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Look at the Westboro Baptist Church supporters or all those Tea Party activists or all the Obama "birthers" or Trump or all of the millions of other people doing far more than just questioning the government, and then try to tell me again that these people are getting hit with big clubs (or either a figurative or literal sort).

Then consider a place like Pakistan where politicians of nearly every political party are having their gatherings literally bombed by people with actual big clubs.

You're playing with hyperbole here and it's not helping the argument.

Edit: To be clear, the point is that something will have a "biggest club", and we want that something to be under the control of the population at-large and not under individuals. Having that "biggest club" under the tender care of "no one" is just a subset of the case of having it under individuals, after all the bleeding is done...
It's really going to get interesting when somebody does a Kickstarter for splicing the THC gene into tomatos...
As of right now, Go is essentially completely uninteresting to game dev because it's not possible to guarantee steady frame rates in it. (The GC solution is bad for latency.)

Also, I doubt Carmack would be interested in Go -- based on his previous talks, he seems to be going for a more functional approach. Go is imperative to the bone.
I'm surprised no one here has made mention of the correlation between led in the atmosphere and violent crime.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
In my view the horsemeat-as-beef scandal demonstrates that the system works and that mislabeled meat gets detected. In this case the meat was perfectly edible, it was just mislabeled.
I once worked for a major corporation that celebrated "compliance week" -- not compliance of a personal nature, but regulatory compliance. Though at times it seemed hard to distinguish one from the other.
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I sometimes ask mental health professionals what the converse of Oppositional Defiant Disorder is. At what point do we recognize a disorder in a child who is unnaturally compliant and obedient? No answer so far.

I ask because I think I had this. When I was a young prodigy I had the mentality of a performing seal.

It's true that some people have difficulty controlling themselves, and they do need help. But the lack of symmetry says a lot about how diseases are identified; it is about institutional convenience.
Haha, before recent findings I was thinking of taping my TI SensorTag to my Google Glass - and that does have a barometer. I don't think most Android phones do, actually.

Also handy in that it would add some extra buttons that can be read by BLE as well...
> IRC safe?

Definitely not. It has always been a public communications channel. I don't think anyone ever had any privacy expectations regarding IRC.
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I think the mac app store is a much much MUCH smaller market than the iOS app store. It's a new way for people to get apps on a desktop and my guess is the adoption is slower, so it isn't really surprising to me that 20 downloads puts you into the top of your category.

I have no data to back this up, btw. I'd be interested in seeing some mac vs. ios store numbers. Anyone?
I don't know where you're getting that claim from your link. It suggests that in the US, residential lighting is .14 * .38 = 5.32% of electrical supply, commercial lighting is .07 * .36 = 2.52% of electrical supply, and industrial lighting is .22 * .26 = 5.72%, for a total of about 13.5%. As far as I can tell, your link does not break down global electrical use.

Your link further claims that electrical generation accounts for 34% of greenhouse gas emissions in the US, so .135 * .34 = 4.6% of all US greenhouse gas emissions in the US would be lighting-related.

Transportation accounts for 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions, and your link doesn't break down what percentage of that is "cars." But unless only 1/7th of transportation CO2 emissions are from cars, lighting doesn't exceed it, in the US.
I'm curious about how you'd easily setup this for yourself? As for the expensive, you can get away for a small team with something like 20$/month. 20$ is a fraction of what a software developer earn per hour!

I believe people are so 'ga-ga' (to use your term) because they keep it to the bare minimal (but good luck figuring out what that minimal is!) instead of adding thousands of features. We've been using basecamp exhaustively for a couple years. Is it perfect? No. But it's the best good-enough I've found to get shit done.
But for a game your state needs to update at specific time intervals, otherwise you walk too slow or too fast. How can that ever be purely expressed?

Personally, I would love to see more functional possibilities in imperative languages, but have regular imperative possibilities as well. E.g. running the game and keeping state seems pretty suitable for imperative code. But doing certain updates or calculations could be expressed better with functional code.
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Thanks for the clarification.

ISTR being able to back up Linode images, migrate them around, and perform some other admin tasks from the web interface. So I still wonder if the "air gap" API is a bit more powerful than simply the ability to request a reboot. But, again, I don't know.
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> For the other regulatory practices mentioned in the article, especially washing chicken carcasses, I'd like to see more detailed evidence of the safety trade-offs involved in the practices of the United States and of Europe.

There was the relatively recent story in Forbes[1] (HN comments at [2]) about the difference in US/UK treatment of eggs, where the UK standard is to leave them unwashed to protect a natural anti-microbial coating, and the US policy is to wash and artificially disinfect them (at the cost of removing the original coating)

There are some similarities there, and I'm curious about whether the additional cleansing steps are necessary, or part of a process optimisation that allows for more variation in the cleanliness of incoming birds (ie: permitting a faster/messier slaughter or whatever)

The alternative, that it's something like the ammonia used to kill dangerous pathogens in 'recovered meat', is (IMO) more of a concern.

Purely speculation on my part though.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-ame...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325540
... and immediately falls over!
I have played the real Unreal 3 level (the one that ships with UDK) in the browser with bots and physics at one of the webGL meetups. It was awesome. I think the game demo is coming soon.
Agreed. Since the days of the $400 laptop started, most non-techies I meet don't have working desktops anymore. Almost all techies I know have one or more.
The issue at stake here is the counterfactual ‘If guns were (not) available, would the suicide rate be different’.

How does your (oddly specific) statistic address this question?
In the US, "certified" organic food can't use treated sewage as fertilizer.
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In all honesty, British sausage probably should be renamed.
Thanks very much! PressureNET's a really cool app as well.
UK was hit worst, but other european countries were affected as well. I was pretty young when that happened but I still remember the images of piles of cow carcasses being burned on the open field.

The MCD was the reason to ban feeding animal proteins to cows. Before MCD it was common practice to feed ground animal (cow) bones and leftovers from the slaughterhouse to cows.
You don't need to brow-beat me over an honest mistake. It's not like I was an order of magnitude off or anything like that. Utility patents are 20 years and design patents are 14.
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True in most cases, but there was at least one Dutch company that also mixed rotten meat into its products.
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Hmmm. I dunno.

Why wouldn't currency by handled by the type system? You could still have an overrun. But it'd be handled more appropriately.

Long ago, I wrote a budgeting / estimating tool. Costs were represented with binary coded decimals (BCDs). Not floating point numbers. Just like an accounting system.

Competing products could have weird roundoff errors. Not mine.
Wow, that makes me homesick for Moab and Arches in general.
OT: Suddenly the name of the Tor control panel project[1] makes a lot more sense.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html.en
>The article asserts that the increased usage is to compensate for speeding up the kill lines

Yes, but we're not talking about restricting usage, this is about banning them altogether. It would be interesting to know how German producers dealt with the ban. Hopefully it didn't lead to an increased use of other chemical products that aren't banned yet but soon will be etc.
Now more than ever we need an easy to use PGP solution for the masses.
Please don't pull a Wikipedia on me here. As an old physicist joke goes -

Experimental physicist comes to a theoretical physicist office,
bring a graph from a recent experiment and asks for a help with
interpreting the results.

- Well, it's all rather obvious. Here's a peak, here's a dip,
because of this, that and third.

- Hold it, hold it... you are looking at it upside down.

- Ah, right, right. *Rotates the graph*. Oh, it's now even more
obvious than before.

In other words, the "actual science" you are referring to frequently ends up to be nothing more than a matter of interpretation and a subject to all sorts of biases. Especially when it concerns something as unquantifiable as "comfort of reading". Just pick up a couple of fiction books, one set in serif and another in sans-serif, go through a pageful of text and see for yourself.
The one you really want is the third one: "All non-fatal violent crime".

Basically, all crime is down from its 1993 peak, and it so happens that firearm-related crimes are a subset of that. I don't have the time to run numbers to see what the percentage change is, but it'd probably be enlightening.
unquestionably, http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/. It starts from the very beginning and takes you step by step.
All of them, I think. If any vendor were allowed to drop photo management software (as a first class citizen) on Apple machines, software that would even be allowed to manipulate their current cloud library through an open API - would anybody be asking Apple for anything?
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Looks really interesting and useful!

I'm concerned about Apple's stance on this though? Will they allow card payments to bypass their IAP?
Most of the feta cheese you buy as "feta" that tries to be and still isn't real feta is actually cow milk cheese. The taste and texture is different, so the product shouldn't be called feta. The fact that people colloquially refer to things by the wrong name shouldn't allow producers to mislead me by labeling things with the wrong name.
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Realize the USDA is primarily tasked with promoting agricultural business, only secondarily protecting the public. Guess what takes precedence. The FDA is also limited in anything affecting another agency's primary area. Thus FDA cannot affect usage of antibiotics in animal feed.
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This is one of the reasons why any possibility of a significant "free trade" agreement between the US and EU is virtually non-existent.

Their principles, economies, and output across a large range of sectors are much more different than many care to admit.
>Except that's not what was actually happening. Most of what was hotly debated over the last few months has been over an "Assault Weapons Ban", that is a ban on certain semi-automatic rifles, very rarely involved in crime.

That's because they knew that the nuts in NRA and other pro-gun lobbies would never in a 1000 years accept a total "gun control" law. So they scaled down their proposal.

Plus you also have this BS amendment about the "right to bear arms" that you treat as some kind of holy scripture.

I wonder what would have happened if some part of the constitution called for the "right to own slaves".
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It's probably a combination of things, but the correlation to the banning of lead seems to be the highest of any other single reason.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
The Freakonomics explanation (I just finished reading that chapter), says legalized abortion was a major contributor to decreasing crime rates in the 90's. However there were other contributing factors too. Author notes that it wasn't the "innovative policing strategies" of NYC that helped decrease crime rate, but the fact that they hired so many more police. There's a correlation there too. There's also a lot of discussion about crack cocaine and how that increased crime at its peak, but then related crime subsided.
Adobe really needs to figure out how to have Lightroom work with multiple computers / offline storage. Maybe now that they're all "cloud" (though mostly in name only) this will happen.

My pain is that I have a laptop and a desktop (not uncommon for photography. I want to be able to look at the photos on my laptop when on the road, but I also want these photos on the desktop (which can be hooked into a large NAS). If I make some edits on the plane those edits should sync to my desktop and vice versa, but I don't want everything both places--I probably only want the most recent shoot on my laptop along with whatever I choose to keep around (highlights from the past). I have to imagine Adobe's developers also see their laptops filling up, there has to be a better way.
That's the most horrific thing I have ever read
A public test should not be your only line of testing, especially when said feature to be tested deals with real money.
Man up and jump off a bridge. Or issue guns with only one bullet. It's not like you're going to miss.
Use arbitrary precision integers. It's hard to imaging the performance would be noticeably impacted for storing the amount of gold someone has.
Nicely done - I like the option to spin around the group and get a 3D feel for it, but it seems that all the examples you have are strictly planar. Are there any true 3D solution to these choreographed N-body problems?
I believe Kernighan acknowledged that: "[snip] The depth of recursion is no more than the length of the pattern, which in normal use is quite short, so there is no danger of running out of space. [/snip]".

If you're going to judge this code based on both pathological haystacks but also pathological needle regexs, then you have to admit that this code, which has linear space usage in the pattern length is far better than PCRE, which has exponential time in the pattern length[1].

Considering its succinctness, I find that pretty impressive.

[1] http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
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This is an awfully wrong approach. As with things like Alcohol, if you teach your children how to operate and act responsibly, they get into less trouble with it as an adult.

If you stilt their growth and don't allow them to touch a gun until they're 18, they won't have developed enough to handle it themselves without supervision.
You might, given that graduation is coming up they usually have some booth in between Boelter and math&sciences to get your ring size and order in.
Maybe you could go into a little more detail about how your previous clients managed to weasel out of paying.

Maybe you could tell us a little bit more about how you scoped those projects and how you handled contracts and payment terms.

It would definitely help if you told us how you sourced those clients. Did you network your way into them, or get them off outsourcing sites?

How big were the clients?

You're not one good client away from all your problems changing; you're several business model changes away from having a sustainable business that will generate fewer abusive relationships, and, over the long term, the luxury of being picky about your clients.
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And the associated hacker news discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5325540
Out of curiousity what part of the world do you live in? I'm curious what time the sun sets and rises and how that affects you.
Buying a NAS - try a Synology. Best in class.

They've got an app to upload from your Android and iOS devices to the Synology. It's called DS Photo+. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeeZxa4N7NA#t=348s

Happy customer.
It's also a marketing moat because it raises questions for customers when competitors don't have similar report cards -- what are they hiding? The low-pressure copy and honest voice are a big help, too. Very clever indeed.
Interviews suck. You could get turned down for speaking too fast, too!

Anyone who thinks they're making sane hiring decisions based on conventional job interviews with developers is deluding themselves.

From just the circumstances you've described, obviously they made a dumb decision. They're allowed to make dumb decisions, though, unless your slow speech is related to a disability.
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I do think the current situation around feta is better than the previous confusing one, where lots of products which were clearly not feta were allowed to be labeled as "feta". But I personally would prefer that methods/contents be regulated rather than location of production.

I do think it's a good thing that what used to be called "Danish feta" is now "salatost" ("salad cheese"), because it is simply not feta. But I sympathize with the French, Israeli, and New Zealand feta that's no longer allowed to be called "feta" in the EU, because those countries do produce some genuine feta, in every sense except being produced in the wrong location. On the other hand, I think the same of champagne, and I doubt France would be willing to trade the exclusive right to the word "champagne" in return for getting to call some of their cheese "feta"...
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I'm no expert on this, but given what I know about food safety the practice would need to be explicitly allowed. I'd be very surprised if such a practice has ever been allowed. Same holds for other chemical products.
Wolf 3D was written in C for the most part.
"Step 3: Diversify your social passwords for added security" Newsflash: appending a three-character string " Fb" to your use-everywhere password flies directly against Steps 1 and 2 ("Increasing password length is more about strength than it is [sic!] complexity", "Use multiple passwords").

Also, "Password" as a part of an example password? "Append a special character"? What is this, 1995?

Nice idea with the entropy checker, though.
I read somewhere about a study which suggested that some ridiculous high number of gun uses (90+% if memory serves) were resolved without discharging the gun. The thing is, these situations were rarely, if ever, reported (and if they were, it's often up to speculation if the situations would actually have led to a crime), leading to a systematic difficulty in accurately deciding the effectiveness of guns in crime prevention.

The point is, if someone pulls a gun, and you run away, they have very likely achieved their goal, and are unlikely to discharge the gun.
Have you ever taken a programming class? Self-directed learning is great but there's something assuring about taking a class that thoroughly and systematically treats a subject. You walk away without the worry of holes in your knowledge.
I agree, but I call the right to proper working conditions and a decent salary also a "human right".

Else, why is slavery not allowed and having a guy working for 80 hours a week, with no paid overtime, and lax working safety is?

Because he supposedly "has a choice not to work"? Well, millions of people accepting those jobs rarely have a choice.
I just push my photos up to an SFTP on a home server, which also pushes it to an encrypted offsite backup.

This has the advantage of working equally well for code(git repositories and everything being just directories with files), photos, videos, audio samples/tracks... anything which we're used to representing as files on UNIX-y systems.

I really don't understand why we need to jettison the boatloads of wonderful work which has been done to support files on UNIX, in search of a frontend interface difference for people(yes, many people) who don't understand files.
Is that a Xanadu term? Looks like a "google whack" at my end at the time of posting: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22destructuring%20links%22
As a former C programmer who truly loves C... I wouldn't use it DIRECTLY for anything except things that couldn't be done in any other language, things where you really need that fine-grained memory control for performance or deeper technical issues. By all means, wrap code in more abstract languages!

I feel the same about Coffeescript. A while back, I spent a couple of months as a full-time Javascript coder. I like a lot of things about JS, but the line-noiseish syntax (especially around callbacks and anonymous function declaration) was damned annoying. Compared to its elegant-syntax contemporaries like Ruby and Python, it felt awkward.

Coffeescript is a hack, yes, but it's a nice one. It plagiarizes some of the best syntax ideas from more graceful languages (list comprehensions, splats, whitespace significance, etc), and adds them to the good ideas and functionality of JS. I agree that in order to write good Coffeescript, you should be able to write good Javascript too, in order to see the gotchas. But that doesn't mean a preprocessor is a bad thing, not if it gives this much readability and functionality.

Sadly, I think there's a bit of machismo involved in the sneering at Coffeescript, not a real technical issue.
If you're worried about group-chat security, I suggest http://silcnet.org/ , especially if it's just you and your friends. SILC provides client-to-client trust, meaning as long as you trust the protocol you can be assured your communications aren't being watched even if the server or hosting provider is compromised.

If you self-host IRC and use SSL you'll (probably) at least have the luxury of knowing when someone initiates a proceeding to acquire logs, although there's still the risk of someone going to your hosting provider or datacenter and compromising your server physically.

A hosted IRC service seems like a bad idea overall; in addition to the Justice Department's ability to compel them to watch you (just like with Facebook Chat), there's no way for you to know if they're compromised by another third party.
Oh man...that's hard to do though. Deleting photos isn't for the faint of heart.
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Where are you getting:

- The number of baseball bats available,
- The number of baseball bat homicides,
- The number of assault rifles available,
- The number of assault rifle homicides

Please provide the actual numbers, and sources. We can't compare H_bat/A_bat to H_rifle/A_rifle without these.
This is a great article. The linked article ("Anti-Authoritarians and Schizophrenia: Do Rebels Who Defy Treatment Do Better?") is also very interesting:

"At the 2-year assessment there were no significant differences in severity of psychosis between schizophrenic patients (SZ) on antipsychotic medications and SZ not on any medications. However, starting at the 4.5-year follow-ups and continuing over the next 15 years, the SZ who were not on antipsychotic medications were significantly less psychotic than those on antipsychotics.”