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I generally don't drink coffee because it makes your breath smell. It is really awful when you're talking to colleagues or clients with "coffee breathe".
Those saying they like Elementary OS should just switch to OS X.

I like Ubuntu better. Why? Because Ubuntu offers some real innovations not just copycat/mimicking OS X like Elementary OS.
You should seek better sources for your legal information. Suicide is not a crime.
OMG, just use a table! It's not semantic but no one will die and your mom will still love you, I promise! And if you are using haml/jade/handlebars whatever it is so insanely easy to create a little mixin or whatever to keep your code clean.

Articles about how to do this should be summarized like this: "Vertical centering hard/hacky/messy unless you just put it in a table. So put it in a table".

(I do realize the article says this).

BTW, regarding the argument about the damage of using tables wrt screen readers, google themselves used tables to layout very basic buttons on their landing page until very recently. If you use it sparingly and just for this purpose, screen readers will do just fine. Now, using tables for other types of layout can and will break screen readers but a full old-school table-based layout is a long way from having a single TD to center stuff.
Completely aside from the main point, but I am curious as to why the New Yorker chose to use umlauts for all of the instances of the word: "coöperate." It's a latin word so I wouldn't expect to see that.

I wonder if it is a rendering trick or something intentional for tracking.
I find a flashlight and OC spray incredibly useful, and very rarely (in the US) would ever carry a ccw handgun or rifle/shotgun without a light (mounted to weapon or for use in hand) and also pepper spray. And a knife, which is incidentally a retention tool for the firearm, but mainly utility (except when I had my overt body armor, where I carried a large fixed blade near to on-vest pistol).

Without a non-lethal option, you're stuck. There are situations which don't warrant a lethal response, or which don't absolutely require a lethal response, but where if you get close, weapon retention becomes a serious issue, turning the whole thing into a lethal force justified encounter. Which is a huge problem for police who open carry handguns; less of an issue if you CCW.

Tasers are huge, and unless openly carried or in a house, are basically the same form factor as a handgun. If I were a high-risk person (smaller, female, disabled, etc.) in a place where I couldn't or wouldn't carry a handgun, it would be an option. It might also be an option in a place where use of force but non-lethal force was likely, like a mental hospital, bar, etc. Otherwise, the optimum seems to be OC/knife/light, and then handgun.
This law won't alter the fundamental situation. There are people who cannot afford homes. Forcing them to hide their now illegal sleeping arrangements is not going to make them disappear or make the problems that come with a thoroughly disenfranchised population disappear.

The only thing this accomplishes is putting more of the burden on the poorest people in the community. Now, those people who formerly had a reasonably safe place to park overnight to sleep will have to find a new place to sleep every night. They won't be able to build any sort of community bonds with their neighbors, develop a routine (that might be necessary for recovery from addiction, or getting a job, or getting a kid to school every day, or any number of things that requires one to know where you're going to be sleeping each night).

I've been among the wealthy mobile homeless for five years now (I live in a motor home, and traveled almost non-stop for four years; lately I travel only ~3 months out of the year, but will return to traveling more as I recover from some personal grief that's led me to need some stable friendships and a predictable life for a while). I've met a whole lot of folks who live in their vehicle, whether it's an old motorhome, a van, or even a car, including in Palo Alto (where I parked for three weeks while visiting friends). This kind of law criminalizes people who shouldn't be criminalized, and it makes crime part of the daily lives of people who are just trying to get by.

The problem here is that this is using a violent solution to a community problem. When you ask for a law to be made against an activity someone does, you're using violence and imprisonment to get your way. That's what the state is: Legalized violence. Is it right to find someone so far down on their luck that they are living in a car, and respond by sending men with guns to fine them or arrest them?

Because that's what this means. The poorest people in Palo Alto will now be subject to being ticketed or arrested for sleeping. Not because they want to hurt anyone, but because they have no where else to sleep.
I completely agree. It's polished, but by no means "homely" if you know what I mean. Usually when I have a question about git I end up on StackOverflow, but once in a while I click a link to git-scm.com and about halfway through finding my answer I start wondering to myself where the "Buy Now" button is.
What makes you think they don't? The city is generous in homeless services, which in turn draws more to the city. Especially as neighboring cities have already banned car camping.

http://www.communityworkinggroup.org/opportunitycenter.html
That's my fear. If they become too big, Apple may sue them.
Take the analogy from natural languages, and you're fluent in any language where you can write simple programs without consulting the documentation (or only minimal consultation), conversant in any language you can get real work done in, and speak broken language X if you know Hello World and not much more.

A polyglot should be fluent in multiple languages, from at least a couple different families, and conversant in many more.
You are correct, it is off by the height of the bar at the bottom of the window. It uses fixed positioning -- not absolute positioning as was prescribed in the hack. Also he sets the modal height to 50%. The CSS of the demo is not the CSS of the write-up.
I've seen a lot of interesting tools they're building (e.g. https://launchpad.net/scratch, https://launchpad.net/geary), so I almost want to use it, but the OS X mimicry is a huge deterrent. I haven't used it. I did find this though: http://elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines
let an OS X user uses Elementary OS for awhile. Probably 99% of them would say, "yup, very similar to OS X".
Not to make light of his work, but this is not that novel. Students have been "improving" the medical field using queuing theory and simulation software for years . I did it in my stochastics class when I got my master's degree in Operations Research. The key translation from the article is "Xu emphasizes that the work is still ongoing" which means that isn't implemented [yet] and the 40 minute savings are just computer estimates.

What I would really like to see is an article titled, "Huge real-world increases in medical efficiency directly attributed to student's work and now saves hundreds of lives per year" -- or something like that. I'm not very good at creating titles.

Again, I want to emphasize that I don't want to make light of Mr. Xu's work (stochastics might be my least favorite subject and gets complicated when you create detailed models) and I wish him luck as he pursues his PhD.
Hint: look at what NSA is advising other government agencies to use for classified systems.

They published a white paper spec of what a mobile phone system would have to do in order to be accepted as a potential solution.

Hint: Hardware would have to be certified together with firmware and software. It would contain some kind of a locked down VPN connection so no network packets ever get sent or received unless it goes through that one VPNed connection. This way metadata doesn't leak. From what everyone can observe you only connect to one VPN server. Inside the VPN connection you'd have multiple encapsulated sRTP based voice channel to whoever you are calling. BUT this VPN server would be running in a centralized government owned facility. So they would know all the metadata. Now how would that work in real life to hide from their surveillance? I don't know. If there ever appears a trusted VPN provider, you bet it will be a single point of compromised and a single pointer of failure.
This sounds accurate. My understanding is that the words "trespass" or "computer fraud" are used in relation to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act (a law which I believe is generally construed far too broadly--even though it looks to be appropriate here). Nothing to do with wget, he could've used a browser to the same effect.

That said, this reporting is indicative of most of the "journalism" around Snowden and Manning. While it's no longer surprising, it's still disappointing.
I doubt anyone thinks this is technically copying OS X but the design is similar enough that it's clearly meant to be reminiscent of OS X.
I have a question to the developers. If they like Mac OS X so much, why not just use it, rather than clone? I don't understand it.

To make it slightly less obvious, they could've at least picked a different desktop picture.

PS. I'm happy they chose Super Hexagon to show gaming.
OS X and elementary OS share incredibly similar core design and usability ideals, but elementary is no mere rehash of OS X. They challenge a number of things people take for granted in OS X, such as double-clicking[0] and minimise[1], but they're obviously not afraid to borrow things that OS X does well.

[0] http://elementaryos.org/journal/we-moved-cheese

[1] http://elementaryos.org/journal/whats-still-window-controls
What is your imperative language? Do you write imperative code in OOP? Do you find yourself compelled to implement everything with static methods?
If you don't have health insurance it is practically impossible to make a doctor appointment, so lots of people just go to the emergency room.
Spot on. We are laughably far away from being able to do the kinds of things with living systems that the author suggests. An analogous claim would be that because the Wright Brothers just invented the airplane, we will soon have cheap faster than light interstellar travel. I don't mean to be overly negative, this stuff is exciting! But it is important to have perspective and keep in mind how far we have to go.
People often feel so horrible they get desperate and stop thinking as logically as they should. For example, a bad flue will make you delirious even though, if you aren't very old or young, the best way to treat it is often some ibuprofen, water, and just to sweat it out (disclaimer: I'm not that kind of doctor).

I went to the emergency room this year because I was in pain and needed a pain killer prescription for a bad abrasion (that I was self treating otherwise) at 3 AM in the morning. But in my case, the emergency room at the private hospital I go to in China was quite deserted, and they even gave me a tetanus shot for the trouble.
Yeah, but with Elementary OS, everything from the colors to the buttons to the layout of apps is almost identical to that of OS X. There's no innovation here--it's just Linux with the GUI of OS X. If I wanted that, I'd just use OS X.
You only need to generate your key pair once. I just generated a 16kbit key in 10 minutes. Why is this impractical? The cost of encrypt/decrypt would be modular exponentiation which isn't that bad. My point is though that as long as there is some number of bits where RSA is secure and it's use is practical then RSA isn't dead. A lot of the discussion seems to imply RSA will be dead soon as a result of recent work. Maybe it will or maybe it won't but it seems the claims are a bit overblown. I agree with the idea that we need to design to the possibility of RSA falling (or ECC falling) within reason but RSA could have fallen 5 years ago and it could fall tomorrow (and so can ECC).
I've tried this but have found that in almost all cases jqLite doesn't implement something needed for a given lib. Moreover, a single lib not working with jqLite spoils the entire thing.
How many Linux distributions focus so much of their efforts on elegant, usable, and consistent design? I would mark that as elementary's primary innovation.
I'm tempted to park there in my motorhome (new MSRP ~$95,000, though I bought it used for a third of that) again, as I did a few years ago for three weeks. I ran into lots of the folks who lived in the neighborhood, and they all simply wanted to know where I'd traveled and where I was heading next.

Would be curious to see how a middle class white guy gets treated vs. poor people.
One reason might be that OS X is not Open Source nor Free.
Been doing it for five years. Works great. But, California might not be the ideal location for it.
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I don't get the obsession with density. Palo Alto is a small suburban town. People move there to get away from urban life and density. There is plenty of infill to be done in San Jose and San Francisco before you need to worry about Palo Alto.
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An excellent question. Basically, the law is absurd and horrible in almost every conceivable way, and designing a system of law that is otherwise is nontrivial.
Title of thread is "Math Advances Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years (technologyreview.com) "

Not:
"Math Advances Suggest 1024 bit RSA keys may be factorable within 5 years"
For the JVM there is a native (no JNI) Lua port called luaj:

http://luaj.sourceforge.net/

I would be interested to hear anyone's experience using luaj on Android (thats where I plan to use it), and how it may compare to other options like Rhino.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to be insulting or anything, as an OSX user, it just looks very similar to me, and I was hoping someone would point out a difference in philosophy or implementation, not that the dock was used pre-OSX (which I'm sure it was).

There was no reason to insult my eye-sight :-)
I think this looks pretty cool. I'm going to give it a shot in a VM. Depending on how this goes this may get installed on my non-Mac laptop.
I used the desktop environment for a little bit and they even took the icon bounce from OS X. I hope Elementary succeeds but that was just meh. Especially since the physics of the bounce were off.
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The researcher is from Suzhou, this article has nothing to do with Suzhou, however.

Oh, and you should have just walked.
But we don't let thieves get out of a conviction just because somebody had easily bypassable or broken locks, either.
I believe there was a post about this earlier that the game is solved[1]. Interesting game for those who don't know that, or who want to go through the exercise to figure out the correct strategy.

[1] https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/604-Ultimate-T...
I reject the notion of "positive liberties" on the grounds that forcing other people to do things for you at gunpoint (actual or implied) is morally wrong.
>It doesn't apply to private property

But this does. PAMC 18.42.070:

(f) Limitations for Sleeping in Recreation Vehicles

Subject to securing a permit therefore from the building official and otherwise complying with applicable law, the use of a recreational vehicle, as defined in this title, may be permitted for sleeping purposes only for a period not to exceed thirty consecutive days in any calendar year for not more than two nonpaying guests of the occupant of a single-family dwelling in accord with all applicable regulations governing parking and storage of vehicles.

(g) Vehicle Visibility from Public Streets

Except in the OS (open space) and AC (agricultural conservation) districts, no person shall store, place, or park any of the conveyances designated in this section, whether disabled or fully operative, in any areas visible from a public street unless it is parked or stored upon either permeable or impermeable paving surface.

(h) Parked Vehicles shall not Obstruct Traffic Views at Intersections

No person shall store, place, or park any of the conveyances designated in this section within the thirty-five foot triangle of property at the intersection of streets improved for vehicular traffic.

(i) Parked Vehicles Maximum Coverage of Front Yard

No person shall store, place, or park any of the conveyances designated in this section in a manner that they cover more than 40 percent of any required front yard.

(j) Each Day of Violation a Separate Offense

Violation of this section is a misdemeanor, punishable as provided in this code. Each day of violation constitutes a separate offense and may be separately punished.

(Ord. 4934 § 4 (part), 2007)
No need to go cold turkey. Progressively substitute decaf for regular. If you have you own espresso machine, this is pretty easy to do over the course of a few weeks.
USA -> USSR. US govt has decided to follow practices of USSR govt as it considers them to be much more superior than the former USA govt practices.
I understand where you're coming from, but I strongly disagree.

I've worked with multiple living counterexamples to your point - they only knew one language (sometimes old and non-maintained), but they could blow the next whiz-kid out of the water in terms of logical thinking and its application to software development.

IMO the only requirement to being a "programmer" is "programming", and restricting it any way beyond that hurts the field.

The guy that's been doing systems programming in C++ for 10 years should probably be considered a "programmer" despite not knowing the latest compile-to-js language of the week.
Trouble in Android paradise between Google and Qualcomm?
tldr: Rich people tell the poor to GTFO with the backing of the police looking for more useless work to do.

Cue libertarian comments at government overreach, and socialist comments at libertarian excess corrupting the political system.

I really don't care what your political bent is, but if you live in a developed nation it's your responsibility to try and help, not punish the poor. Why? Because someday you might be poor yourself. The economy is like that.

I've met people who lived in their cars, and they don't make any trouble, keep to themselves and just want to be left alone till they get back on their feet. Why do you need to bother them? It costs you nothing to leave them alone.
A Javascript implementation of APL
Although I have met many programmers who focus on a single language, say C# or Java, gets a lot of certifications etc.

Are they not programmers too?
You know, I forgot that people actually drag these things. Now that you can't get with CSS, as far as I'm aware.
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Progressively replace regular with decaf.
Most programming languages are essentially the same; skills are directly transferable and you just have to learn minor syntactic difference. I would think it would be much harder to master guitar just because one already mastered drums, or the other way around.

Show me someone who has mastered computer graphics and say databases, then I'll be in awe.
Sweet game! Nicely made.
Brawndo's got electrolytes. It's what computers crave.
This is cool. Finally, a Linux distro that I could set my less-than-technical friends and family with.

(Why not Ubuntu, you might ask? Simple: Ubuntu ships off their users' desktop search results to Amazon by default. I know it can be disabled and all that, but that's besides the point. I can't recommend software from people who don't respect their users' privacy.)
The Libertarian Group is in Sacramento, and is trying to use State environmental law to prevent the local governments in the Bay area from cooperating on a plan to build high-density housing.

I'm not sure which 'city' you're referring to here, as PLC isn't representing any particular city, and Sacramento (where they're based) isn't part of the Bay Area, not that that makes a huge difference legally speaking.
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Lua is indeed very, very aweseome -- for all the reasons enumerated, and then some.

But your average Rubyist/Pythonista shouldn't be fooled. The ecosystem of Lua assumes you eat C for breakfast, and if you don't, you're going to be looking around for easy, plug-and-play libraries and wondering why they don't exist.

They don't, because in Lua world, you either call C from Lua or embed Lua in C. You don't throw something together in Lua using the happy friendly libraries that others have written for your convenience (often, in C).

I see comparisons being made with Lisp here and there. The most truthful comparison is sociological: as with the Lisp community, the Lua community (which is very friendly, approachable, and helpful) largely assumes you're smart enough to build it yourself. In C.

If that frightens you, you should probably go back to whatever you were doing before.
I think the large amount of traffic during rush hour around those highway exits say otherwise. Several megacorps with tens of thousands of employees each have campuses in the region. It's an artificial area kept artificially suburban in a long stretch of continuous suburbia.
But they focus none of there efforts on elegant, usable, and consistent design. Because none of the effort done was for design. Its literally a carbon copy of OS X. The layout, the colors, the gradients, the multitasking, the dock, the app bounce on the dock, the music app, the exposé style window layout, the mission control tile multiple desktop layout.

Any Linux distro with its own UI spent more time on elegant, usable, and consistent design than Elementary did.
"Conversant in any language you can get real work done in", I think this is a pretty good baseline to define if you know a language or not. :)
Many of the comments presuppose that Palo Alto's city council is in a position to do something about a truly macroeconomic problem, i.e. "instead of kicking them out, why not provide them with jobs etc."

That being said, I don't agree with the council's decision. But the cultural momentum that has carried them there is so far beyond them, and many of these comments miss that point.
Great tips. Thank you.
Actually I think people move there to be close to Stanford University, 280, Caltrain, and a bunch of VC and high-tech firms. If you want to get away from it all then some place like Half Moon Bay seems a much better choice.
yes, right, the world definitely need another linux distro that fails at pretending being even close to the reasons why people actually buy and use Macs and PCs. Bah.
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Does it play mp3 and movies without requiring anything to do?
Some might enjoy the focus on usability and design outside of Apple's walled garden. There's also the fact that Elementary OS is open source which matters a great deal to some.

You can also put Elementary OS on a computer of your choosing and for a price of your choosing, which isn't so with OS X.
It's easy to tell when a light switch has been turned on or off. Not quite as easy when the switch is on a settings option called "email me a digest every week" or similar.
"It's not that I mind people living out of their cars, but just not in my backyard."
Thank you, that was what I wanted to know.
I have to disagree, functional and object oriented languages produce very different solutions. Syntax is just the grammar. Compare e.g. Mandarin to a Latin based language and you will see what I mean. :)

But indeed, mastering more areas is even more impressive.
Can you already offer 3. as a service, is it in planning, or won't you use that?
I did, and there were none. It was all a bunch of "seeing hobos makes me feel unsafe". Sorry, but your feelings do not factor into this.