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You are missing the point, almost deliberately, it seems.

> You're not editing at this point, you're asking for official approval, which is a whole other thing.

Official approval would almost certainly require changes, hence the need for an editor after starting any sort of negotiation. The editor is part of any deal going through. No one expects that there's even the slightest chance that MoR would be approved with no changes; there is a tiny iota of a chance that after appropriate changes are made. What is 'appropriate'? No idea. So hiring an editor before is not nearly as useful as hiring after.

> But also - it's simply stupid (and irrational) to think that JKR is going to approve of political comments about immigration, or a rape scene.

You're very opinionated for an ignorant fool. I never said it was a rape scene, and I doubt Rowling would object to the immigration part.
Author here. Definitely didn't mean to condescend. I used "like a European" as short-hand for, "this is an employee who regularly chooses to take off far more time than the typical American would generally be expected to take off".

This section of the article was meant to speak directly to management who may be concerned about using this policy due to this particular possibility. The following text is attempting to answer their concerns. That is, don't worry so much about this. Rather, judge the results, as you should be anyway.
In that situation Comcast has two choices: they can receive that traffic via free peering or they can buy transit to receive it.
For the UK, ICO: https://ico.org.uk/media/report-a-concern/forms/1479/spam-em...

They ask to send them the spam emails (with headers) to them, all communication from and to. I guess it's the same around the EU, just the relevant national agency.
Before I ask my question, I'm going to preface it by saying that it is not intended as a criticism of anyone's favorite language, but something I'm genuinely curious about. Here's the question: what substantial pieces of software are written in a functional style (lisp or otherwise).

I'm curious because I've used functional languages in the past and even written some fairly substantial projects in one of them (a toy compiler written in Ocaml), however, I've never left with the impression that they are superior to other languages. In my experience functional languages give you some convenience with doing functional things while making lots of other things slightly more difficult.
The connection to Racket is the people behind it. Pyret was developed by students of Racket's developer, S. Krishnamurthi (with his support).
Check out Feeling Good by David D. Burns. It's something I came across a while back when battling with my own self-doubts, and helped me tremendously.

It's Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Basic idea being, what you think is what you feel, and what you think isn't necessarily rational or good for you.
Yeah, I'm quite willing to admit that point-free style seems to often be more harmful than helpful. The comments on r/haskell also pointed out ($) as an operator of possible over-use, which I think makes sense. I just don't want to abuse parentheses, since, coming from a Lisp background, that probably wouldn't be too difficult. :P
If darknets are profitable, what's to stop existing drug cartels from becoming involved with them?
GitHub has a user GoogleCodeExporter that is publicly logging all of the repositories that are being transferred from Google Code to GitHub. The number of commits might break GitHub!

https://github.com/GoogleCodeExporter?tab=contributions&from...
I knew even before I clicked the link that it would be discussing e-health records :) I worked with them in a small division of McKesson (RelayHealth) a few summers ago as an intern and the company was described to me as "the biggest company no one's ever heard of." Hope there's finally some agreement on the format and information sharing takes off so we can focus on the important things! So much of my work today seems to involve data munging that I'm starting to wonder if this is all a career in data science really has to offer.
There's the software that works, he gets the money to find the bugs and fix them, he decides to write from the scratch something that certainly isn't the replacement of the existing software except for some specific users. That is very ADT, exactly to JWZ's definition:

"This is, I think, the most common way for my bug reports to open source software projects to ever become closed. I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch -- and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version."

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

He got the money to look for the bugs and to fix them (hard). He instead goes to make the fully new undiscoverd bugs in fully new (his own) code (easy).
Yeah, it kind of sounds like someone that decided to stick a GoPro in their C172 would be at risk of falling afoul of this interpretation of commercial use if they stuck the video on YouTube.
But it does, on PC. Just not PS4 and PS3.

I can login to HBO GO with my Comcast account on PC just fine, always have been able to.
@clavelle I have to agree with you

I can't for the life of me see what anyone sees in this app.. then again as a non-teenager/college student, perhaps I'm not their target demographic, and I just don't get it.
Ook :(
It is incredibly sad and reflective of a broken industry.

One of the major advantages of Go is that it is easy to learn for existing programmers as there are very few different abstractions/features.

Yet plenty of companies are now requiring prior experience in Go, erasing most of the benefits of using Go.
> I know that you are over exaggerating when you say "this rate of collateral damage is far better than has ever been achieved in an armed conflict" because there have been had wars with no casualties at all ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodless_war ).

I'm not sure why you even included this. Of course we're talking about conflicts where there is bloodshed.

> Even in wars with casualties, the first Gulf War had some 3,500 civilian casualties in Iraq, and about ~25K military casualties. That's 1 civilian killed for every 10 military.

The first gulf war was against an organized military and it lasted for roughly 4 months. It wasn't a long term occupation with ISAF essentially playing peacekeepers within the country. The US basically destroyed most of the Iraqi military and then withdrew after a peace agreement was struck.

The Iraqi military the US faced during the invasion in 2003 was a shadow of its former self, and during the occupation obviously they were fighting an insurgency. It's a terrible comparison. A more suitable example might be the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which is similar in many important respects, but the doctrine followed by each military was vastly different. The Soviets killed indiscriminately during their occupation. Their strategy was generally to seek out and kill every person in the direction from which they were shot at. This very article shows that there are multiple levels of approval that must be sought before the order to kill is given. Obviously, it has flaws, but it's not even in the same ballpark was the "conventional" way of doing things.
Incredibly sad news.

Plenty of people on this thread have recommended some of his best books(Small Gods, The Truth, Monstrous Regiment) but nobody has brought up Jingo yet. It's a wonderful satire of extreme war nationalism, it's part of "The Watch" series of Discworld books so it helps if you've read the previous books ( Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay ) but reading it by itself is fine.
What if I sell drone accessories and my video is not monetized, but links to my website?
For my kids, Scratch from MIT was the thing that finally got them programming. It gives immediate rewards and every program can be shared on the site and modified ("remixed") by other users. So all the kids are building on each other's code and learning from what they see. The language features are limited, but it's more than just the language, since you can see what everyone else is creating and directly play with code you find neat.

The games they create are not slick but they're sophisticated enough that the kids are learning how to work through real programming problems on their own resources. And the kids evidently find this very rewarding and addictive.

Compared to that they find even Lego Mindstorms kind of dull. The social aspect of Scratch is a brilliant touch.
The FAA was established in the late 1950s, spurred by the then-largest largest air collision in 1956 over the Grand Canyon causing 100+ deaths. The original intent of the FAA was to increase safety in obvious ways: monitor the air space, define flight rules, etc.

But today they are spending time and resources deciding what to do with drone videos being monetized or not?? Clearly they have deviated from their original intent...
It's really not that straightforward. What if you don't directly put ads on the video, but the video attracts attention to you or your company, which indirectly provides some monetary benefits?

Heck, what if flying a drone on my own time helps me relax, which makes me more productive at my normal desk job?
The Solzhenitsyn quote is apt.
FCC Net Neutrality Order: Quick Turnaround for an Agency, Slow for Internet Time
Don't run encryption with our backdoored encryption?
I agree, it's not professional.
Those don't belong in the workplace, and I admire the way the guest poster went about convincing her coworkers.

Sorry I wasn't clear, when I was referring to she, I meant the creator of the website, not the guest poster.

>Focusing on sexy pictures in the name of "artistic appreciation of idealizations" is narrow-mindedness, no matter how you spin it.

I think it would also be narrow-minded to not think that "sexy pictures" could be a component of art or art in themselves.

My main thoughts are that humans didn't evolve or create things in vacuum, why do we even value art ? and where in our biological wiring do they values come from ?
A redirect should send the right signals to search engines to move ranking with work. We actually do a lot of work at google to help people find things even after a move. (independent of our own projects/products, esp..)
Was The Watch for me but now it just might be The Witches.

I liked the character of Granny Weatherwax but the Tiffany Aching series really brought out her essential nature in a way the other books didn't.

Damnit now I feel sad again.
Hah, what are the odds? Pretty favourable, probably - the nerd pool isn't that big.

Thank you for the Fluxus suggestion! I'll give it a try - although development seems to have stagnated, lacking the critical mass needed to keep the project going (for now).

(also, they should have followed your advice on websites. So many artsy open source initiatives seem hell-bent on being inaccessible to outsiders with their presentation)
Pivotal Releases GemFire 8.1 with Updates and New Features
I think the author's Simon Cowell example actually disproves his point. If you wanted someone to win American Idol who would choose to do it? Someone who who you have to train to sing well and coach them on the judges preferences? Or would you choose the person who has worked with the judges for years, knows exactly what makes contestants win or lose, and helps to make the decision themselves. I would choose Simon Cowell, not because it would warm my heart to see him win, and make me believe in the Meritocracy of American Idol, but because he would be the best bet. Venture Capital is about making money, not about giving everyone a chance to make their start up happen.
> It's kind of like saying a person can go buy a lump of clay, but if they turn it into a vase, then they can't sell it.

That is precisely how all regulations work that make a distinction between commercial and non-commercial activity.
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Yes, that's possible:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe.html

http://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe-dist.html
It sounds like you're defending a particular scenario that I'm not understanding.

Do you agree that there exist hypothetical situations in which a company and a VC firm investing in said company might have differing interests? Doesn't it follow that someone with responsibilities to both parties has a conflict of interest situation?
My feeling is that a coincidental situation like that should be acceptable (the FAA may well disagree).

In terms of sharing costs (or accepting compensation) for rides, there is often a straight face test - is it genuinely and sincerely a shared interest in undertaking a flight, with a goal (outside the flight itself) for both the pilot and passenger. If not, then it's considered commercial. The FAA rightly or wrongly tends to view "nudge nudge wink wink" stuff on the conservative side.
This is a sort of repeating event over the last several decades. People with libertarian leanings find (thing) which they believe sidesteps (regulator powers of some kind). Slowly, (regulator) asserts itself, up to and including force of law or even armed response.

I don't know when this pattern will stop happening. You're _never_ going to move to a floating/flying platform in the middle of the ocean/in space and cyberjack into a utopian free-for-all.
I am an attorney and the law is actually more nuanced. If you are flying under 83 feet on private property you can monetize the video and it is not against the law. U.S. v. Causby, 328 U.S. 256, 258 (1946)->https://nimia.com/drone-footage-require-property-release/
Pinball is good for this use case. You can build a workflow include a few jobs,

job1. generate a wav file, and put it somewhere say, s3://wav.file

job2 (run after job1): pick the wav file from the location s3://wav.file

you need to know the contract between the parent and child jobs from the business logic. In this example, when you implement job 1 and job 2, you need to have protocol for them to produce store and consume the wav.file..
Google shouldn't really have to do this. Replace GoogleBot with BingBot or GCE with AWS and you still have the same problem. A website operator should be working to make sure search crawlers don't consume too many resources given that the bots follow rules.

Otherwise you'd have a team at every cloud provider trying to figure out how to manage bots.
It doesn't actually assume uniform distribution, it assumes that the distribution pattern doesn't change as the number of drivers goes up. Which from my experience is a good assumption over reasonable amounts of changes in driver numbers. It might change if you start to recruit some new demographic of drivers.

Drivers who are close to you having a hard time getting to you is definitely one of the tough algorithmic problems in this space! At Flywheel, we kept mentioning it, like, "Okay, what if we tried to take into account one-way streets and driver heading," and ultimately we were (when I was there at least) just too resource constrained to try to take on such a fiddly complex data-intensive problem.

One thing I don't really like about Uber is that they have All The Money In The World and yet I feel like they don't have a lot of ambition to deliver a really good app experience. Like, I get a weird loading screen every time I bg/fg my app. What's up with that? This is Android, the app can just fuckin' run while it's bged. And they aren't tackling the "driver who can get to you soonest" problem (as far as I can tell from the perspective of a passenger) or the "how to help a driver figure out who you are in a crowd" problem or any of the other cool stuff in this space.

Like, what's the point of being a $all the billions company if you don't deliver a really good app?
What’s the Difference Between Apache Mesos and Google’s Kubernetes
Finding the Magic: Inside Look at an Industrial Designer's Creative Process
> How many people have quadcopter operators killed

Zero, meanwhile even Harrison Ford, an extremely qualified pilot, found a golf course when his engine gave out. Shit happens, and we need to plan accordingly instead of trying to prevent the shit in the first place. Oddly enough, I don't see worldwide media focusing on the private aviation hobby and how dangerous it is to everyone even though he landed on a fucking golf course. But no, one drone lands on the White House lawn and it's a national emergency with firmware updates pushed by DJI in response to ban Washington, D.C.

My work, as I point out elsewhere in this thread, is to educate folks about the positive uses for drone technology and the industry that's about to happen. The possibilities of extending our senses into the air around us are endless. I've had people come up to me while operating in public and threaten me and my equipment. People are shooting at drones with some frequency in the more backwater parts of the United States. I'm waiting for one of those bullets to land a few miles away and kill a child, because I predict the backlash will be against the fliers, not the shooters.

I often feel like I'm pushing, hopelessly against the avalanche of media fearmongering, because this technology has real, potent uses that should appeal to this community of startup tinkerers and hobbyists. We could be investing in automatic technology to build upon TCAS and integrate commercial UAS into that system, but we're not: we're trying to prevent the industry from ever happening.

Imagine the Wright Brothers trying to tinker in today's regulatory climate. Remember how all of us fought against classifying our hobby as "drones," even though it's technically correct, because most peoples' exposure to the word "drone" is centered around Hellfire-carrying platforms? Yeah, this is why.
ekidd - thanks for the link!

Also,
I know it's not free (the coursera course is free) but it's still a great read and seriously applicable http://codingthematrix.com/
I don't think it tested 18 months of writing, it tested 18 months worth of writing.
> can reduce corruption

So, you think that selling passports - a low-volume, high-profit-margin, heavily-secret revenue stream handled personally by high-level politicians favored by questionable characters and which has no relationship to transparency, good government, good business practices, efficient government in any sense, or the consent of the governed - might reduce corruption?
1. take responsibility for his actions
2. not top himself
Don't model rockets routinely go much higher than the 400 feet the FAA has traditionally limited hobby aircraft to?
It's not a clever argument, it's just the better of two options. If we are killing the guy because he might turn us in, then I should also just kill you because you've threatened to turn me in. There is no way that is a winning proposition for anybody, so it doesn't guarantee any safety for anyone.

If you're willing to kill someone to avoid jail, you better believe I would be willing to turn you in if you've already decided to turn me in because I don't want to kill someone. If we DO kill them, then by the same logic, I should have you killed to.

Threatening the person you are working with to "deal with threats" is just stupid. It just means you have to be dealt with as well.
Wouldn't "429 Too Many Requests" be more appropriate than 503? Or maybe Google doesn't respect 429?
8 skills computer science majors need
I'm a big fan of Lisps. I like the simple syntax. Scheme is my go-to tool for some jobs, particularly metaprogramming. And I use the syntax a lot for DSLs because it is so trivial to parse.

But there is something to be said for using syntax as a way of representing meaning.

Conditions, loops, function definitions, types, and so on, can be expressions (depending on the language, they may be fundamentally so), but having them look different, that reduces the interpretive burden, I think.

Perhaps the bigger lesson of the OP is how few programmers understand how their language works. A case for people to write their own languages as part of a CS course, maybe?

I can't remember who said that learning Lisp makes you a better programmer, even if you don't use it day to day. I strongly agree. It did that for me.
Just a nit, everything is passed by value in Go including slices. Here is an example highlighting why it may be important to keep this in mind: https://play.golang.org/p/VOUJI88PNj .

Regardless of this, I learned Go during the last Stripe CTF and placed top 5 in one of the rounds with it sooo... I don't believe learning to be effective with it takes all that long. It was quite enjoyable to learn as well.
I would love to see how this stacks up to enterprise SSDs. It is my understanding that they will last years under constant full-bus-speed rewriting.
Google has ad revenue sources that are not Youtube. Like you said, Youtube represents only a small part of its revenue stream, but this doesn't mean its revenue stream is not dominated by selling ads.
cmurf is correct. The FAA has an absolutely ridiculous standard for what they consider commercial activity. If you are a private pilot, you may not:

* Go joyriding with a friend if they pay you more than their share of the operating expenses (gas, oil, airport fees, etc) of the flight.

* Have a friend ask you "hey, want to fly to <insert location> this weekend?" and then take him there. Doing so could be construed as you providing a transportation service, even if he pays you nothing.

Basically, what you can do is offer friends to come along on a flight you intend to make and will make even if they don't come, while paying no more than their fair share. If making the flight is contingent on them coming, you are providing a transportation service.

The fact that these activities would be perfectly fine if done in a car apparently matters not one whit to the FAA.
Take a look at Kallithea.
Why do ServiceWorker really need SSL? Such requirement makes the development process and usage in smaller projects cumbersome.

IndexedDB API as NoSQL API isn't that great to work with. Give some love to WebSQL or continue on a SQL API standard based on SQL-92 standard.
Definitely -- its a true story and anyone in QA knows that pain -- we've had a great response so far.
Related Far Side comic:

http://imgur.com/Gi2dtEz
Study Software Engineering or Computer Science?
Hey guys,

I'm currently a first year student in the UK studying software engineering/computing. Primarily I'm learning Java from a very practical point of view. My exams consist of building software over a number of hours and are quite intense. I really feel like I'm learning to code here.

However, a number of the other modules are quite slow paced and I feel like I'm not learning enough. We do practically zero maths as well which I don't like.

I've been offered a place one of the top 10 computer science/computational thinking courses in the country but I'd have to start again from year one (although they do in 3 years what I currently do in 4).

(some of the modules from the first year computer science course)

Java,
Integration,
Finite Mathematics,
Data Structures and Algorithms (I & II)	,
Vectors, Matrices and Geometry	,
Linear Algebra,
Multivariate Calculus,
Structured Programming	(haskell),
Analysis	(Mathematics)

(and some more of the second year modules)

Computation and Complexity,
Theory of Computation	,
Complex Analysis I	,
Artificial Intelligence	,
Groups I	,
Programming Languages and Compilers	(Computer Science),
Real Analysis (I & II)	,
Software Verification

Next year in my current course I'll be doing C, windows phone development and a bunch of Javascript phone development with the ionic framework and some more Java.

If I change university I'm going to have to dish out 7000 pounds sterling as well as move out from the family home, so really its going to be 20,000/30,000 in cost probably.

In my dream world I imagine myself being able to experiment with my own 2d game engines from scratch while at the same time I love web development and would like to start diving into node.js and other higher abstracted stuff.

What do you guys think?