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Responsibility is a luxury reserved for those who can afford it.
Great plugin!

Is there something similar for AngularJS that supports input limiting and formatting?
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Do you mean as in 500km from your city you can buy peppers for $1 and they cost $4 in the city?

Or did you mean that there is a $3 price discrepancy for peppers between the supermarket and the fruit stand?
Even tickets issued by officeres wouldn't be available to your insurance company, or just the speed cameras?
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I would actually quite like to take military grade weaponry, as you described, away from the police, or at least significantly scale it down. That level of armament is a sign of something dreadfully wrong with American society, and certainly not helpful towards fixing it.
Flying cars? Ok, I'm sold, half the Sahara it is.
I kind of like running SSH on the default port as it gives me a list of IPs to firewall against on other web facing services across my infrastructure.

If someone is trying to break into my server(s) via SSH, then I sure as hell don't want them to have access to any other services regardless of how secure they might be.
Sigh, I should have expected this response. You know what I mean.
I think this is fantastic news both for MariaDB and the MySQL community in general.
No, I actually skimmed through it, hence my (genuine) question. Anyway, thanks for the answer.
As a software engineer, when I see an algorithm that transforms and processes data using instructions and symbols, I reasonably assume that someone created that algorithm.

When I'm told the algorithm is really just a random collection of instructions, assembled through an unguided process, that just happens to be work...that strains belief. But even accepting that, I'm still left with instructions, language, symbols, and interpretation. And these can only be produced by intelligence.

Something as simple as the characters we use to write code means nothing unless meaning is ascribed to them, and meaning can't arise from a strictly meaningless process (evolution, chemical interactions, etc).
I think the simpler, and truer explanation for why these systems appear engineered, is because they are.
> The key is not to educate people about overpopulation, but to educate them effectively in how to remove the need for high reproduction while increasing their life quality.

This doesn't take the Population Paradox into account. I'm not saying such measures shouldn't be pursued. To do otherwise would be to abandon democratic principles and the uncontroversial advantages of education.

But it won't make any difference. When medical researchers discovered antibiotics, they believed that marked the end of bacterial infectious diseases. But that was not to be -- natural selection reacted to these new measures by choosing the tiny minority of bacteria that proved resistant to antibiotics, and we now face bacterial strains that are completely resistant to any available remedies (MRSA, tuberculosis and others).

In the same way, natural selection will react by these new measures by choosing the tiny minority of people that prove resistant to education and gender equality, and we will face human strains that are completely resistant to any available remedies.

In case anyone thinks this is some kind of veiled racist rant, I personally think the resistant strain will turn out to be white people of European descent. The reason? We can and do rationalize anything to ourselves -- for example, that environmental projects will save either us or the planet, in the face of uncontrolled population growth.

See, in the Population Paradox, it's not the people who get it that are the problem -- it's the people who don't, who can't, get it. And history proves that there's no political solution that doesn't turn out to be much worse than the problem itself.

"We have met the enemy, and he is us." -- Pogo

More here: http://arachnoid.com/evolution
Stewardship means handing it over to fascists?
What?

They aren't doing anything funny, nor are they asking you for permission to do anything funny.

They scan your ports. To the unobservant, that can look like they are trying to crack your systems. What is wrong with recognizing their IP (adding it to your "whitelist"), and knowing that it probably isn't something worth investigating.
> That's right, pathologically selfish and dangerously anti-social "libertarians" who think that only the richest of the rich should even consider having children in the first place.

Libertarians would never come up with the idea that only the richest should be allowed since this would be a deprivation of freedom (which libertarians appreciate).

I didn't they that only the richest people should have children. I only claim that it is irresponsible to produce children if you don't have enough financial security: both for the expenses and for the fact that the child will suffer from the poverty.
I definitely agree that early work in a McJob is not a good experience or a good use of time for middle-class kids who don't need to work. I have a younger sibling who wanted to work for some extra spending cash and my parents encouraged her to get a fast food job. She was a straight arrow up until then, but her high school performance seriously derailed because of the had-to-work friends (read: highschool dropouts, long-term poor, soft drug users, etc) she met while building tacos at Taco Bell. She finally wised up and made it to community college, but she was in a serious downward spiral for a long time. I know not everyone's experience is like this, but I definitely won't be pushing my kids to get a low-skill low-wage job when I could instead have them investing their time in skill-based hobbies or school.
I'd also be interested in seeing a write-up of the various legal aspects of this: Are private third parties allowed to interact wirelessly with the EZ-Pass? Are people allowed to broadcast signals similar to those that an EZ-Pass unit broadcasts, as long as the intent isn't to fraudulently drive on a toll road without paying toll?
That is useful, but obviously only applies to jQuery plugins.
Not entirely true. Moving your SSH port will not prevent a targeted attacker from finding it, it'll barely slow them down.

What it will do however is prevent automated script-kiddy scanning tools from seeing port 22 open, scraping the banner, and adding your IP to a list of target to brute force/exploit. That's a good thing, and is absolutely, by any definition, a security benefit.
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People dont produce children, Humans have sex, make babies. We've been doing it for as long as humans have existed.
They become a terrorist organization when they target civilians to cause terror. Fortunately there's no evidence that they do.
If you like analog electronics and reel-to-reel tapes, this movie is like pornography.
Couldn't you just have your firewall log attempted connections to 22, regardless of whether or not you have SSH running on it?
Natively, on most evergreen browsers, mutation observers and a limited shadow-dom on chrome canary. The polymer project gets you all the way though, check http://www.polymer-project.org/compatibility.html.
Some CAs make more of an effort to secure their crown jewels than others, but for the most part, it's a big house of cards.

Which is why nothing serious happens to Comodo and Verisign when they get hacked: anybody knowledgeable is already aware that a certificate means very little on its own, and we can't stop the internet anyway, so hey, life goes on.
Separation of concerns is increased with OJ: Your app doesn't just have one huge CSS file, but each view has it's own css, and it's own html(template) & js. This will significantly reduce complexity in larger apps.
It's less the vacation itself and moreover the absence of work and refractory recovery of creative and physical energies
Really cool article... relevant to anyone who is still choking under the pressure of waterfall.
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White innocent people?
They said their next scan will be in October...

"We'll be scanning SSH again in October"
FYI, the subshell and `ls` are unnecessary.

for pub in *.pub; do ....

would work just fine.
Because of the costs for the child there's even an incentive for the poor not to produce children.

In other cases (for example ecological awareness etc.) there is - unluckily - a chance that you are right.
Which Rust should help with as well, as long as people don't use unsafe pointers too much.

Of course, this is assuming Rust and Servo ever gain enough traction to build a viable browser; they're still at an early enough stage to be vulnerable to the problems lots of young, ambitious projects have, of taking on too much at once to ever be done enough for production use, interest petering out and never quite getting to the point of something widely usable (like Perl 6).
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That's implying that you "give" a child as a "surprise" when you are living with a partner.

Accidents being the exception, having a child is a huge decision. Especially if you are quite poor.

I have no idea what your personal experience of life is, nor your background. But you seem to have some skewed vision of life if you believe that "these people" shouldn't "produce children" as if the poor were not even humans.

Poor people have children for the same reasons rich people do. The only exception being that there are less gifts at christmas.
I submitted the Netflix link last week but didn't comment in the discussion...I'll just chime in with this:

* Reportedly Gene Hackman's favorite role of all time

* Young pre-Star-Wars Harrison Ford plays a total asshole in this movie

* Great ending

* One of the 5 John Cazale movies (Fredo in Godfather)

* The movie Coppola had scripted a decade before, but had to wait until Godfather was a success before he could finally film it

* Competed with Godfather 2 for Best Picture (and lost)

* On Netflix Streaming (for U.S. customers) http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-Conversation/60003586?fcld=...

It's a little slow for today's crowd, but really one of the best cinematic portrayals of paranoia and the surveillance state.
That sounds really profound, except it isn't. That assertion is another way of justifying or rationalizing learned helplessness.

It is true that there are a lot of things that suck, that few people with access to resources really empathize with those in scarcity trap. Thing is, people are not as helpless as they like to think they are.
I think enrollment was down everywhere between 1999 and around 2004. I've heard that it's back to a .com bubble level.
Yeah yeah, I read Ishmael too.
Too often people forget that propaganda machines (media outlets) and biased education materials significantly shape the perspective people have of the world. That's the kind of 'mind control' which matters.
No, AFAIK, Google does not run Javascript code first without special accommodations. See https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/.

There's a fundamental disjunction between today's search crawlers and these kind of dynamic Javascript apps that's just going to become even worse.

If anything, I think libraries like OJ point out the disjunction and therefore encourage discussion of what the future should be. HTML and Javascript have served us admirably, and given the nature of the web one wonders if we will ever get away from these technologies. That said, using one in isolation without the other (i.e. Javascript to generate HTML but not writing HTML) diminishes both as far as the usefulness of the "web" as we used to know it, at least.

I might even go so far as to say that fully dynamic browser apps, without the proper functionality for search engine indexing, are a direct threat to the business model and usefulness of search engines.
If we had good universal welfare that did not depend on income, then having no minimum wage is politically fairly neutral. However when you have a situation where welfare is divisive and intrusive on the individual, then being able to leave welfare through employment is socially important. And it really does matter how angry the hungry person is, at least if you want to stay in government.
I drove across the Golden Gate Bridge a few months ago with no idea that this was going to happen - last time I was down there, they still had a normal tollbooth. I was in a borrowed car with Washington plates. If they'd had a normal toll booth I'd have paid, but with the system set up the way it was, I don't think they had any way to get revenue out of me.
> Share of costs that go to administrative purposes is orthogonal to abuse.

I already pointed out that the "Three Cups" story falsifies this claim. And that story is by no means uncommon. People of limited commitment to a charitable cause find it very easy to justify personal expenditures as "administrative" costs. Again, this is based on decades of experience inside and outside charities (both as a funding source and as a volunteer).

I can't find anything to object to in your final paragraph -- it's well worth reading.
> Why do you think they know the claims are false?

It's just as bad if they don't know the claims are true. Bullshitting when someone's health is on the line is simply sociopathic.

> It would also render a large fraction of all advertising illegal.

Not all advertising. Just advertising connected to things that are claimed to be healthier, make you healthier, or prevent or treat disease.
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Sorry dude, but you very specifically said that parents need to be "100% certain" that they can provide for their kids until their kids can provide for themselves. In America, that standard means one thing and one thing only: the richest of the rich.

Also, it doesn't take much education to become aware of this country's long and unbroken history of race-based brutality (slavery, Jim Crow, and the War on Drugs to say nothing of the outright genocide inflicted on Native Americans). Nor do you have to be exceptionally thoughtful to recognize the resulting correlations between race and poverty that persist today. And given how deeply engrained these problems have become, saying "poor people simply shouldn't reproduce" is tantamount to insisting that entire races suddenly give up on themselves in a sweeping acts of self-destruction. Which, yeah, right. Maybe go fuck yourself?

There's another, far more decent response to systematically denigrated people who struggle mightily to raise their kids: you help them.
Earned income tax credit is amazing. It is one of the few government initiatives that is an unquestionable success. It is such a good way to redistribute wealth without creating the negative incentives of welfare and the like.
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Well, if you had a "class A" address space, you would have seen 16777216 connection attempts in your firewall logs. Yeah, I imagine that would be a full time job.
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6ren is right, but it's not the whole story. In addition to to being able to have multiple people each entirely responsible for a single lease, we (Australia) have a very generous "student allowance" scheme for most students. This guarantees us students a fortnightly income that is almost certainly at least whatever we would be paying in rent + utilities.

My situation is such an example. I live with three other students and one adorable puppy in an expensive city (Brisbane, Queensland - Numbeo.com estimates Brisbane's living costs as ~87% of NYC's). We live just ~5km or ~3 miles from either of the two local universities, and just above 2km or ~1.5 miles from the CBD. Rent is not cheap in our area.

Yet we had no insurmountable problems obtaining a lease. Rental applications are competitive in this area, so we did have to apply for a lot of leases - but credit concerns were never a problem. Despite being employed for maybe just 12 hours a week each, money is not in question - there are four people each entirely responsible for the rent who are guaranteed social benefits that amount to at least enough for their share.

Unemployed Australians also receive similar social benefits provided they keep applying for jobs.
So much for AES. Time to go back to blowfish.
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My favorites: 9. Doctype Decoration , 16. Fear Driven Development - very common these days , 20. Ninja Comments - classic!, 22. Protoduction - Hilarious! , 27. Mad Girlfriend Bug
Obviously, this is being posted because of the NSA and FBI scandals even though it was, originally, more of a response to the Watergate scandal. Even if you're sick of hearing about all of those this is still a fantastic film and well worth watching.

Gene Hackman plays a private consultant who specializes in the surveillance of difficult targets, such as people talking as they walk through a crowd. Technology is handled brilliantly in this film. It's antiquated analogue 70's tech obviously, but it's also both believable and impressive. Hackman's character is layered and complex. He specializes in surveillance but values his own privacy to the point of paranoia. The Conversation makes an incredibly strong statement about the value of privacy and the price of destroying it. Who watches the watchers? Somebody apparently, and the watchers don't like it one bit!

If you're not convinced, read one of Ebert's reviews.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-conversation-1974

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-conversati...
That's fair, but I think there's more than one causal factor. Of course, the rise in programming in culture plays a role, but I think David Malan might be more important—I shopped CS50 the year before he started and took it a year later from him, and he's extraordinary. He has reportedly made it his mission to make it the biggest and most popular class at Harvard, and is nearly there. It's been an incredibly well-oiled operation from the beginning, but now the level of support, the project fair, his lectures, etc., are finely honed.

If someone could do/had done the same thing to CS51, I might have fonder memories of my first Lisp and object-oriented experiences...
He specifically said people should be "100% certain" that they can support their children until their children can support themselves. Given that this normally entails a span of ~25 years (assuming two kids through college), that group is both certainly and obviously limited to the richest of the rich.
Witness, if you will, a perfect example of the fourth estate performing its function. The article that brought about this result was a modern masterpiece of journalism.

Now ask yourself what would have happened if those in power had a bunch of warrantless "dirt" on these particular journalists and decided that they'd really rather just keep the gravy train rolling.

We all have something to hide and something to fear.
Why are you building your applications to need specific kernels/distributions? That sort of goes against the spirit of 12-factor apps -- if a particular kernel/OS is part of the app, put it in the app. (Thus, use a full VM.) Docker is for when that isn't the case.
> I think it's more like saying that "putting in fewer calories than you burn" is not actionable advice

It's extremely actionable, and I've seen it work for hundreds and hundreds of people (I attended Weight Watchers to support my roommates. Both of them went on to become WW leaders, and I made so many good friends there I kept going back year after year. I have personally been involved in the lives of well over 500 people losing well over 100lbs each)

> as changing what you eat can be easier than insisting that you have to eat less and go without something your body is demanding.

I never said anything about eating less. You miss read.
Rendering is just a form of translation that takes a high-level input and translates that into a frame of pixels. Any UI runtime therefore qualifies as a rendering engine...
"keep it simple" kind of glosses over the fact that he biked 30 miles a day. i really don't see myself being able to do that.
I'm curious if there's something like SA, but dedicated to the discussion that SA avoids.

Assuming SA means Stack Overflow, some of the other Stack Exchange sites are probably better venues for some kinds of question. For example, programmers.stackexchange.com is for more conceptual questions. It's still explicitly not intended to be a discussion forum, though, if that's what you're looking for.
Why do you say it's not falsifiable to say the world is warming? We can measure temperature over time, as well as factors such as net energy entering the atmosphere.

(I can't find the source for the last one, but remember James Hanson mentioning it. Anyone know what I'm referring to)

Similarly, a factor such as carbonization of the oceans is very falsifiable. And experiments can measure the impacts on species individually.

We can't be certain about the future, but it seems like a fallacy to say that therefore worry is unjustified and
Manichean. From my read of the evidence we've never faced a situation so objectively dire.
I haven't tested docker on Ubuntu 10.04. But you can probably expect the following:

1) You will need to boot a 3.8+ kernel, which is definitely possible but probably not available as a 10.04 package (unless someone has backported it).

2) Docker has a few userland dependencies as well. Most of them are extremely stable (tar, iptables, ip). But the lxc userland scripts have changed a lot in the last couple years. Docker is known to work with version 0.8, and that version might not be available in Ubuntu 10.04.

In short, I expect that docker will not work out of the box on a vanilla 10.04 system, but it can be made to work with a fairly small amount of customization.

If you're interested in trying it out, feel free to join the #docker IRC channel on Freenode. We'll help you out!
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> again, that's a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of advertising.

Nice article, but it confuses advertising's role with advertising's practice. You know the old saying "the first casualty of battle is the battle plan"? It works the same in advertising -- the most well-intentioned people become mesmerized by the bottom line, and principles go out the window.
When someone says they have the right to dictate not only how much energy I use, but also where that energy comes from, I call it fascism.
Gabor Mate discusses this in his Angry Ghosts book. If you search through my comments for his name, there is a link to an interview where he discusses this also.
It's a subsidy because they're selling at below market rates (see the chart). Exxon doesn't sell "at cost".

It's unclear what the costs in the article describe, but the price difference (>$1/gallon) is much greater than the tax rate (21.9 c/gallon) [1].

The article also says DoD fuel isn't allowed to be sold for non-government flights, regardless of costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State...
> I already pointed out that the "Three Cups" story falsifies this claim.

The story of an incident of abuse of administrative costs does not falsify the claim that the share of administrative costs is orthogonal to the level of overall abuse; that incident doesn't demonstrate a positive relation between administrative costs and abuse any more than the many, many stories of self-dealing and other abuse by charity decision-makers in the non-administrative costs of non-profits demonstrates a positive relation between non-administrative costs and abuse.

Lack of accountability measures (which themselves tend to be things that actually involve administrative expenditures) are probably the single biggest risk factor for abuse, since its the one thing that is directly related to being able to get away with abuse.
Of course. A simple visit to http://www.schneierfacts.com will tell you why.
> [Gene Hackman's] office is enclosed in wire mesh in a corner of a much larger warehouse

Neat. Gene Hackman's office in Enemy of the State is identical.