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God, how I hate this quote. It's TR justifying his own worst qualities -- his impetuousity, his willingness to wade into things without thinking them through. Two years after he made that speech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic) he would wade into the 1912 Presidential election, where his major accomplishment was splitting the Republican vote and therefore handing the election to the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson.

Action, by itself, is not always the best thing. Sometimes action is wasted, or even counterproductive. Georges Danton called for "l'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!" and ended up getting his head cut off. Then at the turn of the 20th century the French generals picked up his slogan again and marched a generation to death by machine-gun.

Lessig is actually a good example of this; his quixotic campaign has cost him a lot of goodwill among people who agree with him on the issues and should be his core supporters. He's going to have to spend some time over the next few years rebuilding bridges that would still be standing if he hadn't himself burned them. What a waste.
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Hey man. "Event Horizon" is like the #2 track in my phone's "frequently played" list, edged out for #1 spot by Annihilator's "Sonic Homicide"!

Those Stratovarius guys should consult some native English speaker before finalizing lyrics. "A star dies collapsing in its core" can be corrected to "into its core"---and then the number of syllables actually scans better; we don't have to stretch the "-ing" over an extra beat.

The song is not really about "it involves someone approaching a black hole in a spaceship with an onboard computer that has a vaguely Russian accent". The speaker in the song imagines that. The beginning is:

Standing outside in darkness

My breath is steaming

The skies open wide

I hear the silent screaming

Deep in the dark, somewhere in space

Spinning around, leaving no trace

We can regard this as the speaker's imagination being stirred with thoughts of distant black holes, as he stands clear sky on a winter's night. The main element there is that of suicide: nothing matters:

I can see the point of no return

And when the light is slowly turning to red

Life gives away, there's no concern

On this cold night under the stars, the speaker voice is fantasizing about dying by steering a ship into a black hole, ignoring the evacuation alarms that are going off.
I applied, and thought I did pretty well on the coding challenge, but didn't get a response.

Is there any way I can get feedback on my application?
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I now suspect my wife may work in a workplace full of spies.
Souped up? That would be totally inferior to what Microsoft just demoed.
Hardware suffers from the same "walled garden" mentality. Why the heck would I want a "smart TV"? A TV exists to display video. It should have lots of inputs and maybe some outputs for audio. If I want to get video from a VCR, a flash drive, or a web service, I should be able to plug in a device to do that. And unplug it when it becomes obsolete.
> you aren't specially threatened in some way

So only people with some special justification are allowed to defend themselves?

> weapons actually lead to a greater risk than the security they can provide

Wrong, although this "fact" is bandied about depressingly often.

> it's more likely that the robber takes control of your guns and uses them against you than that you can use the guns against them

Completely wrong.
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If that's true, there's also no such thing as "stealing" at all.

Consider a novelist who works for 10 years on her novel. A hacker steals the document from her computer and publishes it online under his own name. He makes $100M.

Is it wrong for the novelist to feel like someone stole from her? What word would you use instead?
In 2015, it's trendy to use things that aren't email.
tradeoffs... That was the point I was trying to make. You can either have safety or convenience/reliability. It seems to me that this offers another option.... do you trust a dongle or do you trust your ability to get into your gun safe before the "bad guys" "get" you. Seems weird to me to just write it off without knowing which is actually better.
Two sensitive topics:

1) How old is wise enough? At age two there's no way a toddler can physically reach a rifle on a top shelf that weighs half his body weight and what's he supposed to load it with? On the other hand Uncle Sam handed me a M16 when I was still 17. Then the banners want 21 yrs, or 65 years, or 150 years to effectively ban in practice. There are gun safety course and familiarization classes for roughly grade school and up kids that boil down to "here take a look, no need to (dangerously) sneak when your parents aren't around, its a tool not a toy, no playing and no pretending, tell an adult if you find one laying around". Complete with coloring books and sing along songs. So the peak "danger zone" seems to be perhaps 2 to 5 years old.

2) The second sensitive topic is parenting skill. If I abandoned a two year old in a house alone with no supervision at all and he somehow dragged a folding ladder thats twice his weight into the bedroom and climbed (and how does he know how to do any of this and how does he know anything is up there anyway?) It would take a toddler a long time to figure out how to load a gun or put the bolt in or remove the trigger lock or defeat the safety or find the hidden ammo on the other side of the room or any number of technical challenges. Fundamentally you have to ask how long the little kid really had to live if it was abandoned for the hours it would take the kid to arm himself. A fatal kitchen accident or fatal stairway accident or fatal swimming pool accident was inevitable in that case, just a gun got the kid first. Likewise the kid who offs themselves because of a post on the internet or anti-depressant use or whatever isn't "really" a gun problem, its a mental health problem, take away the gun and the kid makes a noose or takes pills and ends up just as dead, not having used a gun is very little consolation to the survivors. So file that as awkward discussion about parenting skills or whatever.

If you have 300 million people in one little country Darwin will take a few but things that show up in headlines can none the less be very rare indeed. Up there with getting struck by meteors and by lightning.
This election cycle is making it clear that the democratic party leadership believes in "the ends justify the means". They want a democrat to win the presidency, so they don't want anyone to detract from Hillary and are making things harder for everyone else.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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If you guys are having trouble hiring, it's because your pay is too low.
The TL;DR is that after paying for IntelliJ for 12 months, you get permanent access to a 12 month old version. Updates are not included, unless you keep paying the subscription.
Each of the distinct structures in video, each coronal loop or ejection, is many, many times larger than Earth. It is such a mind-boggling amount of energy. What a beautiful video.
Maybe "SGML" would have been a better descriptor?
I agree with you it's probably not necessary. But Obama in an exceedingly bad example in that respect:

Obama is firmly in the centre of the current US political landscape. You can be a moderate Republican and be to the left of Obama on many issues. That's presumably a large part of why he won, and why so many "progressives" have been disappointed at the lack of change.

The shift from Bush to Obama was a tiny shift compared to what going from Obama to Sanders would be.

Now, I'm inclined to think this means Sanders doesn't have a chance rather than think that there'll be a massive shift in Congress, but if Sanders wins without a massive shift in Congress that would be truly bizarre indication of voters voting purely on personality rather than policy.
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That's a core principle of the law of all those countries, similarly strictly applied. The issue here is not the proof, but the definition of guilt. If you know you are supposed to ask where something comes from, you are guilty if you don't.
MLS is shown at the top of https://www.fubo.tv/go-fubo-pro but not at http://help.fubo.tv/hc/en-us/articles/206526418-What-leagues... , also the Bundesliga (game from GoalTV) is not shown in that top bar.

I'm no professional marketer but I'd make the front page / main message about watching top teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern, Juventus or Paris SG (or US MNT), I didn't care too much for the next game being Estoril and some other Portuguese league (no offense but unless you are Portuguese you don't care about those ones).

As a data point GoalTV was cancelled in Canada a couple of months ago (I bet I was the only subscriber) and BeIn Sports is about $15/mo.
... helped introduce thousands of students to linux.

Why is that so good, and so worth lots of government money?
> more attention to the "shoots curious kids" failure mode seems appropriate

This is a solved problem. The negligent parents who store guns in the open without securing them (and who don't teach their kids to be safe with guns) are abhorrent. But they're also not likely to be buying "smart guns."
They responded to a rumor about merging by not saying whether or not there was a merger. Confused public statments do hint at internal confusion.
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I imagine most people use both [a combination of chat and email].

Real time chat channels are much better for fast moving ephemeral discussions and neither would I want that sort of thing in my inbox.
I think that was the general idea, but as I recall the phones did not review very well which is a bummer since you can't just pick a device you want and install ubuntu phone on it.
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I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but it is illegal to sell stolen or fake merchandise in the United States. Anyone selling fake Rolexes is committing a crime and could also be sued.

Saying that Google is "selling" stolen content isn't that clear, though. Yes, they're selling ads on search results, but wouldn't they get the same ad revenue regardless of where those links pointed?

It's easier to make the case with AdSense, where Google literally profits directly from stolen content.
I don't know about robbers wrestling your gun from you and using it against you, but the data suggest that your idea about "I'm going to protect myself with guns" is a fiction.

Here's one thing worth reading:

http://www.thetrace.org/2015/07/defensive-gun-use-armed-with...

(though I suspect it'll make you uncomfortable and you'll just look for ways to discredit it, because it's a heck of a lot easier to hold onto a John Wayne-esque "I'm a big man with a gun" self-identity...)
I'm saying all the laws currently banning every single type of gun outside ones home/business on books currently aren't doing shit to stop gun violence and this won't either, not that smart guns shouldn't exist.
I think you're missing a subtlety of the design here. When we talk about the hardware it takes to "run" these constructions, we are (mostly) talking about the requirements we impose on attackers.

Argon2 will work fine on your RPi A+.
I'm not a citizen of the U.S. so maybe I'm missing something. Why is he not just switching to the Republican party? What's this nonsense about his ideals being more in line with the democrats? I thought the Republicans were all about the founding fathers and making sure the United States are not ruled by the old-rich?
So the whole thing is pointless, since I can just remove the battery?
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That hardly started happening just now in 2015. I absolutely loathe using email, but I don't speak for everyone.
Even if it were true that Ashkenazi Jews as a group had above average intelligence, there just are not enough Ashkenazi Jews in the world to have a significant influence on the distribution of human intelligence.
These are good points, but I view their efforts on ARC more as them expanding the Chrome store's app catalog than Chrome OS completely eating Android.

And as an aside, I think many developers simply don't devote the effort to fully developing their Android apps for Chrome OS. I have an (albeit simple) Android app I publish on Chrome OS, and it's my product's most popular platform. So it gets special attention, and supports resizing with the fairly undocumented "resize" value in the app's manifest:

"arc_metadata": {
"resize": "reconfigure",
"formFactor": "tablet",
"orientation": "landscape",
}
This sounds like the handbook of every industrial contractor I've ever worked with. Particularly the bit about leaving scrap iron in the turbine (I worked in a power plant for a couple years...)
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Pat, I've been itching to get started on the Android version for delivery before the end of year.

I should also mention that we are constantly adding locations. Where in Canada would be most helpful for you?
I meant more with the plugins, but in any case regular vim isn't going anywhere either. I think there's eventually supposed to be hooks for building better GUIs and external integration, which will probably be the turning point when a lot more people switch over.
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Well. Words are cheap. I do appreciate CDRdude speaking up for me.

Here you go. http://webchat.freenode.net room #hntesting

Files end up on Dropbox here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ukffgmwntypfg4m/ircchatlog.txt?dl=...

Searching wouldn't be too difficult. That's just loading the data up in a Hadoop and then regurgitating it. The only 'doop cluster I have now is a semi-production one. Working on getting a 150 node set up at the hackerspace.

__________________________

Edit: Added time date stamps, and indication/handling for private messages to the bot.

Privs now allow me to extend the functionality of the bot to do all sorts of things, like upload to MongoDB, email all logs, kick users, save to BOX, or manipulate the neopixel strip in my room.
Volkswagen,Audi,Porsche.Who is next ?. t sounds like all of them are cheating.
Fiber cuts are definitely not OVH's fault.

However lack of additional routing might be.

Apparently they were right in the middle of installing additional fiber on other routes for the datacenters but they are still dark and not online yet. They claim they are trying to accelerate getting those links online in their french ticket

http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=15238
Lessig's agenda wasn't to overturn Citizens United, it was public financing of campaigns. Nobody --not Sanders nor Lessig -- is going to push that through Congress any time soon.

Citizens United is probably doomed under Clinton if she's elected, no less than under Sanders. Demographically Kennedy, Scalia, or Thomas is likely to be replaced in the next five years and very likely in the next nine and CU hangs by a single vote on the Supreme Court.

Of course, reversing CU will actually make things worse from Lessig's stated perspective. With less independent money and with outside voices silenced, politicians will either be more entrenched with special interests or forced to spend even more time raising money from business executives. Unless you have a full restructuring of the system with public financing, most any plausible change isn't going to improve things.
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The book has not yet been published, so this is stealing. But once you put up something in the internet, it is officially available to everyone. Doing stuff with public information is fine IMO. Same as analyzing tweet data (tweets are public).
you can have left recursion, or implicit left recursion in your recursive descent grammar, if you have then the parser gets stuck while parsing a clause that contains left recursion.
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> google's service is primarily to the searcher

You are very wrong. For many years, nearly 100% of Google's revenue was from AdSense.

What if someone spends days writing an article and posts it on his blog. Then, someone else copies and pastes it onto BuzzFeed, which becomes the top search result for that topic.

BuzzFeed is making money that the same blogger would have made from his own content. Now, also assume Google serves ads to BuzzFeed, but it does not serve ads to the blogger. Google has a financial interest in ignoring the provenance of the content in this case.

Is all of that ethically acceptable?
Nobody in this thread seems to be talking about the strange change of rules by the Democrats. Why did this change in rules come about? As I understand it was a retroactive change? Very odd.
Stop fearmongering.
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"some random person leaving a message at the wrong number."

Or some telemarketer robo-dialing?
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Generally, we think of browser-based game-overs as being things that programmatically compromise users without engaging with the user's cognition.
Well there's part of the problem. "Should I use Slack or this long list of open source options, all trickily alike?"

The open source team (which I would prefer to win) would do much better if their message was "use this one, canonical, excellent option."