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Is the intent of existing law considered as part of the concept of common law? Would the average member of the jury really not understand this? Why couldn't a prosecutor receive an indictment and then argue this before a court and jury and thereby develop the methodology to approach this problem. This process may require several cases but wouldn't that be preferable to have jurists extend common law rather than have legislators parachute in new laws that obviously have problems?
There's another issue not covered by the article, apart from the degree to which the light's emission angles are controlled, and that is spectral lines. Many conventional streetlight designs emit their light along narrow spectral lines, a trait resulting from their gas-discharge design, and those spectral lines prevent spectroscopy (a large part of modern astronomy) from being carried out as it should.

LED lights don't have narrow spectral lines, so they represent an advantage for this reason also.
Whose responsibility was it that it needed to be done at all?
Gandhi was also a known pedophile.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/29...
You might not have read the whole post but the OP mentions that he's now enjoying the regular food experience more than ever.
And I'm often reading those articles in Pocket, which means I never see them at all. Very frustrating.
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He said they had multiple offers and chose Facebook partly because of compatibility. Maybe that's not actually true but I didn't make it up.
Then $85mm does seem cheap considering there is no way it gave a 10x return to investors ($7mm in the door).
I meant no disrespect to Iceland :-). Everything I hear makes it sound like a fantastic place. I was only pointing out that other countries, like the US, don't always share the same definition of "fantastic," and will exert pressure from all sides on countries that don't conform to their will.
And this is what's so frustrating. I love Linux. I truly love the idea of making everything open from the kernel to the desktop environment to all of the applications you can run on it. I truly love the idea of customizing everything... and if you don't like what's there, you can modify it to your heart's content if you learn how. That's just freaking cool to me.

Except... we have douchebags in the community who talk shit to newbies and then cry, "Why does everyone use Windows? How come Linux isn't more widely used?"

Just check your post history and read the number of times you wrote "RTFM." That's why.
If you look at the chart, it appears beer was on a pretty swift path to consolidation even before prohibition. It may not be that Carter saved the craft brewing industry so much as he allowed it begin.
Hmm, I think that's backwards. If you're going to work in corporate finance, then you need to know about capital markets, derivatives, etc. But if you're primarily interested in quantitative trading then you don't need to know all the stuff in that book.

E.g. there's no need to know all about leasing or taxes or mergers in order to price derivatives. In fact I doubt that most people working in the area know much about corporate finance, whether they are math and physics PhDs working as quant researchers or regular programmers implementing the models.
Descriptive names clarify what the code is supposed to be doing. Sometimes there's a world of difference between that and what it's actually doing.
1) How it looks on my monitor: http://i.imgur.com/iSjP8ae.png - might not want to repeat that title image like that.

2) I would really like to see if there are any mentors relevant to my interests before I have to make yet another account on yet another website.

3) I really think mentorship is the best way to really become good at a skill. Hope it goes well for you.
Can anybody comment on how the Navy restriction to US citizens only developing this plays into the FOSS ecosystem of Android? I assume most of it is GPLv2, so isn't this immaterial? Why would it matter when the code is completely FOSS?
Couldn't you say the same about Ubuntu? It's far more widely marketed to end users than any other distro.
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Yup -- this is the most common stack for quant nerdotry
It's a tradeoff between readability for novices and readability for experts.
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As it turns out, some road improvement projects change the pattern of route usage in a way that they paradoxically make the situation worse. It's called "Braess's paradox" and it stems from analysis of network topology and Nash equilibria:

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

Also, a typical road improvement project costs between one and five million dollars per mile. Based on the mean value, Musk's $50K contribution would add capacity to 106 feed of roadway.

Nice gesture, though.
Uh, your sample is wayyyy different from mine. There are six posts in the last hour just by people I'm close to. I don't think Facebook is dying in any sense of the word among normal people.
How is that "quartering soldiers?" Or do words just mean whatever we want them to mean?
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I have season tickets for the local sports teams. I don't really make money selling the tickets, but I wouldn't buy them if I couldn't sell or give away the tickets whenever I wanted.
I think the Naval Research Laboratory is more than capable.

http://www.nrl.navy.mil
And that's a people-getting-the-hell-out-of-dodge problem. Google's services are the best in many arenas, but they aren't without competitors.
Makes sense. I guess I just was imagining corn and grains, stuff that seems like it'd be easy to pick mechanically. Didn't really think about stuff like beets. Thanks for the answer though!
> Out of shape people give me hell all the time for being in excellent physical condition, but they don't know about the 10 miles of running every day

My major exertion this week was going to the doctor. I rode in a car, walked 20 ft, sat on a chair, talked, rode home, and had to go lie down and take medicine. As my doctor remarked, "You look grey." Because I have a chronic illness and nobody is sure what exactly it is or what to do about it. I've been like this off an on, without much rhyme or reason, since 2009 when I came down with mono for the second (yes second) time. I used to exercise every day, before I got sick. Now some days, if I do any kind of exercise -- for mere minutes! -- it'll knock me on my ass for days, a kind of exhaustion and pain and fatigue you can't understand unless you've experienced it. This they give the benign, cuddly title of "post-exertional malaise."

Luckily if somebody looks at me and thinks I'm fat because I'm lazy, I really couldn't give a shit, because having your vitality ripped from you at 26 really gives you perspective on stupid things like that guy's staring at my fat ass.

The irony, of course, is that you are guilty of what you claim others are guilty of… not having a clue as to the private lives or struggles of the people around you. Judging them based on appearance. Thinking you know them.

But if you, heaven forbid, develop a chronic illness and you're smart enough to do your own research, you'll find that millions of people all around you are suffering in silence. Of being told they simply must be lazy. Without a proper diagnosis or any kind of medical help.

Oh wait. I guess those are handouts?
I don't know what % of Twitter users i'd be bucketed with for this comment but I think Twitter "Promoted Tweets" are probably the ad I most prefer to view. I'd hesitate a guess at how many i've clicked on (Probably 20%) but they have always been the most relevant to what I am interested in at a given time, compared to re-targeting/ad-words which aren't necessarily relevant to what I am interested in but are more point-in-time associated.

Presumably Twitter achieve this based on stats like who I follow (including who i've followed recently) and i'd guess search activity etc. but hey, works for me.
But, honestly, in the mid-2000's, would you have wanted to be bought by Yahoo?
Parse is a distraction for FB. You are not even in the same business. Regardless of what you say, you are unable to override the CEO if or when he decides that Parse is to be shut down. The alternatives are more appealing because their business model solely depends on customers paying for the back end service.

The best thing FB can do is to bind itself legally to continue to run Parse for the next x number of years.

If FB wants to dabble with PaaS, businesses are going to assess Parse on the basis that it is only an experiment. Tying oneself to a back end is like marriage. No one will invest in a relationship if the other side is only half serious.
I'd guess it will be the one most people are trying to disrupt. I know that sounds trivial, but if you throw enough hackers at an industry, something new will probably come out. There seems to be a lot going on in education, and even though it hasn't been totally disrupted, there appears to be enough effort and focus that it will happen eventually.
VMware tools will also not install.
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>> Canonical is apparently going more in the way of pre-installed crapware. There was an Amazon icon on my Launcher, which I removed. People have also been warning the Ubuntu Dash sends your searches to Amazon, I went to System Settings -> Privacy and removed that.

Thanks for the tips, when we move to 14.04 LTS we will need to know them.

>>
There were no workspaces until I turned them on in settings, they seem down on workspaces - something I had without a problem since fvwm back in the mid-1990s. Hopefully there will still be workspaces in the next Ubuntu version.

Do you mean the cool workspace switcher on the Unity Launcher panel is going to be gone? That's odd.
While I agree that there needs to be a "fix" (and I have to assume one is in the works), but taking the Microsoft route of throwing money at problems until they work put them into the position they are today.
Not a Groovy or Scala person, but I can report that Leiningen for Clojure definitely produces pom files with `lein pom`.
I like the ff => ﬀ ligature that you've managed to paste from the .pdf. :)

EDIT:

I also made the mistake, but in their defence the between lists are used straight away: They're printed. But the code seems to do three unrelated things in a row, so I'd expect an implementation like their one to have three separate function calls if there's no dependency between them.
Don't know why you were downvoted. I've noticed this too. Someone who works out a lot (noticeably muscular) is stereotyped in academia or STEM professions.
Except the ones that aren't unreasonable are carried out with a judge's signature or have very narrow latitude (plain sight, hot pursuit).
No, Ubuntu is chosen by its wise users, not "marketed".
I imagine the gesture was meant as a way to perhaps incite others to put additional of their own funds into it (outside of the taxes they hopefully pay).
>I disagree with their man-hating propaganda ("A women needs a man like a bicycle needs a fish")

How in the world is that man-hating? Would it be woman-hating to say "A man needs a woman like a bicycle needs a fish"?
Definitely health care and medicine...so many people are working on it, and its so far from optimal
I don't have an NFL fantasy team per se. I pick the players I like most that happen to be playing that weekend. I might also grab a different player depending on the defense he's up against. Hope that helps!
Pfft. Have you ever had a project EALx/Common Criteria certified? The program is a joke. You can certify a ham sandwich if you document what brand of mayo you use.
The difference is Microsoft isn't buying anyone, it's their own service. The guy is turned off by the notion of what's about to happen to Parse, not just that they're being bought. The context matters.
I'm not much of a biologist and I may just be spouting what I've heard in the past, but I think all the water soluble vitamins and such are totally safe and impossible to OD on, it is the fat-soluble ones where there's the potential to OD.

EDIT: Mostly correct! Fat-soluble vitamins build up in the fatty tissues and are much slower to release and are almost always responsible for Vitamin Poisoning, water-soluble vitamins are easily excreted in the obvious way.

There are exceptions though, you can overdose on some of the B vitamins which are water-soluble, I didn't follow up to find out why that is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_poisoning
Reducing the openness of the internet is synonymous with destroying it. To stop piracy altogether, I believe the value of the internet would need to be completely destroyed, yes.

> I'm not interested in destroying or even significantly hampering the internet. But I also don't want the internet to destroy the ability of people to make a living from their creative work.

You do realize that it has always been very difficult for artists to make a living off their work. So difficult, in fact, that the vast majority do their art in their spare time and work other jobs to stay afloat, and that has been the case long before piracy existed.

I would argue that with the advent of the internet, and yes, file sharing (illegal or otherwise) has actually made it possible for more people to make a living off their art than could before these systems were in place. What you seem to be in favor of is protecting a very small number of people - namely signed, popular artists - while hurting the majority of other artists, people who share art, and the internet itself.
I think Musk's involvement will be beneficial more because of his name and his reputation for getting things done, than by way of his contribution.
The question to ask is this:
How much does beauty correlate with strength, health, intelligence, conscientiousness, honesty etc.
If the correlation is high, then maybe judging others on beauty is something that can be justified under time and resource constraints everything else being the same...

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2...

Here the data were less clear, but several reviews of the literature have concluded that there is indeed a small, positive relationship between beauty and brains... In the U.K., for example, attractive children have an additional 12.4 points of IQ, on average. The relationship held even when he controlled for family background, race, and body size. From this, Kanazawa concluded that the famous halo effect is not a cognitive illusion, as so many academics had assumed, but rather an accurate reading of the world: We assume that beautiful people are smart, he argues, because they are.
You make it sound as though those are the only two kind of people on this issue: Those who are reasonable and think CISPA can be fixed, and those who think CISPA is a bill to make spying on every American citizen the legal obligation of every ISP and internet company.

You leave no room for the vast majority of us who believe that the US government already has more than enough authority to spy on people; the government can get a warrant for collecting all of the data they currently want access to. Pretending the government doesn't already have the tools needed to enforce the law is disingenuous. Pretending that this bill is a "reasonable" response to real problems is disingenuous.

It isn't a debate between calm, rational, reasonable people who think the bill is fine (with maybe a tweak or two) on one side, and nutjobs who are paranoid and think like Gene Hackman in The Conversation on the other. There are reasonable people on both sides...but, I question the intentions (and possibly the integrity) of people, particularly people in the tech industry, who support the bill as it stands today.

It shouldn't be surprising that so many people on HN are uncompromising on Internet freedom. It's something we know more than most about, and something we care more than most about.
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If you're asking about differences between pointers and arrays, one example is:

int a[10] = { 7 };
int* p = a;

assert(a[0] == p[0]);
assert(sizeof(a) == sizeof(p)); // FAILS
It can kill you just as any cancer can kill you, but I have heard it described as "the cancer that you die with". (not of).
I'm a pretty good looking man by conventional standards. In my n=1 experience the benefits far outweigh any downside. I actually can't think about any downside.

I know this sounds cocky, but I thought it might add to the discussion.

Being good looking is fucking awesome. So is being smart. Both are a combination of genetics and hard work.
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How does Loren Brichter moving to Facebook affect Letterpress in any way? Are you worried you'll now be getting pop-ups asking you to "like the word XYLOPHONE on Facebook"?
Disclaimer: IANAL, talk to a lawyer if this is more than a hypothetical question.

Under US law, the 9th circuit held in a criminal case that an employee who violates employer computer access policies with intent to defraud and by that action furthers the intended fraud and obtains something of value. http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/10-...

The 1st Circuit held in a civil case found grounds to uphold an injunction against someone redistributing data obtained from a scraper on the grounds that scraping public data in the circumstances exceeded authorised access, and that the data was something of value that would harm the target website. http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/318/...

I don't think these laws are a good thing, but the reality is that US courts have found that accessing websites for purposes beyond the terms of services with 'intent to defraud' violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Defrauding could potentially mean misleading people into following you on Twitter if having Twitter followers is valuable for marketing.

The OP's post could be introduced as evidence by Twitter that he intended to exceed authorised access, that he had intent to defraud, and that he knew his actions were harming Twitter. I think the OP would be well advised to take legal advice on whether to shut down the site now and / or retract the blog post (although it might be too late to suppress it now, given how many people have seen it and possibly archived it).
Well, since he hasn't actually made the kickstarter page we can't tell his true intentions, however the statements he has made previously are that the purpose of the kickstarter campaign is to fund a larger study than the limited local volunteer population he's currently using. The goal is of course to eventually make a commercial product ASSUMING that the research doesn't uncover some kind of insurmountable problem. So yes, this is still research, but the hope is that given some more time it might eventually lead to a product. I know I'm certainly hoping for it, and I'd probably contribute to the kickstarter in the hopes that it bears fruit, and I believe it will based on the results he's achieved so far.

At the end of the day, this is all still experimental, caveat emptor and all that, but everything I've seen so far suggests to me soylent can't possibly be any worse than the garbage served at any number of fast-food restaurants every day.

As for the "nutritionally complete" meal supplements, I think that you can find your answer in the last word of that, "supplement". None of the various "food shakes" that are available commercially are designed to be truly nutritionally complete, rather they're designed to include some of the vitamins and minerals that tend to be lacking in the average diet. Further they tend to be a "one size fits all" affair which out of necessity will be less than optimal for nearly everyone in an attempt to be marginally useful to everyone.
> Unfortunately, that latter group is quite well-represented here on HN.

And most of the US except for a few industries with powerful lobbyists.
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What is this MTP crap? With my Nexus One I could plug into any Windows or Linux machine and transfer files. With my new Nexus 4, uhm nope. Not without hassle. It sounds like MTP doesn't work all that well and you have to upgrade to the new Ubuntu get it. I would bet that the next Google series of phones won't allow any such mounting. Maybe not even any local storage on the phones. Everything on their servers, their "cloud". It's starting to piss me off.
For those not familiar with the legislative process in the U.S., the Senate does not have to pass CISPA. They just need to pass some cybersecurity bill, which can then be conferenced together with CISPA.

Some will take this as proof that the system is broken, but the truth is that we really do need some improvements and clarifications of certain laws to help companies improve their security. If the Senate passes a bill with better privacy protections, those could survive a conference and get signed into law.
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Thanks for the screenshot .. we'll fix it. And Thanks for your good wishes :). We'll soon try to create something that will help you get a better sense interest areas of the mentor population inside.
I guess the way the Government see the situation is. If they're paying Microsoft to provide them with a service/software with guarantees drafted up into a contract when SHTF the Government can turn it all back on Microsoft and say, "But the contracted stated you would be providing a secure platform..." You'd be surprised how popular Windows CE actually is. I've seen it used a lot on touchscreen kiosks here in Australia.
Thanks for the feedback! Match ups are one of the biggest things we're working on, our historical data is showing some very interesting trends on how certain players perform exceptionally well against certain teams...we can't explain it but we can identify it and we're quite certain these types of insights will prove valuable for users.
My new GTX card works great, Steam games (that have been ported to Linux), Minecraft (awesome!), all run great?
I'm glad he does things like this on such a regular frequency as it reminds me to avoid his next project.
I'm not really looking for work right now (nor am I in SV), but thanks.

As for how leadership can affect employees, I'm inclined to believe that leadership will always have a substantive effect on productivity and skill. Obviously, most employees do not work on projects entirely of their choosing; they are given tasks or projects to do, often decided by the team or by management. Certainly, the employee can have input, but ultimately employees exist to serve a role determined by higher-ups. Higher-ups, then, have the responsibility of appropriating their tallent in ways that are effective. Good people aren't good when they aren't given meaningful work.
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Better idea: Lets tax everyone who gives tall people advantages. The tall person didn't choose to be tall. Their parents didn't have a say in the matter either. Shall we tax them for making a tall heir?

You know who had a say in tall people having "advantages"? Everyone who gives them said advantage. Tax them.
Is it ethically okay

I'd think in the general case, yes. The patient is going to want it, even if it is only 25% effective. I'm not an expert on medical ethics, but in my mind if the patient has complete information and still wants the treatment, the doctor is not morally bankrupt in providing it. The doctor can certainly advise otherwise if they choose, of course.