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What concerns me especially in Britain is the amount of times the police are getting involved in what appear to be free speech cases.

In Britain 2 police officers were killed. The same day a guy wrote on his t-shirt something to the effect of "kill pigs for fun hahahaah." This is a stupid thing to do. I would have thought the police might confiscate his t-shirt. Nope, that wouldn't have been sufficient. He got 4 months in prison.

After any major crime you hear that someone has been arrested because they have set up a fan page or wrote some stupid comments online praising the person who did it. I would have thought Facebook moderation would be sufficient.

Most recently.. a girl went missing. Some muppet on Facebook wrote how he "woke up" next to her. Not all of his comments were posted but these appear to be on his Facebook wall. He wasn't trolling the family or abusing memorial pages. He is now spending 3 months in prison...

You then have the frustrated traveler who said he would blow an air port "sky high". He was arrested, found guilty and fined. It took a year or two to finally win an appeal.

I am not defending these people. They have done stupid things. Some should be warned by police. However, there appears to be a crackdown going on quietly if you cause even the slightest offense. As a citizen of a western country this worries my greatly.
Perhaps because scholarly research into the last five or so decades of conflicts has shown that politics is the main cause of violence, and that groups from the European fascists, anarchists to todays militants have been using similar technicques of warfare, organisation, propaganda, and follow conflicts follow similar trajectories.
Really sorry to hear this, IRC just became a much less interesting place. My experience of Uriel is sadly limited to the occasional joust where his fabulously distinctive views of the world and technology were always apparent, and deeply admirable.

One of the old guard falls, inevitably to be replaced by 100 more squawking, jibbering, passionless "geeks" unwilling to form unique opinions of their own accord. Here's to the outliers.
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And with my browser, Firefox, they break Page Up/Down, and therefore Space (also pages down). Instead of the slight overlap for context that Firefox normally gives, there's now a gap so it's Space, cursor-up a bit to continue reading, Space, ... http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/brain-damaged.html
Its a smart app design which is nothing but a content aggregator from your - Twitter account, GitHub, Dribbble, Instagram, Foursquare, your Tumblr blog, Last.fm, SoundCloud and Bitbucket. It requests for all these services via Javascript on the fly. Cool!

So it keeps no Database locally but only requires some computing + lots of Bandwidth in the host server.

Its super smart design as it fits super fine for the Heroku Free Tier. :)
I think it is not real limitation per se. OK, there are real limitations, like the BBC censorship of comments on their website (they call it moderation). But mostly it is orwellian double-thinking occupying the mind of the average Westerner. Examples? Even after this photo - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00065/mhli/0065... a rare Westerner will allow himself to think there is no rover on Mars. It is self-censorship at almost pre-conscious level what horrifies me in the Western world.
This would be a nice and simple way to get ahold of people's login credentials. Oh wait.
He got shadowbanned and created a new account ("luriel")
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This is Svbtle done right - Not closed and proprietary (apple) but open and free for extension (open source).
position: fixed on iOS is basically a non-starter, FWIW. If you can fix all the issues with it you'll be a minor internet hero. :)
You mean Sweden has free speech? Or Norway?
I doubt you can have free speech even in Liechtenstein. You can only express yourself "freely" until you are not touching the real chaps with real interests. Look at Assange's story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTvB5AE6HlE describes "Aircraft Ejection & Parachute Training, ADC Life Support Training School, 1968, US Air Force" - so we can infer that since ejection and parachute training did happen in times contemporary to this account, and since test pilot is a high risk activity (especially back in the time when test pilots were actually pushing the flight envelope instead of just validating numerical models), the author did receive that training.

But even for test pilots, ejection is a rare and traumatic event : finding oneself landing with no injury at all after a high speed ejection is very lucky - the design of the B-58, XB-70, F-111, Space Shuttle and some of the B-1A prototypes with an escape crew capsule is a consequence of that, though it seems that the weight and space tradeoff has fallen out of favor. Apart from speed, the mere impact of the charge that propels the seat is enough to cause spinal injury, even if the pilot managed to get his spine in perfectly upright position before ejecting.
An unprovoked jab at newbies, way to be original. Not appropriate for the topic at hand, in my opinion.
If you like this sort of books, don't forget to check "X-15; extending the frontier of flight":
http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/aero_x15_detail.html
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Congratulation for your app. I am also going to submit my app this week.

One thing you might want to check is if user has entered a email address or not when you ask for email address to notify.
What safety is not temporary? And what liberty isn't essential?

Writing style has changed over the centuries, to me this reads like he's also reminding us that liberty is essential, and safety is temporary - and that it always must be so.
A bit of detail on why I hated the meds: I had pretty negative side effects from the get go, and eventually problems with tolerance, which eventually led to her prescribing an increased dose every checkup (6 months like clockwork).

Over the treatment, side effects I suffered were massive loss of apetite (And everything that goes with not being able to finish a meal, general feeling of faintness, malnutrition), stomach pains, headaches, constant anxiety (Maybe better described as a fear you can't shake?), tired all the time, eventually a sort of zombie feeling, where I'd only leave the house to go to school, didn't like talking to people, etc.

I really felt like a different person. When I took myself off the meds, I made different friends, and my old friends stopped hanging out with me. When they forced me back on, my old friends came back and my new ones left. When they permanently took me off the meds, my old friends left and my new ones came back, and most of them are still close today. None of this was conscious, and none of the people involved were actually told I'd gone off or on medication until well after the fact, it just sort of happened, and discovering that some people who'd been my friends for years didn't like me if I wasn't medicated (Thats how I saw it at the time) really frightened me.

I'd refuse to take the meds over school holidays (Which was OK'd by my doc), and I'd feel significantly better, so I quickly grew to resent them as a child. The paediatrician tried lowering doses very early on once I started showing side effects, and almost immediately my teacher sent home a letter asking what was going on, after spending a while exhausting other options, the paediatrician basically said it was unavoidable, we'd just have to cope one way or the other.

I guess I'm saying I understand they're a miracle for some people, but from age 7(ish) onwards, no type or dosage helped without harm, so I hated them. In the last few years, I have strongly considered (And still am) giving it another try, since rationally I know it likely won't be as bad as it was growing up, but I still have a pretty strong phobia of medication in general.

About text books, I'm actually pretty good with theory text books, things that present new ideas and concepts I can absorb, but 'How To' books I have trouble with, and mostly I can only read the code and learn by example.

Also: I suffer from both. Official last diagnosis is ADHD-C.
I agree, there's been a significant rise in cases being prosecuted over stupid, hurtful comments. They're often trolls, or parroting sickipedia, but that's no reason to arrest them, not even a little bit.
Europe certainly does have a problem with Muslim immigration.

We've been tolerating and understanding the fuck out of them too, but that doesn't seem to have helped at all. They're massively over-represented in crime statistics.

There are talented people everywhere, but you won't find all that many Western people who killed their own daughters for showing too much skin.
Yes, but it makes sense to put the ellipsis at a sentence end whenever possible.
I will disagree with the "It is natural evolution of the human being..." part. Not that it is not true, but it conveys the wrong message. Cancer is a natural evolution too, but evolution of the human being is different than evolution of the human kind. I myself have been diagnosed with Aspergers' and, while I appreciate the diversity of my thought process, I can understand why people with the same condition might feel inclined to clip the unconventional aspects of their self. The human kind has evolved as a social organisation and participation in the club is somehow strict. Medication or meditation, it still is an attempt to join the club. And it is the fact that you accept the club's peace interpretation that leads you to either. That said, I would rather meditation to medication too. Still, that depends on the severity of the case. As an Aspergers' with an Autistic son, if there was medication for my son I would surely try it. Normality is a bliss. Sometimes being a tree in the middle of the desert is not better than being a sand grain.
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Now they just need 98% of the MP3 player market and they're sorted
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1) Incapable of independent thought. Exercises his/her intellect, such as it is, by sniffing the wind to detect the 'majority view' and to quickly adopt it. Finds it on TV.

2) Denies to ever have held a different view before.

3) Loves to assume 'the moral high ground' and then browbeat and terrorise those slower than him/her to adopt the majority view.

4) Has no real arguments, so uses perjorative, emotionally charged but essentially meaningless labels to attack and judge, such as: 'inappropriate', 'sexist', 'racist', 'unpatriotic', 'shovinist', 'imperialist', 'anti-social', 'extremist', 'heretic', 'terrorist', 'perverted', etc.

5) In all circumstances supports centralised authority and 'order' to enforce and protect the majority view.
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Does use of this web application not break Youtube terms and conditions? Good luck with it.
Why? If a user interacts with a site differently on mobile than on their desktop machine then two separate interfaces is good? That's not just good "UX", it's good logic.

The main argument I see against separate "views" is that it's an expensive exercise to effectively build two frontends for a single site. However, as someone who has built both large-scale responsive and mobile-specific sites neither is really cheaper.
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> when I wonder whether I'd be willing to take that risk, the answer is no.

Please, compute the odds. You have a higher chance of being struck by lightning, or being killed by one of your relatives, or suffering an airplane crash, or simply dying from lung cancer even if you don't smoke.

Violent reprisals work only if you get scared. This is the fundamental mechanism of terrorism, and terrorism has found a perfect echo chamber with modern media, be it broadcast TV or the web and their unquenchable thirst for drama, blowing the actual risk completely out of proportion[0]. Resisting the cognitive bias and refusing to be terrorized is the only winning move.

[0] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/the_comparativ...
It most certainly wasn't meant as a jab, more genuine sorrow for the industry's growing maturity. The disconnected, experimental environment where even a modem was a luxury, that gave rise to the kind of exotic personalities common of the 80s (and 90s - dare I even include myself) has steadily been replaced by a well understood lifestyle common to millions.

I wouldn't have thought it controversial to say that as a result, the kind of people you meet in IT becomes generally more bland and predictable with every passing day. That's simply due to there being so many more, all vastly better connected and less inclined wander their own paths, and where every imaginable problem has been encountered and blogged about 100 times before the average person even considers it.
Is there a reason for hosting on port 1337? (Aside from the leet-factor)

I'm behind the corporate firewall so port 1337 is naturally blocked.. :(
No it doesn't. The information on who this is supposedly from is useful, but hiding the actual sender is potentially harmful.
C++ is designed to be as fast as C even when you use the advanced features like templates, at the expense of compilation speed, so I think it must be equally suitable.
The concept of "natural property" exists, it describes what you can personally secure, by any effective means (violence, intimidation, cunning, alliances...)

In the natural order, a predator who killed a prey loses it as soon as a bigger animal comes and takes it. Even before that, the prey who's been killed in the first place lost property on its carcass as soon as the first predator caught it. None of those had any "natural property right" on the carcass beyond its physical ability to secure it.

Property as we casually understand it (a right so effectively enforced that you can take it for granted, even if you don't have the personal means to defend it) is government-issued: it works because it's backed by the threat of government's violence, in the form of police then correction officers beating up most thieves into submission.

And there are ways to transfer property which are admitted as legitimate by the government; among those ways, some are bound to piss off some people. The definition of what kinds of transfers are legitimate is political, i.e. somewhat arbitrary.

So the concept of property not based on permanent mob violence does not predate governments.
Thank you for the clarification. I hoped I could install it to Amazon EC2 like Browserquest: http://web3dblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/installing-browser...
Wow.... thank you. Really, I appreciate it.
That answer feels like a cheat to me - aren't both sizeofs implementation defined, so it would be possible (although arguably silly) to have an implementation where char and int were the same size?
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It supports AES256 encryption for all the disk storage, Keys and Values are Java Objects (usually POJOs).

I would be happy to receive comments, suggestions or anything else!

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>A proper root cause analysis would reveal that violent military intervention coupled with Western political soundbites (which have a modern crusades theme to them) are the real factors responsible for radicalizing elements of Middle Eastern society.

Oh please. A proper root cause analysis is different from blaming everything on the West. It would have to include the idea that the current cultural clash is with an extremely violent religion as can be shown by its teachings. It would further investigate the influence of the division of church and state on the moderation of Christian beliefs and (in most countries) lack thereof in the Muslim world.

>Why not wage peace, allocate more of the loot to local populations so they see a significant rise in living standards, and cultivate a widening middle class that has less reasons to be sympathetic to radicals?

9/11 as the showcase of the clash between the West and radical Muslims was planned by a descendant of a rich Saudi family. There were not many poor and underprivileged amongst those plane hijackers.
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You would like to limit immigration. What would companies like google like look after that? Would you advocate sending the head of youtube back to Iran? What about much of Detroit or New York?

You're conflating some poverty-stricken residents of impoverished parts of the world riled up by political rhetoric with a credible enemy (like a cold war style superpower).

You're arguments make as much sense as labeling all white
people everywhere as Nazis because Hitler was a white guy.

Go to Liberia or the Congo or India. You'll see that people aren't civilized, they will eat each other if out of ritual. That was the case everywhere over a 100 years ago. You miss that it's not some kind of inherent badness, they are simply living in a different time, like 1800s europe for example. If children commit crimes they are not convicted in the same manner as adults, that's the correct analogy to take.

As civilized people and members of the global species that is humanity, it's a responsibility to take care of the weak. The problems you've outlined are (global) law enforcement problems. And they are disappearing, as time passes everyone on earth will become modern. Watch some Steven Pinker and see how today is the most peaceful time in human history.

Watch Carl Sagan's blue dot and realize it's not Us vs Them. That's the thinking of pre-space age man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo (Charlie Chaplin)
Sorry, but how? (Don't find any link)
In your profile, between notifo and noprocrast. Maybe there's a karma threshold?
Europeans would be so lucky :-).
For any Winsor McCay fans out there who don't know - good quality scans of Little Nemo 1905-1914 are on the Internet Archive.

http://archive.org/details/LittleNemo1905-1914ByWinsorMccay

(Little Nemo ran on to 1927, but later strips are still in copyright)

There's also a full run of his Dream of the Rarebit Fiend:
http://archive.org/details/DreamOfTheRarebitFiendByWinsorMcc...
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In a baseball league the only way for one team to do better is for other teams to do worse. This means that as a baseball manager trying to buy players (in what's pretty much an auction), knowing who the best players are is actually quite unimportant, because top players generally command top prices. What you look for are the players who are undervalued by the other teams, so that you can get them cheaper than they're worth.

This really isn't the case for books, because they're generally sold at a fixed price and if there's high demand they'll just print more of them. So it's a lot more reasonable to just look for the best books and read them.
I'm not sure - mostly newspapers are context-less - the stories are not placed in a overall explicit model. You have to know the model the newspaper editors have in their head to know if the Royal Wedding on front page is really more important than the floods in $Country on page 9.

I am asking / wanting an explicit model - for example the Treasury in UK govt runs very comprehensive economic modelling software - trying to gauge for example the impact of floods on productive capacity on semiconductors.

Now if you could run such sims on a wiki like basis - that the oil consultancy in Houston could accept inputs and provide outputs and run a more sophisticated model than the base case then there would be a base model to refer to - to help gauge what is more important. And that decision would rest on what you called more important (lives, standards of living etc). And on which models/ plugins you choose - the left wing oil consultancy or the right wing oil consultancy

Basically newspapers tell human interest stories, and the guiding models for that (editor taste and opinion) seems to have dimmed into A/B tested celeb output.

I would like - well, perspective, context and then news
That's some news!
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Really? The only place I've ever heard of him was on HN and I'm still not sure who he is. If I recall correctly he is a physics popularizer.
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> If you have an outstanding order with either distributor, you will receive the upgraded device in place of the 256MB version you ordered.

Awesome news since I've been waiting a very long time for mine to ship!
> There is only one rule. You can use, reproduce and do whatever you want with Syte but I would like you to choose a different adjacent color as the ones used by the people below.

So... Does it qualify as free software?

Technically it's a limitation of what can be done with it, and it limits the total number of users.
Well, sizeof(char) is 1 by definition, so that will never change. Now sizeof(int) is indeed implementation defined (only a minimal range is guaranteed), so technically two different C or C++ implementations might give different results.

It's even possible that sizeof(int) could be 1 on a certain architecture. In that case, both C and C++ would behave in the same way. It might happen on some architectures that don't support byte access and have 16bit-wide chars and ints?
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Very cool site! I think aTech Media's DeployHQ.com has been doing something similar. :) Does this differ in any way?
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It wasn't a technicality. While the response may have been disproportionate, we're talking about brazen corruption from LMU; I have very little sympathy for them.
The number 1 reason is the practice of letting you click all the way to "ship to address" screen before telling you that they cannot ship the selected item to your location.

This is extremely frustrating! Why are they advertising products they are not willing to sell? (This problem is rampant in Finland, probably not applicable to USA)
> the Space Shuttle hit the highest record for a manned spacecraft OF ALL TIME

What about the Apollo missions?
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What do you think about this gateway? Can it really send 500 MPS? And can I really integrate it into a website in C#? Their website is http://www.ozekisms.com/ if it speeds up the answer.
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Could you please show us the militant Jews and atheists running the West?
Is this a real condition or just Americans inventing up diseases?
The way it's worded makes it seem like a request rather than a condition of use.

You may do whatever but I would like...
Coal mines still employ a great deal of human laborers, even the few that are highly mechanized. And it's still difficult, dangerous and not very pleasant work. Most coal mining is still done underground and even surface mining is quite dangerous. See e.g. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining>;

It's also usually not a good idea to act condescending when you think you have superior knowledge, as then you may look foolish when it turns out you are misinformed yourself.
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Unless I'm much mistaken, didn't they use a space shuttle?