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Two day old partisian rabble rousing; the Rules Committee OKed a vote on it yesterday and it looks like it's going to happen today.

Call your representative (http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/) and tell him to vote for the Amash Amendment to HR 2397 (citing the bill number signals seriousness) and point out the data for the call is being recorded by the NSA (seriously: the one blanket metadata warrant we've seen is for Verizon's Business unit, which as the D.C. ILEC we can assume provides the Capital Hill land lines).

The guy who answered the phone this morning groked "including the data about this phone call" and said the office had been getting quite a few calls on it.
Likewise - extremely disappointed (although looking forward to setting browser to 'Teddy' this evening...).
Well that decides it - I'm in.

I'm excited about the possibility of a genuinely hand held, pocket sized device that I can hook up to behave like a full desktop.

It's a format that has been tried before but the power/price ratio has never been favourable - this feels like the first real chance for it to work.
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> Does it mean only pressing the spacebar once? No, because that won't make a difference in many systems like TeX, HTML.

Seeing as the original article always tells you how to do things in Word, it means exactly that. Any system that is not not WYSIWYG will have no problems here, Word does. And since most people use Word, this is relevant. It doesn't matter that TeX doesn't take it into account, because this is not primarily written for TeX users. TeX does many of these things, but it is not what most people use, especially those who do not know anything at all about typography.
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> I think you're looking at this as too much of a conspiracy.

I agree, but I think that you might be looking at it a little bit too much as of a conspiracy as well.

IMO it's not even about closing loopholes and stuff; it's about increasing their popularity to make sure they get reelected / get more money. That's it. I think short-sightedness of politicians explains pretty much all of it.

Current democracy as a system optimizes strongly for popularity, and optimizes people with any kind of long-term agenda out of the system.
There won't be a batch 2:

"The Ubuntu Edge is an exclusive production run, available only through Indiegogo."
Might want to turn a profit as a secondary goal and do something else as their primary - wouldn't be an NPO.
It's called lifestyle inflation.
What happens when I want to copy and paste your text into something other than TeX or HTML?
Is it possible to use LLVM? That generally compiles faster code for me than GCC, although that may be because my LLVM version is slightly newer.
"I'm just astonished that an MP appears to have been so ignorant of the law of her own land ..."

You don't know our MPs very well do you ...? I'd say this is pretty much par for the course. The only laws they know anything about are loopholes.
It is arguable that traditional "free press" ideas were also technology-driven.
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Totally off. As someone that was a humanities major at a private American college, I have to say that %99 of the faculty could fairly be described as very left-leaning, and this is basically the case in every university I've heard of. It's almost comical how left leaning academia is - to be publicly Republican professor would probably be something of a career liability outside of a select few Christian schools. At my school, College Republicans struggled to find a faculty sponsor, while the famous socialist Howard Zinn spoke to a rousing crowd full of professors. Any subject from Shakespeare to the Civil War could and would be analyzed through the lenses of class, race, gender, colonialism.

The exception, relevant to this thread, would probably be economics departments, but even then, I have the impression that there'd at least be a healthy majority of Keynsians that would strongly object to austerity and support a lot of government interventions. So even there, I think "pro-market and right-wing" would be a stretch.
Somehow missed that. I love how many geekster eggs were in that movie!
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All countries spy on their citizens. The real questions are twofold: (1) how reliable is the information that the political decision makers obtain from spying, and (2) how democratic and transparent are the spying operations, how much control do the citizens have over the spying operations.

NSA-like spying is probably the most reliable in history, but how the information gets transformed on the way to decision makers, and what democratic control we have probably leaves a lot to be desired and must improve. Snowden is a hero because his actions have given us incentive and data to improve the world of secret services.
Manning is charged with "aiding the enemy" which carries a life sentence.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/07/18/judge-mann...
But caterpillar and john deere compete in the same market and have a similar shade of yellow...
I'm crossing my fingers on this one. I have hoped from the get-go that Obama was trying to do some political jiu-jitsu to get the House to fight against him on the NSA thing by pretending to support it. People attack him for talking all loftily about most topics and then not getting anything done, so I found it strange that he basically didn't even pretend that the NSA scandal was bad. Keep in mind he didn't start the program; maybe he never really supported it. Everything he's tried to do has resulted in congress opposing him, so trying to change his tactics seems like the logical thing to do.
IMO current democracy as a system of incentives supports Idea 1 much better than Idea 2. Weak evidence, but still.
This reminds me of the question, "Do we live to eat, or eat to live?" To a business, money is like food. Without food, you can't live. But is eating the primary goal of your life?

Similarly, a business (but especially a startup) exists primarily to change the world, to disrupt an industry, or simply to do something in a better way. To do that, it needs to make money. Sometimes due to its pioneering nature, it makes an extraordinary amount of money. But its primary goal isn't to make money.

People do startups for a variety of reasons, one of which is maybe to make money. But like Evernote's CEO Phil Libin has said, it's not an easy way to make money: http://thenextweb.com/video/2012/04/27/evernote-ceo-phil-lib...

But I agree with the article that startup founders shouldn't be shy about making money. Startups should be realistic - without making money, they can't achieve their goals.
> I can't imagine a reason why you'd want dozens of fonts, any more than I could understand wanting dozens of pairs of dress shoes.

Because I like trying things on for size. And my mood changes. That's why I bought five different writing apps.
Part of the problem is that pretty much everywhere such filters have been installed, sooner or later there's been revelations of perfectly legal content being blocked. More than once this has been political speech.

They're building all the tools of a police state. With the best of intentions, mind you. But it's not them we're afraid of (we might dislike having to opt in/out of porn, but that's merely a nuisance) - with some luck they'll get voted out in a few years time.

What at least some of us are afraid of is that some day down the line someone else gets into power who decides to take full advantage of all the nice tools their predecessors have given them. Put all the tools in place, and that someone might even be more inclined to seek power, knowing the power can extended all that much easier.
> How is it a disgrace? You're making it sound like Apple meant for this to happen, this could've happen to any companies.

Well if Ibrahim is to be believed, Apple failed to reasonably handle his disclosure of the security flaws. Apple is not entirely at fault, but they surely failed to protect their users' data. Users trusted Apple to prevent this from happening, but they have failed. That is a disgrace.
>As a brazilian, I personally have the impression that the teachings in humanities in the USA is very biased towards neo-liberalism, pro-market and right-wing ideologies when I compare what's produced in brazilian and north american universities.

A puzzling statement. Except if you were to include business and economics among the humanities which Americans do not.

>This is probably because in the USA the universities are private, there's no free, autonomous and statal universities.

All American universities worth considering are either non-profits or state funded, so I do not understand where this idea comes from.

>But if I could choose a place to study humanities, specially economy or social science, I wouldn't choose a north-american university.

American sociologists are notably to the left of the American public.
It boils down to - I don't like hearing people say stupid things or things that are different from what I believe.

I think this is something people have to learn to get used too, given the unprecedented amount of noise our networks are creating.

Prior too all this noise, I am guessing the only people who had to really deal with endless floods of snark and criticism were politicians and celebs. Now anyone with a popular blog post or tweet has to deal with the same thing cause today they have the same reach.

The outcome I wouldn't be surprised by, is all of us soon start behaving like our politicians do. Maybe thats the cost of all that information we receive.
Like iPhone and iPad? Didn't Apple try to enforce the "i" trademark. How did that end up?
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I've been using Emacs for 15+ years now I think and I have always found the more complicated keybindings ("chords") for common things awful. However part of normal Emacs usage is configuring it to your liking, so learn about "M-x global-set-key" and mold Emacs to your liking.

(Or use evil-mode.)
You're fine. It's not really the case that a humanist sans is only appropriate for some contexts and a geometric sans for others. It's a matter of taste.

The font distinction you really care about is the one between display fonts and text fonts. Put simply, text fonts are the ones designed for setting lots of text, and, to keep things simple for yourself, you should constrain yourself to those fonts.

Most every place that will sell you fonts will have a category or tag somewhere that will tell you what the text fonts are (they're easy to identify: they're the ones that look boring compared to Lobster and whatnot).
Anyone who says they are not in it for the money is lying. The underlying goal is always money, few admit it. If they truly wanted to do something not for the money, they'd be in their garage carving figurines not spending every breath maintaining a (probably) already dead startup.
Lots of studies have demonstrated a "keeping up with the Joneses" effect, in which the happiness derived from status, income, wealth, or possessions is relative to the circles one inhabits. If I'm making $1M a year in a company full of people making $100k, I'll feel like a baller. If I'm making that same $1M in a company full of people making $10M+, I'll feel like a loser. It's the proximate context, not the universal one, to which people draw their emotional comparisons and assess their financial worth.

Another well-studied effect is that lifestyle tends to rise to meet rising income levels. This is partially driven by the aforementioned effect -- rising income tends to put you in jobs, or in neighborhoods, or generally in physical proximity with other high earners -- and partially driven by the fact that you tend to develop more expensive tastes and habits as you climb the income ladder.

I'm writing this from my iPad on the train, and so I am too lazy to tab over and look up the particular studies or sources. But start by Googling C.N. Parkinson -- the same Parkinson who famously quipped that work expands to meet the time available for its completion -- who stated that expenditures rise to meet income. Plenty of people have taken this observation and run with it in actual studies.
Great, thanks - I never saw that term before.
That you don't need a type signature, or any explicit type information at all. Because the compiler already knows it has to be a list of Ints, you can just call read and it knows it has to be converting that string to an int. In a unityped language you still need to supply the information about what type to convert to.
You can try fonts on the same way you can try suits on. And if you're the kind of person who needs to have dozens of high-quality suits, that's fine --- to each their own --- but I can't muster up too much sympathy about the expense.
Because the infrastructure required to get hardcore porn to be opt-in a) doesn't exist yet, and b) introducing it will be extremely dangerous as it will definitely be abused to filter other content the government doesn't want you to see.

This whole issue is not about porn.
In that case, they should have "blog only" licenses, or "small-website only", or "small business documents only".

People buy lots of stupid stuff. If they buy hats that their characters can wear in a computer game, they will probably buy fonts, too.
As a guy who is about to be a father, holy shit by the way, I appreciate this perspective. My first thought to this bear was, aww that's nice but I don't want one. Now it's more of, oh man I can see how the ramifications of something like this haven't quite been thought all the way through. What if this stifles the creativity of my child because it is too responsive? Or maybe it boxes them even more into an antisocial atmosphere. I just don't know, but I'll wait until the research has caught up with the technology.

If there's one place I'm a luddite it's with regards to the rearing of children.
Only one of them needs to know how, and before you know it it will be packaged up nicely in a script or written up on web pages everyone will know about.
I guess Jobs's ghost fired Forestall, then.
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Awesome, best of luck to you. What app if you don't mind my asking?
Fun, probably. It's hard to imagine a workload in which this would be the truly best solution. Real supercomputers nowadays use immense intra-node bandwidth, and if you care about performance (and why are you using a supercomputer if you don't?), languages and environments that run around an order of magnitude faster than Javascript (on Javascript's best day) even before we talk about them running on a supercomputer environment, with the aforementioned bandwidth.

(Tack on another order of magnitude or two if we're talking about something like GPU computation, which I would not yet trust in WebGL, even ignoring the problem of bandwidth for the problem specification. If you work the math, it becomes difficult to overcome orders of magnitude in performance differences by throwing lots of slow resources at a problem, because you get to the point where it becomes impossible to make up the difference due to additional communication overheads.)

This basically limits this "supercomputer" to embarrassingly parallel problems that have very small specifications, for which performance is no particular concern, including the fact that one does not even know how much resources you will have for the problem on a second-by-second basis. This is not a large niche, but it can be fun.
Perhaps it's okay, because the target market might be likely to have a capable last-gen smartphone going spare, but my initial assumption was that the smartphone <-> bear connection would be done wirelessly.

Having to submit your smartphone entirely to the bear's voice-control would be very frustrating to most people and I can see this being a limiting factor when it comes to actual usage.
Well there isn't even a way to reset a password (from what I could tell). So I had to sacrifice all my sweet karma and create a new account when I forgot the password.
> from History to Economics to Sociology etc

On the other hand, on the internet finding FALSE information is so easy. A lot of times its in a form thats actually easier to consume. Its important to have these courses equally available to help combat dangerous ignorance.
Please read the last few bullet points here and then kindly take your foot out of your mouth:

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3109-questions-and...
Sure, but you're going to have to give them some time, because they're only just now figuring out how to license web fonts in such a way that they're tied to sites or pageviews instead of granting blanket permission to use the fonts for websites, magazines, and investor reports.

In the meantime, you're not where their bread is buttered yet, so the urgency isn't there.
The Secretary of the Department of Commerce came to visit us at a previous job. He had his own armed security guys that followed him around, and I'm sure HR passed all our social security numbers to them for background checks ahead of time.

The best part was his speech was how off-shoring was Good for America. Which went over like a lead balloon, as you might guess.
I don't think they ever denied him asylum, this is the first he has applied. They just said that he had to stop releasing information that's damaging to the US in order to be granted asylum.
The article tells a short anecdote, but does not discuss motivation or future plans of the student, popularity of the program in Pakistan, whether schools and other institutions in Pakistan may start using MOOC material like community colleges in the US... at the end of the day this article does not tell us what happens at all.
For better or worse, HR exists to protect the company. Making problems go away is what they do.
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If I don't leave this post now, I'll lose my morning reading the entire series!
You are being paranoid.
Even if you're not a lawyer (I'm not), I'd highly recommend his book. From memory, its main shortcoming is that it doesn't go into depth about those aspects of typography that are specific to the web (e.g., web-safe fonts, font substitution, etc.).
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The notation [x, y, z] denotes a homogeneously-typed list.

So I used it as an example where type inference can figure out the type of an expression from its use, rather than from its intrinsic value.

Dynamic types only work based on the intrinsic value, so whenever a statically-typed language can figure out the correct types from context, a dynamically-typed language is going to have to require redundant type hints.

So [1, read "2", 3] is a list of ints, so the read call there is known by type inference to return an int, so the read parser chosen is the parser for ints. In Python, even if you had some value that is required to be an integer, and you wanted to parse a string to that value, you'd need to say: Int.read("1"), which is redundant.
The book "Design for Hackers" might be your choice. Next to other design-related advise (with explanations of the underlying reasons), it contains advise on font selection.

Actually, if you go to the web page for the book, http://designforhackers.com/book/ you can get a free PDF cheat sheet for simplifying your font choices.
The video is very misleading. The concepts and timing and inflections in the videos conversation are light years beyond what I've seen with off the shelf smartphones and software. I imagine the actual doll will be no better at conversations than Siri is, which is not a conversation at all.

I dont think it has to be a scam - it could be essentially a bluetooth headset that provides a microphone and speaker in teddybear form, with some extra motors to actuate the mouth when playing audio.

The idea of a supertoy is exciting as presented in the film "AI".
"Seeing breasts, arses & fleeting (preferably comical) glimpses of balls is normal and OK, but unadvisable for young children. Genitalia in non sexual contexts is new, but now OK too (thank you embarrassing bodies). You can watch that with your friends or teenage kids. Genitalia in a sexual context is not OK. You look at that alone with a laptop in shame."

Did you really just go and claim that seeing breasts is unadvisable for young children?

You complete and utter fuckwit. Do you think breasts are just there for you to leer over in your lonely cave of shame?
And thus all EU countries should have it without duty.
I am not too clued into the personalities involved, but in the scheme of things, being snarky or critical seems a lot less offensive than calling people out by name in a semi-permanent and searchable medium to effectively say they're assholes.

I think one of the main themes during the popularization/destruction of any community is when a wave of "anti-negativity" comes in to sweep away any complaints about the degrading landscape of the community.
I have to disagree with the statement that apple is about quality products first and money second. I believe you've confused Apple with Steve Jobs. Since his death, every decision Apple has made seems to be about money. OS changes to make their products more similar to their competition, or to benefit only new hardware. Less focus on the developer set. A new Mac Pro that is less upgeadable than previous versions. New macbooks with soldered in RAM and no expansion slots (want a RAM upgrade? Buy a new computer for 10x the cost, from us only!). I was so into Apple in 2007, when the statement was true. Now they're just the new Microsoft. The thing is, there will likely be no Apple-like competitor that comes after them. There will be thousands of smaller companies that take their sales away one abandoned niche at a time.
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I personally really don't care about the money (no lying, I swear).

I care, though, about the fact that money brings me time, and as such more freedom to do whatever I like.

I do not know where you took that from...

Most of the people (EU-based) I know that are bootstrapping their own (profitable, not dead) startup or service seem to be minded similarly, too.

I just make sure I have enough money to not have to think about money, so it actually gets out of the way.
It's not a conspiracy per se. It's more like a system of incentives that motivate this kind of behaviour. We have made the politicians into celebrities whoring for our votes so that they can get goodies from their sponsors. It's no longer about any actual politics on the top levels, politicians are trying to strike a balance between decisions that would bring them more votes and those that would bring them more benefits.

I am not saying that's true for every one of them, nor that it's everywhere like that. But I feel that this happens frequently enough to cripple the system.
I read the emacs lisp code quite often. It's very nicely documented and easy to read in general.
Well crap. Source code reputation is exactly the problem we are trying to solve at http://rputbl.com (sorry, just a splash page for now.)

We are nowhere near close to launch yet and there's a chicken-and-egg problem of having a sufficiently large database of hashes to make an arbitrary source code file reputation check worth your time, but we have some ideas about what to do about that too.
I noticed today that the resolution center also isn't working right. I can receive/view messages but get an error when I try to send them. Unsure if it's linked to the dev center being down but I would guess it is.
No, I meant in this limited context Russia has been given the whiteknight image. Hence my use of scare quotes. Sorry if I was unclear.
sorry. my slang trickled over into the internet. I learned what a demarcation point was after I had heard the word, so i always called it in my head, a d-mark. i know what it is now, but the term is stuck in my head. I'm sure I'm not the only one that's done that. I remember thinking euthanasia was about children living in Asia...