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[–]Falkvinge 2 points 13 hours ago

The case as such and which direction the court in the specific case decided isn't very interesting. What was interesting was these two items that the court decided in passing - that the copyright monopoly stands at odds with ECHR, and that having violated the copyright monopoly law is not sufficient for a conviction.

[–]voxsanity 5 points 12 hours ago

The case as such and which direction the court in the specific case decided isn't very interesting
You mean it isn't important that the court reaffirmed that copyright is a fundamental right under the Convention worthy of same protetion as all the rest?
The ruling directly shits on your "copyright is a lesser [not fundamental] right" stance.
It's not imporant that the court found it ok to fine 3 guys, each 3000-8000€ plus ~250,000€ in damages, because they took picture of a fashion show and posted them online? In essence the court thought that the punishment was appropriate to the infringement in question. It's an insanely high obstacle to pass before freedom of expression trumps ownership rights.
Simple plan? Woman should take men that respect our environment and don't eat much meat. Problem solved after some years - evolution for the rescue
Could the guy responsible for making the contents of his hd available online do it so. Use the dd command by the way, don't just copy files.
Kudos!

You should considering extending this app for more users. To be some sort of CV-app with great graphics.
Maybe integrated with Linkedin.
I'm working up some articles about estimation. One is going to be about estimation by analogy; or what Kahneman called "Reference Class Forecasting".

The basic insight is to check the base rates for your given venture or project. Humans are notoriously optimistic when making forecasts or estimates.

And now I am experiencing a strange thing. My current startup venture is based on the fact that people ignore the base rates; that humans have optimism bias.

And what am I doing?

... I'm ignoring the base rates and being optimistic ...
Motor transport allows nutritious food to be brought to market more cheaply and easily than ever before. Also as the other guy mentioned, ambulances.

I'll re-pose my initial point as a question to see if it comes across as less simplistic - If humans haven't evolved to tolerate synthesised chemicals in the last 100 years, but our atmosphere, food and medicine is full of them, why are we living longer than ever?
For me, it's not so much that the profanity is offensive or anything - I have what many might consider to be a fairly dirty mouth.

It's that their usage of profanity is lame. They're trying to be cool and funny, and it's very much neither of these. If they could actually managed the be humorous with profanity, then maybe I wouldn't mind it so much but this blog post really reeks of someone who is desperately trying to be funny and yet miserably fails.
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You can’t have naturopathy without homeopathy:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/01/28/you-cant-have-n...

> the NPLEX (Naturopathic Physicians Licensing Examinations), which is required for naturopaths to be licensed in the 16 states in the U.S. and 5 provinces in Canada that license naturopathic physicians tests naturopaths on homeopathy

> Then there’s the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP). If you take a look at its blog and search it for the word “homeopathy, you’ll rapidly see that the largest “professional” organization of naturopaths not only embraces homeopathy but defends it against attacks.
While it's all well and good that Linux is getting more press in regards to gaming these days, I'm still not seeing a massive push on the game developer side. Yes, there are the indie developers who will jump on it, especially those developing in Unity since it deploys to Linux and the others natively. But look how long it takes the major developers to even publish on OSX - and that has a much bigger (and much better known for customers willing to pay extra) market share.

Personally I'm working on all three platforms and I have reasons (and personal preferences) for each. I want my web servers to run Linux or BSD. I want my mobile computer to run OSX. And I want my work machine to run Windows. In each cases it's a mix of a need for certain applications and a preference for a certain workflow. Sometimes it's even something ridiculous like hating (HATING!) the way mouse acceleration works in OSX....

So, anyway, the way Gabe Newell tries to force an OS-war with his rhetoric is getting on my nerves. Steam is making him shitloads of money. And it'll continue to do so, regardless of Windows 8. And I love that he's opening up the market for Linux, but let's face it, Linux still isn't quite there as an end user desktop system. And unless it is, why should people switch and start purchasing their games on Linux, when they still do their everyday stuff in Win and OSX.
> Why do people use R and not Python?

R style DataFrames was raison d'etre of Pandas in the first place. (http://pandas.pydata.org/#why-not-r)
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maybe the thief is buying more books than you...[just kidding] xD
Samsung Smart PC Pro (include ATIV in the name for North America I think). Ticks all the spec boxes you mention, but is a bit above the price range.

I like it because it can be a full laptop, with real hinge (unlike the Surface Pro), but can still detatch to be a real tablet. Coupled with the official 360° handstrap case, I don't find its heft to be an issue in tablet mode either.

I was unsure about whether I'd have use for the stylus when I bought it, but it has exceeded expectations. It is great for inputting short text here and there (e.g. searching the web). It is also great for having finer grained input for those occasions when I want to drop into the Win8's 'desktop mode' without switching the hardware back into 'notebook mode' (i.e. avoiding the need for the mouse pad for casual usage).
You are describing the phenomenon of chemical dependence. Can you point to a trial, cohort study, or even case series showing evidence that acetaminophen is a compound on which people develop dependence?
And what would the point be? Massive loss of performance by going through a VM - only to save 30 bucks on licence cost for e.g. Windows? Any game dev wants the most performance they can get their hands on.
Oh? So where do you put swapped-out pages when you go into hibernation? Or would you first need to defragment your page file contents just to dump RAM contents into it? Or keep a map what pages in the pagefile are swapped out and what are just hibernated RAM and then piece stuff together on wake-up again?
I do something like that. My right alt key set to do alt+e for é or alt+u for ú. Also works nice for doing things like ³ and π with the number 3.
I guess that only works for really simple project. Once you bring in third party libraries, your own common library, your own multiple layers of abstraction, this naming convention means almost nothing. It pays the price of annoying programmers who are already familiar with the code for not-so useful short term benefit of the very early beginner.
How does your position affect your reaction to the contents of this article?
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Is there objective evidence that any element of naturopathic medicine has consistent, reproducible, positive value?
I think the difference between your broken and his broken is that his are actual bugs & crashes and yours are actually more like personal preferences and interface differences.

MS Office products are generally rock solid, while OpenOffice/LibreOffice have crashed on me too many times to count. Plus buggy functionality, etc.

I might be wrong, some examples from both sides wouldn't hurt :)
Or start consuming earth's resources in a sustainable manner, e.g:

- heavily taxing gasoline vehicles and subsidising electric vehicles to encourage adoption.

- heavily taxing non-renewable sources of electricity generation, subsidising solar, wind etc.

- Use carbon taxes to fund more research into renewables and maybe Thorium, advanced battery technology etc.

You could have a gradual ramp up of taxes to ease the burden of shifting to renewables.

The biggest problem is getting people and governments to change their old mindsets. Politics, not technology is holding back progress.
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I was parodying your argument to make it look ridiculous, which it was, and I apologise if you missed the point. However, I agree that neither of us knows a definite answer ;-)

I'm not particularly optimistic about Surface sales myself, but it's an extremely interesting approach. I can certainly imagine that version 3 will be a killer product, and I hope it is, but I'm not putting any money on it.
English is not my native language but I hate code with non-English variable names.
unfortunatly some areas aren't available in Twitter API.
E.g Israel, China, ..
There is works It looks like http://twitter-place-finder.grigio.org/Barcelona,B
I like Woz, he is always very sincere.

When he came to Campus Party 2011, someone asked him about the closed ecosystem, he said he was against it, but sadly he did not had sufficient power at apple to change that, and that in his opinion, if you own a device, you should be able to do whatever you want with it.

Now, for Apple and falling behind... Yeah.

They could try to improve it though, one of the coolest features Android have, and iPhone don't, is the "intent" system, and I am sure people would like iPhone much more if Apple copied that (among other things).

Now, where Windows is way better than Android????
No wonder why the windows evernote app sucks so much once you realize what a huge apple fanboy the CEO is.
in this case, f is locally scoped to the if/else statement since it's assigned inside the if statement... Probably most of the time I would actually assign it outside the if statement and then check it/return and not have the rest of the code indented.
Your argument is seriously "Windows should be Linux"?
With the ever decreasing prices of VPSs these days (both Digital Ocean & Prgrmr offer a $5/month VPS) I really don't see much need for an experienced developer to pick using a shared host.
Errr, no. Examples abound in the history of medicine of breakthroughs that were deemed effective before they were fully understood. Penicillin was shown to be an effective antibiotic agent long before science had a complete grasp on exactly why. Even basic sanitation (washing hands between surgeries) was a breakthrough that occurred before the germ theory of disease, and was originally believed effective for entirely different reasons. Today there are several classes of widely prescribed antidepressants and antipsychotics that work, but we don't really know why.

Magical thinking is the belief that there is some fundamentally unknowable-to-man mystique underlying the workings of drugs. That's not what anyone's saying is the case here. Rather, they're saying that certain drugs work, and that the reasons are potentially knowable to science, but in many cases may not be known yet. (Or fully known yet).
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Out of interest what points would you say give it a "leftish slant"?

NB I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely interested as it seemed fairly neutral to me. But then again I am the same nationality as Charlie.
Hard to argue with his conclusion. In the UK, the three main political parties are shockingly similar; I can't think of a single truly-significant policy difference. As an example, the 'left wing' party wants to restrict university tuition fees to £3000pa, whereas the 'right wing' party wants them to be £9kpa. Such things are the limits to our political discourse.

They even look the same, like slightly-morphed versions of Tony Blair. Same suits, same accents, just different tie colours. Honestly, I find it slightly spooky.

If you agree with Mr. Stross that this is a structural problem (and I do), then remedying this within the system seems pointless. So what? Trying to replace the system seems equally doomed, because as soon as your replacement structure gets any traction, the System will squash it.

The only way that I can see is to try and work around it - to create new structures and forms not as competition to the current system, but as subversive alternatives. Bitcoin is the best example of this at the moment, and it will be very interesting to see how that plays out. Make no mistake, the prospect of growing BTC adoption is genuinely threatening to the Beige Dictatorship, and a crackdown seems inevitable - but its success less so.
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Finally, the human rights act does something useful instead of giving criminals lots of extra rights, oh wait...
I think there's a cognitive bias at play here. We're already doing a massive experiment on the Earth's atmosphere by adding greenhouse gases to it. But for some reason that accidental experiment doesn't seem to freak people out nearly as much as doing an intentional experiment, even one that would partially compensate for the effects of the accident.

I'd bet that most people would accept geoengineering without a second thought, as long as we convinced them it was a side effect of a for-profit venture unrelated to global warming. Because, heck, they're putting up with all the other crap we do. But tell them we're intentionally changing atmosphere and they'll riot in the streets.

This particular approach wouldn't be completely unprecedented, because the same thing happens when large volcanoes erupt...and we've observed the temperature decrease when that's happened.

It's far from a complete solution, but there's real concern that feedback loops will soon tip the Earth into an unstoppable warming cycle. The planet has gone into a hot state before, and rather quickly, with very little input to kick it off. Albedo adjustment could be a way to hold off that cycle while we figure out a way to reduce CO2.
"So I think we absolutely should use and investigate 'natural' remedies that seem to work, but we should never assume that they're better or that we can't do better."

No argument here, or at least not from me.
jQuery is more or less a wrapper for the DOM API. Considering the amount of man-hours(1 guy over three weeks) that went into designing the DOM, it's safe to assume that jQuery does the interfacing better.

I don't understand why people want to make a distinction between vanilla JS and jQuery. It's like saying you want to make a distinction between standard C++ and QT. One is a language, the other is an interface. jQuery doesn't exactly provide a standard library by any stretch of the imagination.
I still prefer BSD and MIT style licenses.

GPL is great for making a system remain open, yes, but it also results in some commercial applications shying away from it, and it might ultimately die without proper use.

Game Developers love BSD/MIT, and they do contribute back to the BSD projects they use for several reasons.

And what matters in the end, that is reach end users, means that those end users would not have all those cool games without BSD and MIT tech available.
Suicide is the coward's way out. What he did is unacceptable. You all love him and you appreciate what he did and you hurt because he died, I respect that, but committing suicide is the ultimate cowardice, you hurt those who stay and you go out the easy way. If you think that suicide is a solution for you please seek help urgently.

WHEN YOU DECIDE TO KILL YOURSELF YOU'VE FINALLY FREED YOURSELF TO DO ANYTHING YOU EVER DREAMED OF. IF YOU WERE WILLING TO DIE, THEN YOU ARE WILLING TO GO TO AFRICA AND HELP THE POOR, GO JOIN DOCTORS SANS FRONTIERS AND GO HELP THE SICK. DON'T BE A COWARD AND DON'T KILL YOURSELF.

Aaron Swartz was much more valuable alive and what he did is unacceptable, there is no justification for what he did.
You're a jerk if ever I saw one.
And there's no real reason why you should count on Amazon's help. There are all sorts of risks providing this information, what if the request comes from a corrupt policeman working for a private detective (it happens). Requiring a warrant creates a paper trail.

In the real world, if your stuff gets stolen, you're responsible, not the company you bought the product from.
Yes, The West Wing is worth watching in its entirety.
The built-in "Parental Controls" are pretty rough. You can set time limits on user account, set maximum ESRB ratings for games, and block specific programs. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-can-I-contr... Microsoft also has a first-party program with slightly more refined capabilities called Family Safety. You have to sign in to a website for that though. The one feature I like about it is that a kid can send a request for specific exceptions that can be reviewed by the parent.
Almost happened to Wil Wheaton and his stolen Kindle:

http://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/20411186024/to-the-person-...
That is the whole point of having a startup in first place.

Why startups famously have many young single people? Because young single people can go gung ho at risks and do what must be done, even if the chance to work is very small...

If the world need "X", and if you try it there are only 1% of chance of succeeding, what better way to make it happen than to 100 companies try it? Yes, 99 will die, but one will work!
I say keep the cash and redesign the unfathomable abomination called "certificate provisioning web site."
This is a hen-and-egg-problem. No games for Linux are published, hence no market exists. And since no market exists, no games are published.

However, the Humble Bundles strongly suggest that there is in fact a market for Linux gaming, considering the Linux users consistently paid the most for the bundles[1], often significantly more than the Windows users and more than even OS X users usually perceived to readily pay a premium.

[1]: http://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/humble/
Well this has got to be the most autistic reply in here.
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He actually did have a point anyhow. Did you ever wonder how the drive is laid out?
This thread seems to be full of good advice about laptops, so maybe I can get help on something slightly unrelated: Anyone have recommendation for a tablet (or laptop that converts to tablet) that has outdoor readable screen? Not direct sun, but sitting-in-the-car-on-a-sunny-day readable.

So far, HP EliteBook with its "outdoor readable screen" option (extra $100 and 2 week wait) is the best I've found, and it's not very good. Lenovo's outdoor readable screen comes close, but is not as good.

I'm sure this is a solved problem - but I can't find a decent solution. Help, anyone? Some special ipad case/screen sticker? Some screen technology I'm unaware of?
You are almost right. With enough RAM, a system will work perfectly without swap. There is, however, a small performance penalty. Even with enough RAM, Linux will swap out processes, trying to free memory for use as disk cache. On most cases, this yields performance gains, which would be lost if the swap file is disabled.
So the argument is that because there are historical examples of the active ingredient of an herb being extracted into a useful drug, therefore the OP's personal belief that "constellations of chemicals in these concoctions which, in concert create an altogether particular and unique effect" is now a scientific claim?

There is no scientific basis for that. It's just one guy's opinion. Could he investigate it in a scientific fashion? Sure. Could he convince me? Easily. Does asserting it to be scientific make it so? No.
Game developers are fundamentally human. They care about people playing games, nothing more nothing less. You don't need to necessarily make your game have the latest and greatest graphical glitz. If they can make their game run smoothly on your hardware, they won't care if it's in a VM inside a Virtual Box on a cloud server, under the sea.

Minecraft is written in Java. There were games written in (at least partially) Haskell/Erlang/Ruby/Lisp. Unity3D is based on C#, etc. If tradeoffs are worth it, they'll do it.
> i think it's curious that language designers deliberately choose to use the same symbol for totally different things when they could use something else, or keep the grammar simpler.

The problems is that there's only a limited number of symbols available in ASCII, especially "matching"/"paired" symbols where you've got all of three pairs to work with (`{}`, `[]` and `()`), with one pair having a lot of immutable baggage (`()`) and one being coopted by C's inheritance (`{}`). (I'm not counting `<`/`>` as they have even more historical baggage as comparison operators)

Now of course we could use non-paired symbols even for paired situations, but I guess these symbol pairs look... right? Especially for situations where we're defining a "section" or "grouping" rather than a coherent block (such as a string)
It's hard to tell what will become successful. VCs, like any other kind of investor, have a limited amount of time and insight into what will make something successful.

Even discovering an investment opportunity doesn't come equally easily to all firms. As in any industry, there are those who find/do things for the first time, and those who hear about the first group and jump in.

Finally, the competency disparity between leaders and followers isn't as big as it seems. Many of the leading firms won a lucky bet and now make money simply by attaching their name to a project. Or, they are connected and can create income and offers for their investments while the follower firms don't have those advantages.
Yeah, but reading it again; I kind of like the way "the facts it makes up with a lack of journalistic integrity" reads.
UK online accountants Crunch release mileage expense app, pretty handy