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This is a great idea! Hope this thread continues. I am out of Miami right now and rarely get to see cool tech offices. Would love to get a list going of tech offices that allow scheduled visits or quick tours.
Good question. Yes, same sex couples do contribute to the world's family tree.

I don't know of about all possibilities, but the following are examples I know of personally.

1.) One of my friends has a daughter. He came from a very conservative family, married, had a child, then finally had a conversation with his wife explaining his situation. He's gay, in a relationship and has contributed to the world's family tree.

2.) Lesbian couple. Both wanted kids, so a friend of theirs (straight) contributed sperm. So, one of the partners has definitely contributed to the world's family tree.
I believe you are incorrect. i3 has hyperthreading, i5 has turboboost, and i7 has both. If what you say were true, I shouldn't be able to get a dual core i5 or i7 in the latest Minis. store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/mac-mini?product=MGEN2LL/A&step=config
Lucky you. I've owned two, they both crashed, far more often than a top-tier OS should. It usually happened when playing video, and it was usually the GPU. That said, my Air has not crashed once since I purchased it last December.
While the consequences where certainly devastating don't be so fast to demonize Thalidomide.

It's currently having a comeback and showing huge promise for cancer treatment:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cancer/in-dept...
i would trust governments who would protect you from terrorist.
How do pain relievers work?
It is great for media professionals to have such a great display but consumer level isn't this bad? Isn't anyone concerned how horrible all our exiting media will look at this resolution? By horrible I mean, windowed of course would look excellent but beyond a certain size not so much maybe?

Most media consumption is done on 1080p or below, not everyone is fortunate to stream 2K or 4K content yet and we are pushing to 5K.
If you've ever done genealogy, you quickly realize that those individuals don't matter. People care most about people that they are descended from -- not their siblings or other non-lineal ancestors.

And while people recognize adoption, they often care more about their blood relatives. Hence, the proliferation of Y-chromosome and mtDNA genetic genealogy.
> The LDS church is doing massive amounts of work in preserving historical records.

Definitely. I think this is an area where LDS could do better PR.
wow really cool product! I love custom shirts and would love to stop by sometime. Bookmarked site.
The U.S. has flown in 7,800 cubic yards of gravel, along with 30
large tents, 4,400 cots, more than 12,000 yards of barrier fencing
and more than 2,200 rolls of plastic sheeting for the construction
effort, according to government figures.

Wait, what? 1 cubic yard of gravel weights over a ton, right? It would take more than 30 trips with an An-225 Mriya to move that much gravel through the sky. Methinks WSJ fact checkers missed something here...

According to government figures indeed...
Good to know, but that has nothing to do with what I said.
In addition to what me_again said I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that Mercola is one of the most prominent and virulent anti-vaxxers around.

Not sure if you're making your case with a link to his site.
No. We don't remove nor can we edit your apps. If you don't see a url by that video question, it means we didn't get the link.
I would love that, but it's a utopian vision. Apple will create a closed system only for them. Google will create a separate system. Firefox OS or any future competitors will be screwed over.
Okay, way too many generalizations.

1) No. That's, as probably in the US, a case-by-case thing. None of my friends that have a degree work under such restrictions.

2) Again, case-by-case. Though I think it might be overall more common.

4) The government is working hard on making that untrue with better and better options for working parents. Plus it's not only mothers but fathers as well.
Great... you make the effort of writing a balanced comment that both explains an argument of somebody and why that argument is probably misleading and/or incomplete, and it gets downvoted without a single reply actually challenging the contents (note that dragonwriter's reply simply adds another aspect to this discussion).
Interesting. There is currently a large cooking oil scandal unfolding in Taiwan.
I initially learnt Erlang to write websocket backends for browser-based games. Then found Elixir and moved on to it. I still work with the same stuff that OTP offers, along with a lot of sugary features that Elixir and it's community provides.

The Erlang syntax might be weird at first. But you'll get used to it.

Pattern matching for function arguments is a life-saver. Erlang also runs checks on your module when it gets compiled. It tells you if vars are being used or not, etc. Very handy IMHO.

The best side-effect of the concurrency model, is that your production environment, apart from config vars, will be almost same as your development environment. Unlike most languages today, you won't need a separate server program (Unicorn, Thin, Passenger, etc). You don't have to put your app behind nginx or apache. Use Cowboy (or alternatives), which is a server library for Erlang. I'll take care of stuff for you.

I write some Elixir libraries in my spare time http://github.com/HashNuke
Right, but if you drew a graph where nodes are humans and edges are links of genetic parentship, then you can build a complete graph without having to be aware of gay relationships.

There's nothing morally wrong or right about this statement, it's just a mathematical property of a very particular social graph.
You didn't answer his question whether it's ok to try to neuter the power that people derive from certain innate attributes. I.e. is it OK to make an exceptionally good looking person pay a higher tax, because there's a loose correlation between physical appearance and one's ability to secure a good future? Furthermore, doesn't everyone deserve the same shot at procreating with a good looking individual? Shouldn't we start using the power of coercion to make sure that unattractive people get to mate and have children as well? Where does it stop?
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There is a project called 5dwm which was an attempt to get an IRIX-like UI on Linux. I tried it once and it got me all nostalgic. I don't think it is being maintained or updated though
I bet many would use them if normal phones supported them.

A common use case is a local SIM card when travelling or commuting to a different country. Even people who don't travel a lot for work will typically travel semi-frequently in other countries in Europe, for family or vacations.
Neither Germany nor the US is about to 'stop trading with the world'. The only way that's going to happen is with another world war, and as the past has taught us, it's hard to predict the socio-economic fallout of world wars.
> One could make a distinction between parenting and parentage, and under such a distinction there's not really any such thing as same-sex parentage yet.

While both people in a same sex couple cannot claim parentage on the same child, one parent can. With multiple children each partner could claim parentage on one child, but not the other. This is not different than a 2nd marriage where each hetero partner can claim parentage on only 1 child.
One of the other devs suggested you might also be referring to paradox adjudication. We use the Szykman rule.
It's a trade-off. If your ISP chooses to, they can monitor non-HTTPS traffic while knowing exactly who you are.

Whereas a Tor exit is more likely to snoop, theoretically they should have no idea who you are (as long as you don't send any identifying information in plaintext).

I think the most important thing is that we should try and make the implications of both clear to as many people as possible.
Any piece of hardware which is replaced by software is a win for consumers.

In this case, maybe the carrier is gated by Apple. However that's a big step beyond a carrier locked phone at the hardware level like it used to be.
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Well, this is propaganda. What exactly is an argentinian sattellite? Almost all the parts are from Japan and outsourced to Europe (http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/09/26/ciencia/1411754613_66353...)
I just chatted with Apple Store staff. The RAM is NOT user-upgradeable.

"With the new type of ram, this is so small that we need to solder it to the logic board. So it is not user replaceable any longer. We can only offer upgrade at the point of purchase"

The PICe SSD storage is also soldiered onto the machine.
That would have no coanda effect though, right? I want an experiment that has only coanda (or similar) effects in play.
Mainland. HongKong is a great place to visit but I am not sure I want to live there.
dont start this again over here please
I've got several friends who spent a short time in industry before going back to get their Masters as full-time students. It doesn't seem that unusual to me. Mind you, these aren't people with mortgages or children.
the point with apprenticeship is, it asures a high level of quality as not everyone can get in. It's a form of secondary eduation and the selection process by employers simply ensures a high level of reliability (i'm idealizing, here)
also, it's not uncommon for a 40 years old to take a new, shortened apprenticeship, before changing jobs. the effects you see reversed are in fact not hierarchical but in a feedback-loop, education is but a factor.
Ceagesp in São Paulo, Brazil is a similar market of almost the same size of Rungis. And both aren't secretive at all!
No need to wait. You can dive in right now without losing much later (I think changes between now and 1.0 aren't going to be that drastic). The guides are really good.
If it holds for white kids in white countries (i.e. before mass immigration) then you agree that it is not about racism?

(Which it does, btw.)
daimler is a multinational conglomerate, not simply a german company. globalisation yadda yadda yadda
This is effectively saying that the very GSM standard you cited is impossible.

Particularly in light of close regulatory scrutiny in Europe, that seems unlikely.
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Quite right, I should have said "shouldn't be visible".
This video has a teardown of an old flight data recorder (tape based), with a ultrasound pinger/locator beacon(at about 3 minutes into the video).

http://youtu.be/mQehX0rVYuY?t=3m48s

Here's some technical information about this particular beacon.

http://www.sea-avionics.com/lc/cart.php?target=productDetail...

It says that the shelf-life of the battery is only 6 years (which probably means that it will lose some significant part of its total capacity over 6 years). Having a device operate for "decades" surely will need different power sources. (even if cutting down on average power consumption drasticly, by only emitting one ping per week or so...)
Mods could just drop 'Secretive' from the title to make it accurate.

Impressive pictures, however the copy seems like a missed opportunity to dig deeper than "the workers looked really tired".
Secretive? Seriously I don't know who the author asked the question to, must be some hobos or he just made it up...
It was heavily discussed last year.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4862

http://joeduffyblog.com/2013/12/27/csharp-for-systems-progra...

Is a variant of C# targeted for systems programming, developed at Microsoft Research. It remains to be seen if it will ever be made public.
I'm curious: when getting medicines at my pharmacy (in the US), how can I make sure I'm not getting Ranbaxy medicines? Is it as easy as telling the pharmacist?
Checklist for lecture #8

https://chris.typeform.com/to/Oto5xV
At some point, a set of beliefs is so harmful that it would be borderline-unethical not to criticize them. Would you have made a similar comment if the Church of Latter-day Saints refused to recognize mixed-race marriages? In case you didn't know, such racism was LDS dogma until 1978.

This project is impressive in its comprehensiveness, and I'm glad an organization has undertaken it. Still, the discriminatory, homophobic dogmas of the LDS church cannot be ignored, and criticism of these beliefs should not be discouraged. Only through discourse can they be challenged and obsoleted. The sooner that happens, the better.
> How would apprenticeship explain why a 40 year old German machinist is more likely to be employed than a 40 year old American machinist?

The German 40-year old machinist also tends to have a right to continuous training, to be provided by the employer. Since the employer likely already spent quite some money on that employee, they’ll have a higher interest in securing this continuous training and make sure that their employee stays up to date.
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These reasons stick out for me:

1. NT is very small. A 66MHz / 24Mb system can still throw up a desktop.

2. The UI is entirely hardware accelerated WPF.

3. You're right about the AOT which is done off the device. It still does GC on the device for most apps which are CLR based but core WinRT stuff is manual management. NT doesn't do overcommit or mmap stuff either. Also the CLR GC runs concurrently.

4. The ecosystem isn't fragmented making centralised compilation and optimisation a reality. There are very few hardware combinations to support.

5. Better native type support in CLR. There are better unsigned and binary types in the CLR making micro-optimizations possible.

Comparing to android, Dalvik is damn slow. It seems to defer all GC until an inconvenient time and suck up lots of RAM in the process. If they get that ART compiler in there then it might be getting somewhere but I suspect from my experiments with my Moto G that the compiler has a different set of performance penalties.
How are you guys finding the tools for supporting SAML SSO? I only recently had to stare into the abyss and found it to be a rather abysmal(harhar) experience.

One of the most popular service providers, Shibboleth, was a PITA to get setup the first time. Terribly complicated to get going from ZERO to signed in with ADFS as the ident provider. Options available for distribution and clustering are not up with the times. Only supported SHA1 hashing. Etc, etc. I know the guys put a lot of effort in on it and are pretty helpful on list but... I can't help but feel that 2014 deserves a better SSO experience :|
It wasn't my intention to demonize thalidomide, or any of its many derivatives.

You're right it's an effective (although very expensive) cancer treatment. At least a prescription now comes with a strict program to try to prevent exposing any fetuses. A far cry from a treatment for morning sickness. I can't get over the audacity of Gruenenthal (the German company who sold it). At least they finally got around to apologizing: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-19443910
Thanksfully most of these rules are abolished at the end of DS9 ...
Mercamadrid, in Madrid, looks just a little smaller (spanish):
http://www.mercamadrid.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=...

Wikipedia says it's the second market in the world, after Tokio, for fish and seafood. Most people in Madrid knows about Mercamadrid.
Out of curiosity, what was the reasoning in using saml/idp/xml/etc? Java shop + enterpriseyness?

I don't know a single person that enjoyed dealing with SAML SSO (myself included, using shib)
We can't possibly know what the intentions of the creator are, but it is definitely against the rules and for good reason:

Smartphones Are Used To Stalk, Control Domestic Abuse Victims:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/15/346149...

>85 percent of the shelters we surveyed say they're working directly with victims whose abusers tracked them using GPS. Seventy-five percent say they're working with victims whose abusers eavesdropped on their conversation remotely — using hidden mobile apps. And nearly half the shelters we surveyed have a policy against using Facebook on premises, because they are concerned a stalker can pinpoint location.
Your statement is fallacious. If governments are more efficient at creating inventions and advancing science, then according to that logic, a big government with greater power should be more efficient at advancing technological and scientific progress.

Yet, the majority of important technological and scientific inventions usually come from free-market based capitalistic societies. I don't see countries like North Korea, Russia and China making any scientific and technological breakthroughs, and I think it's easy to argue that they have very powerful governments.

Private sector has and always will drive the majority of progress. How much exactly, usually varies by era and political structure of the global society, but the fact that the free market ultimately drives innovation is indisputable.
I loved this line: "shrinking teams get paralyzed by knowledge transfers: everybody spends all their time trying to learn what the departing engineers know".
It doesn't really say much about developer productivity. What are you comparing this to? You might also be forgetting the insane number of (many 'enterprise') products Netscape was trying to churn out at the time. See:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

The browser alone with all of its extra doodads ran on three radically different platform families (Windows 95/NT, Mac OS, Several proprietary Unixes). And that's just the browser. Throw in running one of the top traffic sites at the time.

The internet advertising market which drives a lot of the revenue at many current similar startups was far smaller and less mature, as well. It's difficult to see how we can draw any sensible conclusion about developer productivity from all this.
Which is complete BS.

> The United States is a net importer,

Because of massive overconsumption, not a particular 'strong economy'. This is a country of consumers.

> if it quit trading with the world tomorrow American employment would go up.

Good luck trying that.

> Moreover, Germany's trade surplus is substantially the result of trade with Eurozone basket case countries whose trade imbalances are not sustainable.

Germany trades world wide. It has for example a trade SURPLUS with China. Because it is able to compete on the world-market.

> You also conflate the strength of the Mark with the strength of the German economy. The Mark was a strong currency in the postwar era because the Bundesbank tended to pursue "strong Mark" policies,

That Mark was strong, because Germany had the strongest economy in Europe and thus could run a strong currency policy.

> often to the detriment of the German economy. As recently as 1990 Germany was considered the "sick man of Europe".

'the sick man of Europe' was a propaganda term by the UK/US press to claim the superiority of their 'service economy'. Actually what happened between 1989 and 2000 was that Germany absorbed the reunification with a collapsed East Germany. Suddenly millions of people from a formerly 'socialist' country were joining West Germany. This was hugely expensive and the problems are still visible for another two decades.

Yeah, a bit of history gives the context.
The unemployment in Germany is 6% that is true. But one of every five works is a minijob, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_employment. With a minijob you get about 400 net/month. A minijob does not include social security which is mandatory in Germany. Take 160 euros.

"Germany strong economy" is an illusion. They are putting money in Spain, Portugal and Greece, because otherwise the euro and Germany will be totally f* up
That came after, not before. Given that I've heard no one defend those heinous crimes, I find that as lacking an explanation as the silly notions that scientists are advocating climate change because they expect to get grant money.
u r so hi tech
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Except the heinous physical connector.
5K? Seriously? This shouldn't make me anywhere near as furious as it has done. Fucking Apple, yet again, does whatever they can to make sure their users aren't compatible with the rest of the world.
By the way, I don't know if you have heard about these two papers before. They might interest you (or not).

Hopkins, Russell, Schaeffer, "Chimpanzee Intelligence is Heritable", Current Biology, 2014.

<way too many coauthors to list but the main guy seems to be P.M. Visscher>, "Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic", Molecular Psychiatry, 2011.

The latter paper reports on a study (with N=3511) on unrelated people to see whether their genotype and their phenotype regarding intelligence had anything to do with each other. People were tested with DNA chip for SNPs and had their IQ measured. The interesting result was that people who had more similar DNA also had more similar IQs (and vice versa, of course).

Drop me an email @gmail.com for copies.
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He's pointing out that we have empirical evidence for the harm of certain substances and it's a different kind of harm than the largely unintended consequences of, say, cars, which provide us with far more direct advantages at reasonably low risk. The risk is also intentional and, to a degree, controllable with wild animals and intoxicated drivers being some of the major exceptions. (Inclement weather is at least partially controllable, as long as "don't drive" is a choice.)
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Port forwarding is not always possible if you don't have access to your company's router or whatever. Also, this is much quicker to set up if you only need it temporarily.
Social security has nothing to do with minijobs, its mandatory and it does not depend on your job if minijob or not. Germany has by far the strongest economy in Europe and most other European countries would have problems without Germany. Germany does not depend on the Euro, it would be even stronger without it. So please get yourself informed before telling us your wisdom.
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I said 'by and large'. It's clearly a long, complicated discussion. But I wanted to provide a reason why taxes might be termed 'punishment' rather than delve into the economics of it all, which you could probably write entire books about.
In Europe, everyone I know who has a cellphone knows what a SIM is (even grannies), and they know this is the item connecting their phone to their service subscription.

I guess to people from the US this may seem "foreign", but it's really simple and it really works.