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So if people are bad at it, then why make it worse by using an incorrect word?

Also the magnetic force in a physical object does not follow inverse square, it's more like inverse of the 5th root (because there are no magnetic monopoles the two fields cancel out very quickly at distance).

So if anything the magnetic force is more diffuse than gravity since it fades out so quickly.

So if anything the magnetic force is less diffuse than gravity since it's concentrated right near the object.

The fact that both of those sentences are correct tells you quite definitively that diffuse is very very much an incorrect word.
Bigger problem is at least two of the more well known AV solutions are badware. My enemy #1 in this regard is McAfee, but recently (front page now) Avast seems to have upped their game considerably.
This is one of the most Hacker News titles I've seen.
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Man AST editors are so hard to get right. I've tried many of them, this one (Golem) included, but it's just very hard to kill the habit of wanting to move around/delete single text characters. Because of that, many people give up and don't move past the initial stage.

I think what we need is "Elm error messages" (http://elm-lang.org/blog/compiler-errors-for-humans) for AST editors. Take paredit for example. If you're trying to delete a closing parenthesis, instead of refusing to do so and silently fail, display a tooltip that explains why such action is disallowed, and a list of (heck, hard-coded even, like some Elm errors) likely actions the user's trying to take. Deleting the list? Deleting just a token? Show the keybindings. Or even automatically pick the most likely action after a second invalid delete attempt.

I actually believe the constraints imposed by structural editing can be very beneficial (again, see paredit which helps your program stay syntactically valid). But constraints are good when they're visible. You can exhaustively check what's there. Constraints are frustrating when they're invisible and you repeatedly accidentally stumble against them.

(Ideally you'd also provide a free-form mode where you can edit things as plain text. But from personal experience I'd just go back to this instead of learning the AST editing keybindings.)
You appear to be operating under the assumption that the license is novel -- it is not. This is a well established license, though unfortunately not as accepted by lawyers as most open source licenses so it ends up doing more harm than good.

The license is obviously a bit tongue in cheek, but it's no different than a public domain license to GPL evangelists, other than being less legally rigorous.

I don't get your comment at all. For the life of me I can't understand why you use the word offensive or why you seem to delight in this license so much.

If you actually want to offend the GPL enthusiasts, may I recommend the "Anyone but Richard Stallman License" (https://github.com/landondyer/kasm/blob/04ef65a38f72636b9925...) as a much better alternative.
Why do you feel forced? Stop using websites which rely on advertising. Simple enough.
One of the objections from the wikipedia article you mention: "Software licenses need to give a clear grant of rights to users to be effective, including the right to redistribute and create derivative works. "Do what the fuck you want to" is not a clear license of any recognized copyright rights; the effect is arguably no license at all."

And again, given the paragraph immediately preceding "TERMS AND CONDITIONS.." one could reasonably argue that the terms apply to the license itself since nothing else is mentioned.

This is essentially the argument I encountered when our company was acquired and we had to do a license audit of all of our dependencies and ended up having to change our codebase to remove a couple (fortunately small) WTFPL projects.
This is exactly what the website of BILD, a major German tabloid, is doing. They will not serve you content if they detect an ad blocker.
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Unless you are a lawyer or have heard it from a lawyer, you should not claim (unqualified) what a license does or does not cover.

The last clause, I think, sounds like it is meant to cover the work in question (the code). I am not asserting this is true, but lawyers have accepted this as being true. For example, the free software foundation (which has lawyers more skilled in copyright law than most places) accepts this as a free license.
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It would be great if a "read later" was there for posts as some good posts will be missed in the long run.

"read later" can be also used as a bookmark.
"so that any company that sells a gift card will have to carry that liability on their books forever"

There are at least two separate issues here:

1) Gift cards issued in California cannot usually have an expiry date or dormancy fees, so can be redeemed at any time after issuance, even 1000 years in the future.

2) IFRS 15 requires issuers to estimate breakage (usually based on historical redemption patterns). Once the issuer deems the chance of redemption to be remote, they can immediately recognise the amount as revenue, i.e. DR liabilities and CR revenue.

These issues do not conflict.

Estimate your breakage balance every quarter. If it's gone up since last time, recognise some additional revenue. If it's gone down, then reverse some revenue. These affect your financial reporting, but doesn't affect your dealings with customers.

You'd calculate breakage in a similar way to that in which lenders calculate provisions for bad debts. You would do it at a portfolio level (perhaps breaking unredeemed gift cards into buckets based on value, date of issuance, and last activity date).
This is why I dislike Bitcoin. So many better crypto-currencies that do not have the power consumption scale with the value.
Since browsers do not like to display mixed content they do the job for you.
The downside of using a router for adblocking is that it's just too much of a hassle to maintain and in the long run breaks apart.

You can't whitelist sites which you would want to support, and if the site doesn't load up because something is being blacklisted it's quite a hassle to debug it not to mention make the actual change.

I did use to port the ADBplus list for privoxy and IPtables blacklist on my pfsense but it ended up making very little sense to do so, especially when ublock came around and pretty much made any browser performance / memory consumption arguments irrelevant.

OpenDNS has some functionality which allows you to also do some adblocking on your end, but then ofc you leak everything to them (and CISCO these days).
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> ... as the advertisers themselves lack the means of doing any meaningful analysis ...

What information/data do you have do back this claim in regard to the 'meaningful' analytics?
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Funny that they didn't make this particular episode available online.

Gee, I wonder why...
Ah I see, thanks, great explanation.
Prisoners in California get anywhere from 10 cents to perhaps 2 dollars an hour for working. Those at > $1 have rare good jobs, most are under $0.50. There are also special positions like fire fighting crews that get paid more but this is even rarer. Overall making $20 or anywhere near it is a massive increase from where things currently are.
It is true that they did save it; maybe I'm just being overly nitpicky. And yeah, these days the improvised bomb part would have gotten then in huge trouble on its own, though I'm guessing the whole hostage situation was dealt with more lightly because of the political context of the time.
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> Heck, any third-party service can be a very good tracker. Are you also blocking Gravatar and Disqus?

GP mentioned Ghostery. AFAIK it does block these and many other non-ad third-party requests in its default configuration.
As we are moving away from open computing platforms into closed, non customizable computers (iOS, Android, even Windows is heading this way), I wonder if it won't be the only solution. Apple, Google or Microsoft want to protect us from third party tracking but how else can we protect ourselves from Apple, Google and Microsoft tracking us?

But it is just another game of cat and mouse. Malware already register new domains on the fly. Advertisers will simply do the same. Keeping these host files updated won't be easy.
IntelliJ can auto generate all that, although not through a. Single keystroke.
Gee, thanks dang. Not that I'm opposed to using original titles since that wouldn't be editorializing, but I've always appreciated how receptive to user concerns HN is.
The kind of problems you've mentioned are typical of thoughtless "what a cool mod!" changes to a design; these often ignore practical issues such as the volume change you've mentioned. However, 'fixing' these issues would require a bit more work and a few more parts, attributes that seem commonly not to be important in low-end pedals.

But, yeah, good for starting players (although even then I'd recommend a cheap multi-fx unit); beginners often don't even know what certain effects are, and once you know enough to feel you need a 'proper' version of effect you're better off getting something this is a step or two up from the cheapest available.

(disclosure - part owner of Prophecysound Systems)
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I don't feel forced at all. I use adblockers and my problem goes away.

However I was talking about the 'fuck adblockers because I need ads to support my hosting costs' mentality. Those people want to force people to view ads so that they can make some money.
I particularly liked the WSJ multimedia feature / interactive story with video interviews of past residents at the top of your link:
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Just recommending "closed configuration"? Same disadvantages as closed source.
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I know kibbutzim pretty well. For all the successes, failures and learnings the main reason I think this relatively small movement is notable is that people just went and did it.

If you really think you have a model, go and see if you can implement it. If your model requires revolution, wide agreement with everyone or some such, it's probably not relevant as a model.
Sometimes my sink get clogged up, and I have to spend a couple minutes unclogging it. I'd pay $1/month to somehow ensure that it never gets clogged again. Probably tens of millions of people would also use a solution to this.
C++ templetes are a very weak form of a static metaprogramming. Lisp macros are closer to an ideal level.
I think everyone who use AdBlock. agrees. And everyone who has banners agrees too, thats why almost every site these days try to force you to click a full screen popup to try to see if you are a real user, and at least get a single click from you.

Personally I use an ad blocker, however I wouldn't mind seeing more of well made content/advertisement as some websites are trying on. One good example is [0]: I actually read that article, and I knew it was likely "sponsored content", but there was still interesting information in there.

Of course that probably can't be scaled to every topic, but at least some people are trying to make an effort...

[0]: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-sound-that-defined-...
> ad-blocking isn't about being privacy conscious

There are two kinds of readers in this world: those who can read with a bunch of gyrating monkeys, dancing squirrels or flashing crap in the sidebar, and those who can't. I'm one who can't. If the ads behaved themselves better, I might be able to tolerate them. As it is, I block all of them. It's quite jarring to use the web on a browser which doesn't block ads - I find it unusable, for page load-speed and composition reasons (ads constantly muscling in on the body text as they get dragged in).
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Hi guys. I guess I'm one of the bad guys. I developed the foxplay, natgeoplay adblocker detectors. I used a very simple approach because we know that anyone that wants the content and not the ads is going to have it anyway.
The ads in the pages are something that is needed. What is not needed are, as other commenters said, 3rd party cookies, trackers and analytics beacons. Keep up the good fight.
The tree vis looks a lot like the D3 samples.

There's a glitch when expanding or closing a node. New nodes coalesce into a point that's hanging in the vacuum instead of the parent node.
My favorite part:

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It's like an existential statement of some kind.
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That was the source of lolz at the time it happened. If anything, the article demonstrates how little you need to know to break things. In a way, it's a miracle anything works around here.
Just to add it's Raspberry Pi 1 (B+ Model) running with a WIFI dongle :D
If the AI is as good or better than a human driver your first point wont matter.

You can't avoid accidents anyone who is driving a car on a daily basis will be involved in an accident involving another human being in one point or another (and I don't even count rush hour fender benders) that's just statistics.

If driverless cars can improve those statistics they'll be used if only than to get lower insurance premiums in the end a company that can reduce the chance of you getting into an accident by even 10% would have every insurance company in the world behind them.

I for one do not see a major legal battle or precedents especially not from places like China, smart cruise control and various other drive assist technologies (lane keeping, auto park etc.) have been around for about a decade and we still haven't had major cases around them and there is no way that say Toyota's auto park feature did not cause some accidents.

Driverless or not as long as there is a driver in the car they are responsible for any liabilities as they have full control over the car even in drive assist mode (steering and breaking is always accessible to the driver) so unless there will be some major issue and that issue has to be that the AI actually prevented the driver from using the car controls I don't see any major legal issues arising.

And by the time driverless cars become truly driverless as in Total Recall (the Schwarzenegger one) driveless insurance companies would find a solution for that just like they found a solution for human drivers.
As long as it's an accident and the AI and all car systems were in working order the insurance will cover it if the car was not maintained properly then the owner of the service will be liable. This is pretty much how human driver coverage works, if you did nothing wrong, the car was maintained, and you weren't negligible (e.g. drunk driving, speeding, etc.) you are covered by your insurance in any other case you are on your own.
In general it is not a good idea to grow vegetables or fruit in urban area's. The pollution from car exhaust gasses makes the crops unhealthy to eat.

Because all the fuss about insecticides and other chemical detergents in the bio industry in the last couple of decades, the food industry has done a lot to ensure that most of the chemicals are gone once the fruits are in the supermarket. Sure, it could still be better. But it is a lot better than a fruit tree that has been sucking up air pollution during its entire life.

Here is some more background: http://www.thewire.com/national/2011/06/ways-urban-gardening...
Ads on TV, news papers, radio, buses, and so on has to follow the same advertisement laws in Sweden. Publishers can not publish advertisement for tobacco or alcohol products, and may not have advertisement that is intended for minors. Sweden also has very strict privacy law regarding private information, and a company may only record and store information that is relevant for billing purposes.

Additionally a company that distribute malware is fully liable for any damages caused and can be charged under criminal law if done knowingly. Publishers need to either curate the advertisement or be very careful if they subcontract the work to someone else.

The wild west of web based advertisement is going the same route as email based advertisement. It has lost the customers trust, and from there blocking is the primary tool available to protect against abuse.
I've heard similar remarks before femto, and hopefully this will improve. Data61 is trying to build a network with the local start-up scene. I'm not entirely sure how this is going to work.

Partnerships is not my domain (I'm a developer/PM), so I can't speak to the legal and IP issues.
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Any good books or screencasts or anything to get my feet wet on become a web developer? I like udacity but it costs money and don't have money for it.
So this is not javascript version of shen? Very confusing name.

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I understand the reasoning of the UK government as follows:

It's important to preserve soul and essence of things. When you photograph someone, you take part of their soul; similarly, when you photograph an object, you take part of its essence. The modern technologies created lot of soul-less people and essence-less things; to restore the world to its former magical beauty, we need more protection against soul- and essence-taking.

Now, I am not an expert in psychology of governments, but the UK empire is actually quite old. We have to consider the possibility that it may be getting senile.
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I don't wont any single actor to have that much data about me.
I block as much as possible. including stuff like Disqus or Gravatar.
However since at least 3 majors versions of iOS, iAd have an opt-out switch to allegedly prevent any tracking. I even think this opt-ou switch is now an explicit part of the set-up procedure when you activate the phone.

You still have to trust Apple that this opt-out is effective. But I really see more harm than good for them should they actually be lying about that.
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It's just what happens when most of the policies are made up by 'sponsored' lobbies -- the ones with the deep pockets.

It's completely bonkers really, most of the decisions that people care about are made up in a gray area that doesn't involve them at all; you got an office somewhere making up policies straight out of briefs they've been fed by lobbies (who feeds it to every party too, just in case)

A good recent example is Heathrow's third runway. Despite millions of people living underneath, well, someone somewhere made a 'study' that 'proves' it's a good idea, so despite the fact it impacts millions of people -- in fact, millions of the most influential and rich people in the country even (London and the Thames Valley) well, it's likely to go ahead anyway...
3,2,1.... SecureBoot? I sure hope not. As with terrorism, the problem is not removing the owner from the equation any more than is removing privacy everywhere (or encryption without backdoors, or computers without rootkits... lots of parallels there), because "terrorism".

If we can wade through the power-grabs and social-engineering disguised as erudite commentary and philosophizing (similar to that surrounding national security), increasing transparency and user control remains the answer. Any software can have flaws, but software you can't fix because it's locked into hardware is worse. Worse yet is hardware that turns a computer into an single-purpose (flaws-and-all) appliance.

Any bootloader relies on a chain of trust. If the on-disk (OS) portion of that fails (incidentally, the biggest attack surface) and is vulnerable (likely - proprietary software can be fuzzed like any other), then the hardware-linked protection is at best annoying to the actual hardware owner.

In that sense, SecureBoot is actually an inversion of good security principles, which dictate simplicity and accountability/openness. The better place for signed loader verification is in the on-disk bootloader stub. If the OS were perfect, this would be enough too, but at least it is patchable (and the OS is re-installable) when it isn't.

A computer that can't be re-installed when you brick it is expensive garbage that was at best constraining while it even worked.

FOSDEM 2013 had a worthy social and technical overview of UEFI and SecureBoot I enjoyed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsoXFvGiAas
The telltale sign of a small sensor. A great example of how a larger file (in MPs) can look worse - taken on even a 10mp DSLR the pic would look substantially better.

EXIF says it was taken by a Galaxy S5.
These are "invented" by the computer right? I just had a suggestion for

shrimp, peanut, olive oil, ginger, garlic, grapefruit juice, blood orange, dill, coriander seed, turmeric

That's a really odd mix but it honestly seems ok ... although I'd sub the shrimp for salmon ... apparently I can in the interface. Nice.

Also the ingredient input seems to lack exotic things like frogs, rattlesnakes, camels, durian, or ostrich. But quinoa and quail eggs are there.
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