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I think your example of book burning is the most interesting bit here.

Book burning used to be seriously reprehensible, because it was a potentially effective way to destroy or deny information. If you were burning Bibles in the 14th century or whatever, you were making it vastly harder for locals to find out what was in a Bible. A successful book-burning program could seriously alter the information available.

Today, though, book-burning is pointless except in some rare cases. It's definitely pointless to burn Bibles or anything else that exists in multiple copies. Yet we still find it to be reprehensible. Why?

I think part of it is just history. We remember that it used to be really awful, and we're slow to catch up.

But part of it is the symbolism. We know that it's not really destroying information or impacting anyone's access to it. But that's still the intent. By burning books, you're declaring that you want to deny people this information, even if you can't. Well, sometimes you are. Other times you're just disposing of paper and ink to no ill effect. It can be hard to tell them apart.

I think the AK-47 here is much like burning a widely available book. There are tons of AK-47s out there, so destroying one won't impact its availability in any meaningful way. It ultimately does nothing to destroy one. On the other hand, it may be symbolic, saying that you want to deny people to these guns, even if you can't. Or maybe it's just pragmatic. Hard to tell exactly which one applies here.
While I do agree that the amount of speculation over such a simple joke is a little ridiculous, Douglas Adams' actual thought process doesn't invalidate the alternatives as valid interpretations of the text. While Adams may have had no particular question in mind when he wrote the joke, it is nonetheless a key point of the story that there is such a question, and as such it is to be expected that some people's interpretations of the story will include one.

Now personally, I would argue that the actual question is unknowable, and that this is central to the point of the story, but this is just my opinion.
Didn't see your question. opensprinkler.com seems like a verygood solution. I found it after starting working on my project so I bought a sainsmart 5v relay controller. Doing it again, I would probably buy opensprinkler for Pi
Aaah, the "they hate us because we're free" bit. I hear that a lot, but haven't heard a plausible justification for it yet. From what I've seen, most of the non-westerners who are out to attack the West are mostly pissed off because we occupy lands they consider holy, invade their countries, depose their elected leaders, stage coups, supply weapons and training to "Group A" this week, then switch to considering "Group A" our enemy when it suits us, and generally meddle in their affairs.

I never said "they hate us because we're free". I said that people want to hurt the Western freedoms. Big difference. I am not justifying the actions by any gov't, but ignoring the reality on the ground is equivalent to burying your head in the sand and hoping the bad guys go away.

I don't know what it is with people today... as far as I'm concerned, "Give me Liberty or give me Death" isn't just some archaic catch-phrase to study in the history books... it is the very definition of what it means to live. If we aren't free, what else could matter more than trying to become so - even if it means dying in the process?

I hear you, and while I agree with you principle....I suspect that if you were President, you would probably be doing similar things.

The mere fact that Obama, who bashed Bush for doing these same things, has gone further than Bush to "protect the motherland" is testament to the enormous pressures on the office of POTUS to prevent major attacks on the homeland.

Also...."give me Liberty or give me Death" is a nice trope to roll off your tongue when you aren't a victim of terrorism. I am not saying you are (or aren't). But...quite frequently, many people like to cling to theoretical ideals until they are tested (either experiencing some tragic terrorist event, in this case, that could have been "easily" stopped - or being the 1 person responsible for the safety of everybody else).

Either way, these issues are not easy and sticking dogmatically to tropes - despite a changing environment - is not likely a prudent strategy.

I don't like the ever increasing encroachment on civil liberties as the next guy, but at the same time....there must be a line on what people are allowed to do and say.
I think I'm missing something. Why will they call you in a panic?
In Brazil there is a government initiative named Bolsa Família that gives US$ 45,00 per child on school. It's removing proplr from poverty and increasing the local market in some cities.

The main benefit is that the people doesnt want to earn this money from govern, so they stsrt to look at job opportunities.
> It has nice style support.

Aside from the normal terror of using Swing, I agree with this--with one caveat. As JetBrains has learned, Swing's text editing controls and modern Linux look, regardless of style, like crap.

Less of a big deal for a word processor, but a pretty big deal for them. :(
Distance will help, but I imagine the plane would have to be absurdly large. The reduction in radiation exposure from each additional foot of distance will go down the farther out you go, and at some point, the additional fuselage will weigh more than the equivalent shielding. It wouldn't surprise me if that point was not all that far out.
Exactly...plus....what you consider 'freedom' someone else may consider tyranny, etc.

So it is always relative.

For instance, some people think living with their parents is freedom. Others think it is akin to jail.

It's all relative.
The Swerve is an excellent read if you are interested in learning more about the history of losing texts to the ravages of time and religion.
Let me make sure I understand this properly. You're coming right out and saying that you object to factual, unbiased reporting because it doesn't go out of its way to make the implications that you personally feel it should, to advance your agenda?

If that's correct, then you're right, we don't have much to discuss. I cannot even remotely fathom that attitude.
I'm pretty sure he could have found some adult to receive the money for him, if it had been offered as a possibility.
I made $80k out of college, as did many of my peers -- $80-100 was the range. And most engineers I know are making approximately double that at the 3-5 year mark. $80k is absolutely below market for an engineer with more than a little experience -- I don't know about the pay ranges for desktop support techs.
Bonuses are generally withheld at a higher rate but in the end they're taxed as ordinary income.
>Funny story: I was in special ed classes for my last year of high school. Half my teachers wanted me to be in the hyper-accelerated program, half my teachers wanted me to be in special ed; the latter teachers won. They took my resistance to doing homework and "disorganization" as a profound learning disability, despite never getting less than an A on a test.

I was in both the 'gifted' and the 'special ed' programs at the same time. the 'special' classes weren't so bad, really, if you only had to do it for two hours, twice a week, and it seems they were mostly worried about my handwriting.

It's funny, 'organizational skills' haunt me to this day, that's the other thing they tried to teach me. (and yeah, even now I'm pretty bad; I dono if I would call it a disability, but it's a big problem that holds me back.) but handwriting? the idea of actually spending time learning handwriting strikes me as very silly.
When I was a student at the University of Florida, I had the pleasure of working in the Special Collections department of the university library system. This is the department where collections significant to Florida history as well as really old things were kept. These items required a well controlled environment. I had the opportunity to discover many unique items, and I'm sure there are tons of things that some enterprising researcher may discover one day that no one currently knows about.

These Timbuktu items need to be preserved. In my opinion, destroying things of this nature, or letting them get destroyed through lack of care, is a very serious issue. I hope a larger body gets involved with this.
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Wow, that's a harsh comment.

Being neither Vulcan nor omniscient, just human, I had to make a decision with imperfect information, and my instincts did play a role in that decision. Improving Microsoft corporate culture was not my goal. Improving the world was not my goal. My goal was to work on software that I was driven to write, using technology that I enjoyed using, and to provide a comfortable life for my family. I did all of those things.

I don't "hate" Microsoft, but combining what I knew of myself at the time, with what I observed at the company, I concluded that I would be happier elsewhere.
More information about the program:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsa_Fam%C3%ADlia
Trivia: the last MSJVM updates was actually the DST updates released under the infamous $4k/year EHS DST program.
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Feels like a kickstarted lottery, in a way. But since the winner didn't really know what the prize would be, the precise regulatory environment such a thing would operate in is pretty grey!
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Just because plants produce toxins doesn't mean humans don't benefit from them. Humans and plants coevolved over millions of years, and it's not unreasonable for the human body to "expect" certain chemical triggers in the environment, and to go awry without them. It could be that plant toxins turn on specific cellular repair machinery which the body needs. This theory of hormesis is young but promising, and attempts to explain the health promoting effects of vigorous exercise, modest stress, resveratrol/sirtuin activation, and mTOR activation.

For example, restricting calories improves life span, but in high doses (zero calories) is fatal. But just because this strategy is bad at the limit doesn't mean it's bad in small does. Similarly, exposure to the sun results in skin cancer in large doses, but produces cancer fighting vitamin D in small doses.

What is the correct dose of plant toxins? We don't know, but it could well be higher than in bred plants, at least for adults. Children generally hate bitter foods and the reason could well be to protect their small livers from overdose.
As a biologist, my intuition is that there's been little change in the nutrient value of meat. Plants synthesise a very broad array of compounds which affect their flavour and nutrient value. Animal biochemistry is nowhere near as complicated, so there's not so much that can change.

There may well have been a shift in the protein/fat ratio of meat, but I guess that would be dwarfed by changes in what we eat and how we prepare it.
> 'J. R. "Bob" Dobbs' is a human identity

Is he really though?
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I don't think so. The neural network in Google+ was trained on labeled images and now finds similar objects in unlabeled images.

The technology discussed in that article is about deducing the existence of a common feature, in this instance a cat, from a large collection of unlabelled images.
I wrote an example/tutorial (targeted in C though, not rust) a few years back which may have some of what you're looking for:

http://adelaideos.sourceforge.net
Yeah, OS X is still there for developer needs, but it's taken a step back from the uber power usability (aka, your example). At the end of the day, as long as you use an OS and software that meets your needs, use it.
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Where does this idea come from that the government is a "normally sane" actor, usually acting in the best interest of the people?

If history tells us anything, it is that time and time again, governments are the principal actors in massacres and globe-spanning wars. They are the time-tested source of evil, no doubt about it.

I realize you didn't have a holocaust of your own in the USA, but surely you can learn from history.
> But for the record, they are AQ affiliated.

Citation needed.

Do they pay an annual subscription? Is their leader pals with The leaders of Al Qaeda? What is the process of becoming an Al Qaeda affiliate? Do they need to train in the same camps?
and you don't have to back up, you always have your documents

Until Google closes your account for whatever reason.
The article in The New Republic gives the story-

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112898/timbuktu-librarian...
Our instincts emerged from billions of years of natural selection, and they work at a much deeper level than our logical thinking. The idea that intelligent computers would start from logical thinking and then develop human emotions and instincts doesn't have any basis besides our natural - I would say instinctual :) - tendency to anthropomorphism.
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I had the same problem (I'm on ArchLinux). I fixed it as follows:
https://github.com/FrozenCow/rustboot/commit/ec46219d50f4403...

No idea whether this is actually correct, but it does run in qemu. It doesn't however boot on my laptop from a USB drive though... not sure how actual hardware is different from qemu.
It unfortunate, but the kid is an idiot. how you can post lyrics like that and not think it would set off alarm bells all over the place after a kid (right around the same age did something so terrible) just weeks before is beyond me.

Hopefully he walks but I hope he finds the experience harrowing enough to learn a lesson or two about applying a little common sense to the concept of free speech.
Heh. You and I clearly have different approaches to politics. Anyone calls me asking for money gets hung up on. I never give money to politicians, because that's insane. The money would go to far better use if I give it to that homeless guy who spends it on crack cocaine.
I honestly find a lot of the arguments irksome particularly because many are predicated on the idea that techies can "afford to live somewhere else." Its a bit ridiculous to insinuate that its our moral duty to spend extra money from our paychecks (that we'd rather be saving) to live somewhere we don't want to so that other people can avoid change.
From the other side of the mirror, I mean from the position of someone used to git, this comment seem weird.

Git is not hard to use. It is adding a few articulations in your workflow, and they are just allowing you to run faster.

One example: interactive staging with git add -p, this articulation masks it much easier to debug: add print all over the place, try some tweaks, find the one, stage this one snippet, checkout the files, run the test, and you're done.
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> "And total NYC taxes are probably lower than CA taxes now too."

My total overall tax rate dropped moving from SF to NYC (I pay the NY City tax). Looking at the enormous difference in infrastructure and services between the two cities, one has to wonder what California does with all that tax money.

My latest theory is that there is a giant tax money incinerator somewhere in the state. It is the only feasible explanation for how one can get so little for so much money.
Recently: Sketchup

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.dk/2012/04/new-home-for-sketchu...
Money laundering, though, is a very small subset of the crimes you're talking about. And something like stolen credit card numbers or reselling drugs may have a side effect of laundering money but as far as I know the main motivation is simple profit. They are illegal for much stronger reasons than simple 'abetting', and provide no support toward outlawing 'pure' money laundering.
I feel that statements like that are a working out of ideas out loud, with a community, and show a thoughtfulness and curiosity that deserves encouraging amongst humans. If you disagree with an idea, show evidence rather than trying to shame people into silence.
This is seriously fun! You can actually search for "blue car" and it works. Searching for "picture" results in an error however. Same for "image". "photo" seems to return more or less everything.
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"Furthermore, trying to extract rent from companies will fail in the long run since they are free to move within the US."

Or out of the U.S., for that matter. IBM is thought to now have more employees in India than in the U.S.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_India
That is exactly what happened

“People are going to hate me for this,” Henderson told Wired in a phone interview, “but I only registered for the game earlier this morning, about an hour before I won the thing.”
There wasn't much discussion of pre-Columbian plant breeding in this article. Do you have any links to where the author makes these claims?
Tech innovation without legal and capitalist incentives
I often feel like the legal Western capitalist structure causes more problems for a larger number of people than it solves. The better work the smartest geeks do now is reversing those flaws in many ways. I suppose the purpose that matters in the end --- if anything matters? -- is advancing the growth of the human species, and we should pick the societal innovations that work best for that. If it becomes possible to transcend old social norms and laws to benefit the masses, then do that instead of treating traditional societal authority as sacrosanct. But most people are unwilling to think for themselves. For example it seems ridiculous to judge useful websites by their ad-clicks & t shirt sales, if it wasn't for the US government and central banks, we'd have moved on to a better system by now where you can reward things with value points like reviews to judge value (everything is free, but the most viewed/downloaded data gets the most points). It's way better than saying we have a good idea that people like but how can we make money other than t-shirt sales? We'd have all the information and education free for everyone in the world to view and download already instead of only in the transhumanist 2300s. But instead of having our own opinions we're treated like robots being ranked and numbered for workplaces. We used to live in caves, we're just a species inhabiting nature. All species diverge and compete, but saying you can't do things differently cause you live here is nonsense. How can someone have that authority over you like that? It's like a different caveman tribe saying your tribes customs work well for you but it goes against our tradition, and we claim your land, so obey or be killed and jailed.<p>Bottom line is natural selection should favor the better options by any means of getting there; humans can't make rules, only to follow those that exist in nature.
Isn't the rpi an armv6 device? Why the GOARM=5 build flag?
By the same token a really determined burglar can get into my house - that doesn't mean I should leave the doors unlocked.

No-one is suggesting that Google are going to hack into your machine to get your data, nor that what they want to do is out and out unpleasant, but what it is in in their interest either instead of or as well as yours.

Until we work out that instead of / as well as, I think a healthy questioning of what might be happening is reasonable.
Awesome!
Just don't really understand why Dropbox storage is so much better than just using Workflowy.
I'm not a math guy, but I was thinking about a number series the other day, and 42 popped up. Do the numbers 1,806; 3,263,442; and/or 10,650,056,950,806 happen to have any significance as well?
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> Whatever the make-up of the tower below, if it is stable, we can always place the top brick so that it extends half way into the void.

I don't understand the meaning of this statement. If a brick extending halfway into the void is stable, and we can place a brick extending halfway into the void on any stable brick, then we can create an infinitely overhanging tower by placing an infinite series of bricks each of which extends halfway over the void relative to the tower beneath it.

Clearly this is not the case. What does 'stable' mean (precisely) in the above quote?
I was looking to see if it would work on American carriers and their FAQ indicated they only ship to Europe. So now I know what it feels like when Europeans cannot buy US only products or use US only websites. lol
> The fact is, people want to hurt the Western freedoms that many take for granted.

You really swallowed 'they hate us for our freedom' hook, line and sinker, didn't you?

> If they didn't act on it, and this kid did in fact do something, we would be having a COMPLETELY different conversation now.

You're arguing that we should prosecute thought-crime, because it might result in a real-world crime? Wow.

> So as I said, this could have gone the other way - at which point I am sure you would be cursing the FBI for incompetence.

A classic: making an assumption about how others would feel based on your own feelings.
The initial array creation + startup/parse/compile/teardown should be quite constant between runs (probably most of the 0.4 seconds baseline). I think the 11sec->2min vs 0.41sec->0.44sec time increase illustrates the algorithmic complexity quite well, no?
The French approach to psychiatry is very different to that in the Anglophone world. Lacanian psychoanalysis is still a mainstream treatment, even for developmental disorders like autism. The article is wholly mainstream by French standards.
Isn't this CSRF?
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Sensor position is, mostly, irrelevant. You obviously get better performance with they sensors at the crossing point of all the motors, but it's entirely possible to put the sensors on one motor pod and calibrate it to fly with them in that location.
It works! http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=52197

Well, I didn't use the numbers from the article, rather I just balanced the tower top-to-bottom, which after a quick look is what's happening in the article. With some tolerance of course, these bricks aren't very straight.
It's only an advantage if you have such a high IQ. If you didn't, then you wouldn't be interested in the kind of problems that would require it.
Whether its a fad or not the combination of the 2 work very well for a lot of people.
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I get the reasoning, I just don't think it works. By the time you're 50 only a fraction of your knowledge is still relevant. Sure the fundamentals are the same, but the tech you're working with is probably fairly new. I've worked with a few 50+ guys who have been in the business for almost as long as i've been alive. One of the common traits i've seen is they've learned to not trust certain levels of abstraction, or techniques. Which is fine, but tech has progressed, and now many of the original reasons are no longer valid yet they're still resistant to using them.

The good guys are up to date in the state, they've learned the new features, they trust them, and they use them.. but staying up to date for 20 years is an exhausting race.

Personally I hope i'm only writing code as a hobby at 50.
Opinions like this make me happy that I accepted a graduate job at an investment bank (with the hope that I will be able to develop something on the side) instead of going for a startup after finishing university.
This is great! I just love the Dropbox integration.
My two suggestions:

- Keyboard shortcuts for file operations.

- 3-5 recently used icons accessible on the main interface.
Chrome was also bundled with Adobe Flash Player installer for Windows, I.e. you download Flash and, if you didn't uncheck the check box, Chrome is set as your default browser.