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The shape is being used to style an HTML element; naturally you use CSS for that.

But if you're asking why the shape is being defined with text, inline in the CSS, that's because defining shapes with SVG was postponed to level 2 of the CSS Shapes spec.

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-shapes-2/#referencing-svg-shapes
Very good and interesting points.
> What happened to free market economy?

It never existed...
The problem here isn't that I didn't have a safety net, I'll survive. The problem from my perspective is they behaved like total jerks and were getting away with it.
Should insurance companies charge smokers more because statistically those people are more prone to medical issues?
I've got a fairly long iCloud password with upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. After four or so years of typing it on iOS devices, I have the muscle memory to type is extremely fast without thinking about it. In fact, to figure out the actual characters of the password, I have to visually reconstruct the physical typing that I do from muscle memory.
We (quite successfully) use flot http://www.flotcharts.org/ after I looked at highcharts' license and their "solution" for doing server-side rendering (some dodgy php).
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Imagine I give you $20. Then I tell you that you have to spend all of that $20 on x, y, and z. Are you penniless? Yes. You have no money.

All of the government's $3.4 trillion is budgeted for, allocated and spent. What makes the government penniless is the fact that they can't do anything else because they have no budget for it.
I started using Mitro, recently for the same thing.

I had been slowly working on a system which would store pseudo-randomly generated salts and store one for each individual domain. It would detect which site I was entering my password into, take the relevant salt and digest it against the password I had entered - sending a stupidly long, digested passwords to the sites which would allow for it. The password itself would never leave my computer. Progress was slow, though, and other projects took priority.

With Mitro, I've done a similar thing by pseudo-randomly generating 64-character base64 strings to store as the passwords for my accounts.
Again, this isn't about the lack of safety nets, this is about behaving like total jerks and getting away with it.

I did try to flag problems, I added more tests, I proposed improvements and went ahead and implemented them. And here we are. Seeing the light implicates seeing anything at all besides pieces of paper with funny faces on.
While that is problematic: This is Nigeria. Given that Nigerians themselves tend to vote Nigeria as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, I suspect many Nigerians may prefer Mastercard to be the one holding the data over the Nigerian government...
That's a problem with the end-point, not with the medium. Consider a system like RT[0]; it has no concept of an inbox, yet most (if not all) client interaction is via email. My take is that if you're tempted to set up a shared inbox, don't. Set up a ticketing system instead.

[0]: http://bestpractical.com/rt/
Isn't average waiting time lower with a regular schedule?
> (getting rid of someone in the UK can be a torturous process,

It's really easy to get rid of employees in England. While it's not quite "at will" it's pretty close.

You don't even need to give a reason in writing if the person has been working for you for less than 2 years.

https://www.gov.uk/dismissal

> You have the right to ask for a written statement from your employer giving the reasons why you’ve been dismissed if you’re an employee and have completed 2 years’ service (1 year if you started before 6 April 2012).
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First you need a rigorous formal definition of strong AI. Then write a computer program that iterates over all possible computer programs until it finds one that meets the definition.

Or try simulating a human brain.
And my favourite "layman" counter argument to that is that plenty of time travel theories only allow travel as far back as to when the time travel machine was first created.
MySQL used to suck a lot more some years ago (tip of the iceberg: no transaction support!), the Oracle business is small potatoes compared to numerous earlier shortcomings that lead to data loss left and right.

Inertia explains the current MySQL position reasonably well, a better question is how did it climb to its current position during its years of technical incompetence.
As for your first step - with a project that size (and thus of substantial age, I assume), there's surely tons and tons of dead code. I'd throw it away first. Slim the thing down. The very process of identifying unused code will already familiarize you roughly with the conceptual "shape" of the application
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That's not really what happened though. I had a contract for a minimum of four months on the apartment. Which wouldn't have been a problem for me even if I quit after three months.
I deposited the last months rent when I signed the contract. When I informed the landlord that I could only stay two months, she kept the deposit and forced me to leave the apartment in the middle of the second month.
As I need a new laptop, I was excited to see this – even more when I followed the link and saw that you could buy one with 3GB RAM and an SSD hard drive. What killed it for me was the screen size: 12 inches is much too small for me.
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> how many of your friends "don't give fuck all about the poor"?

Almost all of my friends. And I'm from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, generally considered a pretty open-minded, progressive, tolerant and caring place. My friends are educated, middle-class. They're caring and generous to friends and family and have disposable income.

But they're extremely hesitant to something even like Kiva - a charity which allows you to lend money to business projects, and actually get your money back. I've lent thousands and got all of it back and relent it over and over again. Worst case is you miss out on $0.10 a month in interest while putting $100 to work charitably, infinitely, in a way that can't in any way be described a handout, as going to corrupt governors, as creating a relationship of dependence or be used to buy drugs.

But they really don't give a fuck. Trust me. May not be the case for everyone, buy my very generous friends are only generous to the people they know and love. Outside of that, they don't give a shit.

> That's blatantly untrue.

I disagree. The numbers are clear. About 5 thousand people die each day from preventable causes, such as a lack of clean drinking water. That's 9/11 every single day, completely preventable, mostly children.

On that statistic, here's a quote

> It is estimated that it would cost about US$ 23 billion per year to achieve the international development target of halving the percentage of people unserved with improved water sources globally (currently at 18%) and improved sanitation services (currently at 40%) by the year 2015. But governments presently spend US$ 16 billion a year in building new infrastructure. The additional US$ 7 billion a year needed to supply good water and sanitation to some who lack it is less than one tenth of what Europe spends on alcoholic drinks each year, about the same as Europe spends on ice cream and half of what the United States spends each year on pet food. Compared to what governments expend on military weapons, the cost of providing people with the means to improve their health is small.

Yes, one country spends twice as much on our pets than is necessary to spend to worldwide solve one of the biggest tragedies the world knows, that kids die each day from entirely preventable trivial issues like diarrhea. That's why the whole ice bucket challenge rubbed some people the wrong way, because it was one big tragic joke that was hard to criticize because at the end of the day, it did raise money that wouldn't otherwise be raised.

These quick notes are but the tip of the iceberg. There's a lot of data and we can do a lot more with very little, but people don't care, and don't seem to care enough to know or consider to change their mind, either.
While this does not change all of your issues, Mastercard is not a bank.

The banking services would have to be backed by partner banks.

Mastercard is also not intrinsically linked to credit. You can get Mastercard debit cards in large parts of the world (as you can for VISA).
That's true whether or not they use a hash function.
As a reference, I was able to move away from Highcharts and into one OOS library (rickshaw) in 2 man-days; I didn't have to reimplement it from scratch, I just had to find another lib.

To be fair, our charting requirements where not very complex.
The Gulf oil monarchies are also full of poor people. The difference is the gulf states don't let the poor people become citizens.
It wouldn't be a constant energy algorithm though, would it? For each successive optimization iteration, you would have to expend energy. Does that energy get put back with every rewind of the clock? If so, energy is also infinite.

I wonder what the time-energy-complexity trade-offs are?

As an aside, I would gladly pay someone to walk me through the math and physics sometime. (Any grad students in Atlanta are more than welcome to take me up on that offer... I might even try Skype.)
You can write fuck - writing f*ck causes italicization.

Did you take the contract to someone outside Unbabel to check?
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I wonder if Tesla could somehow circumvent these laws.

Open a fake mailbox company in another state. Sell them the cars at production cost, and let that company "import" them.

Actually open a dealership (using another company). This probably won't work, as there might be a lot of red tape involved. Possibly there is a limited number of concessions, or some other hurdle, otherwise they would have done that.

Using middlemen, put Teslas on eBay, Craigslist, etc.. Make it somebody else's problem to deal with.

My favorite: Don't sell cars at first. Just do car shows, Tesla parades, Nikola Tesla tribute parties, and so on. Visit schools and communities and tell people how good electric cars can be for the environment. Partner with schools and driving instructors to get kids to learn driving in Teslas. Get as many people as possible to test-drive one. That's the most important thing. Then just happen to have a iPad around so people can order one :-).

There might be a law preventing them from even selling them over the internet into many states - I don't know if the laws only apply to physical stores or not - but in this case they could fall back to relying on the black market. At least for a while, while they get the legislation sorted out.

Last but not least (and only half seriously) try to frame the current laws as "communist". I picture an ad with thin, sad people in fur hats, waiting in a long line for their car, with hammer-and-sickle ration coupons in their hands. Contrast it with happy free people riding around in their Teslas under the Californian sun. Unfortunately, that might even work.
For many years in python there were several contenders for webframeworks. Only after many years did Django eventually dominant.

I've used Django a lot and personally I would prefer smaller lightweight frameworks where its easier to select packages that provide solutions to specific problems. I'm not looking for the next Django. Something the size of Express would be perfect.
Exactly, this is more about not wanting to live in a world where corporations can get away with behaving like this. I'm not worried, I know my shit and I'm sure there are others out there like me.
One builds credit worthiness by establishing a history of deposits and pattern of payments that seems "normal".
Wow, fantastic tool, and great examples. Thanks for sharing.
I find it pretty easy to maintain. Well really, Postfix and Debian do the hard work of actual maintenance. I just apply updates.
My old test runner allowed me to reuse the database for tests. That's ideal for quick testing.
You're being downvoted because America produces plenty of fine beer domestically, not just microbrews but major brands like Samuel Adams as well.
My personal finances are none of your business and have nothing to do with this. Get a life.
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I'll third it too. I visited earlier this year with a UK trade mission for the Maker Faire and to meet suppliers. I visited several factories, both with the trade mission and independently, and it was one of the most fascinating weeks of my life. One place that I'd definitely suggest visiting, if only for the contrast with most other manufacturers, is Seeed Studios. Really cool place, and totally unlike any other place I visited. It's also very well set up for tours.
Your landlord treating you illegally is not unbabel's problem.

Did you seek help from Portuguese legal system for your landlord problem?
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None of your business and has nothing to do with this.
This is a Free Speech Cage [1] with suits.

Straight from the history books, it's one of the last phases of the plan that goes like this:

1) leverage an extraordinary event to scare everyone into supporting emergency measures

2) perpetuate fear and argument on all sides to distract, divide, and conquer public opinion, raising the possibility that these emergency powers might be (necessary|good|here to stay)

3) put on the suits and officially vent dissent to devnull (you are here)

4) everyone gives up and you can peel off the emergency sticker, pointing to your new law as precedent and tradition to uphold

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
Free market capitalism is only good as long as it serves your interests.
> Toothaches are also common, perhaps we should stop treating them because they're just "normal"?

Toothaches aren't metaphysical ailments as are mental illnesses, they're open to objective diagnosis. Different dentists don't argue about which diagnosis the toothache sufferer really needs.

> ... ultimately when the data doesn't fit the model the solution is to improve the model, not dismiss the data.

Well, it seems the NIMH disagrees. The NIMH has recently ruled that the DSM may no longer be used as the basis for scientific research proposals, on the ground that it has no scientific content:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-rats-of-n-i-m-h

Make no mistake about it -- because of the controversial method by which DSM-5 was created, and its very questionable content, the NIMH and many other agencies intend to dump the DSM and replace it with a more scientific framework described here:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

No more "Not Otherwise Specified" diagnoses, it seems.
Hi guys, part of iubenda here. First, we know we have to work on driving a couple of points home.

There's a free, yearly or monthly subscription. The subscriptions really just divide a bigger chunk of money into smaller very affordable bits.

If you need the basic, free bit, perfect. Otherwise the SaaS system is in place for us to deliver a sophisticated service at very little up front cost. If you keep using it you get the updates pushed right to your app. The license can be reused on new projects, too.
So, I know Java, I don't love it but I know it. I also have extensive experience from about 20 other programming languages. Your point being?
I think they require time. I started a Coursera machine learning course, then had a busy couple of weeks, where I couldn't do it. Got another week on, then another busy week. Makes learning a lot more difficult;t if you only get small fragments of time to focus on it.
FastMail has conversations, keyboard controls and decent search, with both webmail and calendar and is $40/year for a 15GB account…

(Disclaimer: I work for FastMail. But seriously, it sounds like we might be just what you're looking for).
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Spit the hook. You are being trolled.
Something like this?

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I can't think of any formal definition of strong AI that's very satisfying. You could certainly make a great chess or Go machine, and do a lot of AI tasks, but can you think of any reasonable formal definition of a strong AI?
More like Oracle from the Matrix movies. It's there to provide the illusion of choice.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261002

Here's a thread about cosmology where he drops in his cut'n'pasted screed about psychiatry. Derailing a thread to rant about some unrelated topic is trolling or kook-like.

Frustratingly he has useful stuff to say about other things.
The Win16 API was written in C, not Pascal. But because it didn't have functions with a variable number of arguments, they could use the Pascal calling convention instead of the C one. It was slightly faster and saved a few bytes at each call point, which was a big deal back when memory was measured in kilobytes.
I'm not sure if it's completely fair, but everytime I see "security questions" I can't help think: "Oh, it's an American site".

Silly "security" questions about mothers, dogs and favorite teachers seems to be cultural to the US (and maybe Canada), why is that?
Except maybe your barista happens to know a real estate agent and will get you an amazing deal on a new house. Something you might not have gotten if you didn't tell them...
Even getting cash anonymously is dubious, at best. If I withdraw from an ATM or bank, the serial numbers are most likely recorded. (There's no technical reason they wouldn't be.)

Handling the cash may leak DNA or fingerprints.

After that, when I meet someone to exchange cash, that transaction links my identity as well. Making a deposit in someone's account also records my identity via video (and any other leak like fingerprints).

It is prudent to assume that at every transaction, whichever adversary you're trying to remain anonymous from - assume they are the other party.

And even if you assume the party is a good actor, it's not entirely out of the question that a third party could monitor things and try to correlate. It might be computationally infeasible for now, but it'd be folly to bet on that.

In my experiment, I tried to get $300 into BTC. I withdrew $100 notes from the bank, then spent them at small stores to get change. (At which point I found out the bank gave me a fake note, thus losing $100.) I wore gloves during these transactions, and put the change directly into sealed bags. This is obviously super suspicious.

I discovered that mailing things anonymously is also difficult. The stamp machines only accept non-cash payments. Video is recorded at all other points of sale. Priority mail appears to require larger stamps, which are custom printed. With more work, I suppose one could find a small store that sells stamp booklets without recording things.

Obtaining an addressing an envelope also has information leaks.

Only ~33 bits are needed to identify a specific human on earth. Geolocation alone reveals somewhere around 8 bits. Interest in Bitcoin probably reveals another 5 or so. If you're mobile and purchase in multiple cities, that could further reduce things another few bits. Before you know it, you're not that anonymous.

I concluded from my experiment that most people are simply not going to be able to buy BTC and retain strong anonymity. If I was going to use BTC to perform actions critical of a government, let alone do something illegal, I would not feel overly safe. Other people seem to have a different (or missing) assessment.

The best Bitcoin anonymity device I've heard of is ZeroCoin, but I haven't understood the math yet. And it's not getting any traction, it seems, and without significant traction, like Tor, it's not very anonymous.
No, the contract was presented and explained to me by the founders, at the time they treated me like royalty so it didn't even cross my mind to question them or waste money on a Portuguese lawyer. And where I come from, having a contract means you need a good reason to break it.
I didn't even find configuring Postfix to take much work, and I'd never configured a mailserver until a few months ago. Debian's config script autogenerated a basic configuration for me, after prompting with a few questions: receive email for my domain to my unix account, and relay mail only from local or AUTH'd clients. This is the entirety of the manual config I added on top of what Debian produced:

# use maildir instead of mbox
home_mailbox = Maildir/

# reject obvious spam
smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_unknown_client_hostname,
reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org

It has a very nice manual too, but I have not had to use most of it, because it just works out of the box.
Have you had any experience with the Portuguese state or legal system? I'd probably still be standing in a queue somewhere.
Where I live, many landlords prefer tenants who are on welfare. The state pays their rent, so it's practically guaranteed.
So I think single mothers might be a lucrative market. Especially if you can get the foot into the door for some government contract.

Another data point: I think Warren Buffet got rich with Coca Cola and chocolate bars? That's basically selling crap to the poor.
Correct. The sellers made a huge footprint by mailing so much on such a regular basis. This lead to major sellers getting busted. At which point all the buyers that purchased from them may have their order details released.
>Others have explained why that does not work. The way you'd use backward time travel to crack a OTB is to wait until the recipient of the message decrypts it, then your steal the decrypted message, then you go back to the time where you wanted to break the code and give yourself the message.

That's not actual decryption. You can do the same thing without time travel too, e.g by hitting the guy.
For reference this is a response to Typelevel's announcement yesterday: http://typelevel.org/blog/2014/09/02/typelevel-scala.html
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If you look at the Alice demo, linked, it shows that it can also be used to creatively shape text layouts and animate them over time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VON2shFlsKU
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Why do you hate the English language? ;-)
OTOH, if the encrypted request is found, and you have a key that matches, that's very strong evidence you made the request. This line of reasoning was included in the Silk Road indictment.
That they can do that, technically, doesn't mean the would.

Just like we don't attend all parties available to us, they would soon get bored.
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No because say your cloud provider recycle your hard drive to another client with a bad password, then the attacker not only can access the data of the other client but can run a file recovery tool and get some of your files.

Most providers don't erase disks properly. Takes too much time.
We did need cars - the problem of horseshit in cities was becoming unmanageable. But the rest of your point is well taken.
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So, it's never you?