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Remember, the purpose of this proposed legislation is not to be implemented, or to achieve specific results; it's to curry favour with Conservative voters, and especially those who read the Daily Mail. It will be pushed through only to avoid the loss of face that would come from "giving in to porn".

(One of the major problems with the Blair years was this kind of closed loop between policy making and newspaper headlines; actual policy impact spewed out in all directions like scattered neutrons leaking from the policy reactor)
Diesel engines have lots of torque, at low rpm. My 2.0d has 280 lb-ft, the same as a 3.7 V6 mustang, at half the rpm.
6 years ago there was an initiative at Harvard to focus on teaching and not just research, but I don't know what came of it: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/02/task-force-pro...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/education/10harvard.html?_...

But yes, the general state of things at virtually all universities (except community colleges) is that teaching is very much secondary to research, and as a result, as the book Academically Adrift summarizes, is that a big proportion of students learn very little in college: "45 percent of students 'did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning' during the first two years of college. 36 percent of students 'did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning' over four years of college." http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/18/study_finds_la...

An example of a university that does pay a lot of attention to teaching is Valencia College (community college). They have required professional development classes both for and by the faculty: http://valenciacollege.edu/faculty/development/
and they won an award for their efforts: http://chronicle.com/article/Valencia-College-Wins-First/130...

I went digging for any example of a course that made a dent in student retention, and I found two courses, one on learning & motivation strateges, and another on math for engineers: http://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/two-courses-that-m...
And coincidentally both required hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money to develop - the latter one 5 million dollars in NSF funds.
Why write a 3D engine from scratch?
If the law made it illegal to posses images or video of an ACTUAL rape, I'd agree with it 100% (I hope this already is illegal). If it's a simulation made by two consenting adults, where's the harm? I find Justin Bieber to be "deeply offensive", why can't he be outlawed?
It's a no-win perception issue for Obama. If even a few Americans die in a terror attack, his administration looks weak (look at how badly Fox has gone after him on Benghazi). If he does "whatever is necessary", he looks like a warmonger with no respect for the Constitution.

But people die in all sorts of preventable ways. Dropping the national speed limit would save hundreds or thousands of lives. So would nutritional subsidies for kids, or all other sorts of things we could spend our political capital on. But those things do not have the same broad support as anti-terrorism measures, because the public is not willing to pay the cost, even though more lives are at stake.

You could say our fear of The Other comes from Bush's fear-mongering, or the shock of 9/11, or a genuine clash of civilizations, or just human nature. But whatever the origin, that irrational fear is the real root of our disproportionate reaction to the theatrical murder called "terrorism".

Our culture has been conditioned to be afraid by reflex, and it has to end. The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
The people I have met with here were saying it draws tourists...
Perhaps we could close all the churches, synagogues, mosques and temples to... protect the children.
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"The real surprise is that any Germans whatsoever managed to survive the post-war forced expulsions and near-genocidal 1,200 calorie per day rations."

And yet they did, there's a bunch of them last time I looked. The expulsions were in the east, chiefly East Prussia and Silesia, or of Volksdeutsch from the former Hapsburg lands.
For a larger web app, I'd use Require, Browserify, or Component, but not for small-to-medium size websites. All you usually need for those is jQuery, and several plugins which only depend on jQuery.
How does this work with software? Does source code qualify as, just plans?
Hopefully Congress does as well.
I'm guessing that the being choked will also be illegal...
Oh awesome, I'll look into it then!
The New Flickr (the best possible place to store your photos)
And we know it's the sexualized imagery and not the violent imagery that led to violent attitudes.
Most 14 year old boys would have watched porn. Some of them might regularly watch porn. Amongst my friends I can't think of anyone negatively influenced or affected by this. No big deal.
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It would be great to see that 3rd tier OEMs can access the Google Play store. I have long wondered why Google would shun inexpensive tablets. Android can accommodate lo-rez screens and slower CPUs pretty well, and existing automated tests can verify compatibility.
REWRITE ALL THE THINGS!

sigh, another sucesfull OS project and somebody had to get bored.
This is probably one of my largest complaints about a google product at the moment. It feels like they're trying to trick me in to doing it with that invasive pop-up I get every week.

I don't even use YouTube for uploading or commenting, but I also don't want my real name and a photo of me on that site in any form. There's always the small chance they'll do something stupid like roll an update that makes my "previously viewed videos" available to my "social connections" by default without notifying me.
Stating and/or implying that others are less competent than our idealized selves is what this community loves to do most. Any particular tech is incidental.
I think he's specifically referring to the HN community there. ;)
Yes, but it was fun
To me personally the royals don't seem super-great or anything, but the alternative of having a career politician as president doesn't sound any better.
Good point, but we don't know how much is too much yet.
Piwik is pretty good alternative and unlike GA, it gives instant analytics and is extensible.

However, it tends to behave clunky after some time, depending on the number of sites, traffic and server where you host it. This is most visible when you try to display a larger date range or just dig in the history.

There is one more important thing to consider: it collects IP addresses of all your visitors out of the box, which might be in conflict with your local laws. Be sure to check that out before adding it to the site.
Hey, if we have to show up we'll never get anything done!
How is it even to their benefit to remove the 'Mark as Spam' button? Makes me so angry. YOu'd thought they'd be fed up with this sort of coverage by now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680680
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357427
Not really practical to manage a list of domains or IPs yourself, but the idea of using an opt-in filter on your DNS could offer a simple filter.

You'd need to make configuring such things a little easier. Under Vista just trying to conjure up the IPv4 control panel requires an act of magic.
Phabricator. Runs on computers. Not sentient.
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and the daily mail seen as it's happy to publish photos of one of the Kardashian's babies in a string bikini
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They should ban alcohol before porn, it might even help in reducing sexual abuse.
>tried

I waited 2 hours for an email yesterday only to find it hidden in a new "Promotions" tab instead of my inbox, which meant it didn't get pushed to my phone for some reason.
I think the royal family actually works out as a net positive economically when you factor in the tourism income they generate.

It's also quite nice having someone connected with government that has been around longer than one or two political terms and thus has a wealth of experience to draw from and can an act in a way that's above short term popularism. If you ask even the most die hard anti-monarchists in the UK, I believe most of them would agree that the Queen has done a very good job. They're more concerned with her offspring and what happens when she dies.

Edit: forgot to mention too that the Queen, Charles, Harry, William, Kate and other immediate family members spend an enormous amount of their time directly involved in charity work.
it might all be worth it if we can somehow make that happen.
The (missing) step between taking the widget to Kinko's and printing the test part is the time-consuming design phase which will be the challenging part for most users. Also that phase is usually lengthy enough that the fab and ship time is not such a significant fraction of the entire process time.

I'm skeptical that 3D printer ownership or ubiquity is the impediment to their widespread use.
Really wish the pricing was more reasonable, the costs are just too high.

£40/month for 80/20 FTTC, an additional £20/month to increase the data transfer cap to 250GB (could possibly get away with £10/month for 150GB, but I wouldn't want to risk it).

£60/month is just too much. I'd be willing to pay a small premium - but not that much of one.
Didn't you get the memo? Male rape is funny and always deserved according to the media.
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It doesn't matter, with the way IP works any reliable datagram protocol would contain an implementation of 90% of TCP.

The more fragmented an IP packet gets along the way the less likely it is it will reach destination, so you have to take into account path MTU size and split your datagrams accordingly. You also want to send as many datagrams as you have available in as few IP packets as possible and you want to do slow start for the same reasons TCP does it.

Result: your datagrams need to become a stream of bytes to be handled efficiently by any transport protocol sitting on top of IP.
The Democrats used to be pretty racist; before the American civil war, they supported slavery, and afterwards supported segregation, while the Republicans generally opposed slavery (Lincoln was a Republican, for example). As a result, the US South used to be heavily Democrat, and the north was heavily Republican. They basically flipped in the 40's and 50's due to the Democrats support for civil rights and the "southern strategy" (basically: appeal to racism, sometimes subtly, sometimes not, to get votes in the South) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Today's (US) Republican party is nothing like the Republicans from 100+ years ago. It's kind of sad.
your cellphone reports your gps location + surrounding wifi BSSIDs to Google and Apple for AGPS purposes.

I really don't understand why this isn't a larger issue
You pick how you are goverened according to your ethics, not according to how much it costs. I am pro-democracy and I am not a hypocrit. This fact prevents me from supporting a political system based on inherited political privilege, like Monarchy. I am English. I think most British who support the Monarchy do so because they don't want to admit to themselves that there is something wrong at the core about the way their country is governed. If we'd gotten rid of the Monarchy in the past, we'd probably have yearly celebrations about it. But no, we still have them, so we celebrate the opposite instead.
Does your definition of philanthropy include giving by a government from taxes on behalf of the population?

I read that countries with lower tax rates give less per capita than countries with higher tax rates. I'll try and find a source.
> purpose is to be titillating

Who decides where the line is drawn?
The "right of corporations to speak" is just the right of people to speak when organized into a group. The ACLU is a corporation. A union is a corporation. The essence of that decision was that when a bunch of individuals (who all individually have the right to speak) get together in a group and set up some rules, they don't by virtue of that fact lose the right to speak. It doesn't mean "corporations are people" except in the sense that corporations consist of people.

(It's also worth noting that the vast majority of the recent nonsense over abortion has entirely to do with the last trimester. The fact that something is a "strongly held right" doesn't mean some people won't from time to time argue it should be modified or changed. That's just healthy political debate.)
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Very easy to lose sight of this, great reminder!
"...most startups are run by complete amateurs (remember the first company you started?), tackling a space they don’t understand..."

I always remind folks that if you're really doing something awesome then competition is inevitable, and in fact serves as validation that you are onto something.
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It was 150 years ago. The parties have changed quite a lot since then.
Others, off the top of my head:

- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Secretary
- Compliance
- Kill Bill
- Pulp Fiction (or does it not count when men are raped?)
The Last Days of Big Law
The most laughable 'feature' used to prompt users to upgrade to a premium profile is the attempted obfuscation of 3rd party connections.

Step 1: Find a 3rd party connection whose name is displayed as First Name + Surname Initial (eg. Steve B.). You'll find that none of their work history is displayed.

Step 2: On the right you will see a list of "People who viewed this profile also viewed..." Click on someone who works for the same company or has a similar job title.

Step 3. On this new profile take another look at the "People who viewed this profile also viewed..." list and 99% of the time you will see the original obfuscated profile with the full name on display. Go ahead and click on their name.

Step 4: View their full name & profile without any need for upgrading.
I'm English. I was visiting a friend in Connecticut about 10 years ago. I remember the taxi driver saying that I must be really happy when he found out I was English. I asked why, and he said because it was the Queens birthday. He seemed surprised when I said that not only did I not know this, but that I didn't care either, and that most of my British friends also didn't give a toss about the Royal Family either. I think he had a hard time believing this.
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I think you're totally misinterpreting this. I know a lot of folks who have spent every hour of every day for oh about four years thinking "Tenure! Tenure! Tenure! Tenure!" I say four years because around that point there's a breakdown in the chair's office or in class or during some long night, and then there's therapy, and bitterness, and wailing and gnashing of teeth.

If you focus on the moment instead of "the future" you can respond to a student in the now, rather than reminding yourself that undergraduate research is essentially irrelevant to your tenure case so you should say no to this project. You can take a risk in your teaching and teach something you really care about instead of taking Prof Oldguy's advice to just teach the intro class from the same lecture notes as last year. You might take on that interesting, new, and risky interdisciplinary project with the guy from microbiology instead of reminding yourself that interdisciplinary projects are generally not reviewed well as people from neither discipline feel they have the expertise to look at them. Specialized projects are much safer.

You think that struggling for tenure makes people better teachers and better people; I think it makes people miserable. Yeah. Now you're that freshman CS student with a bitter overworked prof either trying not to cry or taking out latent hostility on students who is in it for tenure, instead of a happy, adventurous, intellectually interested prof. Big win!
Your house can't have a public AS unless you are going to register it with RIPE, which will also require a second transit provider from a separate network.
[1] This October 97 article by Alex St John in Boot Magazine talks about origins of DirectX and about the HR Giger ship.

[1] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/old_school_monday_...
Tony Blair and friends had already kickstarted an attempt at restoring Victorian values. Didn't get very far, but bad ideas never die. I can understand how this sort of thing looks good to a politician, tbh.

Cost: zero.

Support from press: great (the Daily Mail has been campaigning on it for months already).

Support from senior citizens (i.e. people who actually get their ass to the ballot box every time): good.

Possibility of blowback in polite society: none (who's ever gonna discuss porn at dinner parties?).

Negatively affected in a direct way: nerds (don't move votes), kids (don't move votes -- in fact, if they protest, senior citizens will support it even more, so it's a win-win).

Economic benefit: likely net positive, since somebody will have to maintain these filters, these captive portals, these opt-in/opt-out forms, right?

What is not to like ? Ah yes, that "open society" thing. You see, this government is run by old money people; they were running the show when "open society" didn't even exist, and will likely keep running it for the foreseeable future. Openness and freedom were a necessary evil to win the Cold War. Now that XX century utopias have been dealt with, we can all go back to the old way of doing things, what what?
everytime i choose an option, i am just hoping that it is not to use my real name, i find that really sleazy.

This. So much this.

I have not yet received any email asking me to upload a photo of myself, but the constant pestering while watching Youtube, and with shady, ambiguous options happens everyday now.

The sad thing is nothing beats YT for video right now.
They're using localstorage. Run the following in your browsers console before and after clicking the link:

localStorage.getItem('royalRepub')
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Leave it to NBC News to cover the NSA's BS stance, as well as the the programs legality issue, yet completely zone out about the programs effectiveness, expense, expanse, or actually question the NSA chief's statement, 'it is impossible to listen to phone calls, and read all emails due to their shear number'. But they are recording them all... which is the problem!
Agree completely, this jumped out and slapped me in the face. Even images of actual rape should not be illegal. For one thing, that would mean that, for instance, documenting a rape-in-progress that you are unable to stop would be a crime.

But even aside from that, why on earth should imagery of something be illegal? Producing rape images, sure, rape is already illegal (though sadly not always prosecuted as vigorously as it should be). But possessing an image of an illegal act is not the same as committing that act. Possessing images of a bank robbery, murder or other crime is not in any way akin to committing those crimes, and the Internet is full of videos of crimes being committed (many of which are hosted by large news organizations).
The value sweet spot is almost certainly at a higher price than these products, but even a 7" tablet with a crummy screen has a better UX for browsing and Google Drive apps than a handset. The pricing of these devices could be the reason lots more poor kids get a real Internet experience, and that could be revolutionary.
in the mind of the general public

I wish this was true. I don't think it's there yet. I virtually hear nobody outside of tech talking about it. It's really quite remarkable.
Both parties:
1) support larger government with more power
2) support unending wars
3) refuse to go after Wall St. for financial crimes
4) make their entire platform about social issues that shouldn't even be within the realm of government
5) work to exclude 3rd party candidates from the political process
6) refuse to address in ineffectiveness of the unending federal "war on drugs" that has made the US the #1 country in the world for prison population, with over 1% of our population involved in the prison system, over 25% of which are only for non-violent drug charges, a victimless crime that is a personal choice
7) refuse to address corporate personhood which has grossly corrupted the political process
8) refuse to address the revolving door between big business and the regulatory agencies responsible for policing them
9) refuse to address the destruction of our currency by the Federal Reserve system, and how the current fiscal policy greatly benefits a small group of bankers
10) refuse to address the broken copyright and patent systems that have been changed to benefit a tiny number of large corporations at the expense of every member of society
>I also wouldn't be surprised if we have a greater number of terrorist attacks in the coming years

Greater than what? The last 1 year? 2 years? 5 years? 100 years?
Care to elaborate? As far as i know. Angular has modularization built into its API and recommended paradigms? Why use require.js if angular already supports creating and importing modules?
If the other 40% is Mumsnet, then it's not a problem.
Doesn't Google's "Safe Search already do this?
He leaves out discussion of a crucial part of app distribution: dynamic libraries.

While you can't create and link with dynamic libraries in Go, you can call into C or C++ libraries. Go binaries are self-contained as long as all your code is Go. But if you're depending on a C or C++ library, you still have to worry about this aspect of distribution.
A jury of your peers, applying the "man in the street" logic.
Actually, you're thinking of the wrong part of the film.
I'm no expert, but that seems to be a report by a probably biased organisation, rather than a scientific metastudy looking at sufficient sample sizes and eliminating confounding factors. Please correct me if the report is of equivalent quality.

I'd be amazed if there was actual evidence that violence in the media actually contributed to real world violence even in children, as I thought this had already been covered at length with the various computer game scares.
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