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'Murica has some good points but it's a pretty destructive and unsustainable culture. I'm also worried about the fact that they have no qualms about blowing up people with drones or sending people to shady prisons without trial. You might say that China and Russia are worse, but they have nowhere near the power and technical possibilities open to Murcans.
CS is aimed at making you more productive, TS is aimed at making you more correct, checking errors early.

Just my observation.
I see he's referenced such an example here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/1ok9iy/another_lsd_mi...
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." Jack Handy
The README is mentioned is more or less a lightweight specification of the public parts. Sometimes it warrants more detail and I add an actual SPEC document which goes into great detail.

I have not had much trouble with the comments diverging from the final implementation of a piece of code. But I have forced myself into a habit of re-reading through the documentation regularly once I've committed a chunk of new code. Just to ensure it all still does what it says on the tin. This takes extra time, but together with learning how to write decent commit messages, this has helped me keep things sane and organized.
The work I've done on the app so far has centered around managing tweets I've favorited: exporting, searching, tagging. Thanks for the list. I'll keep these in mind when incorporating new features.
Could there actually be someone in the world who cares that their atheism is not "scientific"? If there were, would that person also worry that their taste in music, their love for their wife, their hatred for roasted peanuts and their sexual quirks were similarly unscientific?

Who wrote this stupid article? Mr. Spock?
OK, so we agree that:
1. It won't have new features since it's feature complete.
2. Nothing will basically change.
3. All new development of Qt project is done in QML.
4. New features will be added in QML only. So, if some cool widget comes along in a new OS version, you don't have it Widgets anymore.

For me, it's all but obsolete. If you want to argue about English usage, then that's fine.
Take? Take where? Where are you going? What's going on? Must you go? Why are you going? Do you have children with you?

Generally speaking though:

0. Leatherman Wave. I always, always carry this with me on my pocket.

1. Water

2. Food

3. Warmth/shelter (Always a bic lighter, but also tarps, blankets, jackets, garbage bags, etc)

4. Firearm(s)

5. Wind-up fm/am/wx radio

6. My amateur HT

7. First aid kit (customized, and common needed meds added per the books in #8)

8. Resource Books (US Army Special Forces Medic manual, Where There Is No Doctor, the edible plants guide for my region). I own and I've of course already spent time studying these, so it's somewhat practiced and easier to perform under stress.

9. Sanity books. Something long and stoic that would normally be too long for my ADD. A book of buddhist quotes, for personal psyops.

...

...

97. Tablet or phone with cellular data, to monitor local tweets.

In that order.
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Depends. QML sits on top of technologies and API fashions that Qt debuted before QML came along, such as the QAbstractItemModel API contract and the QObject property sytem, as well as QMetaObject in general. Porting an app to Qt Quick Controls is significant work (and currently will get you lossy results as mentioned above), but there's a lot you can do to prepare while using QWidget, or quite possibly already did because it was compelling and useful to architect apps that way before already - so you can likely plain reuse a lot of your code. And the fact remains, there's no pressing need to port to Controls anyway.
How about a supreme court challenge to the mutual exclusivity of political parties? Why can't I be both a democrat and a republican? Once you strip out the collected factions and go to the pure ideas behind each party, they are actually compatible. The problem I see is without a constitutional amendment level changes, more than two parties (or no parties at all) just ends in congress picking the president or odd balls getting elected because their ideology is behind a single candidate and the other ideologies, though more popular, are divided between many. This way there are still two major parties but a candidate must get support from the lesser parties to succeed. Say I'm republican and green. Then during the primary I might vote for the republican that was recommended by the green party over other republican primary challengers. In other words, take those extreme single issue factions and roll them in to separate third parties that are not strong enough to field candidates themselves but strong enough to influence elections.
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From a comment on the page:

"""
There are a great many errors in your methodology, and I do not believe you received any of the drug in any of your doses.

First off, you have no way of knowing that what you purchased actually contained the drug. The blotter may have had none in it. Secondly, even if there was some drug, you haven no way of knowing what other chemicals were in that paper, including strychnine, and its effects after being mixed with water, on the drug. Thirdly, I'm not sure that 24 hours in a fridge is a sufficient method of extraction.

But more damaging is that the drug degrades quickly and is very sensitive to its environment. It degrades in the presence of oxygen, heat and light. A common house fridge provides all three- the door is opened at least once a day (to get your dose) letting light in. The container is open to the air which provides oxygen, and while a fridge is cool, it is does not absolutely prevent degradation of the drug due to heat. I've seen storage recommendations for this drug involving sealed, light opaque containers, kept frozen in an icebox and the admonition that this will only preserve it for a few weeks.

You provided less protection, significant dilution, questionable extraction, and stored it for months.

Basically, the conclusion from your research is this: The drug war prevents the kind of exploration of the possible positive effects of such a drug, that could be carried out by a well appointed lab.
"""

LSD is an incredibly volatile molecule and after months I wouldn't expect any to remain. I think this is a bigger deal than the sketchiness factor of buying drugs -- a silk road vendor selling adulterated product would be severely penalized if caught and the economics don't work out.
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Absolutely. I am thrilled they're going back to making games that give that sense of lost curiosity. Even before Myst there was The Manhole, which I remember visiting as a little kid, very cool.

Someone made a great word that I forgot and can't find that described this feeling. Of being unstuck in time and space, a sort of vertigo upon realization that the universe is huge. Cyan Worlds manage to nail that effect while removing fear or tension. It's a childlike feeling that is rarely focused on, and they're masters of it.

Heh, I spent too many words in that, but Rand had trouble describing it too, so I don't feel too bad.
AWESOME! We're currently working on the Windows client. No ETA for it yet. =(

Definitely shoot me an e-mail if you have any specific questions for education/teams: michael @ runkite.com
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It's certainly viable: http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
I have grown to really love Lubuntu because it strikes the perfect balance for older laptops. With a few tweaks, can look as beautiful though basic, and it uses RAM and CPU sparingly.

To me, it's a different distro because it only comes with the lightweight choices. (I found it very time-consuming to strip down Ubuntu, compared to tweaking Lubuntu upward).

The only minor criticism I could have is that it's a lot of work to make a Lubuntu theme from scratch, because of the many components to theme.
When I read that title, I thought this is "GIT is not a failure like SVN". Oops.
Car insurance is a derivative.
>What's wrong with the word amazed?

Amazement (dopamine rushes) confuses us.

Biologically, we respond to amazement as part of the learning process. But all too often, we receive these dopamine rushes simply as a consequence of the amount of resources and effort someone (or a group) puts into something.

e.g. You can go to Las Vegas, see thousands of people running around topless in gorgeous outfits and be amazed, yet what's the actual value to you?

I see this ALL too often in art. People get "amazed" by things that require a great deal of effort/resources (look how many transistors in this CPU!), but this temporary narcosis blinds us to evaluating /whether it's a good idea/. So many art projects are simply the result of an ordinary person commanding extraordinary resources from a corporate entity to construct a large number of instances of a single, mundane object or a single, large-scale version of the object. In these cases, the art is not in the sculpture, but in the conning to get the resources. I see budding artists respond to this amazement and trying to get huge funding.

Internet bloggers (Cory Doctorow comes to mind) abuse the word "amaze" all the time. I just checked boingboing.net right now and saw amazing used to describe wallpaper (no dude, this is /natural history/ wallpaper).
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Throwaway here, for obvious reasons.

I'm aware of a double-digit participant, single-blind, randomized study of microdosing LSD. ~30 individuals. There are gaps in the survey results, but the whole thing was...intriguing.

No one is willing to take the risk of publishing, even anonymously. I won't insult your intelligence by discussing the results of such a chimera. I post only to lament the loss of scholarly freedom in our age.
> P.S. I don't see a quick-release clamp on this sucker in your pictures or video. This is a no-brainier and absolutely needs to be on there.

I'd only put a quick release on it if I was sure that everyone who used it was going to lock up their back wheel (I'd encourage the Sheldon Brown lock strategy [1]). Most people lock the frame and maybe the front. This back wheel would make up the majority of the cost of your average bicycle in the rear wheel alone, making it easier to steal isn't the best idea. Maybe ship it with a nice hex wrench to make taking it off easier, but a quick release on that would be a bad idea if you're marketing it to cycling novices.

I know if I got it, it'd be pitlocks all the way. My commuter is barely worth $500, this would double what it's worth in a single easily-removed part.

[1] http://sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html
Amazin'. Thanks for putting that out. zachfeldman at gmail if you'd like to put me on a list for people who find out when the Windows client comes out!
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That's a great feature which will actually help avoid creating local bindings just to easily see the value.
This. TypeScript is a tool to sell Visual Studio, nothing more. If people are leaving VS because it can't do the magic things to JavaScript that it can to C# that's a big thread to Microsoft. TypeScript is about protecting the thing that makes them money.
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So, a user (zeis, don't take it personally) publishes a link to the release of Ubuntu 13.10, but he's actually wrong... Despite this, his post gets 188 points of karma (as of know).
Now that's what I call a karma system that doesn't work well.

I should just post "Ubuntu 14.04 (Taunting Tiger) released" and get my own share of karma...
Heh! We released support for Ghost blogs yesterday.

Sorry about that bug. We are aware of it. We'll most likely push out a fix with the next update. =)
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It's worse because of being a "standard". Plugins are at least explicitly switchable in Firefox. Will it allow switching off part of "HTML5" functionality for those who don't want any of that DRM junk in the browser?
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Great tool - just wish there was an offline version I could run!
That's pretty impressive. Why isn't Google releasing info about all of their projects that are using Dart?
"The fact is there is no reason to state god does or doesn't exist. There are more important things to think about. Things that actually make a difference."

According to the bible, the consequences for non-believers are very dire. If the bible is true, then this is a very important thing to think about.

Weak agnostic or strong atheist, we're all going to hell.

I contend that there's little difference between a weak agnostic or a strong atheist. If you're not scared of hell, then you're living your life as if you believe that God doesn't exist.

As in most things in life, it's what you do that matters, not what you say.
I am very pleased by this news, as using Wireshark on the Mac is not a pleasant visual experience.

However, having only casually looked at both Qt and wxWidgets, how do MODERN versions of both compare?

Doing something with a GUI toolkit is something I'd like to visit at some point in the future, and Qt seems to have more mindshare, but from what I understand Qt doesn't actually draw native widgets, merely emulated ones. Reading about MOC and seeing the number of .dll's included with the average Qt project also put me off a bit.
I used to think that branching was awesome. And then I realized that what was REALLY awesome were small, atomic commits. They are the thins that make code increments readable and let you find the problems better.

Branches are good for isolating longer-running changes but the merges are often not small. The longer the branch the more chance the merge will introduce subtle bugs. And the merge has so many lines change, where do you begin to see where the bug is once you've combined branch A and B?

I've had a coworker argue that NOT having long lived branches avoids this. And he said at Microsoft they were just fine with mainline - and as soon as they started branching the trouble always started during the merge.

So what about that?
He wasn't admiring the economic situation, he was admiring some truly amazing high-end computer networking.

If HFT produces nothing else (and I generally agree with your economic view of it), at least it'll have financed the next generation of low-latency networking gear.
You seem to be misunderstanding my argument, which is that there's no risk to writing a QWidget app because there's no need to stop using QWidget, as QWidget isn't going away. You've yet to produce any arguments for why this isn't correct.
I completely agree - I think capping the size of the House was one of the worst things that ever happened in terms of getting effective representation.

And with modern tech, there's no reason not to, even if it means the House of Reps needs a new building. In fact, I'd suggest that they get one, but that we build it in Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, or Nebraska.
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I'm the creator. PCRE offers a neat feature to limit backtracking, Python does not. I still havent found a decent solution to this issue.

Javascript is run in your own browser so you'll only be screwing yourself there :p
distrowatch has nice table at the bottom of each distro's page: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu

php 5.5.3. Postres 9.1.10

Ruby isn't listed, but I usually use rvm, rbenv, or something along those lines.

On the plus side, gcc is 4.8.1, which is as up to date as your going to get without installing development builds.
Yes! 2013 feels much faster and lighter too. No more waiting for a while for it to be page-faulted in when you wake up an idle .sln
This is true for almost any urban city that has lost the connection between how they think things should be and how things really are. Most urban dwellers have no concept of what it's like to take a living creature and turn it into steak. The distance between the two events is so great that they can hardly imagine it. It's true for things other than meat eating, e.g. wind farms. Everyone wants good clean energy but no one wants a wind farm in their backyard. Everyone (in Seattle) wants to eat octopus salad but no one wants to drag one from the ocean and punch it until it dies.
For more on this idea see this article by George Kenney: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0120-08.htm
In my experience, covering any literary work in "Language Arts" class is a good way to suffocate any interest a sixth grader might have in said work.

So no, I wouldn't.
> If it spreads everywhere then that is because it is valuable everywhere.

Well, there is a downside in that you're now having to choose between adding type annotations where you don't particularly want them or ignoring compiler errors (warnings?). The former puts types everywhere, the latter partially defeats the purpose of static typing and adds "sort out the errors I care about" as another work duty.

My understanding is that with typescript you can use .js/.ts files as a relatively coarse mechanism of segregating out your untyped code, but it isn't entirely roses.
I think it depends on the issue. When it comes to something like abortion or the death penalty I would rather see a politician hold their ground and never compromise on it. If it is about spending some money on health insurance then it should be compromised on.
Ask HN: Best Text Adventure games?
I feel like going retro for awhile. What are the best text adventures/MUDs you've ever played?
We may never know for certain. But it would be weird if a backdoor in Windows could be disabled in such an easy fashion. It's not like the rest of the OS is fully transparent. I think a better analogy is probably using a Google account to log into a Chromebook. In both cases, you can look at the network traffic to see exactly the extent to which your computer is reporting on you.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft. Also, you can't imagine how confusing the term "Microsoft account" is for those of us who work here. That's why I still think of it as a "Windows Live account".
What's the difference between HFT and traditional Human Market Makers?

May I suggest that Electronic trading and HFT have made it possible for a few people to do the work of thousands. This has brought down the cost of trading.
Probably because it's the cool thing to do.
I know quite a few people, even some Linux devs that use Windows as their workstation (and a VM for linux).

Why? Because it works. its fast. and the UI ain't bad, in fact (of the classic desktop that is).

Basically, the polar opposite of what the "cool comment against windows" says.
Headline a bit deceptive. The "civil war" content is right at the end of the interview, in response to what was intended as a light-hearted question.

We could be drifting toward civil war. If the political process stops working, it will result in a civil war, as it has resulted in a civil war thousands of times over the course of centuries. And our political process is not working very well at this time.

Brinksmanship is a dangerous game, and Obama seems keen on playing it. In this particular instance, the "shutdown" was a matter of Obama's "all or nothing" strategy (facilitated by Reid et al), refusing to fund the government if everyone were allowed the same healthcare-compliance extensions which the well-connected received. In general, the "Left" is adamant about deep control of all social/political/economic issues, and the "Right" is adamant about individual liberty to do as one sees fit; this is becoming brinksmanship as each side struggles to get their way, and a distressing number are concluding that this system is about to stop working the way James predicts.
> All the Ubuntu Touch specs are public and discussed during a public developer summit online.

Interesting. Can you point me to the online discussion of Mir that took place during the first six months of its development?

> Nearly all of the core apps shipping on the image are community contributed.

... With a mandatory CLA that allows my open-source contributions to be used under a proprietary license by Canonical. See the detailed explanation here [1] on why this is such a big deal.

> seriously there's no need to go around making things up about another OSS project.

The irony of hearing that statement going in the other direction after Canonical's handling of the Mir/Wayland debacle is truly precious. My criticism isn't about promoting FFOS, it's about calling Canonical out on their bad behaviour.

[1]: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/25376.html
For one, Mercurial has branching as well. Although technically it was released 12 days later than Git, the motivation for both of them was that Linus Torvalds decided (for legal reasons) not to use BitKeeper for Linux kernel development and was in need for a replacement version control system.

Besides Git, Mercurial and BitKeeper, there is also Monotone, which is also a DVCS.
iirc, Hawking no longer has the disease. That is, his disease only was actually "active" for about 5 years... it's just that the damage was irreversible. This is why he survived ALS when most people die of it.
its a "power user menu". Nobody outsides "us" knows it even exists. Not a big deal.

The items are actually useful for administration/etc.
Seems very similar to the Harp project: http://harpjs.com/

I may actually prefer this better because of the scss/sass support, though.
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Well, there once was a forlorn EcmaScript version, aka ES4, which included rather similar concepts ( http://www.ecmascript.org/es4/spec/overview.pdf ) :

> Structural function types describe functions and methods. The type

> function (int, string): boolean

> describes a Function object that takes two arguments, one int and the other string, and which returns a boolean

Given that a great many other concepts from ES4 are finding their ways into ES6, it is not implausible that this one may also reappear into a more consensual specification someday.
I disagree with your analogies. I think git branching is more like a secretary with a very well organized filing system. Does the filing system make her better secretary? Maybe not necessarily - she could work twice as hard and still meet the boss's requirements. But a secretary with a stellar filing system will be more effective than she would be without one. and that does make her 'better'.
Is the US the #1 supplier or should is it just the #1 producer of oil?
I believe the US is a net consumer of oil.
Good article. Why does he conclude with "I have no idea what I could do to help change matters" after writing a whole blog post about how not enough average people vote in primaries?

Go vote in primaries, get your friends to go vote in primaries and maybe even reach out to particularly ideological districts to make sure the moderates there go vote (this might be a good idea for a web app 'Passionate centrist - email a centrist encourage them to vote').