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You shouldn't be a gray comment!

It fascinates me that people think the government is some kind of replacement for the village. I grew up in a community. The community gave me access to many things but never coerced me to participate. I chose what I wanted to do.

What kind of childhood did you have where you think the same people that require you to act a certain way at the threat of violence should be your saviours?
Thanks for clarifying Vish. Good luck with beRecruited.
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The problem is that there are so many dissenting opinions on just what the good parts are.

I for one love PHP's natural templating ability, it's the main reason I use the language, but a lot of people think it encourages mixing business logic and presentation code.
Agreed, this fight is best left to Google users (and everyone else, collectively).
default smoothing example uses 52% - 62% CPU at run time on my macbook pro i7 duo core 2.66GHz laptop. Bouncing ball uses 100% on average. Pretty cool script! it makes a good example what today's browser is capable of.
You might have already decided on gitask or gittask, but I think tig is already used by some curses-based interface to Git.

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Tig
PHP is roughly the same age as javascript, give or take a few months.
That's a good idea to separate the installation from compilation. This is my first command-line utility, and I wrote it pretty quickly so I haven't thought about a few things like that, nor have I thought about the license.

Is there a good way to choose between the different open-source licenses?

I saw taskwarrior in another comment and I'll definitely check it out. Thanks for the feedback!
Ah. But there's the rub. What I find unintuitive about Benford's law is the non-random distribution of the most significant digit regardless of base or unit of measure. You propose that it's the "largeness" of a number that enforces Benford's law. While that may be in some ways true, it does not explain the transparency to base or unit of measure. You ate 2 bagels? I ate 4 half-bagels. You earned $5? I earned ¥600 motherfucker! You ran 10 miles? I ran 3bf3e6800 micrometers, in base-16!

Again, your train of thought is not necessarily wrong, but I still find the wikipedia explanation much more robust and illustrative. I hope this is where we can agree to disagree.
This debate has been done to death, but I will not be using this because I think the existing UI features give me all the value I need. Most importantly, the way severely downmodded comments get grayed out.

Beyond that, I don't personally care whether a comment is +3 or +103. I don't want to miss a nugget of wisdom in a +3 comment. I like all you folks, and I trust you to filter out complete dreck like redditesque attempt to create pun threads, but beyond that I plan to read everyone's opinions and form my own conclusions.

Don't think of it as disdain for your opinions about other people's opinions, think of it as respect for your opinions.
Leading as a goal in itself is troubling but explains your point of view.
Just don't develop hacking tools while on German soil ...
What doesn't seem to be very well appreciated is that starch is chained-together sugar, and has the same effects on the body, yet doesn't have anything like the same stigma attached. The body breaks it down into glucose extremely quickly, starting in the mouth. White bread is very high on the glycemic index scale.
This is an analysis of the negotiation and everything needs to be said to understand the situation.

In almost every airline negotiation with pilots, airline management has a far greater position in the negotiation, except in the case of Virgin where the pilots probably still have a worse position, but a much more equal playing field!

Here is why:

There is something that is EXTREMELY important to understand about the economics of being a pilot at an airline. Pilots cannot switch airlines without starting at the very bottom. They cannot leave the airline they are with! If they do, they will go from $100-$150K to $30K.

Pilots are not promoted based on how good they are, they are promoted by seniority which means that if a pilot is a captain with Virgin and they switch to whoever is hiring now, they will never make their previous salary for the rest of their career.

There is a second piece of airline economics that is EXTREMELY important. If the pilots strike, the losses an airline would take while trying to replace them will easily bankrupt any airline. The fixed costs, long training time and lack of trained pilots in the market makes a strike an airline killer.

When you combine these two factors, you would normally say that both management and pilots are both in really bad positions to negotiate and MUST come to an agreement or they will both loose badly. But, the reality is that pilots loose far worse than management…
Why? Well, management can take their skills to a different company whereas pilots cannot transfer their skills for the same money. This puts the negotiation power directly in management hands, with one exception… Richard Branson.

He is getting involved and trying to get everyone together because he knows that if the pilots strike, management cannot afford their demands and the airline will be bankrupt. If this occurs, he takes a capital loss which will suck, but the real blow is to his ego and the Virgin brand. No other airline management is in this position.

A lot of airlines will be facing strikes over the next few years, great management will bridge the gaps, talk to both sides and keep the airlines running. Terrible management will allow them to fail and move on to the next company.
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These are great suggestions, thanks for taking the time to make them. I agree with the header menu suggestions. I have been thinking about replacing the huge logo with a search box so I agree getting rid of it would be a good idea.
I will be spending some going through your list as we continue to refine the landing pages and menus. Thanks so much for the detailed suggestions, they are extremely helpful!
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>What is the advantage of using this app as opposed to using the built-in Voice Memos app and then turning off the phone's scree

I don't believe there is one. I emailed (CopWatch) a few weeks ago and have not heard anything. One of my suggestions was to change the name.

I know of a person in which a novelty iPhone scale app was used as probable cause to search their vehicle. He is a developer who wanted to see how an iPhone app could act as a scale. Our estimations were correct, vibration and position are used to make a very crude estimate.

The mere existence of this app angered the police and allowed them to justify a full vehicle search, yielding nothing.

A name like CopWatch is a red flag, and I would not want to have an app of that name on my phone if recording secrecy was my end goal.

The app does not upload in real time, but rather works like any other built in app, recording locally, uploading at user instruction, plus needing data entry prior to uploading. Given that we have all seen video of officers destroying recording devices, or recording devices returned broken, it is important to protect that function.

This app in curent form offers no protection against corruption in law enforcement.

My best recommendation is to use UStream. It records locally if there is no cellular or wifi connection. If a data connection can be found, it records directly to the remote servers. You can delete the local file, and even the local representation of the remote server file, but the master will be retained when you login to the webapp. You must only protect your login and password to the webapp, and all recordings made while connected through a data connection should be safe for a sufficient period of time.

I should note, the above suggestions are only tested on iOS devices. I have no idea if they hold true on other mobile platforms. The UStream deletion of local files while retaining remote files could also be a bug, albeit one that has been there for over a year now.
I like the videos this year definitely. There's something about witnessing the actual passion behind the pictures and articles from the real people. Makes them seem more deserving of the praise.

However it's a shame they turned everyone into a cartoon after what looks like were photos from several professional photo shoots.

I wonder if it was one of those situations where 1 or 2 pictures came out terrible, so they decided to cartoonify everything and call it "by design".
I'm sorry, that's still as vapid as saying "you don't like Google search? Well, build your own search engine..."
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I like Kashi, but the problem is that the healthy cereals come in much smaller boxes and are much more expensive.
Yeah but you are really comparing two different things here (regardless of IE support). If we just compare svg (raphael) and canvas (paper), we see SVG is not as recommended for animation whereas canvas is.
why is a designer different than a developer in any of these aspects?
Worth reading just to find out about the units(1) program. How did I miss that all these years?
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> A million dollars spent on healthcare increases GDP by a million. A million dollars spent on war increases GDP by a million. A million dollars spent on rubber dog crap increases GDP by a million. But these transactions are not of equal value.

Actually, they are. The folks who spent a million dollars on rubber dog crap could have spent it on something else but they spent it on rubber dog crap. That million dollars is the value of that rubber dog crap.
There are desert & remote outposts in action.

The military could invest in compact, easily constructed tents or it could rely on the possibility that mud is available in the area & that they have the time, the personnel & the heavy equipment free to build them. Huts that you can't deconstruct and take with you.

Also we're not just talking about military purposes. You could put up an industrial grade tent in an hour for disaster relief. How long would a mud hut take to build in a disaster area? How about at a festival or fairgrounds?

It looks like in some areas the army is re-purposing tents for semi-permanent housing. Tents are already on hand. Their specs are known. I am not aware of an army approved mud hut. Perhaps the army should look into it, but there are many varying factors that can go wrong in constructing a mud hut vs a standard issue tent.

Also I don't think a quickly build mud hut is going to fair a whole lot better than a tent to a mortar round. Additionally the tents are being sprayed with insulating foam on the outside which makes them almost airtight. Though I'd question if there is the ability to re-purpose the tent after it's been sprayed.
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As far as I can tell, "Most common iPhone passcodes" doesn't belong on this list, and I'm perplexed why it seems to follow the law. An iPhone numeric password (which I'm assuming it's referring to) is simply a 4-digit string, so all first digits should be equally probable, unless there's some psychological issue at work. Or are they discarding leading zeros for the purpose of this chart? I guess they must be (0 doesn't appear on the chart), but that's a weird thing to do to a password.
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There is a big difference between having the freedom to do something, and actually exercising that freedom.

I find it extremely distasteful that the state thinks it can raise my children better than I can, and that it can decide what bad/good parenting is. That being said, obviously some parents are bad parents (by most standards), and would allow their kids to play very violent games, but a prohibition like this would do nothing to prevent this (bad parents would find innovative ways to raise their children in a bad way).

To give a similar example: from a very early age, I was taught how to properly consume alcohol by my parents (through moderation), not by the state (through prohibition). And I find such laws, e.g. in the US where kids are not allowed even to drink alcohol, ridiculous.
Sadly, the situation is different from Python's.

Python 3 is well-defined, with a stable and usable implementation. You can port your code to it today, and even big projects like Django are getting ready to shift over to it.

Perl 6's definition continues to change, with no clear spec, and the leading implementation (Rakudo) doesn't have half of the features built. Even if there were a feature-complete implementation of it I wouldn't dream of starting to port my code over to Perl 6 yet.

Perl 6 is really a different language, and should be named as such. With that out of the way, Perl 5 can then get rid of its "5" and move on to release 16 in a year.
How about parent permission cards that parents can apply for with shiny holographs and such. That would not be first amdendment per say, and could apply to an entire category of shopping.
Because you haven't read a couple of paragraphs further?

> Since Singapore Airlines bought into the company 10 years ago both of us have invested more money into the airline than we’ve taken out
Believing something should be legal doesn't mean I want it happening in all cases ever. I don't like adultery but I don't want it to be illegal.
but then near the end admits that loan debt is not considered part of college cost using the reasoning that "it's the students contribution".

Actually she said the opposite. :-)

She says, "The net prices I mentioned don’t take loans into account. We consider loans to be part of the students’ contribution. The students have to pay them back eventually."

Net price is the price the student pays. It is reduced by financial aid, but she says that they do NOT take loans into account (whereas they do take Pell Grants into account). That is because students have to pay the loan eventually.

So if you have a college tution that is $10,000/year. The sticker price is $10,000. If you have $2,000 in grants and $4,000 in loans then your net price is $8,000. They don't take loans into account when computing the net price.
Cars in America have shrunk over the years

I would posit that, given the number of cars in America, historically, my initial statement is still accurate. :-)
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How popular is Netflix when it comes to viewing movies on demand?
Sadly, they hold the most credibility. Everyone's heard of .com, specifically the casual web users or less tech savvy. I tried .co once, but when I passed a mention of the domain on to someone else, what did they type in? That's right, .com.

Locally (.co.uk for me) there's many more available, but that makes it harder to target a global audience, and also as above, a lot of people tend to try .com first, potentially introducing them to a competitor.
> I'm worried about the slippery slope

Thank you.

>> But that's why we have parents

> So, you'd rather make their job harder?

It's not my place to make another parent's job hard. Or easy.

I don't expect or want the government to tell me what my kids can, and cannot see. That's my job, my burden. It's what I signed on for when I had kids and got married.
I agree with your point that video games can lead to improper unconscious decision making. This follows a lot of the thoughts in the works of Lt Col Grossman if you have read them. However, I believe that the answer is not removal of the video games but training in conscious decision making.

Like in your Ativan example. Those who chose to dope the subject didn't actually think about their action, but instead made a decision based on emotional response. Part of the purpose of the exercise was to teach them to consider the implications of their actions and then make a proper decision that could be defended at a later point in time.

If we spent more time teaching children subjects like philosophy they would be better prepared to consider their actions and the effects of media and peers would be greatly diminished. I think in the long run our society would be better served by this path than by a attempted (and most likely failed) removal of negative media.
Good parents engage their communities to shape the community policies.
My first time hearing about this law (sadly) and I'm stumped! This is amazing!!
Can kids buy R rated movies?
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yep : )
Passwords follow the law, too! Skewed of course by the preponderance of '123456'.
i always thought scruples sounded like a breakfast cereal loaded with sugar and wasted sentiment.
I worked on Prism, a radiation therapy treatment planning program. It's a physics simulation with 3D graphics and lots of data management used to customize radiation therapy treatments for each patient. It's a big system with stringent requirements for accuracy and correctness.

Some HN readers may be interested to know that Prism is written in Common Lisp. It is one of the largest and most featureful Lisp programs I know of.

For many years Prism was the sole planning system used at the University of Washington Medical Center. It is still used there for the cases that can't be handled by the commercial system they now have. It has also been used at some other medical centers, as a platform for research projects that require access to system internals -- which the commercial planning systems do not provide.

The project page is
http://www.radonc.washington.edu/research/cancer-informatics...

According to that page, it is covered by the Lisp Lesser GNU Public License, LLGPL.
I love the number of replies who have claim to be well-rounded "moral" persons. A little bit of selection bias there, eh? Granted I must be victim to the same bias. Thus the anecdote. The point is that if you haven't been faced with the actual situation, a video game can only be a bad substitute.
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> And even if not, you can probably try selling it to the locals when you are going.

Why would they pay anything? You're leaving so it will be free then and you won't leave sooner if they pay.
So Virgin should chuck their entire brand out the window and start herding people onto planes like cattle?
"As is mentioned in other comments here, walking when the weather is bad (cold north, too humid south) is very unpleasant no matter what."

Sure, but the alternatives can be more unpleasant still. Last winter I had a walking commute of 12 minutes in Toronto. You'd have a difficult time finding someone who found a 45-60 minute drive through congested and frankly miserable GTA winter roads less unpleasant.
I agree that mature video games are no worse for kids than any other form of suggestive media. Teens are exposed to a lot of violence in the world, and banning just one type of it isn't going to do anything to protect them. Parents are going to bring their kids to suggestive movies, and buy their kids mature games. Restrictions will do nothing to stop that, and that's something we're going to have to deal with.

Just my opinion.
I'm not sure how the functionality has evolved since I last saw it, but I worked on the initial build of http://www.contactme.com/

Figured I'd throw that into your pool of options
Having a Git history of my tasks is nice, but this is functionally equivalent to Gina Trapani's Todo.txt (todotxt.com) CLI app/mobile app, which uses Dropbox rather than Git to host the list in the cloud.
This looks really cool. Like other people have said, I'd take a look at TaskWarrior and some of their functionality.
Having it inside a git repo is really, really awesome.
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Generalized to base b: http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/a/7/e/a7e38730abb9b29099d10...
The reminding feature (if you don't hear back after a couple of days, reminds you to follow up) is super interesting, I'll probably add that to my system now. Thanks!
I disagree. Having lived in San Francisco and Oakland, I've found an SUV (Grand Cherokee, mid-size as SUVs go) to be positively fantastic. The suspension can handle terrible roads, the elevated position gives much better visibility, the turning radius is very good. There were times that I wished it were the length of a Miata for parking, but at least I could carry four friends in comfort while looking for parking.

As for snow, I credit the tread design and composition entirely. A good mud/snow tire, with non-continuous tread blocks and plenty of siping, makes an amazing difference. Any car with high-performance street tires will suck in the snow.
He was pretty protective in his opinion in Kyllo (the whole "general public use" assertion being deemed a potential factor, not a determination, in the restriction of an expectation of privacy), though it was centralized on the place as holding an expectation of privacy, not the person.

Though he dissented in Bond (2000), the combination of those two rulings may give fairly powerful protections against technological surveillance.
Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium

I don't know much about 1st ammendment law, but aren't mature books and movies regularly prohibited to be sold to minors? I thought porn couldn't be sold to kids? Or is it merely a suggestion?
Why implement vector graphics on Canvas when you could use SVG?

EDIT: Seems to be answered in the FAQ: "We have decided to use the Canvas object as the main backend for now because it is faster than SVG and allows us to implement and optimize our own Scene Graph / Document Object Model. We will be offering SVG (and hopefully PDF) importing and exporting in the future."

But it seems hard to believe that doing vector->bitmap rasterization in JavaScript is going to be faster than using the browser's SVG implementation (written in C++).
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We need something like this with emacs / vim interface
Ya, that is why I put it in quotes. Who is to say what truly is moral? I'm sure there are some things which we can universally agree on, but others maybe not so much. Morality is a relative thing. Personally I tend to follow the non-aggression principle which I feel puts me on fairly solid (though not infallible) ethical grounds.
Are movies or books an acceptable/good substitute? All this ruling does is give video games the same freedom of speech protection that movies and books have.
Penn is a very "pre-professional" school, which is not a bad thing at all. Nonetheless, it's refreshing to see this for a change...
Let's say your community had a store. And the town council voted that your store shouldn't sell violent video games to the children. Is that wrong? Conversely, would it be wrong to dissent?