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Found it. Third part 2:21:40.

http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_c...
The first and most important step: stop working, do not answer any questions, do not deliver anything. Demand your payment.

How much is the amount we are talking about here?
I have seen some people in similar situations and things never ended well. Some invested five-figure $$$ in lawyers and legal fees and never got a penny back.
University should not be trade or professional school.
But that's why the abstraction is leaky. You no longer need to think at just the level of the abstraction, but also at the level of the implementation of the abstraction. This is fine, but it's one of the reasons abstractions tend to be less useful than they seem. If you're always thinking about what's really going on, you might as ditch the abstraction and only think about what's really going on. The less you have to think about its implementation, the better an abstraction is.
> In the former, it's part of basic language knowledge to understand how virtual methods are implemented

Since when? While Hex-ray's IDA let me dig into exactly how vtables work, it's not like you even need to have heard of how vtables before you can stick the word 'virtual' in the right place for you code to do what you want.

Similarly: If you're a long-time Python programmer, and have never looked into the internals, it's a good exercise. There's a (in CPython) CALL_FUNCTION instruction that PyEval_EvalFrameEx (in Python/ceval.c) dispatches that (and, well, all) opcodes. And... and... It's not magic, yes it does work, I don't know if you care, I certainly do.

If you want to be ignorant of the lower-levels of code, Python certainly makes it easier (strings are an easy-to-use built-in language feature? madness!), but let's not pretend every programmer who has ever touched C++ has heard of vtables.
I mentioned to my wife while watching Monday Night Football, how silly this debat seems considering the Kansas City "Chiefs" opening ceremony involves a guy beating a large "Native American style" drum and the entire crowd "chopping" in unison.

Or maybe their just next on the list...
More than 2 dozen countries, including China, tax their citizens and permanent residents on their worldwide income. However, as a practical matter only the U.S. actually attempts to enforce its income tax laws on a worldwide basis.

The U.S. and China both offer an expatriate exemption (first $100k in income for the US) and foreign tax credits against U.S./China taxes for local country income taxes paid.
Zalando is European company with very few sales outside of EU.
Most of the evidence[1] I've seen tends to suggest that whether or not you'll attend university is determined at a very young age. If credit and scholarships are available, then the fees themselves are unlikely to be a deterrent, hence no fees is a subsidy on the rich. This strand of research doesn't really talk about the differences in performance once admitted, though (piling up debt might be extra motivation to do well).

What I'd like to read more about is research on progressive fee systems (e.g. based on family income) and the consequences on admissions and subsequent performance.

[1] e.g. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0297.00075/a...
I had "dedicated" AWS instances that were rebooted. A dedicated instance means there is only one guest per box, right? So I'm curious why those had to be rebooted if there is no network-facing vector to this vulnerability. I guess because we could have read from the hypervisor's memory?
Isn't the example more like: Firemen handing out smoke detectors that will detect fires regardless if there is a fire or not?

Hmm... Give false positive enabling software to law enforcement that will be disseminated to "Concerned Parents", then spend time investigating "Crimes against children."

What is the rate of which this software has been used to investigate crimes?

Who designed and programmed this software?
Another of my experiment.
This time playing with amazon and fb APIs.
I'll probably add some open graph integration in the next days.

Any feedback is appreciated ;)
I doubt their teeth are any less sharp.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gini+index+germany+usa
Good point, I did not know about SoundCloud.
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they provide some support for some potential links between plain packaging and reduced smoking. But, on their own, they don't provide support the introduction of plain packaging causing a decline in smoking rates. This is because there are 1) other potential effects of plain packaging on smoking (for example: lower prices -> greater consumption) and 2) there is no necessary link between surveyed perceptions of plain packs and actual consumption behaviour. My original point still stands: the linked article, with its bold headline and claim of "success" for plain packs in Australia, is irresponsible shitty journalism.
Downvote? I merely pointed out that the costs of smoking are also complicated.
Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing
EC2's new t2.micro instance is actually $9.50/month https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/07/01/introd...
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I'm using BTSync
Never used DropBox. Never will.
He can go to the countries, but like PG said it would be in an exclusive resort. He can't do anything that would negatively affect the company which means he can't be seen/photographed doing a lot of the stuff that makes these backpacking trips so fun. He can't go into a 7-11 to buy something without being recognized. There are pros to being rich and famous but let's not pretend there aren't cons.
Show HN: Short employment test for HTML/CSS and JavaScript – but with live coding
most tech people I know are aware of or have used LEGO bricks, and 'brick' as a negative tech term is recent afaik.
Shellshock, being a bash bug (and affecting systems that use bash for shell commands, etc), is OS and/or application level, and the responsibility of the individual customers to handle (as they are responsible for administration of the instances they run). The Xen bug affects how the hardware is virtualized, and this Amazon's responsibility.
I'm pretty sure that it's a matter of "sufficient pressure" and not legislation in this case, at least in most jurisdictions.
This is true. I had to clear an 'entrance examination' to prove my aptitude in engineering. But the problem is the people who would benefit the most from free education (at the lower social/income strata) will most likely have poor aptitude for high-income potential professions as well, because of poor primary and secondary schools they would have had access to. I know that some institutes take such students and provide one year of remedial education before providing an engineering education. They will take one more year to graduate, but overall a win-win situation.
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Trying to reduce UI design to something like Photoshop seems quite problematic to me. It encourages the designer to think that what you see is all there is. What about the things that aren't immediately evident in a WYSIWYG environment, like accessibility for users with disabilities (I'm thinking especially of blind users)? And if the WYSIWYG environment uses absolute positioning, as Photoshop does, then how will the UI adjust itself to different screen sizes? An advantage of representing a UI in a human-editable format like HTML, XAML, or Android's XML layout system is that all the properties of the UI elements are equally visible and editable, not just the things that are visible in the on-screen rendering. Also, I think that reading and editing the UI definition in a textual format forces the designer to think of the UI at a more abstract level than just dragging and dropping elements onto the screen and tweaking the things that are visible in that environment. And for the UI definition to actually be human editable, one is forced to leave absolute layout to the computer, making it more flexible.
I think I used Dropbox once or twice before the incident but now I mostly use Amazon S3, OneDrive or Google Drive. I might use Dropbox again if there is a reaason.
You mean like in the movie, Divergent?
Depending on the country, it can be practical to execute on an American judgment overseas. If your amount due is over $100,000, I would contact an international law firm and see what they think.
The STL is a weird mix of brilliant, visionary API design and abject failure.

Sounds like most software projects. IIRC the Scala folks have pretty much rewritten their entire collections library twice already, and that's with the benefit of hindsight.

I'd like to see a mature new language in this space with a good ecosystem too but the number of major swerves they've taken in the Rust design already makes me inclined to think that, like C++, they're going to discover they made some serious mistakes along the way.
Red Hat has a rather large number of GPL-licensed Ruby projects, does that count for you?
More like, Firemen handing out smoke detectors that not only beep whether or not there's smoke, but also occasionally light your house on fire.
Author here. Thanks for the comments, all.

Yep, Pro is not open source. That said, 90% of my time is spent supporting Sidekiq OSS users, dealing with questions and issues so the OSS work is the majority of my time.

My next product coming out tomorrow is the same way: 90% of the functionality is in the free, OSS version and I would expect the same split in time.
I dropped Dropbox for pCloud.
> and only a small number of people have been discouraged from attending university.

How do you know that. Have you asked the people?

I doubt what you say (not about the loans, I guess you know better than I, but in the US people are really at the mercy of the banks).

Even, when only few are discouraged, you have a loss.

The UK gvnmt should know: You can't have both: Save money and have good education for all without losses. When many use the loans, the savings for the UK are limited, since not all will be able to repay the money in full. Also the UK looses the money from the people that did not attend university. And it looses innovation -- all things that can not be calculated, but might finally well excell the pennies, the UK saves now. It even might loose the future (UK already has nearly only banking left as most important industry, so innovation would be really needed to revive the former proud "empire").
I use Emacs every day, and I think Emacs makes a terrible IDE or anything resembling an IDE. It's too slow, the GUI is too primitive, there's a whole host of other problems. I'll dump Emacs the instant something that fixes those issues comes around.
At some point, somebody will succeed in some real fashion with a tool that allows non-programmers to make software (for real, not baby software). And after that I'll just go live in the woods, I guess. The cost of my labor will go from a lot to basically zero.

Still, even though their goal (and the goal of similar projects) is my obsolescence, I wish them luck. It will probably be a massive overall good. But it's also a reason why I think all the current frenetic activity about teaching more people to program will end up being the wrong thing.
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I dropped Dropbox and wrote a web-only alternative, which is currently hosted on an Rasperry Pi. It's still a bit rough, and there's a lot of improvements to do, but combined with strong TLS, it suits my basic need for a private file server.

https://github.com/silverwind/droppy
Perhaps that 'justifiable' ignoring of tablet apps by Android devs is what led to the total failure of Android tablets.
SCOTUS reaffirmed the ruling in 2013 that police are NOT required to protect. So, whom do you want to take responsibility for your safety and security?

I know what I want if I have to take care of my safety and security. It's the same weapons the police carry.
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You have a backup on every device you choose to sync and if one of these devices happens to be a server with a copy-on-write file system like btrfs[1] i find it very unlikely you will ever loose those files to corruption or a single point of failure.

[1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Btrfs
Rising tuition fees have gone hand in hand with a declining number of lower income students, so can be said as a fact that lower tuition fees increase the number of students from poorer families. A quick googling found this Education Dept publication noticing the trend http://www.studyinfinland.fi/tuition_and_scholarships/tuitio..., but I imagine more data can be found by looking at countries where tuition fees have risen faster than the income levels, like in Canada or USA.
Sure, the problem is 'solved' until you are the one stuck trying to defend yourself without the proper tools because others wanted to not own a gun and have less of a chance of ever being caught in a situation where that decision would impact them. I consider each and every crime against a forcibly disarmed citizen to be an order of magnitude more a tragedy.
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Is anyone seeing any interesting payloads with this? Most of what I've seen are perl script CnC bots, with no actual binaries. The closest I've seen is a binary payload which was just for CnC with some hardcoded c2 IPs from China.
That one seems to be targeted more at periodical backups than what dropbox does, which is more closer to syncing and backing up at the same time.

Anyway, no I did not try it. From the website "It works with Amazon S3, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Drive (Google Docs), Rackspace Cloud Files or WebDAV, SSH, FTP"

I've heard of 5 of those, I know how to use 3 for storage, I have accounts with only 2 (gmail, outlook), but 0 of them have clients that work on android and linux.

And using different, non official, clients on different platforms just doesn't sound like a install and forget about it type of deal like dropbox has. Can I take a picture on my phone and see it a minute later on my computer and vice versa? My guess would be "no".

As far as encryption and it being open source goes, I couldn't care less about that. I don't store too sensitive data on dropbox so I don't care if NSA, dropbox or some other government agency has easy access to my data on their servers.

As far as the open source argument goes it's simply irrelevant to me. I don't have time nor knowledge to go over its source and I doubt that many other people do, as far as I'm concerned the fact that it's open source doesn't change anything regarding to either security or functionality of that software.

I still stand by my statement that literally not a single piece of software exists that does the same as dropbox in terms of stability, functionality, ease of use, and cross platform compatibility.
Stalin and MLton are sufficiently smart. Probably too smart in some cases.
Yes, … observed.

This is a shitty comment and makes HN and the internet at large a worse place. I don't have time to engage in an extended debate about this, but I wanted to note, publicly, that this is inappropriate.

(If you had contact info in your profile, I'd have sent this directly. Feel free to contact me by email, but I can't promise I'll be able to respond.)
Ukrainian journalist's YouTube channel got suspended. Who can help?
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Our laws have covered this type of work for decades. There is even an established international framework for dealing with these types of situations.

For tax purposes, the type of visa is irrelevant. What matter is whether the country has a tax treaty with the U.S. If you work while you're on vacation or otherwise temporarily in another country with which the US has a tax treaty, you generally shouldn't be subject to local country taxation. At the same time, however, you will remain fully subject to U.S. taxation on that income (assuming you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident).

If you stay in another country long enough to become subject to income taxation in that country, you will continue to owe taxes to the U.S., though you should generally be able to offset some or all of those local country income taxes paid. The U.S. generally provides a roughly $100k exemption for individuals; there is no exemption for business entities.

If this is really a concern for you, you should probably talk to a lawyer or an accountant.
>eventually there will become some expensive but exceptionally effective weapon only large governments can afford or supply

This already exists. Ubiquitous air presence via unmanned drones armed with air-to-ground rockets, missiles, or guided bombs.

Sometimes I feel like libertarians and NRA types seriously believe that they (a bunch of angry right-wing hunters or whatever) could actually throw off what they feel are the chains of oppression emanating from Washington, if only they could be sufficiently organized and motivated to rise up together.

Any serious armed rebellion in the United States would be deftly crushed. I'm not convinced that a peaceful/political rebellion would not be crushed also.

The System exists to perpetuate itself.
I dropped Dropbox in favor of Google Drive, which is more convenient for my use cases.
Next Generation Email Platform Inbox Rolls Out Open Source Apps