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Definitely in agreement on this one. I have a writing app which uses HTML as it's native format, and I've received a number of complaints from people about how it doesn't allow you to use multiple consecutive spaces. I suspect most of them are coming from a MS Word background (the app lets you edit Word documents but converts them temporarily to HTML for editing).

Usually I just explain that this is how HTML works; whitespace is collapsed, and so my app is inherently dependent upon the capabilities of HTML and the layout engine being used (in my case, WebKit).

However after the most recent complaint I finally spent some time looking deeper into the CSS spec and found out that you can set white-space: pre-wrap on a style, which will preserve consecutive spaces in the way that some people are accustomed to in Word. Now that I'm aware of this, I'll be turning this on by default for Word documents when I translate them to HTML, and for documents stored directly in HTML format I'll offer this as an option that can be set on a document-wide or style-specific basis.

I've always seen the one-space vs. two-space argument as a bit pointless, since this is something that is within the domain of what software can handle, for the most part. LaTeX has facilities for adding extra space after periods, for example. The main difficulty is distinguishing between abbreviations and words like e.g. which don't start a new sentence, so you don't want extra space after them. And I'm not aware if any web browser or HTML layout engines which add extra space like LaTeX (which I think is 1.5 times a normal space), but I cold be wrong.

As much as I've been in the camp of "just use one space; what's the big deal?" I think you've raised a very good point that the double-space can be treated as semantic information that instructs the typesetting system to place the surrounding characters further apart, even if it isn't exactly two spaces (and in the case of justified text, giving a greater weight to whitespace specified using two space characters).

TL;DR: white-space: pre-wrap is a handy feature of CSS
> It is the standard definition when talking about a CRIME rate.

That wasn't your claim, and it's false in any case. There's no standard definition of "rate" -- you need to define your terms, and "rate" means a measure of change, not any specific measure without additional information. In any case, the exchange below tells me that you really don't understand what "rate" means.

>> If the population is increasing without constraint

> It isn't. Population growth rates [emphasis added] have rapidly declined all over the world.

Honestly. I say population is increasing. You reply by saying that the "growth rate", i.e. the first derivative of population, has declined. Both are true. To sort this out, take Calculus. Until you understand the difference between a function and its first derivative, we won't be able to discuss this issue.

http://www.arachnoid.com/calculus/

Also, for the actual worldwide population growth rate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth

"In 2009, the estimated annual growth rate was 1.1%."

That rate, if sustained, means the world's population will double in 63 years.
BOS has certainly made huge gains in biotech. BOS has more mid-size biotechs than SFO, but SFO has an edge in tiny, less than 10 person start-ups (but not by much).

The biggest difference between BOS and SFO are the big biotechs. SFO has one (GNE), while BOS many.
That's the rub, though; for whatever reasons, physical or psychological or both, some people do not and cannot provide enough will power alone and need help.

This is why addicts talk to other addicts; because other addicts "get it" and can provide help in overcoming the problem that isn't just "learn how to use your own will power". That's just condescending.

It's obvious, really; if it were that simple, there would be a great deal less addicts in the world.
What is so unethical about eggs or cow's milk?

edit: The point I am trying to make is that not all of our food comes from unethical industrial factory farms. There are a lot of farmers who use ethical and sustainable methods. It is not too difficult to do research and find out how your food is produced.
Benedict Cumberbatch: Julian Assange tried to talk me out of WikiLeaks film
Roasting your own? If you're not already, it's simple fun and tasty.
Thanks for posting the roster. It's funny who you bump in to. I remember going to a bootcamp down at U of M a few years ago with one of the speakers. Small world!
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I do not want to be mean, but can you not just read existing material on Human population growth, pollution and global warming.For a start you can try high school environmental science book.Then may be you can come up with some counter-evidence with hard facts (like shaking up the environmental sciences pile of data of over 50 years).
> PR makes party tickets central to the electoral system.

That doesn't parse. Party tickets are just as critical in the UK (First Past the Post) as in Germany (Mixed Member Proportional). That campaign contributions are more critical in the US than party membership has other reasons. Note also that MMP systems do allow for the direct election of half the parliament using FPTP rules, so these seats would be immune to such a defect. In practice, it comes down to whoever finances an MP's election campaign.

> It creates a higher proportion of safe seats, which encourages party people to play to their base.

That claim sounds nice in theory, but in practice Angela Merkel has been moving to the left during the election year, while Mitch McConnell seems to be getting primaried for being insufficiently hostile to Obamacare and David Cameron had to promise an EU referendum to fend off defections to UKIP.

> PR makes it easier for groups to get elected who are pursuing sectional interests.

I'm not sure why that would be a bad thing. If a "sectional interest" can gain 5% or more of support from the electorate, then this would be an interest that a very large number of citizens care about and should be represented; FPTP systems tend to shut out even large minorities. In 2010, the Liberal Democrats got 23% of the popular vote, while Labour got 29%, but the LibDems got 57 seats as opposed to Labour's 258.
Yeah I tend to liken the debate over sentence spacing to the "debate" over whether a toilet seat should be left up or down.

It's generally petty and irrelevant (most people don't even notice). And it's 100% an annoying discussion I'd rather not be spending even a minute of my time on.
I vote whatever is faster to read. Wikipedia claims one study said one space barely, other studies showed no difference. So one space it is, I guess. Don't really care about the history whatsoever.
I've usually hated using RPM/Red Hat based distros because they tend to create giant headaches whenever you need to use a relatively recent release of a library or application and because I just don't like their package manager.

I think most people's problems with Ubuntu having too short of a release cycle come from people installing the current version of Server instead of the LTS version. I've known shops that stupidly used non-LTS Ubuntu server releases, and then kept them running after their support cycle ended...

I think maybe that's what happens when people who don't really know how the Ubuntu ecosystem just start using stuff.
He's there now. Apparently they did a bulk update. It went from having 0 people named Tom on the whole page to having two people named Tom! https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/hall-of-fame/distin...
Considering that the placement of the words in the two examples is exactly the same, the "river" is present in both.
It incorrectly binds touch event instead of click events for my PC.

If anyone else runs into this issue, you will need to bind the events from the javascript console:

gc.addEventListener('mousemove', mouseMoved, false); gc.addEventListener('mousedown', mouseDown, false);
Unfortunately, my experience is that with government they just paper over the first why without ever getting to the fifth because the first why is visible to voters and will help them get re-elected. Fixing the fifth why would be so far removed that voters wouldn't notice and the effects probably wouldn't even be felt until the next person was in office.
You could use Heroku, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, or a myriad of similar services. You could also hire a consultant to secure the system for you.
Talk is cheap. I kept expecting to read how he was donating some % of his consulting fees/shared profit from the promotion of this luxury into alleviating the problem, but apparently that's not on the cards.
This is ridiculous. Acetaminophen is Tylenol. Are you seriously trying to make the argument that Tylenol is a poison?

Arsenic is a poison. Lead is a poison. Cyanide is a poison. Tylenol becomes toxic at a certain threshold (like every other substance on the earth for that matter).

Sure, it is toxic to your liver in large doses. That isn't why Tylenol 3 is Schedule II while pure Codeine is Schedule II. The difference is in dosage. Tylenol 3 tends to come in doses of around 5mg Codeine to 300-500mg Tylenol. You get T3 when you have a tooth taken out, or maybe some minor stitches. You are also only given a few pills.

You get pure Codeine when you break a bone or stick a pencil through your eye. Or one of the stronger codeine-derivatives (oxycodeine, etc). These come in larger doses and are more prone to abuse.

Hence Schedule III.

I'm no fan of the DEA or the schedule system...but the "Government" isn't poisoning anyone. That's pure FUBAR and true tin-foil-hattery. Its a classification system for the abuse potential of perfectly legal drugs.
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It gets unethical pretty quickly as it is produced at industrial scale.
Built Image Search and Automated Pinning tool this weekend
I'm 98% certain you're confusing this conversation with a conversation about privacy in general.

It's kind of sad you can't separate the two.
A better question may be is it worth it for the government to subsidize research for humanities professors?

Where is all of this filthy lucre that the government is throwing at humanities professors? I would like to get some. The only federal body that funds pure humanities research is the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has a grand total of $150 million by way of annual budget. I.e. essentially zero.

Or should humanities teachers have regular 9 to 5 teacher jobs?

Perhaps HN commenters should have regular 9 to 5 jobs.
That's definitely one of the arguments used in the marketing material. If the coffee being sold is not in fact from wild civets that can choose the berries, that sounds like it should be considered false advertising.
Would you like some Pirate Cinema with that?
JavaScript doesn't have them either, until you include a functional toolchain library like Underscore. Does Perl have any similar library?
Apparently, you're not very familiar with modern factory farming. One word: "debeaking".
So there's no question that automation creates economic opportunity.

If I can get the same product at a lower price, it frees up some of my income to buy something else. That creates demand, it is is demand that creates jobs.

The problem is that workers aren't fungible. People spend years or even decades acquiring skills, and then technology can automate away what they do, leaving them stranded economically speaking. They need new skills to keep earning because demand has changed.

Also on an individual level we all resist change. If you like your life and lively-hood now, and technology threatens that, it's not surprising that people will go Luddite in order to avoid the effort and risk that comes with changing jobs.

The answer is to put in place the social institutions necessary for people to be more adaptive and fluid in how they earn a living. Give people a safety net to fall on: social insurance, and a ladder to climb to climb out on: education.

Plenty of nations are using parts of this strategy and the data seems clear it works. But it's a difficult sell politically in the US. People here aren't willing to see the taxes they pay as investment toward bettering society as a whole. And to be fair, they're justified in feeling that way since our government's spending priorities are often insane.
In total agreement and moreover the best comment on this post(irrespective of agreement :)).
Like others, I was having trouble focusing on the text of the article. ViewText.org is down and I don't have any browser plugins for increasing readability, so this made it a bit better for me:

http://google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%...
I find this interesting because this view of online education is the opposite of cheap education for the masses. It shows online education as a means to find the prodigies around the world.
Especially when you understand that the impression cookies you, and those cookies are then read when you buy that product on amazon, etc.
Exactly, people are thinking that I'm jealous about this kid for being called a genius.

The think the term genius could be harmful or just playing down accomplishment.

That would be like toiling for years with a few failed start-ups and then hitting one big success, but the media dismisses your success because you are the son of <insert rich CEO>. Sure, that couldn't have hurt, but what about the years of blood, sweat and tears that you put into it? What about the failures?

For the media, why write about those things when it's easier and perhaps more engaging for readers to talk about your family.

If I meet Laserman and he is able to shoot freaking lasers from his forehead, I want to be just like him. But if he tells me "forget it kid, I'm a superhero mutant, you could never be like me" then that's it. My dreams are crushed.

But if I see that Laserman is more like Ironman and that he actually built this capability with real science and engineering, then perhaps I could really be like him. That's inspiring to me.

That's what genius is to me. It's something you're born with. It's some sort of mutant superpower. Instead of calling this kid a genius, couldn't we instead recognize the actual hard work he put into getting to the point of being called a genius and then show other kids that they could do the same thing? Or even better, how they could achieve similar highs but in different areas?

Really, it's not about me, it's about the children! I'm happy with who I am, leave me out of this. ;)
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And, of course, there's nothing to stop Microsoft from releasing an Android phone.
Depends on your ethics. 9 chickens per square meter for free-range, it's a bit tight for me personally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-range_eggs
Is there anything wrong with force feeding a cow corn which makes them sick, injecting them with antibiotics so that doesn't kill them, impregnating them so that they produce milk, separating them from their calf at birth (who most likely will be used for veal) causing them distress, and making them livid a horrid life wading in cow shit their whole life until their hoofs are painfully literally rotting?

Yes, what is happening to the civets is appalling. But it's really no worse than what is standard CAFO treatment. It's not entirely your fault that you don't know this because the food industry tries very hard to keep this from you, including pushing for laws that make exposing these facts acts of terrorism.
I had a discussion with someone who feels strongly about this recently, and he pointed out that even the few chickens and cows that get decent treatment during their lives are brought to the slaughter house when they're not productive anymore (except for a negligible minority of cases). Even if we assume the best slaughtering conditions (wrongly, most likely) it's not hard to see how that can be perceived as unethical.

He did mention that people who take good care of their chickens and cows during their whole life are a different story.
I thought he was wondering if by labeling children 'geniuses' we assume that their achievements are beyond the reach of others.

This boy is most certainly special, but if we can figure out why he's so capable we may be able to replicate this for every child. Imagine an army of little kids, each having the opportunity to follow what they're best at and what they like the most. On the other hand, if the experience is not replicable, we can celebrate him as a talented human being and leave it at that.
I like how the "heart of America's cyberdefense" or whatever they called this 'NCCIC' looks like it runs Windows 2000... (yeah, yeah, probably just a theme, but still, it's kind of funny. I have a hard time taking such things seriously once I see they aren't using a *nix.)
"Fedora, an operating system used in China" ...seriously?

I had my doubts about this article, but after that line, it's really hard for me to take it seriously.
Not to mention that if you are already learning the concepts taught in SICP, then learning Scheme is trivial.
A way to test the genuineness of the world's costliest coffee
I receive ~$470 a fortnight in youth allowance and rent assistance. My utilities work out to around $20 a week. That leaves $430 a fortnight for rent. My wages pay my groceries.

Realestate.com.au affords some pretty nice share housing at that rate.. :) I admit it's not the standard of housing that I grew up in, but why would I be entitled to such? ;)
Also, I really just had to give up. There's no point in educating those who are too stubborn to entertain an alternative to what they learned at the age of 5. Why do you think there are still so many racist individuals in the US?
> I mean, when I read titles like this I think to myself, "Who gives a shit?"...then I read a long thread and think, "Wow, this is actually a real debate."

May I interest you in some further reading?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation
Interesting suggestion; thanks for your advice!
That's a strong lineup, hopefully they will make a better video quality available after the event.
Your use of "never" is going to bite you in the ass, brother!
Well, they just referenced to Hacker News: "We have a post on Hacker News, if you could upvote that [...] that would be great"

So I hope someone is reading it and it gets better after the break :)
Great speakers.. and cool demos!
If there's no coworker handy, you can try explaining your problem to a rubber duck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Two spaces are used to semantically separate sentences in source format.

That's the function of the period, which does the job perfectly well already, as you demonstrate yourself.

Any author is free to choose how many spaces to use between sentences, but collapsing 2 spaces when editing others' documents is wrong, and so is preventing an author from using two spaces. Doing so removes information content from the document, which can only be restored perfectly by humans (or other things with human-level natural language processing ability).

I could just as easily argue that it's wrong to include redundant semantic information. If I were to begin using double commas,, should everyone else alter their reading habits to accommodate my affectation? Fuck that.
Yup - we've noticed... :) Would love to just move straight into a house, but there seems to be lots of rentals that are immediately available, so hopefully we should be okay after 2 - 3 weeks.

Anything else to look out for?

Thanks for the comment.
Sir, I can't tell if you're brilliant or insane.

For those who didn't read the post: he's formatting syslog messages as redis wire commands, telling syslog to forward those messages to redis over the network (normally you're forwarding to another syslog client, but because of the custom message format here, it acts against a redis server), so syslog ends up as a write-only redis client.

Insane. and brilliant.
Very cool, easy to understand, difficult to master. I'd definitely pay for the full game.
I wish the RT screen was as good as the pro. Played with it yesterday and it was great. Not as good as iPad, but so good that I think most people, including me, would not care. And I think the Windows 8 os is just marvelous, I just wish they would finish it. Right now it feels like beat still.
Yes, obviously the values of maximizing toil are good values. Surely the ideal world is one in which everyone works as hard as possible, as often as possible, for as little as possible.

Except, oh wait no, that's actually the opposite of what we want.
A lot of people want to try exotic food just for the sake of it, and civet coffee is appealing because it sounds gross at first glance but not so gross after looking into it. Not all poop is the same, these cats aren't carrying around diseases and they don't eat a whole lot of different things. So people imagine that it will impress their friends, while at the same time consuming it isn't a painful experience.
Well, if at least one person uses Fedora in China, that statement is true.
Yeah, I'm with you on this. Aesthetically, I'm in the "ugh, Javascript" camp. But practically, I recognize that I should just get over this. For web stuff, I fully expect that I'll be writing everything in JS in a few years.
I agree that this amendment would be bad, it does generate needed discussion.

What I don't like about the current state of corporation rights right now is that they can't be punished if run by halfway competent people. Case in point: patent trolls use shell companies to carry out their shenanigans while it's convenient and vaporize them the moment they're no longer convenient. Real people can't do that, if they do something wrong they can't just disappear and reappear later as a different person.

Edit: I'm not saying that patent trolls are always legally wrong (perhaps morally), they are just good examples of how vapor corporations work.
> That's not a bad thing. It's just a fact of life. But "you should be happy with what you have" is practically a recipe for sabotaging your ambition.

There's also the ambition to build a better society in (some of) us and part of that is paying taxes. Not all ambitions are of a material nature.
They weren't developing it, a bunch of random engineers ported it to the hardware they had. Like MacOS on x86 Intel.
Debugging a hardware bug in a game
>>It's been taught to me since grade school

A good habit to get into is always question what you are taught. And if the answer you are given is, "because that's the way it has always been done," then assume it is wrong.

Literally the only argument for double spacing is that it provides semantic separation. Except we already have something that does that. It's called a period. So when you are using both a period and double spacing, you are being redundant.
Small, affordable, easy to repair. Pick two.

If you disagree about the "affordable" part, I invite you to estimate the cost of an iPhone that had replaceable parts, while maintaining the performance, battery life and size of the current, integrated one (if such a device is even technically doable).
I eat eggs and my kids drink milk but some people find unethical the environmental impact of using animals to convert relatively efficient vegetable production to relatively inefficient animal production.

Some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_pr...

Another thing people find unethical about it are adding literally tons of needless antibiotics to the environment which can have human medical impact.