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A permit, as defined by Black's law dictionary (paraphrased[1]), is authorization to commit an otherwise criminal/forbidden act. Thus if you had a skulking permit that authorizes you to steal and kill, you legally could commit what was a crime. [...]

[1]: I had to paraphrase because I don't own a copy. I had to look it up in the library a while ago, and the definition stuck with me.

I do own a copy and it says no such thing, or even anything like it. I find this memory highly dubious, because permits are given for administrative matters, violation of which can incur a fee or a fine or a requirement of specific performance, but which most certainly cannot land you in jail or result in criminal liability. Historically the word derives from the French per mitter le droit which means 'for passing the right' [to a piece of real estate].

The phrase 'real estate' itself derives from French meaning 'royal estate'; back when all land was legally owned by the aristocracy, long-term renewable land rents were issued, some of which specified the acceptable use of the land - hence the word 'landlord.' In many places in Europe it's still common to buy a house but have to pay a (nominal) rent to someone who owns the underlying land, although this is nowadays a private individual or land investment company rather than an aristocrat. Real estate transactions in the US typically involve both the land and the buildings on it, but not always. Even back in the early days of the US state governments often retained some rights over the land granted or sold, such as the right to 'royalties' on mineral extraction.

I think you may have mis-remembered what you read, but Black's Law Dictionary has been through 9 editions. If you can remember when this was or anything else related to the research, I would be interested in looking it up at the university law library. As it is, I think you're mistaken. If one wanted to give permission for an activity that is normally criminal (possession of drugs by a medical researcher, say), one would seek immunity.
Are you trying to "post" a "link"?
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So who, then is the highest respected?
Since the information Anonymous claims to have is probably already known to the authorities or at least suspected, I doubt the cartel fears its release.

The cartel's optimal strategy is probable to kill the hostage in some gruesome and horrible way, as a message to Anonymous to stay out of their business.

Anonymous can attack governments and corporations and individuals because all of those generally have to go through legal channels to fight back. The Mexican drug cartels do not give a damn about legal channels.

Anonymous are like kids that have been throwing rocks and taunting animals at the zoo, and now think they can safely get away with taunting a grizzly bear they've run into in the woods.
Some don't maintain their packages. If you re-install every few months you keep you system up-to-date. If this sounds strange to you, then realize that most LFSers are accustomed to running new builds frequently.

Personally, I tracked file/package relationships with a simple script. Easy to do.

Tracking package dependencies is more difficult, and I usually did this manually with some help with some specialized scripts.

Plus side is you can avoid dependencies you don't like and add functionality where you need it. You can make a developers heaven this way. Usually the only way I do serious Linux development is with an LFS-based system. When I use distros I usually spend a lot of time creating a specialized environment and the time saving in using a distro is sort of nullified.

Bad side is obviously if you want to upgrade a vital dependency you'd have to upgrade all forward dependencies also. Not so difficult if you have it scripted, but errors are hard to handle. Of course, an LFSer would usually know how to install different versions of packages and have them co-exist. However, mostly you just want to keep top-level packages updated, which is easy to do (e.g. Firefox, developer tools).
This whole article has been rendered silly based on this observation. Yes git's popularity has increased and passed subversion but it was a long time coming and not an explosion at all.
My first thought after seeing the videos is how this will apply to video games.

It seems like a relatively easy way to replicate the real world into a game map.
Every use of git is a repository, it's the nature of the distributed beast. In fact I would argue the opposite, git probably has a few orders of magnitude the number of repositories than svn does; even the servers I use for production deployments have 10s of git repositories on them.
Steve was perfect as he was, he just needed some improvents.
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Technically Airport security missed Umar Farouk the "Underwear Bomber"

It was an unsuccessful attack, but that was due to his incompetence more than any security measures that were in place.

There was also Richard Reid the "Shoe Bomber". He falls into the "last 10 years" but arguably is the reason we have to take our shoes off now.
let me suggest that one could also look for a job where you can sell solutions to customers and keep control of your own IP, publishing it as you will. If you want to be told many stories about how this can work, go to an open source software conference.

I believe this is possible, but if your goal is to do novel scientific research and publish the results, it's exceptionally uncommon. I rely on all sorts of statistical and machine-learning techniques developed by other people, for example. It's relatively common to set up shop as an independent data-mining consultant, and you can fairly easily pay the bills that way. So you might think that they've produced some of the results I rely on. But the way the economics work out, independent consultants rarely spend much time on basic research. The actual techniques and advances, as a result, come almost exclusively from researchers in academia and industrial research labs.

In fact, I can't actually think of any influential advances in machine learning from the past few decades developed by independent researchers. Heck, looking through the R packages I use, even the software seems to come mainly from a mixture of universities and places like Rand (biggest surprise in this mini-inventory: lots of stuff from Merck, who I wouldn't have expected to be open-source-friendly).

Nonetheless, that's actually my medium-term goal, so I hope you're right. ;-)
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Before 9/11, there were even more flaws and even fewer terrorist attacks. Most of the people DHS has caught as "terrorists" are only defined as terrorists because of a broadening in the legal definition of terrorism.
Nice! One of the authors (Jon Åslund) is a colleague of mine at Spotify. He did a talk at europython about our python usage: http://ep2011.europython.eu/conference/talks/spotify-and-pyt...
Tu quoque fallacies are just as bad. Anyone using emotive words or unnecessary superlatives undermine the point they are attempting to make.
This is actually a fairly serious issue for all non-Android handsets, IMO.

The built-in integrated-into-almost-everything Google Nav functionality is the killer feature that trumps all other killer features in phones for me. Obviously YMMV and for some people this feature isn't as big a deal, but it is a huge deal for me and it is what stops me from seriously considering anything that isn't an Android phone these days.

For the record, I do realize there are quite a few GPS turn by turn solutions for the iPhone, but suggesting they are a true replacement for Google's Nav stuff is like suggesting Google Voice Search is a replacement for Siri.
Yes, I totally agree. It is important to do this early on.

Also, make sure you can buy the domain name, because this is really important for your google ranking. Also, I would prefer to use a name which does not have any meaning. In this way, you'll never have problem with semantics. Think about the problem of Nokia's new cell phone Lumia ;-)
accu's overload is a good resource
http://accu.org/index.php/journals/c78/
> In a garbage collected language, nothing expresses ownership, and so while you not be at risk of memory leaks, you're still vulnerable to all the other bugs that come with aliasing mutable objects.

You are conflating required language features with proper API design and documentation. I don't need '(unique|scoped|shared)_ptr' to refrain from aliasing mutable types, or to document my code properly on the rare occasion when I am required to.
Unfortunately, you'll probably just Occupy out-sourced mail handling / application processing companies.
I think it's ideal to learn my 14 month old boy the concept of the mouse/screen.
Same here. And to go one level deeper, I'm only reminded of Slashdot's existence when someone mentions them on Hacker News or reddit.
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Potentially a stupid question -

How can the universe get "colder"? Does it just mean that the average energy-per-square-meter (or whatever unit) is less? If so, wouldn't that mean that saying "less dense" and "colder" mean basically the same thing at that scale?

Maybe I'm asking something stupid and obvious, but I keep thinking that energy can't be destroyed, ergo, there's exactly as much energy (and thus heat?) as before. Or is heat energy density? But doesn't that make "less dense and colder" a redundant statement, since they'd be the same thing?
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My question to you, sir, is how did you manage to get such a domain name for a seemingly bootstrapped company? Kudos!
The core of the problem is that there are public officials, "public servants" as they try to call themselves, that come to work and say "Gee what am I going to do today? I know I'll go harass some little girls. Yeah, they're breaking the rules, after all. Good job! Go me!" and are completely ok with it.

Not so. A lot of times, in fact probably the majority, they are responding to complaints from other vendors.

This is especially true at events; vendors pay a lot of money (often a few thousand a day, paid months in advance) to the organizers for the right to set up a food or refreshment stall, and are subject to safety inspections themselves. So they object to anyone else coming along and doing the same thing for free, even if they're only selling small amounts. Event vendors live on fairly thin margins; since they're transient they can't count on repeat business of any kind. If it's a kid that's cute, but if the kid is selling commercial beverages rather than home-made lemonade (as shown in the photo accompanying the article), then professional retailers see that as a front for the parent who is buying the stuff in bulk at Costco. Having worked as an organizer on a few musical festivals, I regret to say that they're sometimes correct about this.
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I use Tom-Tom in the iPhone and it is good. The most incredible thing is that if I make a wrong turn it recalculates new directions. I knew this existed in classic GPS devices but never realized how useful it was until I actually used it. Plus it does not require a signal which is actually really useful when you travel to Canada (from the USA) where you cannot use the local telephone service unless you are ready to pay a lot of money.

I think iPhone with Tom-Tom is fine. It costs $60 dollars but you can share it with 4 other devices which means you can spread the cost.
I'm pretty sure the United States Congress can't just pass laws and expect them to be enforceable internationally.

However, there seems to be quite a bit of parity between US law and European laws with regard to "intellectual property" laws. AFAIK, Apple, Inc does not own their trademark in the business of cafés. I'd generally spout about protecting one's trademarks, but in this case, my opinion is that they've stepped outside of the area where it's even questionable whether they have a case. I'd bet they don't.
I visit once a week to view the projects that have been updated over the week. Keeps me aware of new projects and up to date on the status of stuff that I use every day but might not otherwise know how its progressing.

Personally, I'm kinda bummed about the the change of name.
It's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yell_Group
"poll" your customers, please. "pole"ing your customer is very different.
There are limits to Buddhism. It can't change your sexual orientation; it can't make you immune to pain, and, apparently, it can't eliminate temper--especially if you're ancestors are from herder societies, which evolved temper to protect their vulnerable assets. Certain things are predominately innate.
I remember there were a lot platitudes and bromance between the founders. There was also a cringeworthy scene where the staff were dragged out to the founder's childhood meditation spot in a forest.

Was the Tom fellow actually a programmer? I couldn't figure that out.

Quite a scary film!
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When I read articles like this I think of a quote from Carmack.

"The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion." (http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2010/10/29/john-carmack-di...)

The rage in the game dev community these days is all about highly cache aware Data Oriented Design (DOD) over OOP. Curiously there aren't a lot of DOD discussions or articles on HN.
That's actually a really interesting characterization of conservatism. But, I can't help but think that when you phrase it like that, pretty much everyone would identify as conservative.

I guess that means that the problem is that unreasonable people on some level must believe that they're not being unreasonable. Worse still, now that you point this out, the bigger problem seems to be that, in addition to this, unreasonable people actually believe that it is the other people who are being unreasonable.

I think one contribution to the problem is the fact that in America it is not just acceptable, but encouraged to have strong opinions about things you don't understand. I generally am out of my depth in matters of climate change, the economy, and what to do about patents, and I readily admit it, rather than forcing an ill-thought out position on my compatriots. You never know who's listening, and I'd hate to look dumb in front of someone who really does know what's going on.

I can't help but wonder how many of these problems would be solved if such a position were adopted on a widespread basis.
i mostly agree with this. the way you learn how to code is the same way you learn anything else: by doing it. that is, you want to know so bad that you try to do it or someone forces you to do it. that's 80% of the battle.

mentorship, tools, and pedagogy (and badges!) probably make up the other 20% of the battle, though. codeacademy fits there. i don't know if what they have is effective or not, but surely they are smart enough to know that whether their courses are effective is very important to their business. hence, they will tweak, iterate, and improve to enhance that.
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Herb Sutter, whose blog post is the subject of this thread, has written a few books. I enjoyed C++ Coding Standards in particular.
Reminds me of http://hitta.se/3d - zoom to Stockholm.

[edit: its their work as well]
Did anyone catch when Ashton Kutcher mention his contact info?
A majority of states recognize common-law marriage, about 10 don't (although that includes big states like CA and NY). They will recognize a common-law marriage made elsewhere if the person moves into such a state (and later seeks divorce, for example), but there needs to be evidence like jointly-filed tax returns and so forth.

it's completely ridiculous to say that I cannot finish my own basement without paying the piper.

What if you screw it up, flood your own basement, and weaken your neighbor's foundation? Most often you won't, but the permit is meant to incentivize you against such carelessness. It's the price you pay for the facts that a) some people are stupid, and b) that you have chosen to live near other people, so what you do potentially affects them.

Read this, and if you find it eye-opening then I strongly recommend Coase's original essay, which is short but extremely readable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
"Wasn't he defying that philosophy, she asked, by making computers and other products that people coveted?"

Buddhism expresses a distinction between a thing in and of itself and an individual's interpretation of a thing.

"Computers and other products" are simply things in and of themselves. However, it is the individual that applies an interpretation to these things, such that the individual can allow these things to define him or her.

In essence, there is nothing "defying that philosophy", as the question asks. If an individual covets or self-identifies with a thing, Buddhism says that this attachment is what ultimately causes suffering. This attachment is the result of an individual's interpretation of a thing, and not due to a thing in and of itself.
I don't get the comparison. I use Navigon on my iPhone. I travel extensively. It's been 99.9 percent perfect. As good if not better than stand alone GPS devices. I understand how it's nice to have it built into Android, not having to pay for a separate app, but turn by turn directions either work or don't work. And I use them every day.

I'll be more than happy when Apple builds it in, but until then, I've more than happy, and it's certainly not enough to make me look at switching to Android, even if it never happened.
I was like: This sounds way too familar to me. And yes as a Miami resident I there's a place called Fisher island, that Carl Fisher used to own: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_Island,_Florida
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I agree that the holistic benefits of going back to school are certainly more valuable to me than the CS classes, but I also think that I would appreciate CS in a different way than I would have being 18-23.

I expect that the fact that I am used to working borderline psychotic hours means that I could be able to maybe even perform some interesting work at the same time as studying, but this is not something I think that I should count on. That said, I really want to avoid accumulating debt and the 20-30k that I would expect from a "good" school is something that I am carefully weighing with the more affordable state school.

EWD worked at University of Texas Austin.
While I don't like to regret anything (just course correct), I enjoyed his technique and it made me think. Imagining what you would regret helps, thanks for sharing it.
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Nokia Drive is considered as good and in many ways better than Maps Navigation.
I had never heard of a car boot sale, but I had heard of a car boot (a device that fit around a car's wheel to prevent it from turning).

Wikipedia says it is basically a flea market except people selling out of their car's trunks.
> The most incredible thing is that if I make a wrong turn it recalculates new directions

I have never used turn-by-turn navigation that couldn't do this.
Every time I think about switching to an iPhone for my daily use, I remember this. This is a huge deal and replaces yet another device I don't have to lug around while on travel. I've even stopped using my Garmin since the maps tend to be much more up-to-date and the screen is easier to type addresses on.
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Colin, it's embarrassing at this point, it really is. I'd have hoped, with your background, that you'd know better.

Memory safety is not dependent on having a GC - if you have an appropriate runtime, a smart enough type system, or a simple enough language semantics.
You just did that thing which I tried to prevent anyone from doing with my last paragraph.

Sorry but the GPS solutions on the iPhone just aren't the same (btw, direction recalculation is a no brainer and of course Google Nav does that, and a whole lot more like local data polling from other Google Nav users to determine realtime road speeds for path redirection)

Anyway, it is the full OS integration that is key. Basically anything on the phone that displays an address (web browser, Google Maps, apps like Yelp, etc) displays it as a clickable link letting me instantly pull up directions and switch into nav mode. This sort of integration is huge but sadly the sort of thing people tend to gloss over unless they've actually experienced it, which is why I tried to preempt that with the (also flawed) comparison between Google Voice Search and Siri.
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I learned a whole lot about Carl Fisher researching my Modern JavaScript presentation for JSConf (http://blip.tv/jsconf/jsconf2011-rebecca-murphey-5478159 & http://www.slideshare.net/rmurphey/modern-javascript). He and his fellow Good Roads enthusiasts have a lot to teach us for sure.
That must be why the second video is of "Oslo, Sweden". :)

Tjena, Martin, förresten. :)
I don't think the terrorists won, but it's hard to deny that the American people lost.
>This is actually a fairly serious issue for all non-Android handsets, IMO.

Well not all non-Android handsets - Nokia maps has free turn-by-turn directions as well as downloadable maps (not just pre-caching a route, you can download maps of the entire USA if you want). As I tend to travel a lot to areas with spotty or non-existant cellphone coverage, this is the primary reason I'm sticking with Symbian for the time being.
GTA V is coming ..............
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Ok, enlighten me: Assuming you don't have an infinite amount of RAM how do you avoid running out of memory without doing at least one of garbage collection or explicit memory deallocation?
Indeed... and then I read on Wikipedia that despite everything that happened over the 'firing' and cash settlement, they went on to form another startup together!
I am kind of surprised by this, especially given all of the positive comments. It took Audrey's post to make me realize that if I were reading HN, a lot of those positive comments would be, well..technical people.

So now I'm torn. My girlfriend is a graphic designer who wants to learn to code, and I'll probably have her give CodeAcademy a shot. And then maybe CodeSchool, since I have a subscription.

How have the non-CS/programmers of HN learned to code? I learned programming in a CS context, so I don't really know how to tell people where to start.
Looks like Microsoft thinks that in the future we will all live inside Apple stores.
Well, you could get food poisoning: http://foodsafetyinfosheets.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/6-13... or http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/07/espn_re...

Now if someone is selling food or beverages at an event, and people get sick from consuming the product, what od you think will happen? They sue the event organizer or whoever has the deepest pockets, saying 'you permitted the sale of the food that made me sick.' One could say that such people are litigation-happy weenies, but one also has to consider the sky-high cost of hospital treatment. Sometimes people's insurers will sue on their behalf to recover their treatment costs.