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The 'universal right of ... free expression' that you mention is not quite universal. One does not simply have the right to declare that all members of [insert group] should be [insert unpleasant fate's verb's past participle]: there happen to be hate speech laws... similar situation for slander. That's all very well, but then one finds that anti-Iraq War activists have those same provisions used upon them. What's to stop governments from extending this further and further until we find that we are in an Iran or China like situation? It's not particularly likely but it is still possible, given the situation. Not implying that situation in Iran or China or any other similar countries is comparable to that of much of Europe, though. Just suggesting that there are limits and that the question is how far these limits go, not whether these 'rights' exist at all. In Iran/China everyone is free to support the government, hence very limited free speech.
Your complaint isn't about framework, but about other people's frameworks. A framework is always the best approach, when it's your framework and those 5% never happen because you simply modify the framework to be able to do it.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that non-profits don't live in a vacuum. They need to compete for talent in the market just like any other company. This is just as true for regular employees as it is for leadership positions.

It's easy to just point a finger and say CEO pay is generally absurd (which is a point I personally agree with) and that as a non-profit, Mozilla should pay its CEO the bare minimum they can afford. The reality is, however, the less they choose to pay their CEO, the less chance they'd be able to find someone competent and experienced enough to effectively lead the company. This could have dire consequences on the ability of Mozilla to execute on their mission as a non-profit organization, so a compromise has to be made somewhere along those extremes.

Personally, I think 800k is a reasonable compromise, considering the market rate for CEOs at 100M+ tech companies generally goes for much, much higher than that.
Not sure what your point is. Also, not sure why my factual comment has been downvoted. (Is this reddit?) However, there is no shortage of info for anyone who knows how to use Google. To quote Computer Weekly:

An agreement signed in 2002 gave Russia access to the source code for Windows XP, 2000 and Server 2000.
Under the latest agreement, Russia will gain access to the source code for Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, SQL Server and Office 2010.

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280093257/Microsoft-shar...

It's part of Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx

All governmental requests (whether from local, state, provincial, or national governments or agencies) for access to Microsoft product source code must be directed to the Government Security Program Team. They can be contacted at gspteam@microsoft.com

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/government-secur...
> I'd like to see a comparison of accidents, (or better, deaths), per million miles of personal vehicles vs. trucks. I'm pretty sure trucks will come out as causing fewer accidents/deaths.

Possibly true but irrelevant. You could go a trillion miles per fatality, but only the total fatalities matter, perhaps as a percentage of all road fatalities.
I remember when arab spring happened and it came out of nowhere - and I was living in the middle east !

In hindsight - it was a result of spikes in food prices that followed the financial crisis.

Seeing that in the last month we had :

- Chinese stock market crash.
- 1 major man made Industrial accident, and 2 other smaller ones.
- Chinese export economy slowdown.

I wonder if within china there is growing discontent, most governments derive their legitimacy via some notion of socitial goal.

Oppressive Muslims countries do it in the name of religion.

Western government derive it from making their people believe that they live in a functional democracy.

And the Chinese government's legitimacy is based on economical growth.

What happens when the government is unable to meet its objectives ?
So do those poor Americans... so do all of the world, in fact. Although I will admit that having Marie Le Pen being one of the few to speak out for civil liberties in France is indicative of particular idiocy.
Getting access to Microsoft source code isn't that hard. As an MS MVP, I had access to it. (Rather useful for debugging stuff.) Smart card and remote viewer is how they did it for me.

Russia certainly has access. Plus it simply cannot be hard for Russia to get it via extralegal means. Field some great programmers, have them get hired. If intelligence agencies aren't doing this to most companies then they're just incompetent.
How does that differ from a parser combinator library beyond that it's baked into the language? It took a few decades for other languages to catch up, but patterns being first-class objects that can be combined in various ways isn't that unusual. For example, in Lua with LPeg those examples would be:

full_name = first_name * last_name
old_school_name = last_name * P', ' * first_name
any_name = full_name + old_school_name

(* is sequence, + is or, P is a function that converts a string to a pattern)
FP languages are almost exclusively pointer heavy; without it they could not do structure sharing which it what allows persistent data structures with efficient operations.

FP languages also rely heavily on partial pattern matching, type classes with vtable-style indirection and even GC for cycle collection. Closures in FP languages are boxed, too, almost without exception.

In Haskell, even integers are boxed by default. You don't observe many of the problems of references due to their immutability, but this isn't to say they're not there. The "value-heavy" language closest to FP I know of is Rust, and many functional idioms are plain irritating to use because of it.

Maybe Clojure is different, but I'd be surprised. Perhaps you were in disagreement about the use of the word "value" in "value type", which I meant in the D or Rust sense of a stack-allocated, indirection-free type.
Logs are kept, but the posts above are making the point that drivers should be required to sleep a certain number of hours of the past 24 hours. Logs do not help you with this, unless you are using a sleep tracking device.
> Well, it /is/ "security" in their sense of the word. It isn't very /good/ security or very /effective/ but it's goal is indeed what it is claiming. They don't desire totalitarianism or anything.

It is the exact opposite of security precisely because they put all the eggs in one basket with security [frankly] on par with some of the shittiest non-security in the private sector. They don't even meet their own standards.

We might as well just fedex hard drives to anyone who is our enemy.
Main problem I see with Modafinil is that it's instant release.

Whenever I hear that someone takes Adderall IR, I ask them if they've tried XR or Vyvanse since the latter are superior in most ways. Mainly, IRs produce tolerance too fast and the curve is too steep.

I don't think Modafinil has an XR solution. Though, Modafinil feels like a sugar pill compared to a low dose of amphetamine.
Or I'm a good photographer. :)
Just append your query text with 'site:stackoverflow.com'.
Thanks for the confirmation: MVPs can gert source under the same Shared Source Initiative (Part 3).

I thought reasonably informed people already knew this. I'm a bit surprised to find this level of ignorance on HN....
Using your logic, spraying a country with mustard gas is better than killing half of their citizens, as the body count is smaller.
Yep. That was the prefix area... You could do something like SET NUM ON and it would show the line numbers (much nicer than the =====) or even hide the entire area. Was a good match to a 327X terminal. Clearly built by programmers for programmers in other times.

Despite it's reputation IBM had some amazing people (e.g. the name Mike Colishaw comes to mind) who apparently had the freedom to do some cool stuff. There was source code for everything (you got source code for your OS) ages before anyone knew what "open source" was and there was a vibrant community of sharing code between various academic sites who ran IBM mainframes.
They even have a tool/site to query the data: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new
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From what we understand from investors, it is actually pretty typical to raise enough money for 18 months of runway. Additionally, we still had ~1.5m in the bank when we raised.

I will certainly report back on how it goes though!
Yeah that was the laptop i was getting initially, but the screen is just not up to my standards
Just saw the first video, but i found his analogy with mayan priests calculating Venus trajectory correctly, having no clue of the "why" quite disturbing.

There is a HUGE difference between knowing "why" and not knowing it. Mayans priests couldn't guess the real "why", because they had no notion of gravity or a correct description of the solar system, but now we do and we know.

The fact that quantum effects aren't grasped right now (at least by me :), means a very different thing whether we believe there will be such an explanation one day, with a more complete description of nature, or if such an explanation is inexistant.

Which makes me wonder : i've read that there was a proof that the "hidden variable hypothesis" is wrong. Does anyone know of someone explaining that proof in a comprehensible way ? Has this proof been contested by some parts of the scientist working on the field ?
As does Rust, though it prefers unique ownership.
A linear regression would be theoretically wonky, since the Y-axis is upper bounded at 100%. So, by the time the graph hits values like 80%, it should start to get "saturated" and flatten out. This fit, with A approximately 100 does a good job of that.

Clearly, the fit is bad near the origin (for small purchasing power), so maybe one can expect a modification at small values of x; I'm not sure if that that will correspond to small values of y.
It's because those people die all at once in a way they can't control or escape. With car accidents, people are perfectly content to believe they are skilled enough drivers to be able to avoid death.
We use that license because it protects the content from us. No matter who comes along to run Stack Overflow in the future, Stack Overflow can't do something like put up a paywall and lock it up. Someone else'll just be able to host a copy.
It's not like the source code isn't still there, in the initial 'deleted' repo, not to mention several hundred forks.
I don't think so. Those sites redisplay SO content, but they're not linking to SO. They're actually trying to out-rank them, up their own traffic, and drive up their ad revenue.
Is also possibly an idiot-trap on a grand scale. If you have a widely dispersed enemy, leave some treats in an area that can be encircled.
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Just to be clear re: Mattermark Series A deck slide 12 it was a goal based on our growth rate at that time, not a prediction.
Isn't what he's talking about C pointers, which let you mutate the memory location that's visible in the caller? Most modern languages don't let you do that, though object oriented languages let you work in much the same way by mutating the fields of an object.

As for functional programming, the use of pointers seems like an implementation issue. As far as the programmer is concerned, you're just passing around values. Now, part of what he was complaining about was implementation issues, but I don't think that was his only concern in the passage about references.

I think you're right that there's a disconnect between what he's saying and modern languages, but it's not because we've adopted the position he's attacking, instead we've gone a third way.
I took some undergrad courses with Prof Dewar in the 90s and all he talked about was Ada and Assembly (using an assembler he wrote). Never heard of SPITBOL. His class was great.
Medvedev has not yet said anything on this topic.

He is the receiver of the plea by deputy speaker (deputy chairman) of parliament representing «Just Russia» (a minority ultra-loyal fraction in parliament).

By now the voices for banning or restricting Windows 10 are from Levichev («Just Russia») and some defense lawyers.

The receivers (not authors) of such petitions are currently Medvedev (current prime minister and former president), supreme state prosecution/oversight office (has some similarities and some differences with attorney general and his staff) and communication oversight agency (the agency responsible, among other things, for allocating radio frequencies and for keeping the internet censorship blocklist).
The $700B may be a bit stupid from the article authors.

However. A point to bring across is that if the government mandates something to add a bit of safety that isn't ridiculous then shipping costs just simply go up across the board.

As long as everyone has to abide by the new laws, no one will have a competitive advantage.

It's like abolishing slavery. Sure, the slavers will say they can't compete anymore because they have to pay for labour, but after a few years everyone has to pay for labour and the market equalises.
I am in the UK and I brought almond hair oil - at the back it said "almonds grown in California".

How does this make any sense ?

Its not even almond but almond OIL. Knowing what I know now I look at the bottle and wonder how many thirsty Californian babies did I just kill buying this.

Its the same feeling you get when wearing Nike shoes that you know were made in some sweatshop.
> * Real time code where you don't ever want a GC to steal cycles. I know that a lot of research has been done to decrease the amount of time stolen, but it's always non-zero.

Real time code shouldn't allocate/deallocate memory, much less from a GC'able pool. With that constraint, it's possible to have real time code that coexists with a GC, such as RTSJ's NoHeapRealtimeThread or Eventrons, with an effective cost of zero cycles taken by GC from the realtime code.
> But waitstaff do a lot more than simple data entry, so that ends up being worse all around.

Yeah, they do it poorly and inaccurately, with lots of latency between requests.
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> If you take a feeder down and see a hummingbird hovering near the spot and think it’s glaring at you, it’s not your imagination.

I've had ones from previous years come back in the spring looking for the feeder in the spot it was the previous year when I haven't hanged it back up yet. They just hover there every so often until I put it back up.

Perhaps the most amusing behavior I've seen from them is when I sit on the porch near their feeder. They'll come up and take drinks still, but they'll give off little mouse-like squeaks of protest in between each drink. It's like they're saying "I don't like you near my feeder, but I'm thirsty enough, I'm going to sit here for a few minutes and drink anyways."

The more brave ones will come right up in front of your face, hover and look you in the eye. Like they're determining if you're a threat or not (or trying to steal their precious sugar water). It happened with my friend once and after realizing my friend wasn't a threat to it, the hummingbird proceeded to sit at the feeder and drink with her right next to it. Bit intimidating though to see one right in front of your eyes with their long pointy beaks though (along with that grumpy expression hummingbirds typically give off[1]).

When I take their feeder down for cleaning, they also go into a panic, looking all over the porch for where it might have gone. After noticing that, I only take it down after they've gone to sleep in the evening. Even putting up a spare feeder is usually not good enough for them, they seem to have their "favorite spots" and only go to the other ones if they have no other choice. I guess we're all creatures of habit sometimes :)

[1] http://g2.img-dpreview.com/62F9AFC79CB848508C77EDD9C335AE60....
The worst part is that it did exist and was removed. A lot of folks don't realize just how extensive the rail network was.
This might be a dumb question, but I am a web publisher and have no idea what you mean about changes to iOS 9. Is there an ad blocker installed automatically or something? What is changing and what does it mean for a publisher like myself who self hosts ads I personally sell without using an ad network?
All I have is anecdata, and stale anecdata to boot, so it would just be misinformation. I do see that the last release was two years ago, though.
nitpick: He not they. [0] Steven is also the person who developed MathBox. [1]

[0] http://acko.net/about/

[1] http://acko.net/blog/making-mathbox/
I would assume truck drivers don't want to kill people. No matter how it's done, one person accidentally killing another person tends to fuck up that first person pretty well.
It is similar, but in Snobol, it is a core language feature.
I sort of understand it, as he was a pretty major figure in the Ada world. But no mention of SPITBOL at all? :(
Q. What's the difference between a bomb and a rocket?

A. Bombs blow things up. Rockets blow things up.
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They can band together and start their own transportation companies. It will be significantly cheaper, now that the trucks don't require wages and health coverage.
Driving on I5 from Seattle to Portland is now a long line of semis, one after the other. Trucks, even loaded to the legal limit, cause 9,000 times as much fatigue damage to the road as a car (fatigue damage goes up as the cube of the weight).

It's inefficient and environmentally absurd to use trucks that way. Railroad tracks parallel I5. The solution is to pick the container off the semi, put it on a railcar, do the intercity haul on the rails (which are made for heavy loads) with minimal fuel and manpower costs, pick it up and put it on a truck to do the last mile in the destination city.

So why isn't this done now? Highways are subsidized by cars (fuel taxes), and railroads are taxed. The incentives are backwards.

What I'd do is significantly raise the weight taxes on trucks on the interstates, and use that money to subsidize the rail right-of-way.
Forgot to mention it in my original comment, but in the grad-level compiler course, we actually wrote a compiler in SPITBOL. I don't remember if the language choice was optional or mandatory, but I did enjoy it.
Which crime is worse is the question you should be asking, instead of trying to invert the interpretation for reasons unknown.
The silver lining in all this is that there would be increased demand for programmers of all sorts !

Paradoxically mistrust between government helps money to flow in science.
Commercial enterprises are also in the business of separating you from your money. Information asymmetry is just as serious for consumers as it is for competitors.
Since this is all about obscure languages, it maybe worth pointing out here that the original INTERCAL compiler was written in SPITBOL.

On one or two occasions I asked Don Woods to clarify some feature of the language that was incompletely described in the original INTERCAL document, and he dug out the original SPITBOL code in order to answer my question.
I don't understand why Google can't figure it out and remove these clones. They can do much harder things. Why couldn't them outrank sites based on equal text content or -- much better -- huge presence of ads.
Google doesn't have a good way to establish provenance, and has trouble distinguishing copies from originals. It's a common complaint of blog operators that some bigger blog copied their stuff and got a higher ranking on Google.

Google could check when it saw something, but that won't work against fast scrapers. For that, you need trusted timestamps.

One solution to this would be to have a few time-stamping services. You send in a string, probably a hash, and it adds a timestamp, signs it, and sends back a signed result. Then provide a WordPress plug-in to use this service, hashing and time-stamping each blog entry, and putting the result in the HTML in some standard way. (Perhaps <span signed-provenance-timestamp-hash="xxxxx"> blog entry </span>). A few mutually mistrustful services for that would help; blogs with serious forgery problems could use multiple time-stamping services.

Search engines then need to look at timestamps as a rating indicator. If two results are very similar, the earliest one wins.
Cyclists and tractor-trailer trucks really shouldn't be sharing the same roads. But then again, that's Boston, a hellacious death-trap of a city to drive in.
I don't think that's quite the same, as Perl 6 isolates the grammar DSL to grammar blocks, but it would be trivial to make something in Perl 6 that is equivalent, if there isn't already, by defining operators between tokens and grammars in Perl 6 to accomplish the same thing.

IIUC grammars are also first class in Perl 6, but it isolates their DSL to grammar blocks. I'm not sure of the specifics of each to note whether one is capable of easily doing something the other can't or has a hard time with, but it looks to boil down to SPITBAL's implementation being slightly easier to access as there's no grammar block required, and Perl 6's being slightly more clear and self documenting, due to that same requirement.

Note: I've yet to use either, so someone with more experience, possibly you, might be able to correct my misunderstandings.
I've read that they'll even visit apartment balconies 10-15 stories up if you plant the right flowers and add a feeder. They especially like red things such as impatients, trumpet plants (the big orange/red flowers that fit their beaks nicely) and petunias.

Orioles also love trumpet plants. We had one the other year that would clip the bottom of the flower with their beak and drink the nectar out of them.
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> Sadly most content creators don't use them because
> they don't pay as well as the scummy networks.

I thought people only use scummy networks when they're banned from Adsense or in an Adsense-prohibited domain like porn.

Adsense seems to have much better payout than just about anything.

Also, you can get bad, misleading, or animated ads on Adsense like that fake "Download" button you see on scummy sites. Just keep "Enable 3rd Partners" and respective checkboxes checked.
Immediate cleanup is not necessarily an advantage. For example, it makes releasing a reference inside a critical section very dangerous, because you have no idea how much, or even what, work is going to be done. (Don't ask me how I know.)
Yes, look at what happened to imdb.
How's the crime?
In the last cross-country trip I took, the interstates were bumpy and the country roads were smooth, no doubt in part due to semi traffic.
There is a new content blocking API in iOS 9 that makes it possible to write third-party ad-blockers.

Apple isn't writing their own, or pre-installing one, or anything like that. (At least, nothing like that has been publicly discussed, and I'd be very surprised if it was something they did.)
It's for business of course, mainly international companies I guess. Local companies don't need to cross the firewall. Employees can only use these lines in the office. Actually most Chinese are not aware of the existence of the Great Firewall (GFW), really bad.
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But no one wants to give up Amazon Prime & other forms of free or discounted shipping.
In iOS 9 third party apps will be able to install a block list to disable ads in Safari. This shouldn't mean anything special to you since it's not done by default and so it's no different from what has already been the case for over a decade on other systems.