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I don't know if my American history books were particularly biased (although I had a great and seemingly unbiased one in AP US History), but expressing aspiration through voting has been a long common thread through US history. For example, slaves were expensive so only a small small minority owned them. The vast majority supported it because (or at least some of the primary reasons cited by my history books) it a) established someone lower on the social ladder than them and b) they all aspired to the "American dream" which at that time was owning slaves and didn't want to end it before they even became wealthy.
Yet, every so often you have a flash of genius and looking back have no idea how you actually came up with that piece of code - this is where creativity trumps engineering.
Why would we need a solution? I find it tragic that the lack of need for forced labor is seen as a problem...
As a career-long test dev I have to ask . . . how do you test all of that? Do you test all of that? You probably don't in practice.

Maybe I'm jaded. As a newly-minted SDET I once tried to test email addresses as defined by RFCs and eventually realized that I was trying to test adherence to standards instead of what actually happened.

My humble suggestion is to use a well-vetted URI-handling library and employ a combination of eyeballing it and some faith. (I hate to recommend faith but there you go.) And if there's not already a lib for that in Java (gotta be but I try to avoid Java) maybe some Java-head could write one for everyone . . .
>This shows that Facebook doesn't care about what users want from Facebook anymore, but about what's going to make Facebook the most money.

What? When has this ever not been the case? Have you actually used facebook from the (near) beginning? Because it's never been about anything but what makes the most money. Zuck and co have screwed everyone to cater to advertisers since they first opened to the non-university internet (and I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was going on even before that).
In re Apple In-App Purchase Litigation
Well, the vast majority of news media (including newspapers) are trivializing the concept as well, for a few reasons, so the S.V. people are doing nothing really different.
For example it's generally horrific, for a person with a scientific background, to read the "scientific" section of the mainstream newspapers.

"News media" with a certain depth, which you are likely referring to, are only a niche.
Those techs are not taking off because there are no standards.
The premise for the progressive tax is that those that have benefited the most from the infrastructure provided by the government should repay the most. I don't think that tenant disappears the second you include a basic income allotment.
I can confirm I don't recall ever seeing a fight in Melbourne. Pretty much everywhere else, though...
So Karma is right some of the time is your defense? A broken clock is right two times a day. I still wouldn't advocate replacing your functional clock with a broken one. Similarly, I don't advocate Karma because it's an extremely flawed philosophy.
Which inspired me to make this: http://i.imgur.com/HwXGDmO.jpg

I technically know what all the buttons and knobs do, have a basic understanding of music theory sufficient to make it sound like I almost know what I'm talking about, and half my friends are DJ's and some of them are producers, actually getting an idea out of my head and into the speakers is not something I care enough about to put the effort in to. I'm a physical infrastructure guy.

When people ask me what kind of music I listen to I'm a little cautious about saying "Minimal Techno, Drum & Bass, Psytrance, Dubstep, Trip Top", so now I just say "I used to listen to Minimal Techno, now I just to nothing", and see if they get the joke.

In my arrogant opinion, many of the "EDM" 'top earners' give 'electronic music'a bad name to those who think "EDM" and "Techno" are synonymous. My audiophile friends and I have introduced lots of people, young and old, to electronic music genres they didn't even know existed, and it's got them on their feet dancing.

Skrillex uses Prime Loops! [1] Anyone with GarageBand can do that. I always say "Skrillex isn't Dubstep, it's 'Commercial Shit-step".

[1] http://primeloops.com/blog/index/post/title/skrillex-uses-pr...
Probably the best thing i've seen on Google Street View
Huh. How is "You should've known!" a useful response to an apology? Of course he should've known, that's why he's apologizing.
angularjs first public release on github was in October 2010.
This has nothing to do with freedom, the guy owed money by court decision, refused to pay it to his divorced wife, so he got contempt sentence. If you want to get some outrage going, read about civil forfeiture.
> In reality, this kind of thinking means that if you believe in Karma, you can ignore less-fortunates because clearly they screwed up their lives on their own.

Disagree - If some one is "less-fortunate" and you are in the capacity to help them, you accumulate the negative kind of karma by ignoring them.

> Conversely, you can get away with being a jerk to people, because they probably deserved it anyway.

Maybe. But do not forget the implications on you for being a jerk.

> It is a self-reinforcing bias of the worst sort.

Depends on how you take it.
Maybe the future of the planet involves no humans (ie we all die off eventually)... just robots that can create themselves.

Or maybe we stay on board, reaching a point where technology lets us live forever, and we just sun-tan all day with robots massaging us.
At the end of the day though, if it provides some value to the world, does it matter?

I think there is a section of stack overflow moderators who shoot down questions purely due to ego.

Someone obviously trying to solicit an answer for their CS homework, close! Intoxicated monkey whacking the keyboard: close!.

This: keep it, please!

In fact I'm surprised it's still there.
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> The chunks could be small enough that it hopefully doesn't violate any intellectual property rights of the employer.

I would advise never assuming this, and would always get explicit permission, in writing.

I have worked on projects where even accidentally leaking the language being used would have revealed something my employer considered secret at the time.
Path parameters aren't particularly well supported on many server platforms, unfortunately.

Of course, it does depend on what parser gets them first!
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It's funny he does not seem to mention Milli Vanilli... [1], winners of a Grammy (which was later revoked because, you know, they actually did not sing!).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli
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How about the PRISM and hardware tracking built into iPhones?

edit: let the down votes commence, I've got some karma to burn.
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The WoD is very unlikely to be helping your community. In fact it's more likely diverting money that cold be used to actually help your community into futile enforcement efforts.

That said I agree, this is not the government "stealing" because it's the proceeds of crime and subject to forfeit. The way to tackle the WoD is not just by hiding money and enabling drug dealers.
It's unclear what your argument is, here.

Are you saying it's financially unsustainable? I agree that that's the big question, but saying "Detroit" isn't an argument.

Government expenditures aren't decreasing or being cut back massively: they're consistently rising, year on year. This isn't merely some artefact of Democratic administrations (which are hardly anomalies and can't be ignored anyway), because even the Ryan budget included year on year increases, albeit at a slower rate (that didn't keep pace with medical inflation, for better or for worse).

After medical costs, I would argue that people becoming unemployable is the main cause of this increase. That's why we see spiraling post-secondary education expenditures, massive SSDI increases, neverending unemployment benefits. Even SS itself reflects this a bit. If you buy the automation thesis or a variant--the zero marginal productivity worker--this tendency will not only continue but accelerate in the coming years and decades.

How do we deal with it? The contours of the issue is that automation simultaneously makes the world richer but also, because of increased skill requirements and increased human and informational capital management costs, makes some people too expensive to hire at any (positive) wage.

What do we do with them? Horses we just turned to glue, but thankfully no one is suggesting that. But ignoring them effectively does the same. So the question is how do we most efficiently provide them with the necessities of life?

If you buy into mainstream economic theory, cash payments are superior to in-kind ones. And also according to mainstream economic theory, giving benefits that phase out creates sharp disincentive effects to marginal labor, creating a welfare trap.

A basic income is the simplest answer to this. People not only have the same incentives to work as they do today, but indeed more if they're poor, as additional labor will not cost them benefits. It also undermines employer monopsony power in the marketplace. Those two things substantially increase the efficiency of the market.

That doesn't even touch on the possibility of an "entrepreneurial explosion" that some argue a basic income will allow for, which I'm cautiously optimistic about.

So, costs: the question as always. I did a rough calculation awhile back, and if I recall correctly swapping out Medicare, Medicaid, and SS for a basic income gets us to around $6k/adult citizen in the USA. That's more than halfway there. The rest? Well, there's the tricky part: some will come from increased economic efficiency and removing bureaucratic administrative costs from Medicare and Medicaid, but I'd like some other programs to be cut and, yes, taxes to be raised. My preferred version is a flat federal income tax comparable to what the well-off pay as their marginal rate now.

We can debate all the particulars, but the inexorable logic of the world's economic development demands we do something. A basic income is, in my view, the something that lets the market do its magic in the most unimpeded and efficient way possible.
It's actually happened to me at least a few times that I'm reading an old blog comment, read through it nodding my head the whole time as it precisely describes my opinion, only to find my name at the bottom signed several years ago :)

Of course it's also happened that I was saying to myself "who does this dick think he is?"
Couldn't obedience be another form of intelligence?
One unintended consequence of the Snowden leak is to advertise this service to US businesses. My guess is that the discreet inquiries are already winging their way towards Congressmen.
I had no idea this wasn't normal. I might also have Tinnitus. I can't imagine how the world looks and sounds to normal people, must be great!
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It's compatible with all devices which support a JVM, which these days outnumber the ones supporting Maclisp.
Conversely we do have things we call crime, and we generally do say that the proceeds of crime are subject to forfeit. This is somewhat deeper than the government not liking certain types of transactions.

Do you think people should be able to profit from crime?
> I can't understand the general hostility toward getting (financial) help from your parents or living with them until you are financially independent, even after 18/25/30.

Personally, I never had that support structure and had to figure out my shit the hard way; that doesn't mean I was never helped by people, it simply means that I had to work harder to get help. This means that I find it mildly annoying when those hoops are skipped easily by people who can run to mommy and daddy when things go bad.

> I know I am biased as an italian

There is a cultural element to it. I am of Indian origin; those people are big on the family support structure thing. I think it gets way too codependent. On the other hand, America has both kinds: There are enough people who run to daddy to handle their credit card bills. There also is this Randian image of a hero who arises magically from the dust and conquers everything.
>That is patronizing. There is a wide spectrum of reasons why one might say vote for lower/higher taxes between "they worked hard, so they deserve it" and "fuck you, I want mine".

Since I never clarified what I meant and you came up with such a specific notion, it would appear you're projecting some defensiveness here.

But I will go ahead and clarify my position: The fact of the matter is, the US is a combative system. For it to work properly, each side has to take the extremes of their own position so the result ends up in the middle.

The rich don't need the poor or middle class to vote as a rich person, they can literally pay people to do that for them if they wish. A poor person should vote for issues that help them specifically and directly. Forget trickle-down even if you're ignorant enough to believe in it.

A perfect example is right-to-work states. Within the last year or so I read a story about a husband in (I believe it was) Kentucky who was sent out on a neglected platform to do some work, it collapsed and he died. The family was simply out a husband, father and provider. They couldn't even sue because the way the laws worked in that state meant the company would have literally had to try and murder the man for the family to be able to sue over the indecent.

I bet if you talked to most people in that state, they would be for this law because they don't want people suing McDonald's over hot coffee, for example. But why would they care? They're closer to the burned woman than they are McDonald's, voting their interests would mean they vote for the ability to sue McDonald's if they accidentally burn themselves.

Of course ditto-heads will scream "yea but if we did that it would ruin the whole country!" and indeed if the poor and middle class always got their way it would. But that wouldn't happen. Voting their own interests would simply pull the final result closer to the middle. That is, it would present ridiculous situations like a family not even being able to sue a company for a true case of near-criminal negligence and wrongful death.
WSJ must be quaking in their boots lol
Most of the links are resources that we have read significant portions and learned from. Maybe in the future, a Java-related resource could be added.
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Yep.

And when companies release the products THEY use and find helpful, everyone improves it and releases it back.

Memcache springs to mind.
I wrote a primitive 3D engine in high school, in qbasic. But this was before I knew linear algebra or the idea of z-buffers so it worked based on the math I knew at the time, which ended up being fairly convoluted and a little buggy. And it achieved texture occlusion through drawing the closest shapes last. Also, it didn't have a buffer at all it just drew directly on the screen. It actually worked though, which I thought was pretty cool, but I can only imagine how I would judge the code today.

P.S. Oh man, I found it. OK, here's the code: http://pastebin.com/Hi2wYSmW and I think this is a data file for it: http://pastebin.com/eF1WuhVb

Also, it looks like at some point I learned about z-buffers while writing the thing. I seem to have a couple different versions on backups.

For reference I wrote this when I was a teenager and it ran on a 286 (IBM PS/1).
>> they have a very carefully controlled (and diminishing) inflation of the money supply.

With a fixed total amount and no magic bullet to wean us off our addiction to growth. It's deflationary by design.
I don't see how keeping uncivilized people around is good for a country. How often does a violent robber really reform himself to become an asset for society? In "The Diamond Age" a character is executed for mugging a guy and that seems reasonable to me.
No, absolutely not. To view my old code is to acknowledge that I am not infallible. I'm totally infallible therefore that code simply does not exist. Never happened.
Is there somebody who can find an error in this: (at the end of the book)

"The universe has a finite age, T, about 13.7 billion years. Because information cannot travel faster than the speed of light, c, our observable universe is limited to an apparent 13.7 billion light years, although the furthest objects we can see have since moved further away. Its mass is limited by the gravitational constant, G, to a value that prevents the universe from collapsing on itself.

A complete description of the universe could therefore consist of a description of the exact positions and velocities of a finite number (about 10^80) of particles. But quantum mechanics limits any combination of these two quantities to discrete multiples of Planck's constant, h. Therefore the universe, and everything in it, must have a finite description length. The entropy in nats (1 nat = 1/ln(2) bits = 1.4427 bits) is given by the Bekenstein bound as 1/4 of the area of the event horizon in Planck units of area hG/2πc3, a square of 1.616 x 10^-35 meters on a side. For a sphere of radius Tc = 13.7 billion light years, the bound is 2.91 x 10^122 bits.

We now make two observations. First, if the universe were divided into regions the size of bits, then each volume would be about the size of a proton or neutron. This is rather remarkable because the number is derived only from T and the physical constants c, h, and G, which are unrelated to the properties of any particles. Second, if the universe were squashed flat, it would form a sheet about one neutron thick. Occam's Razor, which the computability of physics makes true, suggests that these two observations are not coincidences."

I'm not qualified enough to find the possible error but I consider that speculation intriguing!
Impressed with the demo, so quick and easy! Will definitely try the solution.
In hip hop and electronic music, "producer" is pretty much synonymous with "artist". In hip hop the MC is the one whose voice you hear, and the producer is, well, everything else: the beats and melodies in addition to the more traditional producer stuff like arrangement and mastering. Electronic music also follows this paradigm. As there is typically no live voice (any voice is typically coming from samples), the producer is the entirety of the production.
take the tin foil hat off your head.
You should try the UK. Find some small market town somewhere and wander around after chucking out time on a Saturday night. Loads of fights.
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The story: Back when Google announced they were killing Reader, I built most of a feed reader. I never quite finished it, mostly because I realised I didn't want to support an entire system. I wanted something to show for the effort I spent, so I decided to plug the UI I had (which suited my style of using a feed reader better than the alternatives I've seen) into the NewsBlur API. This is what I came up with.
My thought exactly. Fuck work, we can have a lifestyle driven by curiosity and cooperation, full of open research and celebration; Imagine constantly living like you do at hacker cons and camps.

When talking about this I often encounter people going "BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE FAT LAZY SLOBS WHO WON'T DO ANYTHING?!1!?" to which I can only reply:
What about them? So a few people will sit around and do nothing. What's so bad about that if their labor isn't needed? It's not like a few lazy people will bring about the end of our civilization…
Yeah, I have heard of that narrative; Steinbeck did say “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”. I still find it patronizing; it is reductive. The model assumes a caricature of a poor man who votes for slavery in the hope of owning a slave one day. Maybe, he just doesn't like black people? Maybe, he worries that his precarious job will be lost by new competition? Maybe, Colonel George from the plantation threatened him if he votes for abolition?
In most cases you are right when you say that you will be treated like a victim if you act like one, but I wouldn't tie having no weapons to acting like a victim in such a general way.

It just depends on where you live and how people behave in certain situations.

If I lived in the US, I'd probably have a gun at home, because the probability that it will protect my life outweights the chance that someone might get shot accidentally. (for example if you have children at home)

But in many western european countries you have almost no upside by possessing a gun (because you just wont experience a life threatening situation with a burglar), just the downside of your children possibly somehow getting their hands on the gun, no matter how safe you stored it.
If by large companies you mean Amazon/Microsoft/Google, look at about 100k/year (inc. stock) if you make it thru the interviews, but there are like 5 of them. It is mostly C++, but Amazon's back end is alot of perl, and you would be on call much of the time. There is no state income tax, so you could save lots of money.
Snowden didn't circumvent anything, because he hasn't released anything.

He clearly has released top secret documents; your assertion that he "hasn't released anything" is simply untrue. If you truly feel this isn't a leak, you obviously think the top secret classification is irrelevant and disagree with the US gov. on this. Some examples of his assertions verified by documents:

NSA keeping daily phone records for every American
NSA receiving data from US internet companies
GCHQ (and thus NSA) keeping 3 days complete internet traffic passing through UK
GCHQ (and thus NSA) keeping the content of all UK text messages

Re access controls at the NSA, I find it telling that an analyst was able to look at Bill Clinton's emails and only be reprimanded afterward - if proper legal controls on each target of surveillance were in place, or even perfunctory control by supervisors, that could never have happened.
You can try this subreddit for getting counter-arguments:

http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview
Alarming? The lack of understanding from the government is all that has kept the internet relatively safe so far.
> In the future, even this small elite of corporate managers and knowledge workers (to which I belong) may not be needed either, as computers will become self-deterministic.

If that ever happens (and I hope that it does), the solution space will look more like "post-scarcity non-monetary economy" rather than "basic income".
There's nothing like reading an archived thread, coming across some post where you go "who is the idiot that wrote this?", and it was yourself.
It's a shame really, I like the idea of digital distribution.

Couldn't there be a system where you pay for a license and still have the ability to sell that license on, and be able to order a physical copy at a slight premium. The copy is worth nothing without the license.

One license could still have the limitation of one active activation. Perhaps the license could link to a token - which could be passed about - so you could lend a game to a friend.

The license would allow you to download the latest version of the game ( assuming that the game has updates and bug fixes), and you are free to transfer your digital copy onto whatever medium.

Your tokens/licenses could then live on a portable keychain, so in theory you could carry your entire collection about.
Your interpretation of Karma may be correct, but I was responding to the author's views on Karma. I urge you to go read it again, his are the under-informed, dangerous sort.
Not now, but exactly at that point in time.