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Probably the most unknown area I read and/or hear about today are private G+ circles. For example, much pre-publication PL/compilers work is mentioned in "limited" posts. I've heard similar things are happening in ML areas, though I have no personal insight into them.
He definitely means once all the weird column/row effects and text are gone. The site becomes simply, with your header, your content wrapper, and the content. It's a lot nicer at that point.

The longer I look at the desktop version, the more I like it, but my first reaction was not good. It's too much. (I'm a hacker, not a designer, btw)
It may not be living up to its name if it is popular, but NSHipster is a great blog on Objective-C
I've seen this in mathematical programming too. The most successful projects use old Fortran libraries: LAPACK, FFTPACK, etc. Python (SciPy) is popular, and great for prototyping, but I still write everything in C because although floating point is flawed, it's flawed in well-understood ways.
I've been meaning to try maid, I installed the gem but I've yet to do anything more. Thanks for posting this, as now I have some incentive to configure it.
Here's a list: https://cloud.google.com/customers/ (It doesn't have only startups, but it does have a few in there)
You need to resolve this ambiguity:

When something is ranked low for a bad thing, is that good (and I think it is) or is that bad? For instance, python is ranked low for "There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language", which I think means that there is NOT a lot of accidental complexity when writing this code, but it might confuse people because it looks like you are presenting two lists, a list of top pros and a list of top cons.
Exercise! It doesnt solve relationship or abuse problems, but it will improve your mood. Thirty minutes of exercise a day is just as effective as any medication.
We can't get all we wish in life, the comment offers you no benefit and potential further harm to the OP.
Hetzner exists since 1997, it's a well known provider at least in germany for many years. So it's not like they will go bancrupt. They probably just know how to be cost efficient out of experience.
I'm sorry. Im a parent. This lady needs to control her kid. Vote it down if you want, but when 'Michael' snaps and shoots up a school then everyone will say shouldve couldve woudldve. She is clearly ALLOWING this behavior. Funny, no mention of a father.

From experience, mothers are way more tolerant of out of control kids.

This is a tragedy waiting to happen.
It's certainly not a very popular western attitude these days. Positive reinforcement and re-direction is used in place of discipline.

I'm not 100% sure how I feel about it but it does seem to me that different kids react to different kinds of treatment. Hitting one kid may really be unnecessary and even harm them mentally. Other kids seems like absolutely nothing works on them except physical spanking. Maybe that is due to the way their parents are raising them? I'm not sure.

I remember in school a few bullies who got their ass kicked by another student and that problem was instantly solved. So it does seem like it works sometimes. But I hate to think we're just perpetuating a violent nature .
Yes, i'm wondering (i don't have a hetzner server) but from what i have heard by others Hetzner has a very good reputation..
It looks great! yay! Now lets make something to take care of our rooms! :P
I've no doubt the authors of Carrier IQ would say its keylogger had nothing to do with crapware, merely being a flawed implementation of "measuring operational information in Android devices", the end effect is the same.

The Windows kernel is touched by anyone who ever writes a driver for it, in other words every vendor shipping a Windows 8 tablet or phone today, or historically for any vendors that shipped Windows CE devices (which was the market I was comparing to, but it's also been true on desktops for all history).

The customization referred to is where carriers or hardware vendors takes white label software (Android, Windows CE, Windows 8), adds their own juice in the form of spyware, drivers, preinstalled apps, clicks a button and out pops something that gets flashed to devices.
Both of you are missing something important. A population with a high birthrate will only achieve that dominance if the children remain in that population. A variety of religious communities have been able to maintain high birth rates, but do not retain all of their children, and their children therefore do not maintain birth rate.

One way to think of this is that, instead of the physical birth rate of people with the trait, what is the rate with which the trait manages to reproduce itself? A trait of "being Mormon" with an average of 6 kids, of whom 2 become Mormon, leads to a Mormon population of stable size, forever having 6 kids per couple.

If the Mormons manage an average of 2.5 Mormon kids per couple, then their population will grow without bound, though they may never be an actual majority of the population. However history shows that culture is malleable. They may grow that fast now, but a rapid social change can destroy the dynamic. (Witness Italy and Ireland, both strongly Catholic, with declining populations.)

Now contrast this with, say, a genetic trait that manifests as a strong desire to actually have children. Eventually you get a population of people who really want children, most of whose children really want children. This type of fundamental desire is more stable than a social construct.

I believe that there are such traits out there in the population. They are much more strongly favored today than in the past. Eventually those traits, whatever they are, will become more widespread, and evolution will have happened.
Personally, I think Adobe has a bad reputation for making software. Flash, Dreamweaver and Acrobat comes to mind.

Flash - Difficult to work with (I know most beginners struggle with it).
Dreamweaver - Bloated software that generates weird HTML code.
Acrobat - Slow and bloated software. Can't a PDF reader be simpler ?

But as adrocknaphobia pointed out 'this isn't "Adobe Brackets", it's just "Brackets"'. Turns out there's no hiding after-all.
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Unless there is something I an missing, having a big kernel taking up RAM and disk space with support for hardware your phone doesn't have would be a waist of limited resources.
I would advise to search energically for _root causes_ for your illness, have a lucid stare at your life and ask yourself why you feel bad now. Perhaps you have missing information. (edit: attention this may lead to extremely discomfortable transitional states)
I've entered the US 15 times in the past 5 years; I've been through the transition from filling out forms in the arrivals hall, to getting landing cards with your boarding pass, to ESTA pre-authorization. I've gone through with visas and without, I've gone through the US embassy process etc.; I've even sometimes gone through CBP before I left Europe, in Shannon.

They still ask stupid questions, whether it's on a website or on paper.
That's interesting. Given what you know now about corporate culture would your answer be different today?

I'm reminded of the recent discussion on HN where it was related that a well-known angel would not participate until he could observe the potential founder at a social dinner gathering with his or her spouse/partner. This received lots of comments in support and followups that you need to be friends with your cofounders. Seems like no less a haphazard, wildly speculative way to judge s personality.

I remained skeptical. If there has been any insight I have gained with respect to human interaction is that people are inherently deceitful when there is something they want. The better at it they seem to get the more attractive or desirable the goal being pursued.
Half the problem is that Linux's module interface is intentionally hobbled for non-GPL users, and in any case has no stable, versioned API. There'll probably never be something like a 'generic binary' Android, as there is Windows, that users just add some extra modules to, and that is by design.
Carrier IQ has nothing to do with this exploit or with the issue at hand, which is not an issue of "crapware".

The Windows kernel is closed source, no other OEMs are compiling it.

Your argument is flawed.
Thank you for your valuable explanation :)
Divorced 4 years ago, children angry, this kid probably needs discipline more than he needs drugs, many of which aren't even properly tested on developing brains.
> At least we have health insurance now. I recently accepted a position with a local college, giving up my freelance career because when you have a kid like this, you need benefits. You’ll do anything for benefits. No individual insurance plan will cover this kind of thing.

Right there, is why we needed health care reform. (And still need more.) I'd like to meet one middle class person who's not on a big company's premium plan tell me otherwise.
> There was sometime in how your brother answered that steered them towards not allowing him in.

Are you a mind reader?

If not how do you know that?

All I see is an overzealous border guard refusing a family to enter a country to spend their money on a holiday.

Lose-Lose.

And dumb to boot.
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Good point. That reminds me of hearing how traffic cops decide to pull someone over to check for drink driving. One of their criteria was any car that appeared to be sticking too rigidly to the speed limit
You couldn't even tell the difference between a semi automatic weapon and a fully automatic weapon.

Then you make a reply, glossing over the fact you haven't a clue what you are talking about, to then make another asinine post.

"automatic weapons are regulated => they're not used in mass-killings; semi-automatic weapons are not regulated => they are used in mass-killings."

Could you please extrapolate how semi-automatic weapons are apparently "not regulated". This I'd really love to hear, considering how difficult it is to obtain one. I understand this does indeed differ from state to state, but to make the blanket statement, "semi-automatics are not regulated" is so unbelievably wrong, it shout outs to the reader to not reply to your post because there is a level of understanding you clearly don't have.

"All guns are bad, and the more automatic they are, the worse." A statement like this could only come from someone who doesn't actually understand a damn thing about guns.

I think you have a lot of reading to do.
Hmm. Then maybe I'm ascribing my problem to the wrong behavior. I wonder whether I inadvertently left my problem children discharged for too long, at some point.

I've gotten reliable service out of my mobile phones, but laptop Li ion batteries continue to feel (for lack of a more consistent and rational/analytical approach, on my part) like black magic, to me.
>As an aside, I'd like to point out that you're proposing to take people who might be psychotic or schizophrenic, and implant remote control devices in them.

A Kiwi, great. I've travelled fairly extensively through that part of the world, and it is a beautiful place - minus the sand flies, of course.

I think it is a good instinct to be wary of new ideas, but not good to dismiss them out of hand. One of the things I liked about the Kiwi culture is the can-do attitude. People are happy to try things for the first time, and maybe fail, but somehow the culture gives people a rush of success. It's a unique and great feature of the society.

And it's that attitude of empiricism that we've somehow lost. We don't see political or social solutions as experiments we see them as set-in-stone moral mandates. Remote medication may be a terrible idea, but we don't know. It certainly leaves a bad taste in my mouth - but frankly, it's a better taste than the one left by the OP's heart-wrenching article. The possibility that the boy could be given the remote himself is a hopeful one, similar to how diabetics or even epileptics can learn to see danger coming and take steps to prevent it.

And the "bright side" to this, if it worked, is huge. This person could be a real part of society, living as happy a life as any of us, rather than living out his life locked in an institution. Permanent institutionalization is societies way to kill someone without actually killing them.

In other words, I feel that this solution could be more humane, far more humane, than life-long incarceration in a mental institution, and it's an experiment that is worth trying.

(Of course, I'm assuming that life in a mental institution is pretty terrible, which I suppose is not really a given. If I could be convinced that such a life is actually worth living, then no, I probably wouldn't pursue such a questionable alternative.)
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May I suggest that there's a big difference between being called the Devil, and being called a witch hunter after you accuse someone else of being the Devil? I presume that when Microsoft called the FSF a cancer you didn't just sit there but made counter-claims about why Microsoft was saying that, right?

I do think that Canonical was in the wrong on this particular issue, but there's a big difference between someone who is a serious enemy of your organization, and someone who is just hurt due to the mean (if more or less justified) things you said about them and is lashing out based on that.
"Are you seeking entry to engage in [...] immoral activities"? - what on earth are "immoral activities", and what business is it of the state? Surely they should be asking about illegal activities?

"Are you a drug abuser or addict"? - I think almost every adult has abused alcohol at some point.

Etc.
My comment was comparing security properties of customization processes of the two operating systems, not making any argument (which would require claims to disputed facts – I don't believe I made any).
Some missing sunlight can be replaced by artificial vitamin D. I sometimes felt depressed in winter, and taking about 4000 IUs daily has completely done away with that, without going outside more often.
Heroku, being on top of AWS, doesn't really have the greatest uptime, do they? There are plenty of dedicated hosting and VPS companies that have better uptimes than AWS at this point.
> At least we have health insurance now. I recently accepted a position with a local college, giving up my freelance career because when you have a kid like this, you need benefits. You’ll do anything for benefits. No individual insurance plan will cover this kind of thing.

If nothing else, she probably liked her career (else why hadn't she gone to the college in the first place?)
If the user's browser runs in the same account as the user's mail client, then any browser exploit will be able to access the user's key.

The keylogger would be to take the user's key password. To my knowledge, there is no way to hook up 2FA for accessing a GPG(,etc) key.
Well there is also this company https://www.recordedfuture.com/ which has the CIA and Google as investors, like anything political the grey area covers a lot.
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> What interpretation should they have taken from it?

It wasn't any of their business in the first place, but since they were nosing around where they shouldn't my money would be on 'forgetful'.
If that were the case, and computing technology were part of the PPP goods bundle, wages would be seen as going UP.

The question is, if you subtract computers, why do you not see any improvement? Is this not evidence of a technological slowdown, at least in the world of stuff?
Not sure but I think I read somewhere that Buffer was launched with only one Linode.
> She liked to go shooting with a Glock??

Yes??? What do you think a glock is, just out of curiosity? It's a completely boring handgun.

Semi-automatic doesn't mean what you think it does. Basically all modern guns are semi-automatic. It's a broad classification.
I am a rather somewhat prolific open source developer. I sometimes feel that this fact keeps me from getting jobs. People talk about in this industry that you can send off 10 resumes and get 10 job offers very easily. For me, I send off 10 resume's and get maybe 1 job offer, despite my extensive and verifiable experience. I think you may be on to something.
Actually its a dirigible according to the render (rigid structure) and it has exploited the same "design innovation" that the Australian company [1] did which is that by making is a saucer shape you avoid some of the stationkeeping issues as the vehicle presents a uniform air resistance profile in every direction.

I wonder though who the target market is for this thing which is clearly out looking for funding. Given the scale on the render by a hanger it seems to be quite large, and while being predominantly clear would have it be hard to spot at altitude its overall size and the slow maneuverability of gas filled aircraft suggests it would be an easy target.

It doesn't seem to have the payload to carry a communication substation (another proposed application of long loiter aircraft) thus the market seems like it might be drug lords wanting surveillance around their home base (always a bad idea since its also a flag "here is my home base") or perhaps border patrol.

The good news is that being specialized you only have a few possible customers and you can quickly ascertain if they will buy from you or not thus you won't waste a lot of time.

[1] http://skylifter.com.au/
http://blog.sigfpe.com/
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Those are indeed crazy prices. Do you know whether people outside the EU can avoid paying the 20% VAT on them, too?
> Perhaps the worry should be that people just shorten all that to "USA", and give up.

I've done exactly that.

Too bad, there are a lot of really nice people there that I consider close friends.
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The camera will stop functioning. You will get a black or green screen I imagine.
"People will be fluent in every language."

Given the current state of language translating software, I think this is highly unlikely in the next 10 years. Anyone who is bilingual and has used a translation app knows how woefully inadequate it is for actual communication. The nuances of language are far too complex, not to mention the importance of non-verbal communication. How can software correctly translate the answer "Well, I'm not sure..." (which could signify hesitation to accept, passive disagreement, a pause for time to think, etc.) without understanding the context of the answer, and the tone of voice and facial expression of the speaker? Not in 10 years...
Some of the questions are duplicate, in terms of both addressing the same characteristic, but leading it in either a positive or negative way.

Presumably this is to fit in the format of just clicking 'rank' or 'skip', for each question (which I think is also ambiguous).

Surely it would have worked better as 'statement -> yes/no[/skip]', cutting down the number of questions by about half (I'd guess) at the same time?
You should not be making that decision for me nor the OP.
Maybe the comment is actually very valuable, contrary to your beliefs..
I love nanoc too, and use it for the GitHub API docs: https://github.com/github/developer.github.com. The fact that it can use ERB templates removes it as a candidate for GitHub Pages, unfortunately. I have a fun rake task to push static HTML to a gh-pages branch: https://github.com/github/developer.github.com/blob/master/R...
Egypt has one of the most educated populations on the planet, thanks to an old and large education system. I'm very optimistic of their future as a country.

This article reads like someone transcribed talk radio.
I agree on this, and think it's particularly useful to do with younger people for this exact reason. I did it as a Masters student with some colleagues, and it was an eye-opener for showing how many of us had different priorities in terms of work and working styles. (I think for the cerebral types it can also be something of a relief to realise you're not just weird!).
It's in his best interest to stay in the project. He'll have others working on it, and he'll want to ensure that he has some say in the direction of the project.

You're safe to hold your breath. ;)
so, "who watches the watchers" ?
Not sure how I missed that. Apologies.
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Wow, I'll have to try this. I really feel like as soon as I started programming for a living I just have not been outside enough.
A society's collective memory seems to fade after a few hundred years.

A few hundred years? Try a few decades.

In the 1940s, the USA fought totalitarianism. Then we had a major fight against Communism. In both struggles, a major part of our self image is that we, unlike the totalitarian states we struggled against, were a free country. If, in a movie in the 70s, you saw the German officer saying, "Papers, please", that was a sure sign that they were the enemy - not living in a free state.

Today we live in a state that would be instantly recognizable as a totalitarian state. Just like past totalitarian states, the excuse is our security. Do you think that I'm exaggerating? 20 years ago it was common to not need an ID to board a plane, with it being reasonably common that the person whose name was on the ticket was not the person holding the ticket. (That would generally be because someone had bought someone else's return ticket because that was cheaper than buying a one-way ticket.) Today you not only need ID, you go through a thorough search and most take it for granted that we might go through a virtual strip search to get onto the plane.

Can I make this worse? Actually, I can. Nobody will show you the law requiring ID to fly. There was actually a lawsuit filed about this. John Gilmore lost, and STILL didn't get to see the law. (See http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-03-... for random verification.)
You were never arguing. You were being educated.
A nice feature that could be implemented on OS X would be to auto-organize files by the domain they're downloaded from.

Safari on OS X puts the source link of a downloaded file in the spotlight metadata, which can be accessed via "mdls" - an excerpt:

$ mdls Inconsolata-Bold.ttf
-- other metadata --
kMDItemWhereFroms = (
"http://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/ofl/inconsolata/Inconsolata-Bold.ttf,
"http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/ofl/inconsolata/Inconsolata-Bold.ttf
)

Personally, I'd find that much more useful than the "all pdf's are books" example.