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>> Donation-funded campaigns get funded by people who agree with them.
>Donation funded campaigns make it extremely difficult for new candidates from being judged on their merits.

New candidates will fundamentally always have a problem drawing attention, and in fairness they ought to have to work at drawing attention. An awesome candidate shouldn't have any trouble building up grassroots support at a reasonable pace.

What happens if every random person who has ever said "if I were President" could run without putting much effort into it? We already get a barrage of advertisements around election time with just the candidates we have right now; how exactly do you expect to provide an equal footing for a thousand, or ten thousand? Running should require a lot of work. I want to remove the biases against new, independent, and third-party candidates, but that doesn't mean it needs to become trivial to get a pile of "free money" and run.

> Imagine if they all got equal opportunity advertising in order for people to decide their viability for themselves. Imagine if I had a way of hearing about all the great, viable, useful kickstarter projects that would get swept under the rug because they didn't have the right connections to promotion.

No sensible system exists for that to happen. Too many Kickstarter projects exist for equal advertising to have any useful impact. If you want to get noticed, get yourself noticed. Yes, that makes Kickstarter as much about publicity as about awesome tech; the same problem happens with startups to an even greater degree. Great ideas will always generate noise, but they still need help from people who know more than just how to have great ideas.

Kickstarter, to me, seems as fair as anyone could hope for. No entrenched candidates, no political parties, no free funding, just a pile of projects trying to look the most awesome and draw the most attention.
I feel the need to point out the obvious. It's LEGO not LEGOS or legos.
Christian Science Monitor: is this a reputable source known for good journalism?
Oh, and for anyone still reading this a week later, I finally remember the name of the book I really wanted to give as an interesting in-depth commentary on all-consuming augmented reality (which is somewhat related to the topic of gaming as opiate):

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I'm no proponent of "everyone is absolutely identical", but I would go with "everyone is absolutely much more similar than the cliches pushed by e.g. the toy industry". The role of cultural influence in this is enormous and impossible to separate from intrinsic biological differences. I'm from New Zealand where (at least in my peer group) gender roles are not too clearly defined. However I live in Spain where they absolutely are - are New Zealanders biologically less sexist than Spaniards? Of course not.

There's another interesting discussion to be had around brain plasticity and whether people raised in cultures which promote differences are actually more different, but I'm not aware of research in this area. It would be interesting to see.
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As someone who just left a big company for a startup I think 8/10 of these things apply to me. I'm half-tempted to email this to my old boss.
The vast majority of people in the target market (i.e. the US). I don't think that the RIAA and MPAA are really targeting China and India... at least not in a heavy way.
And yet there are plenty of kids who are gender atypical, sometimes in a few ways, sometimes in many ways, sometimes such that they identify with the opposite gender.

The reality is not that there are hard categories of things that we can simply say a person's brain is "hard wired" to be either A or B, but that there are clusters and statistical probabilities. Some people are one or more standard deviations removed from what we think of as "gender typical."

There's definitely an element of truth to the "hard wiring" thing -- you can't change a child's personality and enthusiasms simply by wishing it so or trying to "train" them. But the picture is far more complicated than you seem to think.
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can you run the same software on each?

Yes. In practice, however, remember that linux software is usually manged through a package manager. This means each distro packages each software package to install using their own conventions and formats. Some conventions (such as freedesktop.org guidelines) and formats (both SuSE and RedHat use YUM/RPM) are shared between many distros, others are not. Also many distributions will patch software specifically for their needs and may even have different compile-time options enabled.

how large is the difference between base versions (i.e., debian vs. redhat)

There are differences:

- between how they handle software packages, like I stated earlier

- in QA and release policies (what RedHat considers stable and Debian considers stable might be different even for the same package)

- in security features (SELinux, grsec, AppArmor, ProPolice, etc.)

- in default packages installed (PCLinuxOS ships with KDE, Ubuntu with Unity, Debian with Gnome, etc)

- in init systems (Sys V, systemd, upstart, OpenRC)

- in available support options

- in release schedules and methods (rolling release [Gentoo, Arch, Foresight] vs scheduled releases [Fedora, Ubuntu] vs "when it's done" [Debian])

- Commercial (Ubuntu, SuSE and RedHat) or volunteer/nonprofit (Debian, OpenSuSE, Fedora and most others)

- in legal and "ethical" standards (nonfree software availability, availability of software known to be infringing on US patents, nonfree drivers or firmware, etc.)

There is an attempt to arrange things logically, so even if you're unfamiliar with the init system on a specific distro -- if you've worked on any other Linux (or even BSD) init system before you should be able to figure things out pretty quickly. Other things, like SELinux, aren't immediately intuitive if you're not familiar with them.
True, but if they never try to do it because society tells them that they shouldn't (devil's advocate here, not claiming this is what happens) then we're missing out on 50% of the potential cancer-curing talent who, by your argument, are equally capable of doing so but end up shampooing dogs or whatever instead.
In spite of the title - Yes. It's a very well written newspaper that I've been reading my whole life.

(My father used to make us read it to him on the way to school even...)

They are well known for being anti-sensationalism. The religion bit has no bearing on the paper except that an article on religion must be in every issue, but they don't attempt to advance/preach the christian scientist faith in any way.
How does that answer my question? I know how to type something in Google, but that doesn't narrow down the definition being discussed here.
They're identical twins. So, same "nature" too. So what does this story tell us?
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I think the point here is that Lego is fondly remembered as -- and maybe even should be -- a gender-neutral toy. There was never anything inherently male or female about Legos. In fact, I remember playing with my younger sister often -- I'd be building a spaceship on one side, and she'd be putting together a house on the other.

The problem is that Lego has gotten away from being a gender-neutral toy and is now marketed specifically to boys. And the travesty is, they've dug themselves such a deep hole that the only way to get back any female users is to pander to their lowest common denominator.
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This is not a new development. Lego has had sets loudly targeting girls (or better: stereotypes about girls) since 1991. Lego Paradisa set where sold all through the 90s. Here is the Poolside Paradiese from 1992: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=6416-1

The Lego Belville sets are similar and are still sold today. Here is the Pony Trekking set from 1997: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=5854-1

It’s possible to go even further back in time for more stunning displays of sexism. In 1971 many sets had photos of kids on them. There was a boy pushing a truck or putting together a car. Now guess what the only sets with girls on them were. A kitchen and a living room: http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=261-4

All that does’t make it better. Yes, this is a problem that has to be remedied. But it is not a recent development.

In general I have to say that Lego improved massively since the dark ages (late 90s and early 2000s). I was just looking at some new Lego Creator sets and blown away by them. You couldn’t get cool stuff like that during my (late) childhood (i.e. late 90s and early 2000s). I still loved the heck out of Lego during my childhood but today’s sets are just cooler.
I saw the Mercedes / Honda analogy falling flat in a very different place.

If you sit in a $50,000 Mercedes, and can't instantly tell that it's a more refined and luxurious experience than a $20,000 Honda - why the fuck would you buy the Mercedes?
The chances of this machine relying completely on GPS for navigation is closer to none than slim.

I'm not saying the article is completely wrong, just that it's probably missing a giant part of what happened.
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Given that they're identical twins, I think it's also pretty clear that this case undercuts the argument that it's all just genetics as well.

Oh, and "decided he'd rather be a girl" is generally considered offensive to trans people. She believes that she's always been a girl, and did not "decide" anything of the kind. Her physical characteristics were simply misleading regarding her true gender.
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Personally I've always had problems with OpenJDK on Ubuntu. Eclipse just doesn't run the same on the OpenJDK as it does on the SunJDK.
There is some more information on GPS jamming at http://www.ausairpower.net/TE-GPS-Guided-Weps.html.
Very true, but that still leaves plenty of road.
I don't besmirch LEGO for doing what is an entirely rational for them: design products whose pieces, like puzzle pieces, don't have much versatility outside the context of that playset, leading children to tire of them quickly and want a new set.

Of course, LEGO still sells the general-purpose sets with instruction books to show you how to construct dozens of different buildings/vehicles/etc. My son prefers those, but every kid is different.

The No Girls Allowed theme is pretty easy to explain: mass-market films of the type that will have product tie-ins are almost universally aimed at boys, and LEGO is simply downstream from that trend.

There are toys that give kids' imaginations some exercise, and there are those that, like video games and Harry Potter LEGO sets, don't deliver quite the same workout. It's up to you to cultivate in your child a healthy appetite for the former.

EDIT: I would add that the Toy Story movies do a good job of echoing the nostalgia that adults feel for those older, simpler toys. My son and my affection for those movies has in some way conditioned us to stretch our imaginations and breathe new life into old toys.
I hate to sound harsh but the problem with this idea is that Apples' 'team' was one guy, a guy who died. Everyone else just took orders from Jobs, the dictator 'visionary'. I find it hard to believe that everyone else on the 'team' absorbed the Jobsian way and will perpetuate it. It will die with Jobs, at best the 'team' will endlessly try to mimic it and thus fail to achieve it. Apple will continue to dominate for the next 3-6 years and then decay. I would stay away from this stock from a long term perspective, short and mid term its probably a winner.
i have to know which stop light in SF is 20 mins - google turns up nothing.
Maybe "hypocrisy" would be a better word. That said, there are lots of reasons why this doesn't mean that he, personally, is responsible for this and why the information in there may be inaccurate. I believe the HN article on that service had quite a few people pointing out that the results returned by that site were inaccurate. And sites like TPB are known to return false peers, so naively scraping the list of peers is not a good way to see who is downloading what.
Hey there,

I developed the site but we have our amazing head of design, Skyler, to thank for the beautiful layout.

The First1000 site is entirely native javascript/html5/css3. No jQuery or frameworks. I believe that frameworks are fantastic but only if you are utilizing their full potential. In the past I've included jQuery for random bits and pieces but I found myself coding around it and I really don't like including a library where I only use a couple of its functions.

Here are some of the cool things we included.

Multiple background images in CSS3. This is a beautiful thing. We should rarely have to nest divs inside divs to achieve a layered background effect now.

Transitions (Webkit, Mozilla, Opera etc have their own implementations) for most of the animations you see on the site. I found myself using the transiton-delay: property a fair bit too. This is really helpful as you can set a delay before the animation start point.
Using delays is how we make the flip cards start from the top left and gradually flip over to the bottom right. Each group of flipcards (diagonally) are given a different transition-delay.
We transition opacity, width/height, top/left positioned coords and background-colors.

We use Transforms to achieve rotation. Each card has a slightly different angle ranging from -3deg to 3deg. If I had NOT been using transforms then I imagine each card would have been a nightmare to implement at an angle like that. It would have taken forever and I would have had to use images for the text. Thankfully you can transform an entire div (and its contents, of course) with ease in CSS3.

As you scroll down the page you'll notice the switches on the right highlighting depending on which card you are viewing. jQuery has plugins for this kind of thing (to see if an element is visible in the current viewport - http://remysharp.com/2009/01/26/element-in-view-event-plugin) but I thought it would be a nice challenge to achieve this effect with native javascript.

For things like numeric figures ascending from 0 to 5700 (for example) I used javascript's setInterval() function with a very short interval adding +10 to the innerHTML of the container. The loop breaks and clearInterval() is called, stopping the loop when the desired number, 5700 is reached.

I used a lot more absolute positioning that I would like to, but it worked out very well.

Transparent PNGs positioned above each card give the 'noise' effect.

I took advantage of lossless PNG compression (using Google Page Speed), and minified our CSS and Javascript.

Other cool things like text-shadow to make text appear to be slightly raised, or impressed always come in handy too.

Thanks :)
If this is indeed a problem, just put a secure QR code on every runway. Easy enough.

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Hmm, the GPS signal the military uses is supposed to be encrypted and un-spoofable.

I wonder if Iran cracked it. If so, can the US reset the key easily?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Precision_code
Most protests take place in cities, where one can walk. What you describe is as 'first world problem.' In repressive countries, the government just sends out some troops to establish a checkpoint and stop cars by pointing guns at the drivers. No special technology required.
I have 4 kids, three girls and a boy, and they play with other kids their ages, so I have a fair amount of experience with little kids. There are corner cases where you can't tell what's nature and what's nurture, but you haven't really watched little kids if you haven't noticed that little boys (i.e. 2 year olds) bounce off walls much more than little girls, and there's no realistic nurture mechanism for that difference, at least among my friends and neighbors kids. More or less none of us have televisions, and it's too young to be training them at sports (or at least I haven't witnessed any of the parents doing so).

Legos, on the other hand, seem to be nurture: my daughters play with legos more days than not, and we don't have any pastel bricks.
And yet you not only clicked on the post, you read at least some of the comments and contributed yourself. Hmm.
"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth."

I think Steve has the answer here. But I am just as frustrated as you are.
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I don't quite understand. It sounds like you're saying this is weighted too heavily in favor of the user, so why are you telling the user to stay away? Shouldn't the warning be directed at Dwolla?
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Funny thing is, that's not new. When I was a kid, nearly all the cartoons I watched were basically just commercials for toys (G.I. Joe, He-man, Transformers, M-m-m-mask). Same for my little sisters (My Little Ponies, Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Jem). Legos were the only toys that didn't tie-in to a movie or TV show.
"You either see it or you don't." was surprisingly bad, even by Gruber's standards. It's not an argument. It's dismissive and incredibly conceited. What does he even mean when he says that? I honestly don't think he knew while writing it, and I doubt he can rationalize it.

It's actually a great opportunity to expose Gruber's arrogance.
I'd argue we're fine with controversy and conflict where it's warranted, but phone wars are easy to get into and are about as interesting and useful as arguing about game consoles.
If the clearly ill-informed ramblings of idiots causes multiple Microsoft developers, at least one of them very senior, to waste a week, I think I've found a IRL DDOS vector into their dev process...
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I'm not so sure Smith thought it was cool:

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary."
My daughter grew up with LEGO and still plays with them. She doesn't need pink or purple blocks or over-sized female figures. All she wants different is a few female minifigs once in a while. I don't think there is a single one in either advent calendar. There are almost none anymore except Hermione in the Harry Potter licensed sets. Somewhat ironically, one of the few we have is the female doctor from last season's FIRST LEGO League competition set.
As far as international budgets go, it costs a pittance.

It's worth keeping around for what it's costing us if only so that fathers can point to a moving dot in the sky and say to their kids, "There are people on that."
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What about the role of parenting?
Some people on Reddit != All of Reddit.

Reddit != America.
:) Did you click on the video link? It was actually when Obama was in town for a fundraiser.
Totally agree with your sentiment on bureaucracy. One of the first mantras I adopted at my "big company" was to get stuff done the best way you know how, and risk the slap on the wrist later. More than likely you have just taken the first step towards positive change in your company.

With regards to having interesting projects, I'd add that if you're in a big company, then in all likelihood there are tons of projects you will find interesting if you look hard enough (and if you're a tinkerer like a lot of you are here, this shouldn't be all that difficult). If you can honestly say you've rotated, shopped around, interviewed dozens of managers, and found nothing that can balance your compensation needs and your passions, then get out of dodge, stat. Otherwise, as my dad used to tell me, stick around until you run out of interesting/fun things to do.
Are there any sites out there keeping track of how Congressional reps will vote? I just got a letter from my Senator saying she supports SOPA (and turns out is a sponsor of the bill). Gillibrand-NY
I'm sure there are technical reasons why this isn't being done, but the approach which suggests itself to me is to introduce a dependency from sun-jdk to openjdk, then replace the contents of sun-jdk with symlinks to the corresponding openjdk files wherever possible. Is it feasible to get enough functional this way to make it worthwhile?
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What makes you think he isn't aware? He writes opinion pieces, so having a strong point-of-view is sort of required. And look how much attention he gets from it.

I'd rather an inflammatory strong opinion than a wishy-washy falsely "balanced" piece.
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