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"In fact, science is not about debate. It's about presenting facts in support of an argument. Merely arguing is pointless."

What science "is" is a subjective opinion, and there are many different claims what science really is. In my opinion debate is important to science. In addition, 'presenting facts in support of an argument' is debating in my opinion.
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fvwm is the default wm on OpenBSD. I think they are unlikely to replace that with either LXDE or XFCE due to the lack of a BSD-like license. I don't know what other options there are but perhaps they are happy with fvwm.
I'm not sure if it is listed in the official documentation but it was talked about by the Android team on their blog:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/07/custom-class-...
This will influence how I will view future articles from The Atlantic. I liked a number of them, but this is likely not an isolated incident, and from now on I will always wonder how the article was produced.
It was pretty incredible.

Here's Jack's post from this morning on the origins of Balbus and what this investment means to him and his company:

http://blog.jackmcd.me/post/44584577942/onwards-upwards
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There is literally _nothing_ constructive about the comment. Related to recent news? Yes. Topical? Sure. Snitty? Yup. Constructive? Nope.
So when can we expect it to be $2 again this time? June? Maybe July? I think the last 90% drop only took about three months[1], so I'm gonna put my money on late June for this one. And by "put my money on" I really just mean "post this comment so I can quote it in June".

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/18/bitcoin-val...
In regards to X and it's growing pains, in the era of source control, why is backwards compatibility with ancient systems still a concern? If you're trying to put together an old OS for some old hardware, why not take it out of the source history and let the head progress forward unhindered?
The hardest jobs I've had in my life are the ones that are generally least respected by our society.

I tried really hard to do well, but I would tend to get fired in a few months. I was terrible at them.

I do really well as a professional developer though, something that took me a while to get used to. It's funny how these things work. Like you I have ways of coping with my weaknesses, and those 'easy' jobs didn't provide much allowance for doing it. It definitely affects my politics, because I consider myself very fortunate that a career exists for me where I can leverage technology and intellect to do things quickly enough that I can 'waste time' freely. Not everyone is so fortunate.
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Due to the "PHP beauty", ! $string isn't equivalent for $string == ''.
In this case it is better due to the logical evaluation clusterfuck that PHP does. Example: passing an empty array() as $string bypasses the if, while ! $string is sane enough, but the bang operator fails with "0" which is a valid string that "happens" to evaluate to false. I know these are edge cases, but can lead to funny bugs. Not so funny for those who debug that.
I love BSD, but the user community is hostile to entry and hostile to causal users, so it's not surprising that everyone but the experts has switched to Linux.
Hopefully it will look mostly like random noise, without many patterns. That would indicate compressed information without much repetition. If you see lots of regular patterns, perhaps that means refactoring is in order to maintain DRYness.

Hmm, curious if this visualization would actually work to spot duplicated code.
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In regards to the concept above: even if kids take macro, they'll remember this concept for about 6 months ....and it's gone.

This is like lamenting that kids don't know enough about Chaucer or don't understand that evolution only applies to populations, not to individuals.

These kinds of small details will be forgotten intentionally by most people within months of learning them.

Quite frankly: I don't care if kids come out of high school with a functional knowledge of the effects of an inflating currency: I'd rather they understand personal finance instead of macroeconomics.
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Seriously, what is this doing on Hacker News? I'm sure there's a subreddit for this.
I believe that FreeBSD 9.X uses pf from OpenBSD 4.5 which might not have the latest features. Other than that I am not sure.
This is interesting, but in my experience, when I know I'm being recorded, I stutter less.
I thought the original Roadsters were only around £70k? Aren't the new signature models the ones that are around £90-100k?

Obviously, the average person isn't going to buy a roadster, but £90k is still affordable for some senior-level types. It's more expensive than the usual "posh" cars like the usual BMW's and Audi's out there, but with the added allure of the Roadster being a green car I reckon that £70-90k isn't too high. Since Tesla are a new company and don't have an established range of vehicles it certainly puts them in the range of companies that could be hurt by bad press on Top Gear.
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Any "bandwidth cost" being a key part of the cost is likely a red herring.

It appears the IP address of the host (163.195.16.73) is owned by the SA government, so they are likely paying for bandwidth, not the contractor that developed the site. In my opinion this probably means bandwidth isn't part of the quoted cost. See http://www.afrinic.net and a DNS lookup for http://www.freestateonline.fs.gov.za/ - which is a CNAME for iproxy1.openet.gov.za. Of course I've not seen any contracts here or similar, so I could be wrong, but it's certainly how I'd expect the contract to be managed.

Regarding high bandwidth costs, the SA government has a significant stake in the monopoly telco provider (Telkom SA - http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-corporate-governance/pic-... says it's 39.8% government owned).

My opinion is that bandwidth costs are high in SA because of the monopoly. There are some references/articles about this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telkom_(South_Africa)#Criticism...

So even if the costs are high, it doesn't really matter to the Government - they are getting 39.8% of the costs back from their other investments - it's just the rest of the technology sector that suffers.

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Oh! Thats an entirely different matter. The Z80 is very cool, many different versions to choose from. It benefits from a very regular machine code (simple register fields, 2- or 5-bit opcode field), you can memorize it in half an hour.

And its still used embedded. My son wrote a simulator for a Z80 version that's flying on Juno (Jupiter space mission). It was coupled with an FFT engine for processing ice-penetrating radar signals. Lots of fun. SpaceX was interested in him out of college, but that was mostly an IT position.

Anyway of all the embedded systems I've used, I am fondest of the Z80 architecture. Good choice!
Queen's counsel.

Expensive top flight barristers* with lots of experience (10-15 years minimum) that are recommended and appointed QC by the Lord Chancellor. They take precedence over other barristers and tend to be very expensive, experienced and with a proven case history and reputation. You can tell them because they get to wear silk gowns (sometimes being elected is known as "taking the silk")

Kinda the barrister equivalent of being elected to the National Academy of Sciences or a Fellow of the Royal Society.

* Barristers are one of two types of lawyers in the UK (the other being solicitors) they do most of the court-room advocacy etc.
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I doubt those two are used to gain market share ... maybe openbsd is just pure fun
KDE 4 had, for a long time, a misfeature relating to pthread_mutex_t support on OpenBSD (which was my fault, I suppose).

A couple of years later I heard from an OpenBSD dev who noted the issue and recommended a workaround, which I implemented and hopefully means KDE works in OpenBSD now.

But other than that one dev I'm not aware of any OpenBSD users or devs noticing or complaining about that bug (which would have been quite noticeable from the terminal output at least).

Drawn whatever conclusions you will from that. ;)
His image was 9x9 pixels, not 32x32. So 324 bytes.
> Do you have a single rational standard of what's "productive" and "not productive"?

Yes. Trade is productive, it is the highest civic virtue. Hoarding is not productive, it makes us all poorer.

I'm not for banning the ownership of gold. I am just pointing out why the redirection of capital from bond markets, venture funds and lending into ownership of gold leads to reduced money velocity and decreases trade.

The story on why we should own gold is a highly pessimistic one. Goldbugs point to a collapse scenario as a reason to own gold. Mass economic collapse would make everyone poorer, even those with large gold reserves.
Got to hang out with the folks at Rough Draft last night – I am glad to see that their passion for helping entrepreneurs is finally coming to fruition. Keeping in mind that these are students making these investments (many who were simultaneously studying for midterms this week), it is truly inspiring to see such energy in the Boston ecosystem. Keep up the good work!
What good is exposure if it just exposes you to more people who will want you to work for free?
I'm happy someone is finally trying to make this expedition. I've always believed space exploration should be a top priority, even if it's decades before we reach any practical uses for discoveries.

That said, I'm worried about it. The Moon landing was a highly planned and comparatively efficient expedition. This is being bankrolled by a man who will likely have some control over things despite not having training. I don't think just anyone should be able to plan monumental journeys through space without the official sanction of NASA - at least not until space travel becomes as ubiquitous as driving or riding the train. There are safety protocols to follow.

And choosing 40-50 year old astronauts seems a bit naive. Why wouldn't you choose younger, more fit astronauts? And why not two who have a demonstrated history of working together? Marriage doesn't automatically mean a frictionless relationship.

In any case, I hope whoever they choose has the good sense not to start reading from the Bible. Maybe another scripture, or something less denominational.
I found it very interesting, as it talks about how journalism has changed in the age of the internet.

A good hacker should have a good grasp of how the world works, and how it changes over time.
These companies advertised on the frontpage of HN as "taking Bitcoins" aren't taking Bitcoins directly, y'know.
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Somewhat. You are correct to say were know that the exception was raised in the try block so we have an idea about where it came from, but unless each try block is one statement long you don't know where the exception came from . That's the disconnect. When in a try/catch block you know where your going ( the catch ), but you don't know where you came from. That is almost as problematic as GOTOs in that planning for all program states is once again a headache ( did I open that socket , is that memory free'd ,... )
If it does take off, and your drive didn't store well, you'll be facepalming. :P
Monads are complicated because the word "monad" bears too much weight in any discussion about them.

1) There is a category theoretical concept of a monad. This is largely irrelevant in a practical explanation of monads since Monads are usually talked about in terms of another category theoretical concept called the Kleisli Category or Kleisli Triple. However, if someone starts talking about "monad laws", they're probably referring to the theoretical sense of this.

2) There is, in Haskell at any rate, a typeclass called the Monad (note the capital "M"). This is mostly important because when a type is an instance of this category, the Haskell do-notation is useful. Aside from that, you can only use the handful of operations that the Monad typeclass implements that you don't have to implement yourself for it to be an instance of Monad.

3) There are Monad type constructors, such as Maybe, IO, and State. This is where things actually start getting interesting for the practitioner, because each provides a specific abstraction of a concept, such as input/output or partial functions (IO and Maybe, respectively).

4) There are Monad types, both abstract and concrete, like Maybe a, IO a, Maybe Int, State MyType and so on. These are the types you actually will program with.

5) There are Monad values, which are instances of the Monad types, which are, themselves, instances of the Monad type constructors, which are instances of the Monad typeclass.

6) Then just to add a slightly extra confusing layer on top of it all, you have the values inside the Monad you'll actually be doing computations with.

7) And finally, it doesn't help when in code examples, type variables and function variables are conflated by name, such as in:

get :: State s s
get s = (s,s)

Unfortunately, that's much more clear for an expert than a beginner in regards to what's going on there, so if you're reading code samples, likely written by people with expertise, they're going to be confusing.

So, yeah. Simple concept of explicit effects. Seriously semantically overloaded stack of terms to actual reason with them about.
Isabelle was used for the proof of the prime number theorem. The link from the article: http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&#...
The gold standard worked in the US for about 170 years, which is part of why the US became the wealthiest nation in history: it had an extraordinarily trusted currency (green back = good as gold). Gold was worth $19 to $35 for 100+ years, and it worked, America had no problem growing dramatically.

The US economy also had no problem growing fast during the 1990s, when the US Dollar was strong and had appreciated extremely strongly against gold over a 20 year period ($600 in 1980, to $270 in 2001).

China also dramatically counters this notion. The Yuan has appreciated significantly (for a currency) over the last decade, while they've simultaneously gotten far wealthier.

The disaster has been what has happened to our money since 1971 (specifically the 1970s and since 2001). The real cost of goods has gone parabolic.

1964, 5 silver quarters (90% silver, 10% copper) for a $1.25 minimum wage, now worth $25.90 ($5.18 each). That's pure destruction via inflation.

And that's not even getting into how the Fed + Congress funds insanity like endless war because there is no gold standard restricting their spending habits.
I said standard. Since that condition system is proper to Lisp, it is henceforth non-standard. And come on, you don't see setjump/longjump every 10 LOC, not even every 10 source file.
I don't understand, how can some wacky desktop be harmful to OpenBSD if they introduce low-level dependencies difficult to port over? I don't think any OpenBSD user are even interested in using systemd, pulseaudio or any of those end-user applications. OpenBSD is for servers and such, only very technical users have it as a "desktop".
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Zooming is very "Chrome-like" if you used it before on Android. I'm not a fan of Chrome zoom though. I prefer the stock browser's or Opera Mobile's.
While I agree with downstream comments that you can run tests headless or browserless, arguably, you're not really testing the user experience until you execute it the way that the user will execute it. Perhaps this is a case of perfect vs. good enough.
True you wouldn't want it on the track, but it's a fuse that broke and not the brakes. Replacing a fuse is pretty trivial, but replacing brakes would be a big deal.
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"Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it." - Usually attributed to Mark Twain

For an article on big data, it did not provide much data.
One of my favorite Z80 clones was, I think, the Z800(?). It had several register sets you could explicitely switch between. For instance, one for the timer interrupt, one for the main thread, one for a serial thread. Hyperthreads, years before anybody else had them! But it never caught on.
I've noticed an apparent decline in the quality of Atlantic recently. Maybe this has something to do with it. When you go from putting high-quality writers on retainer for $125,000 a year to trying to get them to work for free, naturally quality suffers.
I would like to add that Doron Zeilberger's opinions page is very interesting: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/OPINIONS.html
Because everyone wants to be famous, of course. Apparently.
Given there are at least four large and distinct BSD communities, I am inclined to assume this is a rather unsubstantiated and cheap shot at "BSD".
Just making an observation here. The reason they are tricky and cause a maintenance burden is because they create non-obvious dependencies. You'd have to read a lot of seemingly unrelated code to spot them. Without the explicit knowledge of these dependencies, your changes will have unexpected consequences. (Hence, in a system that tracks all dependencies perfectly, this might not be a problem. This is an experiment I'm trying to run right now.)
What is that supposed to mean ?
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Well, OpenBSD is more secure, and are less likely to break. OpenBSD is top quality into its core, even their release model is much better than FreeBSD's.
> I'd expand on one of his points and observe that one of the core problems is that they are called exceptions, which prejudices the discourse in advance. They aren't exceptions. They are a way of declaring a handler ...

I can't figure out what you're referring to with they. I am guessing wrapped exceptions, but also maybe the example where nil was passed to the constructor instead of a hash?
It's basic supply and demand. There's a glut of skilled writers willing to work for free and a dearth of people willing to pay for journalism, either through subscriptions or advertising. There's an idea that this is the cynical exploitation of journalists by publishers, but that simply wouldn't be possible if demand for writing outstripped supply.

Personally, I think we'll come to accept the idea that, for the most part, writing is a leisure activity and not a profession. It's not unreasonable to imagine that the profitability of writing and publishing was just a temporary blip, as a result of a peculiar set of technological and economic conditions.

Photography is the clear forerunner. Many newspapers have trained their journalists in photography and have them double up; Others are doing most of their photography through interns or very poorly-paid student freelancers. The microstock phenomenon has collapsed the value of stock images, to the point that only a small number of highly efficient studios are making good money from stock. There are just too many amateurs happy to shoot for free or for just their expenses, and they're producing images of perfectly satisfactory quality.

The real villains are educational institutions, who wilfully deceive students as to the job prospects for creative careers. There are essentially no jobs whatsoever in the studio recording industry, but many thousands of graduates with degrees in related subjects. There's an implicit deceit on the part of educators, who simply "neglect" to mention that they're training students for jobs that haven't existed for twenty years. The demand for creative workers is static or in decline, while enrolment rates for related courses continues to increase steeply.
This is false. Mars gravity is only 38% of Earth's, owing to the fact the Mars has only 10% the mass of Earth.

http://www.universetoday.com/22603/mars-compared-to-earth/
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I completely agree. My 'wish' for how things could run would definitely not work in our current state of affairs. But in our current technological state there is no excuse to not have a centralized location for ballot info ahead of any vote. The manual process we still use for a lot of elective events is pretty old fashioned.
Awesome work... What are your impressions of rex?

Slaughter occupies a different part of the ecosystem (specifically that slaughter has policies) but do you see possible incorporation of rex into what you have here?
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Barack Obama was in the Illinois State Senate when the relevant law - the DMCA - was passed.
The bricks themselves are not harmful however stockpiling the primary medium of exchange is very harmful.

A better metaphor is water in a desert, except instead of being consumed it's passed from one person to another without loss and actually increases when it's transferred. The item itself isn't harmful but hoarding it is extremely harmful.
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Stats are kind of misleading, since Opera's larger base is mostly Mobile browsing and other embedded devices (Wii, Nintendo DS, etc).

Mobile stats show it has ~16% of the market share[1][2]

[1] http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/189/statcountermobilebro... (flash alternative)

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201202-... (flash)
In this case, going around and around really helped me grasp the concept. Every other monad tutorial out there always go straight to the point and that is what made it difficult for me to understand them. I really like this series so far and I think this is the perfect way to explain something that complex. "You need to know where you came from to understand where you're going".
Certainly it is used on the desktop outside of the developer/hobbyist community. See http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=201104200...
A question to anyone who knows/remembers this. I remember seeing a video that showed off a new experimental and highly different mobile UI that either Firefox or Opera created.

In it, there was a much smaller distinction between closed tabs and browsing history - they appeared the same.

Whatever happened to that prototype? I thought it was a good idea, but I never got a chance to see it in action. Is the project dead or does it exist somewhere. If the latter, is any good?
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I hope they go for the quick toggles (touching the sides of the phone/tablet if enabled) like the stock browser has, but either option is better than none.
For Top Gear's purposes it's enough to make the car worthless for testing though, since it's not going to peform as well as a properly functioning car would. Combine that with the reduction in power due to overheating in the other car, and they basically did have to give up testing for the day. (I mean, I wouldn't put it past them to keep going anyway to make a point and embarass the manufacturer - this is Top Gear after all - but still.)
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No. The escape velocity on Mars is 5 km/s, whereas on Earth it is 11 km/s. There is also a lot less of an atmosphere on Mars (though the atmosphere is smaller on Earth) and Martian gravity is significantly smaller than Earth's. It is far easier to leave Mars than it is to leave Earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
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Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. The amount of people being prescribed meds made me scared. I'm from Brazil, and I almost never hear about ADD, let alone about Adderal.
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