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We continue trying to find ways to create new outlaws. 6 strikes came into effect and nobody is bothered. The govt does not represent the people. What is said is not meant. We live and are expected to live chasing things we don't want and as slaves to masters, hoping to be masters someday. It is extremely disturbing to be able to think about all this and live life. It is no wonder that some people choose to ignore all of the negativity and live whatever is left of their lives.
> That said, there is a lot less racism going on in the Bay Area.

I don't agree with that. I think it's just more hidden or wrapped up sarcastic "hipster" jokes. Something similar to http://jezebel.com/5905291/a-complete-guide-to-hipster-racis...

Disclosure: I'm black.
I just use a google extension to block those from my search result.
Why a duck? Why no a chicken?
Repealing the California MTA still leaves sufficient federal legislation and other state legislation in place to effectively regulate payment systems. The MTA is just a bad law.
Yet another marginalization of freedom serving the interests of a the few well-lobbbied rightsholders.
You learn grammar and syntax to compose sentences telling a machine that computes to do something. Over and over again.
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If normal people were in fact getting bailouts they would be getting their mortgages paid off whereas the Fed is just making the paper value of the assets based of those mortgages higher than their probable market value.
The functions are in a separate namespace at the moment, but perhaps the ultimate plan is to make them the default? Does anyone know whether that is the plan?

I suppose there should always be an escape hatch to explicitly choose either of the two for a specific piece of code, but the default could be "JVM, please choose what's best for my code".
I was a little taken aback to realise that a new generation of hackers that doesn't remember a world without the DMCA is now here. DVD Jon isn't a kid anymore... he'd be pushing 30 by now.
Mike Pall of luajit fame has an interesting take on it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/19gv4c/why_pyth...

<quote>

While I agree with the first part ("excuses"), the "hard" things mentioned in the second part are a) not that hard and b) solved issues (just not in PyPy).

Hash tables: Both v8 and LuaJIT manage to specialize hash table lookups and bring them to similar performance as C structs (1). Interestingly, with very different approaches. So there's little reason NOT to use objects, dictionaries, tables, maps or whatever it's called in your favorite language.

(1) If you really, really care about the last 10% or direct interoperability with C, LuaJIT offers native C structs via its FFI. And PyPy has inherited the FFI design, so they should be able to get the same performance someday. I'm sure v8 has something to offer for that, too.

Allocations: LuaJIT has allocation sinking, which is able to eliminate the mentioned temporary allocations. Incidentally, the link shows how that's done for a x,y,z point class! And it works the same for ALL cases: arrays {1,2,3} (on top of a generic table), hash tables {x=1,y=2,z=3} or FFI C structs.

String handling: Same as above -- a buffer is just a temporary allocation and can be sunk, too. Provided the stores (copies) are eliminated first. The extracted parts can be forwarded to the integer conversion from the original string. Then all copies and references are dead and the allocation itself can be eliminated. LuaJIT will get all of that string handling extravaganza with the v2.1 branch -- parts of the new buffer handling are already in the git repo. I'm sure the v8 guys have something up their sleeves, too.

I/O read buffer: Same reasoning. The read creates a temporary buffer which is lazily interned to a string, ditto for the lstrip. The interning is sunk, the copies are sunk, the buffer is sunk (the innermost buffer is reused). This turns it into something very similar to the C code.

Pre-sizing aggregates: The size info can be backpropagated to the aggreagate creation from scalar evolution analysis. SCEV is already in LuaJIT (for ABC elimination). I ditched the experimental backprop algorithm for 2.0, since I had to get the release out. Will be resurrected in 2.1.

Missing APIs: All of the above examples show you don't really need to define new APIs to get the desired performance. Yes, there's a case for when you need low-level data structures -- and that's why higher-level languages should have a good FFI. I don't think you need to burden the language itself with these issues.

Heuristics: Well, that's what those compiler textbooks don't tell you: VMs and compilers are 90% heuristics. Better deal with it rather than fight it.

tl;dr: The reason why X is slow, is because X's implementation is slow, unoptimized or untuned. Language design just influences how hard it is to make up for it. There are no excuses.

</quote>

Also interesting is his research on allocation sinking:

http://wiki.luajit.org/Allocation-Sinking-Optimization
Yahoo has a message board?
as for the poor choice of words, I didn't know, I'm not native.
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You can just select "Overwrite foobar.jpg" in the menu. You can even have a keyboard shortcut for it. That should solve all you guys' troubles :)

cheers
Likely because they hope you're still within the 12 mile zone of some country. Outside of those I really wonder what their legal position is. The blurb telling you it is illegal is probably not all there is to it.
That's because you're not paying to buy a copy of the content. You're leasing it from them, apparently.
I can't find any source but my guitar teacher used to tell me that there was a backstory about this music. It was originally played by a homeless guy in the street, some guy heard it, did it his way, became famous. The homeless guy hears that on radio one day and kills himself.
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Part of the problem is that people have gotten the idea that they have to go to college, but still think they can major in whatever they want.

90% of everything is crap, this applies to degrees as well. Go to uni to become a doctor, layer, mathematician, programmer, etc. Fine.

Go there to study hotel management, English literature, Womens rights, Communication?

Except a rip off.
I don't, unfortunately. I suppose your best bet would be to install the Ubuntu Touch Preview on the laptop, but I don't know how well it would work. As far as I know, it's only been ported to phones so far, although in theory it should work anywhere CyanogenMod does. See

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices

for a list of supported devices.
You can't use iTunes in the production of nuclear weapons either. I suppose they're just covering all bases.
It's like a mini Raspberry-pi in that adaptor, amazing! (if not slightly overpriced)

What a wonderful age we live in. How long ago was it that people doubted the Rasberry-Pi could be delivered at such a low price?

One of those rare moments where movement to the future is evidently palpable.
Guys, the best way to react to this is to create our own content (music, films, books, theater, whatever...) then share and appreciate with friends. We dont need those companies to invent our life.
In an article about the importance of creativity, it's sad to see a quote promoting drawing over coding.

To me, the use of computers to advance art, taking out as many steps as possible between idea and artwork, is the most exciting way to think about visual art. (I know the article didn't mention visual art specifically, but it seemed to be implied.)

Anyway, the site I've been working on for the past year is based on drawing. You might be interested in trying it out if learning to draw is a goal for you, or if you have ideas related to visual art.

http://www.sketchport.com/
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In most of Europe it is the general rule applying to all lawsuits that the looser pays part or all of the cost of the winning party's attorney fees. This is very effective in keeping frivolous lawsuits at a minimum. It is sometimes referred to as the English Rule.

Another meassure that keeps the number of law suits down is the obligation for the plaintiff to pay a court fee calculated as a percentage of his claim.
You say "government" and "citizen".

You need 3 groups: government, private citizen, and business.
It's not always possible in some countries
As of last December, there is another repayment option geared toward the enterprising (or not) Hacker News sort, at least those not yet flush with cash. The Pay As You Earn option [0] allows you to pay no more than 10% of your discretionary income, over a twenty-year window. The balance beyond that will be forgiven.

In most circumstances, you'll end up paying less under this plan than under other payment plans contingent on income. In fact, if you have no income while you're starting your startup, you'll owe nothing. This is pretty much always a better option than getting a forbearance or doing one of the other payment options [1, 2], at least until you realize your millions.

The qualifying criteria are really the sticking point. Please post your questions, concerns, tax advice, etc., below. None of this is straightforward, and I'm sure I have as much to learn about this as the rest of you. ...

0. http://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/understand/plans/pay-as...

1. Only recent borrowers qualify for this option. If you don't qualify, look into consolidating your loans through the Dept. of Education, then applying for the PAYE repayment plan on the consolidated loan.

2. The NYT has a good summary: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/opinion/relief-for-student...
It'd still be an interconnected network of machines. But this is really just coming down to the dividing line between a network and the internet, kind of like the heap of sand paradox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
Some of the earliest mainstream general discussion of REST took place in the still-active "rest-discuss" board going back to 2002. I hope that history is preserved.
That has been bugging a long time. Exactly what is the difference?

And statements like (paraphrasing the quote in the article)

> You shouldn't build an app in Forth. You should build a language to model your problem domain in forth and use it to build the app.

They just doesn't make sense to me. Isn't that the very definition of how to program?
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I'm afraid you are wrong. What you are talking about is doing anything to keep the debts on the book, passing the cost to the people -- the very people who are indebted. That's what the global crisis comes down to: a refusal to allow bankruptcy, on every level -- personal, corporational and national.

Edit: Spelling.
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Hardware - Canonical should get into making their own hardware. Open hardware with unlocked bootloaders on which you could install ubuntu, ff os, android and if ms releases images then winrt as well. Plus, they could make money this way. The boom that windows/pc's saw in the 1990s was in part due to easily available hardware. Why can't we have something similar but based on open source values for mobile phones.
A student loan default is not the same as a typical loan default: the government will start by taking whatever tax returns you get, and follow up by garnishing your wages. Fortunately, there are ways to get out of default status that can wipe your delinquencies off your credit report as long as you begin and continue to pay on time.

There would be very few people who qualify for student loans if we treated them the same as traditional loans, and virtually all of them would be the children of the wealthy or upper middle class.
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Apple has fired people over less. /. has a long standing tradition of ACs breaking rank and posting insider stuff, I see no reason why the same couldn't happen on HN.
Very well put. As someone who works currently at the intersection of technology and the arts, I know plenty of people who've worked at a high level in both camps. Because of my STEM background, occasionally others are surprised that I don't struggle with the creative aspects of my role. But to me there is no distinction, it is all just different types of problem solving.

Being a skilled artist is 90% a combination of technical ability acquired through repetitive practice, and a strong sense of aesthetics. The vast majority of creative work is just combining existing ideas in new ways. Genuine inspiration, where a completely new idea is added to melting pot happens very rarely. There are plenty of artists for whom I would question whether this happens at all.
"Paulus[4] could have broken out at Stalingrad"

I think he wouldn't even have truly entered the city once he noticed how unfavorable the conditions were to his troops. He would have crossed the Volga and starved them to surrender. That could have become a second Leningrad, but that seems unlikely as the Germans already controlled the waterways into Stalingrad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad#Attack_on_... 1 September, the Soviets could only reinforce and supply their forces in Stalingrad by perilous crossings of the Volga under constant bombardment by artillery and aircraft")
The burden of proof does not lie on him. There is a stunning lack of hard evidence that the holocaust took place as we're told it did. Whenever you ask for hard evidence, you're given the same run-around. I'd be happy with any of the following:

1. The remains. When you ask about this, you're first told that the bodies were cremated. The extremely implausible logistics of this aside, cremation leaves behind a significant amount of remains that would not have decomposed yet. The next line of defense is that exhumation violates Jewish law. Well, you know what? Too bad. Religious law may be violated in the course of a murder investigation.

3. Millions of birth certificates with no corresponding death certificates.

2. Records of who was gassed that can be corroborated. I'm aware that the Nazis kept records, but the records that people come up with when I ask for this are, at best, lists of people who have died of typhus or starvation. If I press, the defense becomes, "Well, why would they incriminate themselves?" Well, I don't know, but as far as I'm concerned this is a murder trial, and it's innocent until proven guilty.

I've had this discussion online half a dozen times and no one has ever provided any of these three things.
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Cleaning up the services of Yahoo! as a CEO must feel like going through your parents' stuff in a dusty, derelict attic.
I'm sensitive to institutional and cultural racism, and therefore I realize that it's not for a privileged group to decide what is and isn't racist and what black people should or should not be offended by. Granted.

However, equating the Harlem Shake meme to blackface performances is ivory tower nonsense that belies a willful ignorance to what Internet memes are. No one is profiting from this and it's not diminishing black culture in any way. If you put it back in context then you don't have a viral video because the stupidity and brevity of the whole thing is what made it viral. Just because it got huge and it annoys you doesn't mean that it's part of the problem of racism. It's just an idiotic meme that people watch when they're slacking off at their dead-end white collar jobs. If you actually care about improving societal racism you need to address more important issues like why aren't more black people getting hired and why don't they have more political power, etc. If you get all riled up and insist that anything black needs to be represented in context and everyone always needs to stop and think about how unfair it is that white people can listen to black music without actually suffering the pain of a racist society that led to the creation of that music all you will do is make people want to stay the fuck away from you because being white in your vicinity is like walking on egg shells. It doesn't matter how morally justified you are if you turn off all empathy and refuse to recognize their fundamental humanity simply because they are "privileged" and therefore need to recognize their role as oppressor at all times.
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Seconding this. The 2012 "update" was no more than a slight rearranging of CPU and RAM within that same generation of parts. The thing still uses all 2010 era parts (radeon 5xxx graphics, westmere xeons, 3gbit SATA, PCI-E 2, no thunderbolt). It has been "due" for an update since sandy bridge xeons were released in early 2012.
What's not allowed is the screening of retail copies in oil rigs. There's public screening licenses available for such situations, which of course cost a bit more than $14.95.

If you look at prospectuses for film production companies, you'll often see a section on distribution to what are known as "ancillary markets" such as tv, hotels, airlines, prisons, and yes, oil rigs.

All it really means is that there's a different license fee structure in each of those cases.

Not unlike different sorts of license fees for using software in different situations, or even some types of Creative Commons which require separate negotiation of a license in certain commercial situations.
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ME TOO! http://snag.gy/Ylpjg.jpg

When a site like kernel.org goes online with a broken font, something must be fundamentally wrong in the world of programmers and people generating content for displays. What would be the situation like, if we were printing millions of books with 20 dpi technology? Would this be ignored by the masses and people who are annoyed by the eye-hurting results would be trolls?

We should see this as a clear (cough) signal, that it is time to start some major broken-font-campaign - more and more web developers seem to be so overloaded with CSS and JS framework learning, they totally forget about the most basic things - IMHO it is still the first and most noble duty of a real webdev to make a site nicely readable on all displays.

This annoying font-disease must be taken very seriously - it is ignoring the most important aspects of life: health. I feel offended if somebody forces me to read a website with such a broken font - it hurts my eyes, and as a computer guy I need my eyes for work, so it is a serious attack.

I was humbly accepting it as a personal disability for years, that I needed WinXP fonts on every Linux distro to have a satisfying font display. But I kept wondering about how the creators of thousands of Linux tutorial screenshots could not realize that they were looking at a broken font and destroying the functionality of their most important input devices.

Luckily in the last years it got much better on Linux, but then came the iFlood, Win7, and finally the ultimate weapon of ophthalmologists for generating an endless income stream: webfonts.

Now I am confronted every single day with websites with broken fonts. This is a serious regression and every web designer and every programmer involved in font rendering code should stop working on anything else until this problem is fixed.

Yes, I know there are many reasons for this problem, it is not only the web developers - anyway, please let us fix it now.
This could start some reverse brain-drain. Get education at a top flight university in the US, rack up student debt like there is no tomorrow. Then leave the US, move to another continent and use your prestigious title to out-compete the locals while you leave your debt unpaid. Highly unethical (well, maybe not so highly, student debt is a pretty questionable concept to begin with), but definitely not more so than those that study in poorer countries which they leave behind the moment they have a title giving them access to employment abroad.
Most degrees in the U.S. are earned at public universities and colleges. Those are not for profit institutions.

From the pdf, a majority of borrowers owe less than $25,000. Less than 15% of borrowers owe more than $50,000. I'm sure that the larger debts skew towards younger people that have not made very many payments, but those numbers hardly paint the picture of a crisis. There's "only" about 6 million people with enormous debts.
I second that. I also took proper swimming education in my twenties, and followed up with this technique. Once you get the hang of it, the stable, long distance rhythm you can get is amazing.

Side note: learning to swim, full technique, is something you can do at any age, very rewarding result wise[1]. Kudos on your decision.

[1] Except if you have some hard to overcome fear of water. It's not a roadblock, but expect it to take time.
I work in a Ruby + Java shop and we do Java deployments with maven + nexus + capistrano. Works like a champ.

I'll see if I have some time to write a blogpost about it.
It might be legal from criminal law POV but you can still be sued in a civil court for most of those use cases. Of course that rarely happens.

For those interested how a post-communist country criminalizes copyright violations, here's a link to the relevant section of our Copyright Act:

http://prawo.legeo.pl/prawo/ustawa-z-dnia-4-lutego-1994-r-o-...
I fully agree with you. I remember reading an article about how democracy is for ideal world which does not exist.

In a perfect situation, we wold have representatives who understand people. But what we have is a large group of selfish people who take money from businesses and pass such stupid laws.

They censor everything they can't understand or tht threatens their power in any way. Internet is one such medium as it increases information flow and power of people and decreases their!
When I was a kid, whenever my bro yelled to reduce the volume of the TV I just stay silent for a moment and say 'ok?'. Sometimes he demands to cut off a bit more noise. I wait for a second and say "NOW?". He's normally happy with the two tries.

He sleeps happy. I waste time happy.
You can replace computers for X in that statement, where X is any field of study, and it will still be true.
They're just getting new ways to make money. Soon, they will narrow down to personal licenses for media. You watch it, fine, but show it to your 4 year old kid and you're in for a big fine!
How is intentionally defaulting on loans (i.e., basically stealing money) possibly less unethical than buying services in a place where they're cheaper?
I'm not really sure what you mean here. In the PBS case, I cannot possibly (legally) access the content my tax dollars pay for, because they block it on their site, and I don't live in the US now. It hardly seems like a lease if there's no way I can ever access the assets...it's more like I'm paying for something but getting nothing.

In the Netflix case, the problem is that LG sold me a TV which unbeknownst to me always advertises itself to Netflix as being "in the US." This means that when it is not physically in the US (according to its IP address), Netflix sees a discrepancy and blocks it from accessing any content--US or otherwise. Apparently LG fixed this bug within the last year, but there's no update available for my TV (despite it having online firmware updates for other reasons).