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we are a nation that is populated by right-wing law-and-order types

You do realize that trial lawyers vote overwhelmingly for Team Blue, right?

And that the legal profession as a whole votes overwhelmingly for Team Blue?

And that law schools themselves are overwhelmingly Team Blue voters?

I get the whole "Red Team supports putting (their idea of) moral laws into the legal code", and that sucks, but the law problem exists because both teams are pushing it down the wrong track. Don't for a second think you can just blame flyover country for the current state of the legal system.
One problem I have with the discussion around the Swartz case is the apparent assumption by prosecutors and/or the public that atypical equals wrong. It's a particularly offensive notion because I'd expect a huge chunk, maybe a majority, of geeks to be seen as highly atypical and maybe even suspicious by laypersons.
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Exactly. When people ask about the two home births we had, they often respond with "oh no, but what would you have done if things went wrong? How could you do that to your kid? What if there were complications??"

People just refuse to realize that so-called complications that were not pre-screened by a midwife or doctor happen BECAUSE you have a hospital birth. We then get told "my friend just gave birth and the baby was not breathing, thank god they were at the hospital!". Of course these mothers usually get epidural, which shut down their body, leading to prolonged births (doctors LOVE to wait for you to push:), suctions, etc. Impatient doctors cause far more complications and put more babies in danger than a midwife assisting a true home birth.
That will depend on who chooses to implement which.

If hardware manufacturers choose H.265, VP9 and Daala will be marginalized purely because of performance concerns.

If, on the other hand, VP9 or Daala can be implemented in hardware cheaply enough and with good enough electrical characteristics, perhaps OEMs can be persuaded to use it.
Firefox has native vp8/webm support. I know as I use it when I visit Youtube pretty much everyday and watch webm (vp8) videos. I don't have flash installed.
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H.264 has never mattered for developers either. Windows, OSX, iOS and Linux have all had OS libraries that developers could use to handle H.264 content. This will continue with H.265.
I can't imagine that this book has been released for free distribution..
That repo is extremely out of date. The lsub.org guys (http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html) decided they'd prefer to roll their own "code review" system, and the nix-os repo was essentially abandoned. Apparently they've recently decided to stop using their own code review thing, and just make changes directly in their local tree while taking emailed diffs from everyone else, so there's that.

Edit: oh, and Erik Quanstrom has started shipping the Nix kernel with his own set of patches in the 9atom distribution, if you can handle the hour+ download time for his ISO. There are some other nice improvements in 9atom, too.
I switch mine off - compliance with crew instructions is a federal requirement, as far as I know.

The instructions are, of course, rubbish. Constructing a cell phone with out an "off position" is sufficient to comply with instructions that state "any device with an off switch must be turned off at this time".

The instructions certainly clean up the plane's RF environment, but it's silly to expect compliance from even well-meaning humans at the 0.3% level (all of 400 passengers turn off all their devices).
Well, that was graphic.

Anyway. Good job on the kid. I'm 14, so I don't think I'm fit to give any sort of parenting advice or the like of it. Just enjoy the beauty of youth (and also try to endure much of the ugliness that tends to come with it).
This one is actually incredibly interesting... it seems like we're not getting the whole story.

There isn't much written about the neighbourhood...

But looking at the New London wiki page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut , there's some interesting demographic info.

In 2000 New London had 25,671 people and was 18.64% black. In 2010 the population was 27,620 and in 2006-2008 14.0% black.

So, using some rough math, there were 900 fewer black people in New London after Kelo. Makes you wonder if the Phizer lab was the goal.
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Child-rearing? Yeah, I wish someone would have told me about that trick before I had to endure almost three months of almost no sleep (due to the baby crying).Having a child is stressful as fuck. Just trying to help others going through that phase.
...so you think a party whose prominent politicians have a history of:

* Using drone strikes to kill citizens who never received a trial

* Sending paramilitary police teams in to raid medical marijuana facilities, at an accelerated rate, to promote the interests of friendly business partners

* Negotiating secret trade agreements that promote the interests of another group of friendly business partners

* Spend more on the military than on education

* Ignore the expressed will of the people

* Arrest opposition candidates who attempt to sit in the audience at presidential debates

* Continue the expansion of executive power

* Pass, and sign into law, a bill that allows indefinite imprisonment without trial

...to not be right wing? Oh, right, they support the right of gay people to marry. Congratulations, while gay people get to marry, the rest of us can be shot by soldiers serving a search-and-arrest warrant because a suspected drug dealer used to live at our address (or maybe not, whatever).
You are absolutely right that the article is incorrect about Cargill and ADM. Those companies don't actually grow the crops themselves, but rather they buy them from the farmers (big and small). We (FarmLogs) have happy customers of all sizes from some of the biggest farms in the country to very tiny operations. Even though some of the big ag companies do have some limited software for farms, there is still plenty of room for innovation that only a startup can deliver.
If Swartz had stolen a $100 hard drive with the JSTOR articles,
it would have been a misdemeanor offense that would have
yielded probation or community service.

If this doesn't illustrate how messed up the system is, I don't know what will.
Yes, and if the apprentice system is formally part of the process, what would be the point in cheating around the knowledge part? If you cheat your way through the medical exam, so what? You won't last ten minutes in your apprenticeship.

In fact, I've witnessed this, as has pretty much anybody here who has ever given an interview to a college grad with a very pretty GPA who flames out of the interview barely able to tie their shoes in code. Either they literally cheated their way through college, or more likely, just overfocused on the credential part of the process, but they don't make it into a position to do damage. (And if they did, well, whatever system accepted them probably isn't long for this world anyhow or has long since adapted to letting those people in and still somehow keeps them away from Big Red Buttons.)
I'm sorry that you have gone through this.
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Well, I'm glad my mom was not dating you.
For anyone else looking to learn about what to expect during childbirth, let me recommend Erica Lyon's "The Big Book of Birth."

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Book-Birth-Erica-Lyon/dp/0452287685

As the reviews suggest she tries to present all of the information objectively, leaving the reader to make their own decisions.

My wife credits this book with helping to convince her that she could give birth without an epidural.
I wouldn't argue with that. One could also say it's a good thing though ... if you're modifying the method enough that you need to rename it, those original files might not be valid any more, so it's a good thing if the tool wants to recreate them.
I did not claim to endorse anarchism. The extent that government can be injected into society is limited by the cost of doing so. If government is everywhere (like it pretty much is or is expanding towards) then it will consume pretty much everything.

If you want to preserve "vital" functions of government, then you need to establish what those are and scrape off anything that is both an expense, and interfering with society.
Have you thought about fertility and genetic counseling? (apologies if you already have, I realize this is a very personal and sensitive subject). For what it's worth, my parents conceived twice before I was born, both miscarriages, yet I turned out alright.
"Awesome Android app article from that hunky Seth Rosenblatt! @cnet."

...I appreciate the goal, but this might not have the effect she was intending.
I don't understand that, unless your final consists of mutliple chioce quetions. Why can't you just set novel problems that require written answers? Americans are in love with multiple choice tests for some bizarre reason. Most countries in Europe conduct extensive testing through school,b but multiple-choice only makes up a small portion of the whole exam. Students have to answer essay questions and show their work on problems.

I see no reason why this UW initiative can't work the same way. I hope that it can work this way and attract credibility, since it would make it easier for people like myself who find the spiraling cost of college tuition hard to manage.
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I hesitate to bring this up, because it may well trigger a barrage of ill informed replies onto the poor overtaxed internet, but…

Does GPL-3 have anything to say about third-party patents? Assuming I neither own nor control the sublicensing of any patents, why could I not write an H.265 decoder and place it under GPL-3? (Well not me specifically, but someone who lives in a country free of software patents.)

I'm not seeing the problem, except for possibly in section "11. Patents" of the GPL-3 there is this odd paragraph…

If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license, and the Corresponding Source of the work is not available for anyone to copy, free of charge and under the terms of this License, through a publicly available network server or other readily accessible means, then you must either (1) cause the Corresponding Source to be so available, or (2) arrange to deprive yourself of the benefit of the patent license for this particular work, or (3) arrange, in a manner consistent with the requirements of this License, to extend the patent license to downstream recipients. “Knowingly relying” means you have actual knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the covered work in a country, or your recipient's use of the covered work in a country, would infringe one or more identifiable patents in that country that you have reason to believe are valid.

… which seems to create some sort of obligation if I have reason to believe there exists a country in which the work would infringe a patent. But there are three remedies available, one of which is to publish the source code of the program, which is sort of a non-penalty for a GPL licensed program.
I think you might be reading more into my beliefs wrt Heymann than is warranted, given what I said. (N.b., "Peters accuses him of wanting"; "the form he was presumably hoping to receive them.") I don't pretend to have any direct knowledge of Steve Heymann.

That said, based on what knowledge I do have of him, his being a notches-on-the-belt and consequences be damned type of Federal prosecutor fits the facts well enough — in fact, better-enough than all the other alternatives combined — to consider my opinion accurate enough for an internet forum.
Quick! Everyone create startups to fund DRACO!

In all seriousness, however, this looks very promising and if true, is perhaps the most influential and important discovery in decades.
I expect significant chunks of the Ivy League to survive nearly unscathed.

However, there's only a handful of "Harvards". Whatever exact argument you're trying to make (it's a bad thing? it's not going to happpen?), it doesn't scale down past the Ivy League, or it doesn't scale very far.

Besides, past the initial adaptation period, it's not like these credentials are going to be handed out like candy (those that are will be ignored, just as such credentials are today); serious ones like engineering degrees are still going to be years-long affairs. Are you going to prefer the student who showed enough dedication to do it without an enormous centuries-old structure holding their hands and dragging them along with proscribed structure, or the one that did it on their own? I expect significant chunks of the Ivy League to survive; whether they end up held in the universal esteem they are today I consider to be much more up in the air. They may acquire a much more rarified audience, while the rest of the world begins to look at them as a sort of easy way out....
Fair enough, you're young. I'm impressed, by the way, you seem very intelligent for your age. Kids are getting more eloquent and forming critical thinking earlier, internet is amazing.

This isn't severe schizophrenia, this is just plain religion/schizoid/basically the same thing.

Severe schizophrenia results in the shirtless man with one shoe on stumbling down the street screaming at cars.

This is just religion.
Pretty much the majority of the world population agrees with this line of thinking.

Everyone's brain starts to break, and we fall apart. Everyone is a tattered, delusional mess by the end, some worse than others.

Stress can fuck you up. Just coding on one thing for too long can fuck you up. Learning too much can expand your mind to the point where your world doesn't make sense anymore. However, even if you talk in gibberish equations, if you've got your appeal-to-authority badge (PhD) and approval sticker (work for a corp) nobody can tell you you're crazy.
It is, however, kind of insane to lock yourself in a patent office and scribble equations about how invisible things work, and go around telling people you understand why the moon makes the water rise.

Non-religious people take medication or see a therapist and dismiss the "crazy thoughts" and repress them away.
Religious people believe it is God/The Universe/Whatever calling to them and that they should follow their heart and go sing hymns in a megachurch with 1000 other schizoids.
I take it your dad isn't religious.

I think Terry Davis is saying he's schizo because that's the only way to be himself and say what he really thinks on the internet (by agreeing with their assessment) which typically mocks any alternative thinking to utter destruction. I'm betting that he feels pretty awful about how badly they mocked something he was so proud of, and is probably very frustrated that 99% of them obviously can't even begin to have any concept of the difficulty of the work. So he's just burning it down now and not giving a fuck. Good for him!

Imagine that Linus is indeed bi-polar. That means he is in fact statistically more dangerous than Terry here. I'm betting he's had quite a few "Matrix" moments himself and has the business/social sense to hide it. That actually makes him less respectable in idealistic terms, but more successful and respected in our superficial society. Them there's politics.
If Terry was a greedier and more calculating man he could have disguised and concealed his true nature in order to push his agenda and perhaps gain financially. He chose not to. For this deed, the internet's response is utter lack of respect and mockery, showing how shallow in general the net is.

FOSS was started by a bunch of insane hippies, and computer programmers in general were pariahs. How society views insanity over time changes as they understand and accept the changes. Look at Stallman, dude is at least as insane as this guy, he just has the cred to get away with it.
He also doesn't show off his Matrix hacking skillz, but I bet he's had his share of moments.
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Roswell is a very interesting guy. He knows exactly why everyone hates him so much but there is nothing really he can do about it. He enjoys being the "dancing monkey" that all the chinese people knows. He likes what he does and does not care that it bothers others. He does act a bit smug at time and acts like he is gods gift to chinese people which bothers a lot foreigners in china because they all get compared to him. He also loves to chime in when people talk about him on the internet, this quora post is not the first time he has gone on the internet to try to defend himself
Some problems can't be solved.
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Early 30's and experience debilitating regret on a daily basis, over not receiving the best education, not having excelled in any one field, not having any piqued interests as a child, missed opportunities, paths taken that cannot be reversed, and so much more. Many of those things were due to external factors, yet my mistakes still played a big part. Friends are in better places who I never saw as more hardworking or intelligent than I, but perhaps I've been deluded. Efforts taken at this point to turn things around would be futile, whether that means going back to school or picking up a new skill; I would be in competition with others who've been practicing their trade for many years. It feels as if it's too late. I am objectively in a place I am not happy with, but am convinced things cannot get any better. You may say that I'm not speaking rationally, but reality can validate every one of my worries and regrets. I don't think I am exaggerating or fabricating anything, rather I am reflecting on what has happened and observing patterns, or so I think I am.

Do any of you have any experience with this?
So let me get this:

- baby's heart rate was of concern to your doctor
- no progress for several hours
- baby pooped
- your wife had fever during labor
- baby and mother now have an infection
- c-section
- big commotion, no communication with the wife

And people still think epidural is a normal part of child birthing?

On top of that - this couple will go on to tell other parents how lucky they were that they gave birth at the hospital! Yet this whole thing happened BECAUSE they thought child birth is a medical event. It's not.

They inject chemicals into a mother about to give birth and then say - well, baby doesn't want to come out, must do c-section (read: doctor wants to go home, doesn't want to rub olive oil around the vagina, let's cut her up).

I feel sorry for mothers who give birth at hospitals. Stories such as these make me so mad. People have no clue.
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Based on your experience, would it be difficult to decouple the assessment of an instructor from the test results of his/her students? If the assessment of a student's learning comes from somewhere else, what other mechanisms could we use to evaluate the effectiveness and (or) competence of their instructors?
I'm not trying to be an ass, but I'm actually legitimately curious where our misunderstanding is.

My understanding is that, all other things being equal, when government/government controlled agencies purchase government debt ("cause"), the result ("effect") is lower interest rates. Here it is, directly from the head of the Fed regarding the rationale behind QE2:

"What we're doing is lowering interest rates by buying treasury securities and, by lowering interest rates, we hope to stimulate the economy to grow faster." - Ben Bernake

This is the fundamental idea behind reserve banking -- the central bank controls interest rates by manipulating the money supply via the purchase of government bonds:

"When the Central Bank cuts the target rate, they must simultaneously increase the monetary base by buying government securities. The growth of the monetary base creates a surplus in the banks, the supply of funds overnight increases, the demand falls and the overnight rate falls.

...

By controlling overnight interest rates, the central bank will affect the interest rates with longer maturity." - Essentials of Macroeconomics

Is there anything in the above that you disagree with?
Besides, it's a false dichotomy. Even rms knows that you can "have kids" without procreating. We have two adopted children — from the same mother — and believe me, you get the full experience. We were also lucky enough to be present for the births (I have unspeakable respect for those parents who foster or adopt older children), and we have kept up a relationship with the birth mother (who has three other kids).

Anyway, congratulations to the OP! But really — I thought this was going to be about "having a baby." Post again in the fall, sir, and then tell us about "having a baby." ;)

All the best.

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Everyone seems to agree that not disclosing this to HR was a huge mistake, but I am not sure I understand how that would have helped.

You still have a sexual relationship between two people in the same organization with a big power differential between them.

Shouldn't the proper HR response just be "you need to absolutely not do that?" What can HR do beyond "keeping an eye on things?"
This is a good solid niche to work in. Especially since, by creating a shared supply chain, you can tap into network effects to create barriers to entry.

In Australia I know people who are working on a similar product -- Agworld.com.au.
And you are repeating what the rest of the 20% have said.
Sluttiness is shameful. No way around it.
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Yes, laypeople have no clue...except those who have been trained for years, both theoretically and practically, in medicine. Child birthing is a natural event, but so is dying from cancer. Does that mean one should eschew chemotherapy and radiation treatment?
They abandoned the second largest platform to doom them to a third rate browser.

Sure, there may have been aspects that wouldn't run on XP (new text rendering that Vista+ brings, for example) but both Firefox and Webkit/Chrome/Safari are both gracefully handling the disparate technologies just fine.
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The death of the PC is overrated. Tablets aren't going to run your IDEs soon enough and don't even try to argue that you code on Macs.
Not everyone wants to run their web services off the big cloud providers either and you need PC parts to run servers right now. Even Amazon and Google need PC motherboards.
The last thing is everyone threw code optimization out of the window and the ARM or MIPS architecture though powerful don't go well with the bloat that permeates the IT industries today.
In Canada, as I'm sure you are aware, the government owned FCC offers software to farmers[1] that seems to attempt to solve many of the same problems your software does. Do you feel it will be difficult to compete in this market, assuming you wish to expand internationally, given their market position?

As a farmer and software developer myself, it is great to see some startups in this space. I'm quite interested to see where you take the company.

[1] http://www.fccsoftware.ca/en/index.asp
Does YT default to this if you go there with a newer Firefox?
From what I understand, what he's doing is not in question. Part of this law is that he has to openly state that he intends to squat and use this law to eventually take ownership. He's not denying that the property does not currently belong to him.