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> The US is a member of the WTO, but banned online gambling for years without any real sanctions against them.

I see you're trying to cast a hypocritical light on the US, even though the US has nothing to do with it.

The complainants (Antigua and Barbuda) were compensated in 2014, by the US.

Ultimately a country can build a case for banning a thing (a good, service, etc.) but if a country says 'These widgets are OK, in fact we manufacture them ourselves, but we've decided to ban the ones that come from country X' then that usually is anti-trade in no uncertain terms, in WTO language it is 'unfair.'

It's not like the US banned online gambling on purpose so as to try to cripple the Antiguan economy, as would be the case for banning Korean exports to China.
You mean like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty?

Good luck.
What ranking of language popularity do you think is more accurate than Tiobe?
Exactly, instead of creating a Java clone, what if they'd decided to use a well-understood existing functional language with an elegant module and object system from the very beginning....
He was proud to be the father of an enormous family, until he couldn't feed them
Is beating the blues free? Is it any good? I mean, you seem to say it's not too good, but it has to be of any use... No?
OK, now I'm giving more thought to putting Iodine on my scalp to see if I regrow some of that thinning hair...
Safari, Chrome and Brave
People do that and in many situations it's the most suitable choice.
HMD Global is Finnish company behind these phones, Nokia provides the brand and huge patent portfolio in exchange of royalty payments. Nokia did not invest into this company.

Third big player behind the scenes is Foxconn Technology Group. They bought all Microsoft/Nokia phone manufacturing plants, and they will build these phones. This provides them the opportunity to diversify their customer base.
Or that both hit the ceiling on CBT effectiveness.
I would bet that Russia also has a longstanding policy to push propaganda against nuclear power. RT was raising a great deal of alarm after Fukushima, for example.

I don't mean to claim that all propaganda is false, or that you have to start supporting fracking or fission or anything, but it is always important to consider potential conflicts of interest with this stuff. As another example, Friends of the Earth was started by an oil company executive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Orville_Anderson
But understanding those concepts gives you the tools to construct and improve poetry of your own.
not the author just a fan

if you put the cursor just before the first character in a heading, then hit backspace/delete, you get back to plaintext. same for list items
I was a little brat as well. Lot's of tantrums. My parents punished me (probably not enough). My grandma once said: "how old are you?" This works.

Nobody ever gave me drugs. I don't think it is ideal to give kids weed (I'm an adult who can barely handle weed). It is linked with psychiatric problems. That's not anti-drug propaganda, that's a fact. All that said, I don't think this is any worse than giving a kid ritalin.
I like reading both old and new philosophy, because I feel philosophy tends to explore ideas with less bias and polarity. The point isn't to be "right" as much as it is to think and explore. For example, one philosopher can ask "Why shouldn't we eat babies," without other philosophers engaging in political demonstrations, leaflet campaigns, and anti-baby-eating benefit concerts. The goal isn't to leave the philosophy meeting and find a baby to eat, but rather to explore the topic intellectually.
Really? Everyone who drinks alcohol and coffee and smokes tobacco? I find that extremely hard to believe.

Conversely, all of the drug users I know are employed and earn between 1x and 3x the national average household income. At jobs where they're highly respected for their contributions.

Again, maybe that's just anecdote. But the "anecdote" criticism cuts both ways. The only real difference is that I'm not justifying jailing people on the basis of personal anecdote.
That which isn't tested, isn't taught. This is particularly the case if the test and the curriculum are sold by the same vendor.

I could see a scenario where "elite" parents complain that their kids spent a year in school being drilled on reading credit card applications, at the expense of things like literature and poetry. (I'd probably be one of those parents, and in my locale, educated parents are constantly complaining that the school curriculum has too much drill work and not enough liberal arts). So, in order to broaden the curriculum, the tests have to somehow be broadened.

I suspect that the best education is also the hardest to test. There will always be a conflict between education and testing.
There might be small protests but massive protests are unlikely. Back in 1980s in India there were massive protests against introduction of computers in banks. At that time people were not much aware about the positive role computers can play in society. Today things are different and people are more aware about technology.
Terrorists are an existential threat, but our society doesn't have just one bogeyman: they are around every corner to scare us into doing things we wouldn't normally do. Remember, the terrorists manufacture drugs to sell to us and if you buy drugs you are supporting terrorism.

That said, I think it might subside for different reasons.

The demographics of drug addiction are changing. Addictive drug use went from being primarily a poor minority inner city epidemic to something affecting affluent white kids, professionals with bad backs and the elderly. The road from Oxycontin to heroin is a well documented phenomenon[1] that has become all too familiar with the people who pushed for severe punishments for drug crimes.

If your kid could be facing 10 years in jail because he was charged with the intent to distribute a bag of heroin, and that same situation is playing out in towns all over America, suddenly the wheels of change get greased.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/15/heroin-...
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Personally I have a habit of avoiding that, especially in dynamic languages, because a single typo could have nasty consequences there. So I always figure out a synonym, or use a name for the variable that's either more descriptive:

for (let particularThing of things)

or at least visibly different:

for (let th of thigns)
My best philosophy reads were almost always when I felt connected to the writer. They mostly all talk straight to the reader, but that doesn't mean I'm always feeling on the same level as them. But when I do it's like A close friend is telling me a story and I can understand their mind's machinations.

Hegels quote there is why I never spoke up in philosophy class. The other students would hear the tone of my voice or maybe the first 3 words out of my mouth and nothing else. They'd respond to fewer. It made me feel alienated.

As for why people should read philosophers: to learn. You can learn about wild individuality through Thoreau and Ed Abbey. Ethics from Kant, Aristotle, and many others. Life, death, and the meaning of both from many. We all have lives to lead and philosophers can help in the day to day and the big struggles.

Oh and the Socratic method is worth it, too.
Sorry about that, added.
You've answered questions about yourself, not questions about the acts or principles themselves.

You may not like to be murdered, but someone who is terminally ill and suffering might. Is it okay to murder them then, even if they can't explicitly ask you to? Should I murder one person to save five? What about four, three, or two? What about one to save a more "important" person? What about children?

You may like to be happy, but what is happiness? Is it simple pleasure, or is that too "piggish"? Is it a flourishing life? Is it egoistic? Can your happiness be said to be "right" if it makes others unhappy?

I am skeptical that any scientific inquiry can ever provide compelling (i.e., consistent and universalizable) answers to these questions. That's not because scientific inquiry is flawed, but because they're just not scientific questions -- they require a different toolbox.
I totally agree that those things are not going to simply disappear. It just seems that every new framework supposedly has some distinct advantage that previous frameworks lack and the urge of most front-end devs is to move on to the next shiny thing. If you don't move onto the next shiny thing you are considered to be some sort of luddite or ignorant to the amazing new thing a new framework has.

So while I can pick a framework like the ones you mentioned and stick with it convincing team mates or colleagues to do the same becomes difficult.
I've been reading Code Complete recently, and this is exactly what the book recommends for variable names :).
During my first year as a student at University I stumbled upon the book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke in the philosophy section. It was the critical edition by Peter Nidditch, beautifully typeset and bound. I flipped through it and the style of English looked intriguing so I took the book out.

I spent about a month reading through it and when I finally finished it I felt like it had profoundly changed my way of thinking and moved me deeply.

It also made me never want to read another "summary" or anything but the original work of a philosopher ever again. It's very hard to explain or understand if you haven't experienced it yourself.

I feel the same way after reading Schopenhauer, although I've never had the privilege of reading him in German. The translations by Saunders is so amazingly good in English and I've read that Schopenhauer's German is a real delight, so I can't even imagine how good it must be to read him in the original. But I imagine it would be something as beautiful and touching as Locke if you're a native English speaker.
A lot of bad decisions were made one after the other... I visited the site in November, quite impressive!
About as haunting a set of photos as you can have. Imagine going from a carefree existence as a child and in two days being evacuated with nothing, and not idea if you are going to die soon or not.
The original title is "Online cognitive behavioural therapy is no more effective than usual GP care for people with depression" which by no means is the same as the title here because CBT, ahem, has other meanings. Sorry.
Nice way of punishing paying users ;)

This is the reason to support Pixelmator and Sketch.
They don't want a multimillion person refuge crisis on their doorstep.
Ask HN: Online public libraries for science magazines?
Looking for an online library for access to science magazines, such as New Scientist.
For example http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/ (but I'm not in Canada)

I'd be happy to pay a small annual fee.

Are there any? (couldn't find one)
What sources do you have for in-depth science news?

Thanks
If you think Plato is cool with the 'but that's just you're opinion' defense, I'd suggest a reread.
Perhaps related, an old piece by Richards Feynman on bad physics text books: http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
I should not be as concerned about getting downvoted as I am, but I think the discussion culture in this thread is really mad.

Why am I being downvoted for a civilized and reasonable objection which refutes the parent's claim? (of course without a counter-argument).
I perceive those concepts more as tools for writing poetry than for interpreting it. (Though in Shakespeare, for instance, scansion can affect interpretation.)

Obviously the tools aren't necessary or sufficient to create good poetry (just as understanding big-O notation and recursion is neither necessary nor sufficient to write good software).

But they're tools that can be used to improve understanding of others' work, and to craft and improve one's own.
While there are many ways to catch this sort of thing (code review, static analysis, education) I have to place the "blame" here on ActiveRecord. The 'order' API takes an arbitrary string by default. 99.999% of the time, this value can be restricted to a column name or can safely be escaped. For the 0.0001% of the time that something more complex (e.g. Sorting by a calculation like sum(column)) should require a separate, more cautious or complex API call. The common assumption is that all ActiveRecord APIs are "safe" and that simply isn't the case. Brakeman couldn't catch this since it's in Sinatra code and not rails code. Code review didn't catch this because the API was assumed safe by reviewers. Education didn't catch this because not everyone has seen rails-sqli.org. Mind boggling, but still very possible.
Which story was that?

edit: Someone else linked to it in the comments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_Bard
> It's definitely selection bias.

As I stated in another thread, the "all drug users are lazy" mythos is also a form of selection bias. The only difference is that my selection bias isn't being used as a justification for jailing people. I think that's an important difference.

> Rural areas, working class areas, ghettos - another story - and I think they represent the 'majority' of users by far.

We see similar harms from excessive tobacco and alcohol abuse in those communities, but we don't outlaw those drugs.

So, why do we draw the arbitrary line where we do?

And how, exactly, does jailing these people actually help anything?

Basically, I don't take this argument seriously unless the person advocating it is in favor of marijuana legalization or else supports alcohol prohibition.
The obsessive compulsive in me suddenly feels the urgent need to find 15 more tricks. How did you resist this?
Lightroom 5.2 also works really well through Wine (my gf has been using LR via Wine along with GIMP for her photography business for the last 4 years or so).
Apps which have a meaning for "the previous place I was at", benefit from a way to go back. I do plan on a "back button" in meta64 that takes you to the prior NODE (and will be a full history of nodes), but this most definitely will not be a page refresh of the entire page. Will be a button INSIDE the app, just like all other APP functions. Meta64 is a mobile APP also, so relying on a browser-level back button is not an option.
> Also I don't know how you can say iphone is more free than symbian. You could put what you wanted into your phone.

It's been like a decade since I had a Symbian phone (the only one I ever used), so maybe my memory is fuzzy, but didn't all applications have to be signed at great expense?

Sure, Apple does the same kind of thing with the App Store, but it's substantially cheaper and despite the known App Store woes probably a smoother process.
Really? Why?

EDIT: I see this terse comment (or rather, a comment with the form of) often, but since the articles are often javascript framework related, I just assume it's because that world keeps shifting. But, here, not so much. I don't see any guidance in the guidelines to denote the age of "timeless" publications. On the other hand, I saw somebody demand/request/suggest "(1912)" after an Edgar Rice Burroughs work some time back. I guess I'm missing something?
Deep-Murasaki: Deep Learning to Play Chess Without Knowing the Rules
There are plenty of tools to automate that. arandr is a very simple and powerful tool to arrange monitors with a GUI. Gnome has its own, much simpler, monitor configuration dialog. My system defaults to extending to the right, by the way, because that's generally what I want when connecting a projector.

None of this is new, and the whole point of this discussion is that Linux desktops are much better than they were ten years ago. It is that old state that many folks have in mind when criticising Linux distros' usability. It's just not a very interesting discussion to have.
This is not unique to the US and not even unique to the modern era. The "common enemy" is the glue of every civilization. Build a case against a scapegoat and rally public opinion to wage a war - this is essentially the job of every form of government. Let's wage war on poverty, corporations, the 1%, unions, drugs, immigrants, corruption, terrorism... the list goes on and on. You can go back to the Bhagwad Gita, the Bible, the ancient myths... and the story doesn't change very much.
I assume they are everywhere, but this is just "standard operating procedure" in the US.

Look up anything that happens to a group of people - PS3 features being removed, salmonella in food, Microsoft forcing updates on Windows 10, Samsung batteries exploding, etc.

Look for anything that's affected a lot of people... and then watch as a lawyer or group of lawyers kicks up a class action lawsuit.

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/open-lawsuit...
> It suffers a different problem though: Name implies your given name, possibly including your family name. Surname is much more specific (family name only) and thus not suitable in any case where that's not what you meant.

And this digs out a tangential problem - that often, "name" is as specific as you can get (or at least as specific as you should get) - http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b....
What the fuck are you actually arguing about? Pedantic, derailing cunt.
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The classics are a lot more intricate and thought out. You'd break a 7th grader's neck, if you wanted them to interpret that correctly on their own.
If you're ok with this, ask yourself if you'd be ok wih a parent giving a kid bourbon to put it asleep. This used to be a common household trick before people decided it was probably not a good idea.

Granted I think the war on drugs is stupid but I also think a failed parent shouldn't be the one championing the anti-war-on-drugs movement as that's only going to give the opposition ammunition.

I'm also not a developmental psychologist or a medical professional but I don't think this is the best thing for a young developing mind. I'm probably wrong because I've done limited reading on it but giving a young kid any drugs that haven't been exceedingly studied by the medical community doesn't sound like a smart idea.

Edit: I read the article a little further and I don't think the parent is "failed" anymore. It's sad that the kid had such an already tramatic upbringing and I understand why you'd do this but I don't think that it's the best of ideas for most people alive.
Your religion is way more harmful than drugs, I suggest we ban it.
> What would protesting automation even look like?

How about truckers stoning or blocking an automated truck that wheels into a rest stop to refuel? Maybe rest stop operators refuse service to automated trucks. (Can they do that legally?)
Why are those classics developmentally inappropriate? When I was a kid growing up, we read Pushkin - undeniably one of the greats, but very accessible.
If you're digging into that specific meaning of the word "name" (as a property of a person), you're likely doing something wrong:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
Much better article with more details on the actual system and some more background:
http://www.businessinsider.com/red-nova-stellar-merger-predi...
I think you are nonplussed regarding DHH's actual motivation for ranting about the status quo of startup world instead of just enjoying that he has had it better?

I see two possibilities: A, it's content marketing for his products (esp the books). B, he really thinks that people are ruining their lives chasing the current holy grail. I'd really love to know which it is.
The ironic thing there is that the entire field of artistic criticism and interpretation is invalid (or at least not provably valid) and thus practitioners have no legitimate basis for claiming that particular techniques are more or less valid than others. The whole thing is built on a foundation of sand, and largely operates as a make-work jobs program for academics who would be otherwise unemployable.
We call it acetaminophen; Tylenol is the primary brand name under which it's sold.

I don't think GP advances a blanket solution, which is good, because there isn't one. I do think he's a bit arguing against a blanket legalization policy that no one here is advancing, and that's good too, because that way lies madness.
Problem is that knowledge can't be measured because it's not a list of contents that can be checked off. Deep knowledge in one area is by its nature integrated with other areas. Thus exams and testing make as much sense as ranking authors by spelling bee.
There was no indication of that either.
I prefer the moral argument that the government shouldn't tell you what you can do to your own body. I also prefer the ideology that states you shouldn't force your own opinions on others.
I would speculate that either the folks in hazmat suits had to traverse more contaminated areas to get where they are standing, or the activity will potentially dislodge radioactive material into the air around them, or there are unmarked hot spots where radiation levels are higher.
I think you have a great point there. Javascript and browser APIs has been changing a lot and so best practices change a lot.

I am not sure why it is taking so long for things to gel in JS/DOM land though. My best guess is that it is because JS is essentially the only programming language that can be used in the browser. Programmers coming from a myriad of different language backgrounds have to use it and they use it in ways that make the most sense to them. If you're a python dev you still have to use JS on the front-end. If you're a PHP dev still gotta use JS. etc. etc. It is all things to all people and thats not easy.
That is indeed my argument. In a democracy anything is possible if the people vote for it. However we need to make the actions of elected officials public. For example while I personally oppose the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, I would've been less angry (and more sad) had it passed through congressional means with an open debate the public was aware of.

I also do not think that violating (whether it be through amendments or other actions) the constitution's intent is inherently immoral, as the constitution has little, if any morality built into it.
Seconded... great lesson in sleuthing technical problems.

There was another that amused me about the server rebooting in a haunted data center:

http://www.greendatacenternews.org/articles/763167/the-haunt...
Can anyone recommend a good telescope that wont break my bank? I would love to get into watching celestial events. Any recommendations?
Some companies have used it for language tutoring. There are a lot of things a language learner with a keyboard and mouse can productively do during a video chat that isn't built into hangouts, e.g. looking up words, saving vocab items, etc... And that's just one use case.

What this change will do is chop off those offering free services at the knees and drive the premium services to Twilio, etc.
Closest aspects I saw that touch this idea:

- automatic refactors in Java IDEs, especially "rename" - they understand what you mean by "this variable" or "this function", at least most of the time

- Paredit mode in Emacs, for working with Lisp code; if you learn it, you start feeling you're actually working with a tree, and not its textual representation