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A lot of this will depend on your language/environment. There exist client-libraries for IMAP, POP, etc. But if you don't have those then implementing them will not be so difficult.

The truly hard part is dealing with emails themselves, both in terms of MIME, and the bastardized broken things people will send you - malformed headers, missing headers, etc, etc.

I wrote a modal console-based Email client, completely scriptable via lua:

http://lumail.org/

It was more work than I expected, but also fun. So there are compensations. (Obviously graphics make things harder, with threading, etc, but if you can handle the core you should be able to wrap a GUI around it.)
cheers for the heads up, spelling ain't my forte!
Cinema 4d neon sign ‪tutorial‬
Why Jazz isn't cool anymore (2011)
Why great companies fail; the Innovator's Dilemma
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He did spend half a paragraph propping up the character of that patient on an emotional pedestal for the reader instead of saying something like:

"Dylan was a typical kid with some good sides, who ended up making a completely preventable mistake. Let's see where modern medicine got him despite of that."

There's indeed no need for a sermon, but acknowledging mistakes to be what they are is definitely called for.

And i continuously, in articles about belt-less accidents see a lack of that happening. And in the comments of articles i continuously see people think it completely fine to not wear belts. If that kind of attitude is not something worth commenting on then i don't know what is.
Despite that he brought no files with him from Hong Kong, I can readily accept that the Chinese or Russians obtained the files from someone else.

The term "black bag job" commonly means stealing a codebook. Spy movies depict Peter Gunn breaking into an embassy then cracking a safe.

Real black bag jobs are such social engineering as when the Pentagon ordered the commanding officer of Midway Island to request a replacement for the base's broken water desalination plant:

"$THE_ISLAND_WERE_ABOUT_TO_ATTACK needs a new desalinator" reported a japanese spy.
Tl;dr: blame Snowden for the mess OPM made, based on no actual evidence.
I was just excited when I heard Paint will build a gradient if you shrink a two-tone image to a pixel width and re-expand:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Gradients-in-MIcrosoft-Paint...
And instead of basic infrastructure the West (which milked colonial Africa for centuries, and continues to do so post-colonially, placing friendly lackeys in power to ensure underdevelopment and advantageous for them business climate), comes with feel-good schemes like "One Laptop Per Child" etc...
Absolutely.

They design it well the first time. They refactor is to a better design as needed as new requirements arise.
I would not say that the USSR did not make a lot of progress. It was technologically advanced (through it's use of design bureaus) but the inherent inefficiencies of it's system made it quite impossible to grow after a certain point (economically speaking).

China is playing it smart. It is waving the proverbial carrot in front of the faces of poorer countries in Africa etc. They would gladly support the Chinese coming over to build their infrastructure after being f*ed over by the international (i.e. Western) financial institutions. They are running over to China because it can help them. China can already count on a large base of support from these countries.

The military is going to be used to further this base of support. Being strong means that more people would be inclined to deal with you, knowing that you can accord them protection. The military will play a huge role in increasing the economic might of China.

This will not happen soon. China still has a long way to go. China needs to assume greater control of world finance for this to work. Their new development bank is just firing up. China is still only a major exporter of cheap goods and electronics.
Given what they were accusing wikileaks, Manning and Snowden of there should be. But I don't see anybody standing up yet and taking responsibility publicly for being so terribly sloppy with all this information. Much easier to blame the people we already know about and who the government has a score to settle with.

Another question missed to date by those looking at this article is that if the Chinese and the Russians have cracked this archive of data how come the United States is still in the dark about what exactly was taken (which they've admitted they do not know) and that they implicitly claim to have a full copy of the archive in readable form as well (otherwise the UK government could not make the claims they're making here).

So much inconsistency.
I find C++ much easier to write in Sublime (or vim) vs Java.
It is so difficult to parse this kind of article. We don't know if the sources are actually from the intelligence community, or politicians who are being fed a narrative by actual intelligence sources.

My hunch is that these agencies are compromised by hackers and most of this is a response to that in one way or another. Just this week we found out how security-clearance information has been extracted by attackers. This include records of “foreign contacts”—lists of non-U.S. officials that a person might know or have relationships with [1]. But maybe just blame everything on Snowden!

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/security-clearance-information-l...
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> You have no evidence that the seat belt would have helped

There's no evidence either that it wouldn't have helped, but a good chance of it having potentionally helped and a vanishingly small chance of it being detrimental. The article says he hit a patch of ice. It's entirely possible that that momentary loss of control would have been dampened by a belt keeping him straight in his seat so he could've avoided the obstacle.

> You have no evidence that his treatment was funded by taxpayer money and not by insurance.

True. I admittedly do come from a society where in almost all cases tax payer money would be involved in the medical treatment and i did jump to a conclusion there.

> You've made no explanation of how he could have been "a physical danger to others."

There was no need to since it's utterly obvious. Lack of belt excacerbates any kind of loss of control in which the driver is subjected to forces moving them about in the seat, by making any further control attempts much more difficult; thus increasing chances of further uncontrolled collisions with other traffic participants.

> I don't believe [...] I marched right into his hospital room

Now you're jumping to conclusions. The kind of thing you're saying is obviously unreasonable so i did not consider it worthy mentioning that i was not talking about that. I was talking about what would have happened throughout his life before that.

> You're a short step from channeling Reagan ranting about "welfare queens."

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9713606
Physicists have succeeded in confirming one of the theoretical aspects of quantum physics: Subatomic objects switch between particle and wave states when observed, while remaining in a dual state beforehand.
Now, Dr. Andrew Truscott of the Australian National University has reported the same thing in Nature Physics, but this time using a helium atom, rather than a photon.

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/measurement-rules-quantum-...
The GPL does not prevent you in any way from distributing an iOS application and charging money for it (provided that you make the source code available for that part of the app that is a derivative of the GPL'd work), it is just that in practice Apple will censor applications that contain GPL'd code from their App Store.

That is entirely Apple's decision to make; they reportedly also censor apps that display nudity etc. and I would not be convinced by an argument that nobody can make money with pictures of nude people.
To me P2P is the obvious answer to the (especially free) software distribution problem. Sign the binaries, and let the users help you. You can even run Opentracker [1] on a cheap server for more independence. Ubuntu is doing this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentracker
Australia is a ridiculously expensive place to live and the major cities even more so. You possibly live a lot better on that income than an Australian developer could on one far higher.
Just wait until they have to keep all the metadata by law...

I suspect they will after they realise you can't tie things down in CGNAT
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That kinda reminds me of an old xkcd cartoon: https://xkcd.com/844/
Using a tool to refactor is better for source control. The diff sucks, but it sucks because it actually found every instance and refactored properly, meaning going through to review it is simpler as long as you trust the tool. We should be using tools for this type of thing, for exactly the same rules as automated formatting should be the default response to any debate on formatting issues.
instead of wires, even between citys the internet is transmitted by air. Im currently in southwest cameroon, and only means for access is over the air. At home, I use mobile network. But even in all the cyber cafes, offices, etc they use different over the air solutions. As far as I know, no one is wired directly to the network. And apparently even from this region, traffic goes to douala over the air, where it meets optical sea cable. Oh, and incoming connection is under monopoly. If it goes down, everyone go dark.

There are startups whose plan is to create local network coverin city for high bandwith content, without relaying to the outside connection as this is mostly bandwith limited. So called alternative network of catche servers and wifi, as often even watching youtube is pain depending on the time and location.
> the 4 most common colors

maybe it would be better to weight pixels by the energy density of the image region so that backgrounds (sky, walls) don't dominate the resultant colors over the (usually more significant) foreground/detailed objects
That's pure nonsense. There is nothing that prevents languages like Lisp or Smalltalk from being used with a console editor and the compile-pray-debug cycle, but that's no reason to shoot yourself in the foot. This is true of any language, but for some reason there's a large mass of developers of those other languages that see shitty tools and incomplete programs (remember kids, high LOC count means bloat!) as some kind of virtue.
Simple paypal alternative that is free ....
Could not find any fee info, so should be free...

Then this could easily be used for accepting payments for services or sales. Since I anyways spend on amazon, better accept payments this way without any fee...
tl;dr: mesos/marathon run the tasks, consul exposes the tasks in DNS.

Both Mesos and Marathon store different views of task state on the cluster.

How do we use this data to make it easy for jobs to find one another? Can we use this information to automatically configure things like Load balancers?

This is where tools like consul and mesos-dns come in. They populate a DNS store, so that task-name becomes something like task-name.example.com. If you are running 10 copies of a service across different hosts, DNS will have 10 entries.

If a container moves to another system, DNS is updated on the fly.

We can embed health checks with consul, so that if a service is unhealthy, it gets pulled out of DNS.

Consul also is nice because the edges perform the checks (instead of a central server), so the load is distributed.
My father was an electrical power engineer. It's quite a lot harder than one would think to distribute power with a nationwide grid.

It's never really made sense to me that we even have a nationwide grid. Why not local grids with local power plants? That's what islands use. While there is economy of scale in a big power plant then you need a bigger grid to consume its power.

There are many ways to generate electrical power. I expect many aren't used because power companies can't earn money from them.

I expect you'd have fewer scheduled blackouts if the rural areas had their own local generators.
Wire-wrap is actually quite good for durability, although it lacks an inherent ground plane. On the one occasion I had to send 20MHZ signals across wire-wrap, I had to make little twisted-pair lines by wrapping a ground wire around every signal wire.
Philae comet lander wakes up
But this article is straightforward isolationism, a very old current in American political thought. The implied answer to your question is, 'So what? America is safe, that's all that matters'.
It would seem that you've not used Resharper. Best refactoring tool I've ever seen. Actually seems like they are forcing the Visual Studio team to pick up their game.

> (e.g. type signature changes are painful as hell)
Resharper handles this very well.
I have a few todo improvements, but if you'd like to see this one tested/implemented, add as an issue on the github!
I do really like OCaml, although Rust is the one I'm starting to look to where in the past I'd consider OCaml (yes, two different languages, but similar in practical function approach and safety).

The one things that I absolutely can't stand about OCaml is the lack of an easy, available, include-in-the-standard-library, debugging function. Every damn time I work with OCaml, I end up having to write annoyingly time-consuming "print_blah_blah" functions to handle debugging. And such a debugging feature should handle errors already, and not return the Option type. I shouldn't have to write a function to handle errors on a debugging statement.

And yes, I'm sure there are some nice versions of this already available in 3rd-party libraries, but this should be in the standard library.
Does your question mean you turned off logging on the servers?
Does F# have easy C interop, so you can call into Rust easily like you can from say, Python?
Five fintech startups to watch in 2015
Incredibly prescient, especially the bit about how the use of the weapon on Japan would set the stage for other countries to become wary of the US claiming to aim for disarmament.

It also bolsters the opinion that the use of the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a show of force intended to establish a post-war dominance rather than that it was the only way Japan was going to be forced into submission.

Horrific stuff.
Programming applications on incumbent financial systems requires : bonding, licensing, regulatory certifications, insurance, etc. That's the permission being referenced.
You're picking on the wrong country here: Jordan is the only country in the Middle East that has pretty much entirely naturalized its Palestinian refugees, who (depending on where you draw the line) make up over half the population. The vast majority of the people living in refugee camps are Jordanian citizens, and the "camps" have long since turned into permanent (if often crappy) housing.

As for why the rest don't, one answer is that the other countries don't have to, so they don't give a fuck; and even more cynically, by keeping the festering sore open, they can deflect public attention from their various problems and instead blame Israel for it all.
Thank you for sharing. The video explanation is really easy to follow.

For interested people, here is an interview with K. Stanley, the author of NEAT: http://aigamedev.com/open/interviews/galactic-arms-race/

I was wondering if this learning technique was applied to any other games. I came across this:

1. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mhauskn/papers/atari.pdf

2. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.93....
Ioq3.js – emscripten port of ioquake3
s/in typical Obama fashion/in typical presidential fashion/

I don't think you could accuse any recent president of prosecuting actual criminals.
Summing up the ExaScale Challenges
Inflation is at 5-10% if we measure it the same way we have always measured it till Reagan times. Then the Government started cooking books, but if we agree to use the same formula to calculate inflation as the one we used before 1990s, we are at 10% right now my friend. We have been for a few years. So in real terms we have had negative interest rates. By definition this makes investors to put money in anything but cash. When you think about it, this is why investors are so keen to keep money in things like Swiss Government debt that has negative return. Why would you ever do that if real interest rates werent in fact negative?
So, if the world is rife with bad actors, why does cash work so well offline? You should consider that online systems are more risky, mostly due to their pull-based nature, which is why so many roadblocks exist in traditional Internet-based value routing systems. As for competitive, clearly you've never bought something with Bitcoin online.
The tone of the article is horrible. Does the behemoth, errr, Apple care to outcompete spotify or soundcloud? I though apple's strategy is just to provide more content for their devices
This is great. I had something similar in my TODO list.
That seems really high... The last time I reupped my personal IntelliJ license it was about $100 USD.
ROSETTA’S LANDER PHILAE WAKES UP FROM HIBERNATION
Instacast podcast app shutting down
We know his advice to Greenwald was to use a password like "MargaretThatcheris110%SEXY" to avoid dictionary attacks, and in his interview by Jon Oliver he says that short passwords can be brute forced. (See http://www.wired.com/2015/04/snowden-sexy-margaret-thatcher-... for both videos.)

Therefore, both of you are very likely incorrect.
TLDR: a neural network playing Super Mario.

A very cool demonstration showing how the network evolves.
You're being obtuse. If the point of contention is that a user's transactions might not be mined - your point is redundant. I've settled thousands of value transfers on the Bitcoin network, and have never had a transaction that didn't confirm. Additionally, if the nature of your business is such that this risk was nonetheless unacceptable, Bitpay and Coinbase will happily insure the confirmation risk for free, if you use their payment gateways. I'm certain that whatever this confirmation risk is, it's far less than the risk of a chargeback or receipt of a counterfeit dollar.
The gist of this is that perl's parser depends on previously symbols
that are already defined to figure out how to parse things.

The same goes for languages like C, but the difference is that in perl
you can define symbols at compilation time as a result of running
other code, e.g.:

$ perl -wE 'BEGIN { eval "sub spew { say \@_ }" if time % 2 == 0 } spew "hello"'
hello
$ perl -wE 'BEGIN { eval "sub spew { say \@_ }" if time % 2 == 0 } spew "hello"'
Unquoted string "spew" may clash with future reserved word at -e line 1.

Here the program can be syntactically correct or incorrect depending
on the compilation time.
Ok. My guess is that the institutions that be have made a cost-benefit decision on this and decided otherwise. In the case of WikiLeaks, specifically, I can't blame them: not giving material information to the Taliban is probably more important than any short-term PR boost that is going to be diluted with skepticism.
Reminds me of when VersionTracker was bought by Cnet, shut down and redirected to their scam site.
When I'm feeling particularly melancholy I tell myself that none of the apps I've made are ever going to outlive me, and they really don't matter in the scheme of things.

But this... this is cool. Someone somewhere has programmed that lander so that it's able to not only able to locate earth (whilst hurtling through god knows where on a big rock) but also successfully re-establish communications. Those developers must be having a good day today, finally seeing their work come to fruition.
Wowoweeeee! This is FANTASTIC news! One of the few times that I have felt like typing in all caps. Incredible news and a testament to the survivability of space hardware. It'll be interesting to see how quickly they can triangulate Philae's true position to better understand the amount of incident light reaching the solar panels. It'll also be interesting to see how much of the payload has survived. Any more data would be of huge scientific value!

Definitely made my day! :)

EDIT: fixed typo
Step 1: be attractive.
> That's some mighty fine left brain thinking there( especially for a Monday morning ), but does it in anyway affect any practical aspect of Perl?

The first comment.
So you installed Google Analytics, now what?
Stored Value has historically had this property. By removing the risk of a majority consensus from having the potential to change your stored value, you then acquire security in that value. Gold would be the prototypical example here. There is no enforceable law in any country that can govern its properties or supply. As such, the risk of storing your value in gold is low.
> This not "I was standing next to this guy at Starbucks" and closer to "I lived with, worked with, or dated with this person for X months."

Yes, exactly. Those people that you randomly meet on your walk of life and who take on a role of some significance, and who clearly were NOT consulted about being included in some foreign country's databases on contacts with someone who is now part of the intelligence apparatus of one of their enemies.

What could possibly go wrong?

That person that you dated for X months is now potentially a target for a foreign intelligence service, just like that person that you lived with or worked with. And if they are as paranoid as your country and one of them happens to also be employed in their intelligence services and forgot or intentionally withheld similar information they are quite possibly in trouble.
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Most people install Analytics and that's where it ends. Continue reading to see some of the things we've learnt by properly analyzing our Analytics stats.

Comment if you've learnt anything from GA that drastically increased engagement and/or conversions on your site.
How did this sentence make it into the article: "In turn, the $41 million people who pay to use services like Spotify was $1.6 billion."? It doesn't even read properly.

(I think they mean "In turn, the 41 million people who pay to use services like Spotify generated $1.6 billion").

In my view, the real problem is the music labels. Hopefully the future lies with smaller and less malevolent labels, or even no labels at all.
Linode is offering KVM virtualization (no beta opt-in)
Where has it been used that it wouldn't apply?

It would seem to me that the only place it wouldn't apply would be where authority figures are somehow picked at random. How common is that?
The article claims, and tries to "prove", that Go succeeds because it was designed from the very beginning to be a mainstream language, trying to stay simple enough to be accessible to most programmers. You're not discussing this in your comment.

You claim that Go succeeds because Google's behind it. Maybe, maybe not. Then write your own article to make your point.

The paragraph about Erlang was not a "potshot". The author is just pointing out a tradeoff, which is real. There is no question that Erlang is a great language and system.