of dash/body cameras, etc). I do feel like this is an unfair way to analyze this information.

As far as I'm aware, most police forces require at least an Associates Degree, if not a Bachelors Degree. So to compare racial makeup of the community as a whole and that of the police force is unfair. It suggests, without explicitly stating it that the police force is inherently racist. If they were just comparing the racial makeup of community members with degrees to the police force, I think it would be a more fair comparison. The largest disparities in racial makeup are going to tend to be in poorer cities, which will naturally lead to fewer people with degrees.

It is also worth stating, that from a psychological perspective, a poor city with more crime is going to be harder on a cop mentally and make them more likely to misbehave and overreact. Coupled with the racial disparity (which as aforementioned is likely caused by outer forces), could lead to racial tensions.
The roll out for chip and pin in Canada started the same, but within the last year, I've found mag only readers to be extremely rare.
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He hasn't been paying attention, then. I've written about what happened in Portugal a while back: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2012/08/24/2240

(HN thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4437887)
In my opinion that's what before school care is for - kids whose parents need to be rid of them early drop them off whenever they like, kids who don't need to can start at a reasonable hour. This is also a much more flexible system so it works for people who start work at any time.
I completely agree with you, but for the use of the word "dependent". What user is dependent on Twitter? Seriously? Can't one stop tweeting in an instant without any ill effect on her life?

For developers it's a different story -- but they should know better.
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I don't really understand this sentiment. I'm clearly targeting fellow portuguese speakers on a low traffic thread. It feels… weird to be policed for my choice of language.

Can you explain why it feels rude to you?
Holy defeatest attitude. Your not sold? LOL no your being sold ever single day. Those things leak data? Find some proof besides your own mind. Talk about stockholm syndrome.
If you have a MIDI keyboard, you can plug it into your computer and use a scorewriter app like Finale or Sibelius to do this.
Is it really a vacation, I know in my part of Canada it isn't : they don't work but they aren't paid either.
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That's the "school as daycare" model, requiring all children to be in "daycare" all day to meet the needs of some parents. They should be separate (compulsory school times, surrounded by available and convenient daycare at the same location).
They do support a lot of other languages, although the words aren't the same between languages as far as I can tell (so they can't be 'translated'). Still, I bet they cover most of the world's population in their local language.
>Its basically like a URL shortener shutting down

Did anything major happened after some of the early URL shorteners died? We survived just fine.
This is a good point. I've heard of many companies learning this point the hard way.
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This remark is what triggered my comment

> It becomes invisible to the precise collector

So does the conversion to uintptr remove it from the root lists the GC searches?
The only AV 'software' I use is Common Sense™. That and frequent backups have been pretty effective so far.

YMMV though...
There's a flip side to that coin, which is that there are a lot of "incubators" set up to purportedly support Portuguese startups that have delivered (statistically) zero successes - there are exceptions, but as far as I know they're not portrayed in TFA.

Regardless, it bears noting that there are more, standalone, bona fide startups out here trying to make it, and fortunately not all of them are relying on the app bubble keeping up.
I agree and I think you're coming to a problem with how we think about achievement in general. Getting to the moon was the end result of many small achievements that were themselves the result of individual pursuit.

I guess it is fair enough that at some point we try to put a label or handle on a string of achievement. But clearly it can't be attributed at that level.
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This is exactly what will happen. During the transition you will still be able to use mag swipe, then after some period the reader will force the use of the chip and only use mag swipe as a fallback when a chip error occurs. I suspect after a short while mag swipe will be removed entirely, but it remains in many places outside of the US as a fallback.
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Even in 2007 in Denver, Amex issued me a credit (not charge) card with a little RFID chip. Worked at a fair number of places. Just get the card near and it beeps and you go on your way.
Thanks for all the feedback, I was not expecting so many responses!

The main idea behind the concept of Location Aware Names is to re-think the way we give name to places, from a information point of view.

Is there a better way to use names as an information unit? can we improve the current "algorithm" that we use to name places?: I think so.

It will replace the current way we name them?: I dont think so.

Is UBI the best use of Location Aware Names?: Hopefully not!, UBI is a proof of concept of the idea, maybe you can come up with something much better.

Is using RERI-NUCA better than the Street & Number: Maybe not if you already have your street and number location on a map , but is one step forward from 65° 42' N,170° 35' 60.0'' W

Actual names are made from words in the inhabitants native language, UBI names are odd: The Location Aware Names concept can be used to take language and cultural factors into account ,and create a references like "Doctor Stifus" or "Isaac Nousol" that are indistinguible from any other non Location Aware Names (see slide 43)

It will be very hard to adopt: Of course, but it can start as simple as an option to encode from the current http://goo.gl/maps/EdGCc on google to http://goo.gl/maps/FULABOS-LUNETE

The idea of Location Aware Names is to add a different set of options to our current way of see and use names, with their advantages and disadvantages
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You forgot to capitalize "Cloud".
The section on "BETTER EMPTY STATES" is really helpful, and populating that type content in-app is easy to forget about.
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