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Pardoning him explicitly seems ridiculous. Either pardon everyone as a statement that you find the law abhorrent or don't pardon anyone and allow the shame to guide further decisions.

Pardoning the popular examples just hides what you did, it doesn't acknowledge fault or error.
This looks too distracting for me. Google Glass in is the corner, so you have to go out of your way to look at it. This takes up the center of your vision, forcing you to see it.
Eh, the tumblr community as a whole has always squealed extremely loudly about stuff, and the status of nfsw content has always been a bit hit and miss.

What seems to me to be the key difference is that now they're owned by yahoo, the latest grudge match between tumblr and its users is news rather than business as usual.
Oh no, a company that gives me everything for free is displaying non intrusive ads in the wrong part of the screen and even tells me that they are ads! I'm too entitled for this!
Ironically, the Apollo 11 landing was nearly scrubbed because the computer got overloaded with tasks and couldn't process everything in time, so that lack of power really was a problem.
I'd characterize it as a knife with no handle.
Revenue was up this quarter. The surface fiasco dinged profit a bit, but financially they're still in great shape. Microsoft is not really fundamentally about Windows anymore, they've now got a diverse portfolio of businesses.
It's not clear to me how charging upfront tells me anything about their business model. In fact the wording here even make me wonder if they plan to eventually sell my data in ADDITION to charging me money.

The business model may not include selling my data RIGHT NOW, but they don't give me any assurances that the current business model is set in stone.
GlassUp lacks a fair amount of fundamentals that are going to hurt.

1) The green text in the middle of the eye is fairly annoying (at least I think it would be)

2) GlassUp seems to not be very well balanced

3) The inability to send data isn't very promising

4) Google has the best maps/navigation thus far, so it seems the GlassUp would be at a disadvantage (then again for the price who knows, it might be worth it).

5) A lot more intrusive that Google Glass
> Like the majority of people, I oppose gay marriage.

From your past comments, you appear to be American. I am therefore ecstatic to inform you that you are in the minority.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/support-...
Are you asking "how do you define life?" or "how do you separate organisms from each other?"? Regarding either question, I don't think anybody has a good answer, and that's what's so fascinating, because it really seems to be a metaphysical question rather than a scientific one.
If you're a non-developer and running a beta OS, you should know what you're getting into.

At the same time, I do feel sorry for devs getting bad reviews because of compatibility issues. I haven't had any myself, but it's probably only a matter of time.
This has nothing to do with marriage, and the punishment wasn't the worst factor.
And what do you expect would happen if 90+% of the people driving on that freeway got a ticket?
Thanks. I was also 'thinking aloud' on twitter that slowly building a following could eventually build up quite a bit of momentum.

But that momentum will never build unless you keep firing pellets, so to speak.
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Depends on how you define population. If I were to gamble on it, I would expect a (rather high) margin in opposition, with support rates highly correlated to education levels.
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Check out Nomad, it's by Mattt (of AFNetworking fame). http://nomad-cli.com/
A sad day for attention whores and basement wankers indeed.
I'm sure the author means dislike for the current system for trying 'too hard' to classify life, not dislikes it entirely, or out goes our ability to describe life with words entirely, which I think you'll agree is a pretty important faculty.
Is "Isla" pronounced "ila" (as in the "s" is silent)?

I ask because I'm sure my otherwise-literate 8-year-old would have trouble spelling the name without some coaching…

(edit: typo)
pizza slices--a valid model of some fractions, but a very poor model for general understanding of fractions

If you'd like, could you say a little more about why this is the case?
No, let's. If homosexuals should be allowed to experience their sexuality than why not permit them to fulfill their emotional, romantic, and other needs? It's such an artificial line to draw and we certainly can discuss both gay marriage and the legality of homosexuality in the same discussion.
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When it comes to UI programming, I tend towards declarative solutions to problems over imperative ones.

That said, this feels like an imperative solution to something that a state machine could handle equally well.
The government is the enemy. A lot of people couldn't properly live with themselves if they ceased to believe this. There would be a libertarian-shaped hole in their hearts.
I agree, and that's why I said "Modern classification schemes." The current system doesn't work, and bioinformatics is blasting it away at such a speed that it can't seem to keep up. The current response seems to be just bandage it up, like a novice PHP developer's first web app devolves into spaghetti code because he doesn't know what an MVC framework it.
WTF?! Debate?! What is there to debate??

This is why I(/we) hate most politicians.
Wait, does this mean the entire Cloud is down? I can still access Google and Amazon.
How many points of karma does it take to unlock the ability to downvote?
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I think NSFW content is so rampant on Tumblr because of the reblogging feature. Some kinds of blogs lend themselves to nothing but reblogged posts - just like the fanbase community who do the same.

Of course, the answer depends on whether you ask for a place to put the content or view the content.

I imagine the best bet is some sort of Pinterest clone. Still, it's probably not going to work due to the server costs and underlying licensing issues, I imagine.

I guess you could created a closed pay-for community, but then you assume responsibility once or if the superseedy stuff starts getting uploaded.
And they should be able to do exactly that.
Thanks, that's interesting, and makes me realise how much my Twitter use is conditioned by being pseudonymous and, as a result, almost entirely freely-chosen relationships. I only really follow people because I'm interested in what they have to say, not because I have some other connection to them; but if people who I know in some other context could find me on Twitter, I guess I might find myself in the same position as you.
followed the links to the guy who built an AGC from scratch - http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/ - detailed technical info plus photos - amazing!
I commented on this subject recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060821

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6064248
I thought it was mostly rocket science? (calculating trajectories in advance, on supercomputers on the ground)
It is pretty funny, I got tuned into RT about 6-7 years ago because they actually carried US-libertarian oriented stories. I suspect its because they're former enemies of the western world, can't let a good story go to waste.
I also like DeutscheWelle, but they're a bit more polite.
I love reading this: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.landing.html

"This display does not place a particularly heavy load on the computer, but when added to the existing load, was sufficient to generate the 1202 alarm."

---

"102:38:26 Armstrong: (With the slightest touch of urgency) Program Alarm.

102:38:28 Duke: It's looking good to us. Over.

102:38:30 Armstrong: (To Houston) It's a 1202.

102:38:32 Aldrin: 1202. (Pause)"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/25/1124164/-Neil-Armst...

---

"102:36:18 Armstrong: (To Houston) Our position checks down range show us to be a little long.

102:36:21 Duke: Roger. Copy. (Heavy Static)

[In a post-mission analysis, Apollo Descent and Ascent Trajectories, Floyd Bennett notes that, at PDI, Eagle was about 3 miles farther downrange than planned, due to [..]"

->

... after that, Armstrong selected a landing site visually, and landed the lunar module manually. :)

[Mission Control] Thirty seconds.
(Just Mission Control telling Neil Armstrong how many seconds of fuel he has left for landing) :)
You could argue that the Desktop PC has evolved - it is now the Tablet. Perhaps it is more correct to say it is more a branching that has occurred.
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Either that or it randomizes it's genetics so much that it is more like a random seed generator. The Darwinian god bug.
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TL;DR:

The reforms missed a critical factor driving achievement gaps: the influence of poverty on academic performance. ... An increase in the minimum wage would provide increased stability to millions of families, which would help children focus on their studies instead of where their next meal will come from.

However, I think this ignores a more important influence: good parenting.
No it doesn't imply anything about origins of life - but the lack of any homologous sequences in known species (including other viruses) that have been sequenced does illustrate the vast gaps in the totality of genetic data collected and indexed so far.
No, the FAA wouldn't prohibit amateur RC planes, but how exactly do you implement a drone-spotting operation using amateur RC planes? Even ignoring the complexity of coordinating such a thing, the short range such planes have and the need for constantly re-powering the planes, what sensor do you mount on amateur RC sized planes that is capable of spotting a drone flying at up to 30,000 feet?
I said majority of people, not Americans. My statement stands correct. Look at what other countries have done to recently stem gay culture: Russia recently passed a unanimous (436-0) vote which banned gay propaganda[1]. Homosexuals acceptance is pushed hard in the western media, but don't let that skew your worldview. Reactionary responses are not uncommon.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/11/russia-law-banni...
And the fact that haven't means it isn't about justice after all.
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This comment made me laugh -> the perf room!
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I guess it must be a joke, but that's a fun review. "I accidently bought this book thinking I was buying a traditional calculus book in order to prepare for a standardized test I had to take. After a few chapters I realized this was no ordinary Calculus book."

Anyway, there is a reprint available now for $25 http://www.amazon.com/The-Lambda-Calculus-Syntax-Semantics/d...
Steve Gibson of GRC/Security Now has mentioned (if I remember correctly,) that the protocol/spec will be published, or at least shared with people who have an interest.
Well this is also what they did for Final Cut Pro, iMovie, iPhoto, Garage Band, Pages, Numbers, etc.

It's been a few years, Apple seems happy not to provide upgrade prices. They've had more than a few chances with their own software.
Thank you for giving the most reasonable comment in this entire discussion. You're absolutely right, there is no way for us to objectively judge whether they will benefit from our 'help' or not.
I don't know for sure if not contacting them is the best way for them. However, they make it clear that they don't appreciate our contacting them. I think that as long as they're not asking for our help and/or are in apparent need for help, we should let them be.
As annoying as this is - and I agree that they should provide an option to charge for upgrades - the problem can be alleviated to a large extent by in-app purchases.

Suppose for example you have FooApp 1.x, and you later want to release a major update, FooApp 2. You release FooApp 2 as a separate app for new customers, and provide an update to FooApp 1.x which lets existing customers update.

This is admittedly awkward, and can only really work for upgrades where the main new things in the new version are additional features. For apps which have major architectural changes it would be problematic. To the best of my knowledge though this is the best we can do in the context of the current policies.
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So, before I give you access to all of my social networks, where's my guarantee you wont aggregate and sell it to someone else? I mean the sentiment is nice, but how will we know it holds if you're acquired?
Quite a few of us are running jailbroken devices, and can run just about anything we please.

Additionally, it costs a one time $100 charge to become an Apple developer (assuming you already have a mac), and then you can deploy everything even without a jailbreak. Given that a new device costs upward of $650 (let's ignore "subsidies" here), another $100 to get locally "open" the device is, for some of us, a reasonable expense.
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The only time I've ever been pulled over in NJ was for driving too slowly in the left lane.
Really? Why do they need to emit anything? They could simply listen...
I don't think a usability lab is that expensive. A few webcams, a mike, plus a laptop and mobile phone is all you need. That probably totals to at most $3k.

Both kinds of feedback, lab and cafe, are useful. They each provide a different kind of feedback, from a focused and unfocused user so they aren't mutually exclusive. Rather, both are worthwhile.
That comment wasn't constructive the first 2 times.
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Many types of viruses[1] are like this by virtue of their high replication rate and RNA's poor error correction while copying (in comparison to DNA). It's one of the reasons why anti-viral therapy can be so tricky in viruses like HIV, as it's such a rapidly moving target.

As as analogy to computer viruses and other malware, the effect is very much like the polymorphic program code found in some of these, albeit not going as far as to derive new functionality as biological mutations can, through the combination of mutation and selection.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_quasispecies
From: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/07/18/2147231/jk-rowling-s...

"King did say that he thought he was outed too early to obtain any conclusive results from the experiment..."
I'm with you on that. I gladly subscribe to sites I enjoy, for exactly the same reason (Ars Technica, Giant Bomb, etc)

I was pretty new to h-online, but I suspect it would have joined the list of paid subscriptions sooner or later (assuming they offered it).
Like when?

Scenario 1:
I boot my PC up from a live CD do dd clone the main drive, since it's a bad idea to try to do it online. I create a giant, 500 gigabyte file containing every bit on my main hard drive. This takes 20 hours.

A month later my hard drive crashes and I want to restore it. I put in new hard drive, boot from live CD, and write my giant 500 gigabyte file onto the new drive and reboot. This takes 18 hours. Voila, I have my setup... from a month ago.

Scenario 2:
I have a cron job to run rsync on a few folders that I care about. Rsync copies them over the network to my NAS. It runs every 12 hours and only copies the diffs. My main drive crashes. I put in a new one, re-install Linux (good opportunity to upgrade distributions), and sync my data back over. The whole process takes 2 hours.

So yeah. Incredibly naive. Sorry.
Another possible factor is that Apple is made up of lots of different teams. It's possible that the Logic Pro X team wanted to provide upgrade pricing, but the app store team (or higher-ups) did not want to permit this.

Without any further information (which we're almost certainly not going to get) it's difficult to tell if this is the case.
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There is no real logical alternative to Tumblr because what makes Tumblr Tumblr isn't just a set of features that define the blogging platform it offers, it's the larger community of users that has grown there. Even if there were an identical mirror of the service at tumbls.com right now, that unquantifiable "feel" that made tumblr uniquely appealing is going to be lost unless more or less the entire tumblr community migrated over simultaneously, which is impossible.
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> Did you contact the university's police department and ask them about creating/finding resources that are similar to your idea of keeping them locked away in the police department?

I actually tried this several years ago (when I was still a student) and got a very unenthusiastic response. I may call them up again though.

> Is it the responsibility of a university to provide extra accommodations to students that choose to live off campus and in dangerous areas? Where should the line be drawn?

Great point; personally, I feel that it isn't reasonable to assume they'll be around to protect students who are living off campus (most campus PD's probalby can't scale to cover the surrounding area as well) but that they shouldn't prevent the students from protecting themselves (when you're a student it's sometimes impossible to help leaving hte library in the middle of the night and shouldn't be prevented from being prepared and carrying for their defense).
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> Shouldn't it? Specially in an article where uncontacted people, literally, kill people to avoid being contacted?

What now? Are you trying to say that someone being of Italian ethnicity makes them more ready to contact other people or what?
more on the story:
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2013/07/paypal-and-the-word-...
When flying cars take over- I wonder if speed enforcement by drone use will make the sky look like a Star Wars aerial battle/chase? Don't drive too fast Luke- your father will nuke you
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It's clearly useful and appropriate to show fractions as a relation of a part to a whole, as a portion of something, but it's almost always depicted in 2 dimensions (typically a circle) and therefore restricted to comparing to just one whole (i.e. the denominator of the fraction in reduced form). Using 1 dimension allows us to compare the portion to not just one whole but many familiar wholes, the natural numbers. I think it would also be useful to co-develop intuition of space and portions in 3 dimensions.

Maybe not everyone can get to it, I don't know, but the paper: http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/121-siegler-etal-tics.pdf
... if the only problem with the acts in question was that they were homosexual.
The problem arises that the legality of marriage was designed around traditional families. There's nothing that stops homosexuals from fulfilling their emotional, romantic, and other needs. But when you involved tax deductions because children are such an expensive commitment, it gets hairy. I do support civil unions (but not gay adoption), and I am tolerant of gays (I discuss these issues with friends who are gay), but to change the very definition of marriage goes too far - and ends up confusing everyone.
500, although that may change in the future.
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Its substantially more expensive to run cables underground everywhere in the nation.
So, how are things waaaay over there on the wrong side of history?
I believe they plan to, and that is what is being debated, they are just using Alan Turing as the most famous example of an deceased person that should be pardoned.
They should have avoided being cute and simply called it a "Developer Kit" instead of targeting it towards "Explorers".

I don't know about you, but the use of "Explorers" is broad enough and appeals to the ego enough to be inclusive of a pretty large swath of society that is going to be disappointed by the device. "Developer Kit" pretty much describes exactly what audience it is actually ready for.
Agreed, and the subscription model provides incentives for developers to update apps too.
For one, I think that the pizza slices, by being in 2 dimensions, represents the fraction as portion to a (specific) whole without representing the absolute magnitude of the fraction. Both features are important.
Cooler? No. I just didn't find it remarkable. I like my tools to be useful rather than mere status symbols.
You'll need contacts to some extent (or at least they'll help a lot). Go to a local developer meetup and meet people/hand out business cards. Always have an example of your work with you to show to people.

If you're really desperate, you could try sites like oDesk or similar.
That's better than nothing, I suppose, but unless the source is open it's still impossible to trust the proprietary binary.
Yeesh. I have a long way to go, then.
I haven't read that one, but enjoyed Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/
Huh, that was the exact rule I adopted the first time I had to work on a "real" project. I wonder if I'd previously read it into my subconscious, or if it's simply kind of obvious. :)
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It seems like a good reason to me. They couldn't pardon him when it mattered, and now they want to puff themselves up with how magnanimous and tolerant they are, just when it doesn't matter? Screw that!

The pardon doesn't serve anybody's interests but their own, it simply uses what was done to Turing to enhance their own political reputation.

Reminds me of the mormons baptising dead jews - it is actually offensive.
I would argue that every adult should read the resources in the first few categories. Really excellent.
You do realize that if the definition of marriage had never changed, then interracial marriages would still be illegal, right?
I have a few things too:

1. This new "feature" is basically automated filters. Most folks who've used gmail for years have at least some filters set up. Google didn't say anything about throwing ads in the promotions tab, so this is a little...strange.

2. Slippery slope. How long until this populates the main inbox tab? I bet google could even charge differently depending on which tab you want your ads to show up in.

3. XMPP Federation. Google Reader. Google Wave. How long will it be until Gmail is either axed or full of so many ads that it's unusable?

4. Does Adblock / NoScript block these? Can it?

5. The history of Gmail was that it was a next-generation email service and started as an invite only club. Now, every email provider under the sun gives similar features, and gmail hasn't changed much. Personally I think that this is a good thing, it shows that the service is stable and the ideas were correct. But people at Google might think otherwise and might want to try to "innovate" more. Sooo... ads.
Do we really need to classify it down to 8 taxonomic levels? At the last few levels I bet it tends to get really arbitrary. Or, we could have a variable-depth tree. Make it more specific only when you need to.
Majority of which population?
Is it really credible that giving a pardon to all those persecuted under homosexuality laws would make us forget our shameful past? That does not seem credible to me, that just seems like a haphazard excuse.
I would add "The Elements of Style" by Strunk. I think it is a classic in that area.

Edit: Also "On Writing Well" by Zinsser, another classic.