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Violating the Constitution is not a criminal offense, for obvious reasons. When the FEC tried to enforce McCain Feingold in Citizens United, and parts of the law were declared unconstitutional, should the people at the FEC who engaged in the enforcement action have been criminally charged, tried, and punished?

Also, the federal courts aren't in the Justice Department, which is a division of the executive branch. They're part of the judiciary, which is a separate co-equal branch.
You could also take the viewpoint that 'Method X' is more susceptible to being used as indoctrination whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Homeschooling is a slippery slope. For the elite who can manage not sliding down it, I agree with it.
0) The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup

1) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson and Sussman

2) Kvachi Kvachantiradze by Mikheil Javakhishvili
Thanks for the fisker link. I saw one on the road the other day but forgot to look it up later. They are as pretty as Teslas.
..or, he greatly underestimated the fact that the computer knows what cards it has dealt to you.

Isn't this obvious?
I believe that this is the exact model:

http://www.wibtek.com/products/MotherBoard/show/?pid=1000113
"Your game doesn’t need to be in the iOS App Store or Google Play to be played on mobile devices. That is a huge benefit. Sure, it’s good to have it in both of those stores (and is easy enough to achieve), but the fact that it can be played without requiring an install and the extra bulk of the stores is a big opportunity."

I don't know if this is true though. Consumers expect the games to be in the appstores. I don't know anyone who even knows they can play games on the phone browser.
I've always tried to go the opposite route when reading code from others. I'm the first (well maybe not the first but I'm at least close enough up the front of the line to see the first) to admit when I don't understand it, and when I go ask the guys who wrote it, I make this clear.

Usually I find talking like this helps people admit when code is just bad or they try to clarify it. I've found it makes asking whether it's ok to do complete rewrites a lot simpler.
The question i have been struggling to answer for few months now: Scala or Go?
Heimcontrol.js - Home automation in Node.js with Raspberry PI and Arduino
"Concrete Mathematics" by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik is probably the best preparation for tackling TAoCP, though it is not light reading either.

You could also look at "Mathematics for Computer Science" by Lehman, Leighton, and Meyer. It is available at http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/fall10/mcs-ftl.pdf .
Homeschooling is not a solution massively applicable, you cannot rest on the assumption that every parent is good teacher or can give reasonable access to the learning material required.

The diversity of people kids meet and clashes of opinions are important and cannot be fully experienced in a small scattered community of people that think alike.
I learn a lot more from my ennemies than my friends.

Your comment read a lot like: "I was super privileged and it was great!"
So great, in fact, that you forgot about your neighbours.
also this https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
'The Star Wars' that almost was
And I think the only sensible course of action is for the greens and labor to form a similar coalition, or have some kind of agreement that the greens will always support labor in a minority government.

The agreement that no minority government (by both the libs and labor) would be formed this election cycle could only of helped the liberals - not that they needed it.
I'm totally ignorant of Australian politics (can you believe it?? An American who doesn't know the major parties involved in a foreign election??), but this sounds basically like a comparison between the Republican and Democrat parties here. The joke here is that it's all lip service and they both do and act almost the exact same way once elected. Is that the case elsewhere?
An extremely basic knowledge of statistics would show you that for a set of overlapping bell curves with a reasonably sized standard deviation, a difference of a few percent in the median is far too little to make a statement like "Group X > Group Y" on with a straight face. Most people you'd pick at random from any group will be fairly average, and geniuses are uncommon, but exist, in all the groups. Even differences of a standard deviation are fairly trivial compared to the differences that exist within each group; it's not like intelligence medians vary by 5 standard deviations between ethnic groups within one country...

Needless to say, a black Nobel laureate such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Arthur_Lewis is vastly more intelligent than the median member of any ethnic group...

Underprivileged students from minority backgrounds can do quite well at calculus - some teachers, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Escalante , dedicated years to trying, with quite impressive results. This has been demonstrated again and again at schools with poor track records. Simply having a competent teacher and an environment that isn't entirely hostile to learning can do far more than many people tend to realize.
Thank you for Stripe ... it freed us from PayPal's chains.
It's generally an 'at least', you probably don't need to worry about 93.

If it is modern and fuel injected, 89 or 87 will probably also be fine, it just won't perform quite as well (but the computer will notice and back off of the timing).
Indeed. The OP's link praises the way the game branches at the very beginning and teaches you to go up first, but the way up was not nearly as obvious to me as it seems to have been for him. I had to use a walkthrough. Most RPGs, when they take you out of a tutorial, have you facing the way you need to go. It's very unintuitive (and I'd say bad design) to force me to do a 180 right from the start and go the opposite way from where I'm facing. It might just be me being dense, but it took a while before I realized that the skeletons on the way down were not just the game being "difficult" but purposedly unfair at that point.
Quite hard to accept goats and chickens from people living on another continent. With Bitcoin it's possible, fast and costs pennies. Plus, many Bitcoin supporters are buying from merchants that accept Bitcoin just because of that, so with little cost you get more business. I don't see how this could be a bad thing or not worth your time.
So sad. So instead of hiring anyone, the CEO did it herself (with some internal designers). The $0 logo.

Not too surprising it won't do much in terms of rebranding.
The released information will be legal opinions:

"[O]rders and opinions of the FISC issued from January 1, 2004, to June 6, 2011, that contain a significant legal interpretation of the government’s authority or use of its authority under Section 215; and responsive “significant documents, procedures, or legal analyses incorporated into FISC opinions or orders and treated as binding by the Department of Justice or the National Security Agency."

This is actually a huge win, because it will show the legal theories underlying the NSA surveillance. This will help us figure out whether the surveillance is Constitutional, and also give insight into what sorts of surveillance is being conducted.
Honestly what would help the most would be renouncing your citizenship and becoming a citizen of a different country. They don't give a shit about your protests, your votes, or (lately) your rights. They will give a shit when the best programmers and engineers start an exodus. Or if some of the ultra wealthy decided to get out and bring their portions of the economy with them, that would wake up some congressmen.
Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day
Yup. Very disappointing.

> As has recently been achieved in the UK, we expect these standards will involve mobile phone operators installing adult content filters on phones which will be switched on as the default unless the customer proves he or she is at least 18 years of age.

> As has recently been achieved in the UK, we expect these standards will involve the major internet service providers providing home network filters for all new home broadband services, which will be switched on as the default unless the customer specifies otherwise.

Very original writing to boot.
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I would say, almost certainly, console gaming in general is already dead; all we're seeing are its nails and hair continuing to grow. Hardcore gaming is on PCs, casual gaming is on mobile, multiplayer is online.

There's only one thing consoles are good for now, and it's exactly the market Nintendo already has cornered--local multiplayer gaming (your "Mario Party"-like titles.) The only valid competitor for Nintendo's dollar, this gen, is, extremely surprisingly, the Ouya. Nobody else is publishing semi-casual games you can play around a TV with your friends.

But that's still a small market. Nobody wants to play single-player games on a TV any more; they either want full online gaming experiences on a PC (for which Nintendo could give two shits), or personal games on a handheld. Which is why, no surprise, Nintendo has been shifting their major IP from console to mobile for years now. The "portable mode" of the Wii U is basically a compatibility hack for this new paradigm, letting devs make single-player games for the console, which can then be treated by the consumer as if they had been made for a portable, as they've now come to expect.

I'd bet that six-to-eight years from now, Nintendo will be putting out a box very similar to the Ouya, and also somewhat resembling the Apple TV. It will be sold as a DS accessory to enable local multiplayer DS gaming, on your TV. It'll be everything the Wii U is, but with four of those portables (notice how much the 2DS resembles one of them?) And that'll be that for Nintendo making consoles.
I am of course just guessing, but those numbers kind of stood up. Perhaps they're hoping for enough takers on the other funding levels to make up for the overhead. That sounds reasonable, doesn't it? But I haven't had my afternoon coffee yet, so it's a bit "numbers, schmumbers" at this point.
If you would consider writing your program in C, then you should probably also consider Go. Otherwise, go with Scala ;-)

I think Scala.js is going to be huge. Just alone for that I would choose Scala over Go.
About two years ago - Kickstarter is grandfathered in.
Won't the interesting places want to attract people who can afford expensive cars? Won't they start to add charging points?
(in a previous life I worked in front office investment banking so had to undergo anti-fraud and anti-money laundering training as well as worked on general exposure risk issues)

The problem is that fraud/risk (like tech security) is it often involves black swan events. Everything seems fine right until the point where it's not and you're on the hook for millions of dollars (Stripe is probably in the position where you can afford to take a few black swan type events and survive; a lot of Paypal competitors weren't).

Given that Stripe don't do the "wallet" approach of Paypal and is primarily focused on API customers I'm guessing your risks in general are lower, but I'd recommend you be careful about becoming over-complacent.
There are tons of 120hz LCDs. Some of the korean models that you can pickup for $350 can be manually set to run at 120hz but you have to be lucky. They run at 2560x1440.

A popular one is:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1374065/korean-qnix-qx2710-evolut...

Most 120hz LCDs run at 1080p though, and you can typically buy them at Newegg or wherever you usually get computer parts. You should be able to find dozens of models by Googling for "120hz LCD monitors".
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. Should be read by all who wonder how our minds work - and how much happens "behind the scenes", "under the covers".

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, by Daniel Dennett. Should be read by all curious to know the full implications of mechanistic evolution (hint: think about what came before life).

The Mating Mind, by Geoffrey Miller. Must-read for anyone in marketing, or anyone wondering why the other guy got laid and you didn't.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond. Why are we rich and they poor? Why so few domesticated African animals? Why one big China and a many-state Europe?

The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press, by Ben Wilson. Great read about an early 19th C. struggle against unjust laws used to gag journalism. Relevant in today's age of bloggers, etc.
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No, they didn't approve it.

Jim Sensenbrenner, Author of the PATRIOT Act, has himself said that the presidents' interpretation are an abuse of the law.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/09/abuse-pa...

If the guy who wrote the law says, "that is not what I meant" it is pretty clear that what congress voted for and what they got are two different things.
I used to go to http://hckrnews.com to get a similar list, but this seems to use a different algorithm.
> only few comments

… and 5 submission only for today
Why is Microsoft keeping the final release of Windows 8.1 secret?
HOW SMART CAN A WATCH REALLY BE?(Samsung introduced the Galaxy Gear)
There is very simple solution to all this!!!!!!

PayPal should have an "AT YOUR OWN RISK" payment option. Pre-sale vendors would be required by the terms of use to use this payment option instead of the normal one unless they first get a pre-sale waiver from PayPal. PayPal can charge an application fee for that process.

All done.
Some things never change - even when a new executive promises.
> should the people at the FEC who engaged in the enforcement action have been criminally charged, tried, and punished?

Ideally, yes! We would have far fewer "good Germans" for the internet to Godwin about.

Pragmatically, no, anyone other than a judge or lawyer cannot be expected to know what is constitutional or not.
Yeah, I can agree with this. For me the scenario starts with reading somebody else's code and thinking it's horrendous. I'll then get this nagging feeling that the problem may instead be me not comprehending the code well enough, or not seeing the greater context in which the supposedly bad code is meant to sit. Frequently, after further investigation, the code turns out to be not as bad as I originally thought. It's almost like a judgement without all the facts / can't see the florist for the flowers kind of thing. I'm looking at that small piece of code through an aperture that blurs the bigger picture, if you widen it a little further you may see that the code was written in a certain way in order to coalesce with the rest of the code base. Or widen it further still and see that it was written poorly because it needed to be done quickly, but that poorly written code may have facilitated the first 1000 sales of the product. I won't listen to someone who trash talks another coder or a former employee for their work. It happened the other day at my job, the new guy trash talked some ops work belonging to the guy he replaced. That work has been keeping our site available for the past five years, still waiting for the new guy's road tested commits.
This merchant offered Bitcoin. The vast majority of payors chose to use PayPal with its built-in buyer protection instead.
It wouldn't kill paypal to have non-reversible transactions as long as this is made clear to the user.
It's obnoxious to use gasoline...it's just the norm so it doesn't seem so.
If Paypal are so concerned about presales, then in my opinion they should get out of the market. Or force their customer base to get some sort of insurance. You know, do their risk management before they let the vendor take payments?

It amazes me that their marker for freezing money is for how many sales the company does. Because you wouldn't want to accept money from a successful business now!
The US surely can spy on Chinese CC transactions that occur in, or where the tx data passes through a friendly locale. There is a decent chance for them to be able to get CC tx data from within China as well.
I'd like to point out that "in the wild" on android literally means "they're not in the play store", but rather downloaded from somewhere else.

The play store scans every submitted the apps for malware (in the last versions it also scans applications NOT installed through the play store).

I don't want to be pedantic, it's just that I know more about this platform and I would like to be corrected if I say something wrong about platforms that I'm not familiar with.
This is similar to the discussion around "legacy code", which in many ways is corporate speak for "shit code". In his book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code", Michael Feathers provides an interesting definition of legacy code. He defines legacy code as code that is not under test. The idea is that if code is under test then it is easier to improve/refactor.

Maybe instead of saying that code is "shitty", we should retrain ourselves to say that "this code has no tests." It's more productive and points us to a direction out of the situation and prevents us from getting in the situation to begin with.

I suppose some might argue that shit code is not necessarily legacy code or vice-versa. Perhaps, but in either case the first step in improving it is to get it under test.
>Force you to use Paypal credit (if you have it) instead of a CC

What's so bad about that?
He is talking about using that currency as a way of being paid (= running his business), not for investing neither for speculating.

N.B. maybe I'm wrong but according to this graph:
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg360ztgSzm1g10zm2g...
http://blockchain.info/charts/market-price
Now bitcoin has half the value than in April (and, I known, 10x Jan value). Too volatile to use if your business IMHO.
If the code really is shit then the best course of action is to work at understanding it and then refactor like crazy.
Some of the points about children learning naturally by themselves remind me somewhat of Rousseau's "Emile, or On Education" However, I don't know if anyone had been able to actually pull this off in real life. I think one downside could be for things that you have to learn to function well in society but have no natural interest in. If you are left alone to learn for yourself, then you'll learn about things you want to learn.
A 60 kg cargo bike is as much "sort of" of a bicycle as a truck is "sort of" a car.
> If I send my bitcoins to someone to buy something, I have no protection if they decide not to deliver.

To be more precise, you have no protection from the money transmission service. This is no different from cash.
While I don't miss the old days when you had to manually compile stats, when I first played you had to fix your lineup the day before the first game of the week. No changes. You simply had to account for the risk if one of your players is a little banged up and might not play. Is it worth it to leave him in and risk a zero? It also leveled the playing field for people who do things on Sunday other than sit around and watch (or listen to) football all Sunday.
Being brown and living in a city does not equate to living in the slums and getting pulled over by the cops every time you drive.

How do you propose people living in poverty both provide their children with the necessary resources (textbooks, a microscope, maps, a computer) and have enough time to instruct their children?
I think that Kickstarter has their shit together, and the risk of a chargeback from Kickstarter to [project leader] is relatively low, compared to the risk of a project funded directly through Amazon Payments.

I don't know how indiegogo works, but in the case of Kickstarter, I would assume that Kickstarter is collecting the payments, arbiter of refunds in the case a goal is not met, and does not have access to the money in the interim.

Then Kickstarter uses Amazon Payments to disburse the funds to project lead? I am uneducated and did not contribute to the fund, so I don't really know how it works. Can you enlighten?
Hmm. I don't think that is how it works. I don't think these computer programs are permitted to take into account special knowledge in their AIs. I suppose the interviewee in this article could be lying, but I don't see that as the highest probability hypothesis.
Interesting article on gaining followers & retaining them on Google+
>Isn't this obvious?

Not at all. This article certainly doesn't imply it and it would be illegal.

Do you have any evidence of that being done?
I don't see how this has anything to do with the brogrammer fad (as annoying as that was/is). People have been talking this way about code for a lot longer. I'll throw out one of Linus' gems as an example [1].

[1] http://staefcraeft.blogspot.com/2013/07/linus-torvalds-there...
and https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
Don't forget that math and physics have to be completely disregarded to be a creationist as well.
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At the core of your very well crafted considerations and arguments lies one critical flaw; Paypal's risks or issues are none of our problems and the burden for which should not be rolled over and down the chain of responsibility or power. Unfortunately, it is a systemic problem in the American business culture and society as a whole that responsibility and consequences are constantly passed down to to the point where responsibility and power intersect, leaving the powerless holding the consequences of the powerful.

I, nor anyone else that pays Paypal cares, nor should have to care what their particular drama-issues are when conducting business with them. The time is rife for a system that is not as corrupt, abusive, incompetent, and dishonest as Paypal. How many more stories of someone's funds being frozen, i.e., stolen for a year do we have to hear where companies and individuals will start shying away from doing business with Paypal. Paypal is about as much of a pal as a backstabbing, draining, sabotaging, untrustworthy piece of shit as a company can be, why are people still working with them.

Paypal needs to suffer the same demise that MySpace did when they became a harbor for pedophiles and the scum of the earth .... with blinking flair all over their screen.
Sigh. There is not one architect that designed the building (even if one gets his name on for publicity reasons - there is a team.) The architect is also only one part of the process - I sure hope you know that they don't actually implement their designs.

The "conspiracy theory stuff" is the "But that's worse for him, because it means he knew what would happen and didn't care." part. That was an extremely ignorant comment to make.

I'm happy that you think its a simple mistake, but you don't have the credentials to claim that. Middle school math doesn't cut it.
The point I'm trying to make there is consumers can still find your game through those apps like WeChat, and through shared links on Facebook, Twitter, etc... The same way people typically find and consume other forms of content.

What needs some work is making those games stickier in the sense that the person will play it again. That requires saving it to the home screen which probably not enough people are familiar with - and is a bit of a pain on Android.

I like the approach Firefox OS has taken with saving/installing apps and hopefully Apple and Google follow suit. As is, I think iOS's "Add to Home Screen" is fine. Android's like I said, could be improved.

The other thing that needs a bit of work is HTML5 performance in the webview. On iOS at least, game's don't perform as well as when they are played in Safari (since the webview doesn't use the Nitro JS engine) - hopefully that changes soon.
Just a halfway decent mini-itx htpc case plus power supply can easily set you back $100 or more. You're going to have a hard time building something like this for $150. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I have a hard time seeing it.