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To be clear, he ran unopposed in 2012 to win his seat on the circuit court. I don't think he can be "fired," but rather "opposed in the next election so he loses his seat."

https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana_judicial_elections,_2012_-_C...
> But breaking the statement arbitrarily at some point
> seems more like saying that you have to end a sentence
> at the end of each line, whether the sentence is finished
> or not because, you know, that's the way it's always been
> done. (I know it's not a perfect analogy.)

Isn't it more like line-breaking sentences at the edge of a paper page, which we do, and which is perfectly reasonable because of the page's fixed size?

Sure, you can design your document for a different paper size, but then you have to reconfigure the printer for that size, make sure you have the right paper size loaded in the printer (and change it back afterwards!), get new envelopes in the new size, get new binders...

Similarly, if I read a program wider than 80 characters, I have to resize my terminal window and my Emacs window. When I then switch to working on other programs in the same windows, those programs then tend to be infected by wider-than-80-character lines, unless I remember to resize things back to normal, which in turn perpetuates the problem. So either the applications would have to constantly resize themselves when I switch between files (which seems really annoying) or we could just decide to stick to the standard 80 columns which, as many comments here have pointed out, is a reasonable choice to standardize on even if it's arbitrary.
I checked with the company, and they do track the debt they "forget". They also send a letter to the debtor to say that the debt has been cleared. That takes care of the case where it comes back to life, the debtor has some level of proof that the debt was taken care of.

I didn't ask if they tracked all of it in an Excel file ;-)
You also don't need the full visible light spectrum. You only need a small subset that the plants will absorb.

If you're going to generatethe light yourself, you can save a lot of energey by only emitting the correct spectrums of light.
This seems like a worthy cause, but wouldn't it be easier to just make a browser that spoofs location in an undetectable way?

I've recently run into some sites that I can't trick even with a VPN and using Chrome dev tools to spoof location. (As a side note, if anyone knows of ways to get around more sophisticated geoblocking, please let me know)
You would think that but have you been driving lately? 20% are just assholes all the time. Not to far from me some guy ripped through a school zone at 60mph. This resulted in a fatality. Of course the family was on the news saying how a nice guy he was but what nice guy drives 60mph through a residential street.

The driver died. He hit a schoolbus. Luckily, none of the kids were seated near the point of impact and none were critically injured.
The thing is, this satire misses the point.

Everybody (author of the satire included) always jumps to conclusions that people doing such acts always have some massive fortune or cushion in the bank to wait them.

That's far from the truth. Thousands of people do the same thing every year without anything in the bank (and no sure job awaiting them when they get back).

Some have meagre savings (like $5.000 - $10.000) and use all of them to fund the trip (like year-long).

Others just go at it with nothing, and survive on the kindness of strangers and odd gigs here and there.

I know a few personally doing the latter, but many more doing the first.

Heck, if you have $10,000 in the bank, and are a decent programmer that can manage to find work when he gets back from the trip) you can quit your job, spend 3-4 months in Asia and Africa for dirt cheap, and still have like $2-$3.000 spare to get you through a month before finding some new gig.
Ignoring the requests was certainly dumb, and he is at fault for that. But a $30k penalty for that is excessive.
With the advancement of technology it's harder and harder to sympathize with the idea that firearms in the US could effectively combat governmental tyranny. Situations such as Ruby Ridge and Waco could be handled by drones now. It's hard to believe that there is a principle at play here deeper than a simple love of guns.
Why It's Time to Take Google's PC Operating System Seriously
Actually I'm a software developer by day. Polish up that crystal ball.

I'm suggesting fixing the problem in the software because that's where the problem was created and where it stands a chance of being fixed. Street infrastructure cannot be changed fast enough to deal with temporary traffic problems. Attempting to do so would be ineffective.
It's also worth noting that he most likely didn't quite right the speech. He had helpers write the speech. Everyone gets helpers to write/help write speeches.

My favorite example is Steve Jobs calling a lot of people to get help on writing the commencement speech from folks like Aaron Sorkin and others (yes, the same Sorkin that made the Steve Jobs movie which framed him not an entirely positive light).
An unfortunate fact about academia is that you do tend to be punished for being overly honest. e.g. "Our lab is #1 in the world at X." usually translates roughly to, "Our lab is doing X, and it's so bloody obscure and masochistic that nobody else has bothered. Although what we're doing seems a bit pointless, We hope it will prove useful for something eventually." Saying the latter is honest, but won't get your grants renewed.

The really frustrating thing is when your lab is doing something that another lab is doing better because you're trying to get into what looks like a really interesting and useful area. Then you have to justify why you're the worst in the world at Y but still deserve funding vs a lab that's #1 in the world at X.
Exciting! I can't wait to upgrade my site.
A law that says "no thru traffic"? The real question would be "what law prevents that from being written into law". To which the answer is probably nothing.
For a big part of the population, savings of 5000 to 10000 are not meagre.
> “find the distinctive cries of premature infants actually aversive—not exactly what we would expect after a deep history of premature babies being correlated with better outcomes.”

This is given as a argument against the main point, but I'd argue it's in favor of it... We're hard-wired to address the aversive stimuli, hence caring for the needs of the crying baby! If there's a difference in response time or level of care, then the premature baby wins over the full-term baby since the full-term baby's cry doesn't spark the same inherent level of urgency.
Which "sensible legal system[s]" are these, and which ones punish plaintiffs for it rather than lawyers?

Edit: I originally said "punish defendants", but meant plaintiffs.
Relevant portion from the Wikipedia article on "Contract with America."

> An act to institute "Loser pays" laws (H.R.988, passed 232-193, March 7, 1995), limits on punitive damages and weakening of product-liability laws to prevent what the bill considered frivolous litigation (H.R.956, passed 265-161, March 10, 1995; passed Senate 61-37, May 11, 1995, vetoed by President Clinton [2]). Another tort reform bill, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act was enacted in 1995 when Congress overrode a veto by Clinton.
If you just want to block javascript and you use Chrome, you can use the dev tools. Open dev tools, click the three-bullets menu icon, click settings, then in General click Disable Javascript. You don't get a whitelist, but it's something.
Play the game. When you notice something isn't fun, remove that thing. Repeat. That's playtesting.

If you want to watch someone doing this, pull up some videos of Notch making games. That's the process he follows constantly, from start to finish. He also has good taste, which is why his games turn out well.

If you don't have a nose for what's fun and what isn't, you have to take feedback from your users. If it's a multiplayer game, you should take feedback from the most competitive users, ideally from the people who are trying to form pro tournaments around your game. Casual players don't care what you do to the game, because it doesn't affect them much. But competitive players are your lifeblood, even if you don't know it yet. A competitive scene is what carries a game after its shelf-life has expired.
I use it a lot at work, the company have an IRC channel for each software on freenode, and an internal server.

I also use it to talk with my friends and to ask questions on various programming languages/api on their respective channels.
It doesn't matter what Microsoft "absolutely requires", because they don't own and have no authority over their customers' computers. They do not have any right to force their customers to do anything with those computers.
> Higher CO2 would, we believe, increase photosynthesis

Have you guys done a small-scale test?
'loser pays' has a couple disadvantages:

* It encourages people to pick the best, most expensive lawyer in town for every case no matter the expense, because your opponent will be picking up the tab.

* It discourages people from using the courts to resolve their disputes, which means people without resources tend not to get any justice. If, say, your landlord steals your $1500 security deposit for no good reason, are you really willing to risk $5000 in lawyer's fees over $1500? Of course not, you'll let it slide and some little injustice will remain unresolved.

* It makes the courts a weapon of last resort rather than the standard dispute-resolution mechanism. You used to see people dueling in the streets to resolve their problems.

The disadvantage of course is that people can raise disputes with you, and you have to answer them much the same way you can't ignore filing your taxes.
If it is an off season then transportation is from the other side of the globe.
No doubt the subject of this article drives a car to work, probably annoying someone with the traffic he is a part of.

"You're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic."

A more realistic way of solving the traffic problem is not to get people out of their cars (that is going to be super-expensive), but the eliminate rush hours where everyone goes to work at the same time. "No income tax if you work from 12-8," or something would probably kill traffic dead.
I think those of us who live in the central business districts of major urban ares should organize a once a month event to take 500-1000 cars to a specific suburban neighborhood, where we will take up all the legal on street parking and cause a traffic jam, to prove a minor but important point.
The really rich don't have jobs, they have capital. And until they give away their capital, we are still working for them.
SalesForce IT Fought AWS Deal
Undocumented registry edits based on peoples guesses and other hacks from random blogs are not a solution.

Microsoft has used updates to change service and update names related to Telemetry already. Some of the "tips" in the comments are also wrong, like using the hosts file to block certain domains which Telemetry services don't respect.

Unless it's a documented method from Microsoft it doesn't count. Their stated aim is that all non-Enterprise customer will take part in "Basic" telemetry. Until they change that stance, random hacks from the blogosphere are at best unreliable and at worst dangerous and give a false sense of privacy and security.
What about simply being held in contempt instead of being found guilty?
SunEdison's Bankruptcy Impacts TerraForm Power and TerraForm Global
Here's my write-up on securing Tor that shows issues and mitigations from high-assurance security in action with my own style:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/09/identifying_d...

Here's one write-up of similar methods applied to mobile:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/06/blackphone.ht...

Here's some links to HW and SW techniques that might be used in SOC to knock out the 0-days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11848132

Note: You can see difference between few in real security on HW side. Mainstream, faux security immediately says IOMMU, stateless, whatever. High-assurance, real security is concerned with segmentation, pointer protection, making memory untrusted, TCB effects, optionally timing of ISA operations, and so on. Apps + their CPUs get hit all over. Securing one takes more than a mere IOMMU or something. ;)
? You're arguing against something I didn't say. I wasn't saying they should shelter it, or that they deserve to keep it. I'm saying that they're strongly incentivized to, so it makes sense that many of them would attempt it.
All hail strpbrk()!

Do you have any defense of that? I'd be interested to read it.

I think every article on coding advice I've read for the last decade favors long and descriptive function/variable names.
It seems to me that you see this problem mostly in suburbs. People didn't buy a house, they bought a lifestyle. A particular lifestyle that has no room for even the slightest inconvenience from others. During my suburban days I was always sort of amazed by the entitlement people had around me.

I saw near fistfights over people parking in front of other peoples houses. Or a particularly memorable argument in which people shouted out of their kitchen window at a group of kids who were doing nothing but sitting on a deck talking at 8:00 PM. My HOA sued the town I lived in because someone wanted to build an apartment building about 1/4 mile from the front entrance of the subdivision (don't want "those" people living nearby after all).

The HOA also was part of a larger group opposing the extension of a light rail line that would connect our town to the larger metroplex. The same argument was used in that case, "those people" would be able to come up and cause crime in our neighborhood.

I'm not surprised that the people in the article believe that they have a right to a quiet street.
I recall an 8 year stretch during that period when the Republican party held the presidency, and longer periods when they have controlled the house. It doesn't seem to be an especially high priority for them.
> sent a quick text message to my girlfriend telling her that I was leaving the country forever, and was off.

A friend of mine once showed up at my house to tell me, "I'm leaving for China. If my girlfriend asks... tell her I'm at my parents'". I stared at him for a moment, then said, "Ok," and he left. They made up some time later, but he's still over there.
Like I said, completely out of touch. You are not going to grow enough to sustain yourselves on 200 square feet, and what ever you do grow will require more resources than growing that same amount on an industrial agribusiness scale.
Easy to see their motive. This is good for their cloud business, they already know their monopoly days are over, they're making money with Azure and growing that front (127% [1]). Whatever your platform is, you can host it on Azure. And big data will be more lucrative each day. Spark is a cluster computing framework and clusters lead to cloud.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-azure-vs-aws-revenu...
Also books although length of pages are different have that font size.
Why, and what exactly do you mean?
Shit like this is where I wish we could have a demo scene for modern architecture. (Maybe there is one, and I'm just don't know about it)

I have always fantasized about going back to the bad old days, where you have to boot the computer into the program you want to run.

I dream about having the full capability of modern computing to just run one program. Without any overhead. Without an OS.
Soul-crushing truth to this statement.
Accountability? What about accountability from FOX news, CNN and all the other programs that do an even worse job and aren't comedy shows? Shouldn't they be accountable first and foremost?
When I realized that the sidemenu on the Angular Material documentation site was not actually made with Angular Material.... that's when I realized I made a bad decision in using it.
I saw the word 'Schadenfreude' and was reminded of a satire talkshow on a radio station in the PC game Grand Theft Auto IV

Found it: Pacemaker - putting the heart back into the healthcare industry.
https://youtu.be/jG9BgjnpGGY?t=940
In what world is an allegedly broken used printer that has since been thrown away worth a years salary? This shit should have never gotten past a filing stage.
Think of all the people that have been distanced from the project because of his behavior. Think of all the other people who would be distanced from it in the future if his behavior was tolerated and defended by the organization. This is really not a loss at all!
The blocker was always the Senate when Republican presidents were in power.
Sounds like lines should change width more often to make such silly bugs noticeable so they can be fixed.
if you're a decent programmer, shouldn't be hard.
No, but I view MS as a collection of employees desperate to learn what they need for the next job now.

Hence, the total apparent lack of desire to do anything new and innovative ("Let's copy AWS! Genius!").
Descriptive function names - yes, of course. With one function call per line.

But long variable names?!? There is no place for such an abomination under this sun.
But neither is it trust fund territory - someone with a median income could aspire to this and accomplish it without too much struggle.
Happens to me 9 times out of 10 when reading an article on that site!
How about with kids? With a family? With aging parents that needed help while you are the only child? With a H-1B visa on the edge of being kick out because I'm heading to the 6 yrs limit?

I felt this way because that's exactly where I'm in now and I don't seem to find a way out. Need some advice here.
Actually that's almost my favourite agricultural metaphor about 'normal' science; it's like subsistence farming and everyone has their little turf to tend.
Cryptography scared authoritarians and chicken little more than guns.
Exactly what I was thinking. Especially when you have monthly obligations to pay bills that don't go away when you quit your job.
The best ROI for indoor farming, other than perhaps marijuana, is going to be almonds trees. That'll take some serious engineering effort, and it'll be worth billions of dollars to whomever figures it out.

So much of the water directed at almond trees today is entirely wasted. Just being able to strictly control how much water each almond tree gets, and therefore dramatically reducing water waste, will justify indoor almond farming all by itself.

We should be aggressively genetically altering almond trees to be smaller, while yielding near the same output, and requiring a lot less water.
> There is still nothing bad (immoral) at accepting a society where some people will "avoid their contribution to solidarity".

That depends on your moral compass and your level of egoism.

> That is quite a bit of hyperbole, and wrong.

I guess you never tried to get an appointment with a medical specialists in Germany with a non private insurance.
I never said it won't change, just that growing food in a field will always be cheaper than in building. Many people in this thread are saying that advances in automation, GMOs, or energy generation will make growing in a building cheaper. It will, but all those advances will apply to field farming as well.
The comments are on an article about someone with "a dream job". Not hard to get to 5000-10000 in that situation if you're highly motivated to leave.

More generally, saying (or implying) "your advice is useless because many people couldn't do it" invalidates a sizeable chunk of useful advice.

Yes, many people don't have 5000-10000 and couldn't. But many do or could, and yet they imagine they couldn't possibly travel/leave job, etc.
According to some researches[1], city residents already generate less CO2 per capita, because they live in a densely packed area and can use resources efficiently (e.g., subways). It makes much more sense to keep people closer to each other and keep farms farther away. (After all, cabbages only have to be transported once in its lifetime. Human beings move in and out every single day.)

[1] http://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels-...
Or judges? I would want to sue the judge that awarded $30,000 for an allegedly broken printer.

Edit: Found this article from Sep. 2014. [0]

"The [Indiana] state high court, in an order issued Tuesday, called Zavodnik 'a prolific, abusive litigant' and put him on notice. In the unanimous ruling, the five justices warned the Ukraine-born U.S. citizen that he 'can expect any further abusive litigation practices ... to be met with appropriate sanctions and restrictions.'"

0: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/10/01/enoughs-enough...
In my part of the world, a lot of "quiet neighbourhoods" have put up boom gates at strategic entrances. Some are manned by security guards that open for you. In others, you have to swipe your hand over a sensor to make it open for you.

It's used mostly for security, but no doubt it helps with keeping traffic-avoiding individuals from going through.
Still a very small part of the total cost.
That's the line that made you think this was satire?
I was not aware they were marketing in that direction...imo they shouldn't be, for the reasons listed by others. The UI just isn't quite intuitive enough for the average-joe that's expecting something like a Linksys/Beldin interface.
That part of the population can take the other route proposed -- like thousands of "hippie travellers" each year: go at it with just the ticket and the kindness of strangers. Having some skill you can use to make some small money here and there (like playing music on a street corner) helps.

For the rest, those making $50.000 a year or more, $5000 to $10000 is very doable to save in 1-4 years -- if you actually want to visit the world that is, and not just want it to fall on you lap while you enjoy everything else at the same time. Rent a smaller house, don't buy a new car, spend less on bars, restaurants and other BS, dont buy that iPhone, etc.
See the book "Vagabonding", by Rolf Potts.

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of ... - Amazon.com
http://goo.gl/f8Ue7
And that's the error, right there: software didn't create the problem of a closed/restricted road; trying to address the issue in-app means shooting the messenger.
Yeah, you're right. See, for instance, the way that the West totally put down the Taliban in Afghanistan and pacified the entire country, which is now peaceful to this day. The Taliban were just a bunch of illiterate goat herders with AKs, so there's no way they could stand up to the America's more technologically advanced army, plus the drones.

And then look at Iraq, and Syria, and all of the other insurgencies involving irregular combatants armed with nothing but improvised explosives and small arms, that have now been totally put down by the drones...

Except that none of the above is true :p
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Personal flight, once a pipe dream, is within our reach
Could be an internal pressure to quickly provide the image of results. I know that was my problem.
They are offering $1125 for a MacBook Pro (in good condition) that I paid almost $3000 for last January. Doesn't sound like a good deal at all.
I did not realize that the hash and salt are concatenated