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If you stand to your "But I care. And I hope you start caring too" then writing the big wall of defeat acceptances ending with "but I care" will bring the opposite result to the one for which you claim that "you care." If you claim that you can't do anything you're certainly wrong. Your actions influence others too, otherwise your post wouldn't be on the top here.
The yard analogy doesn't work. You can't stand in a certain place in your yard when someone else is standing there. They are denying you the use of your property, however temporarily. The same goes for people standing in your house (which brings up privacy problems that are orthogonal to intellectual property). There are also maintenance costs - your yard might be ruined by hundreds of people walking over it, and you'd have to pay for its upkeep.

Those are both good reasons for protecting physical private property that don't apply to ideas.
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Roasting helps add flavor. (Maillard reaction.) So do spices/herbs.Don't overcook. (Also butter, of course, but I assume the goal here is to keep it healthy.)
Wouldn't simply writing basic HTML be less tedious to set-up microsites ?
Hi, I'd like to mention this one because it's a very good technical book http://linuxcommand.org You can either buy the Book or read it for free digitally!

Back a few years or months ago, I tried the most popular books, from Bash Reference Manual that you can find at gnu.org, to other titles available for free at tldp.org, etc and plenty other websites! In my opinion linuxcommand.org is very easy to read and easier to understand!

Also, a few days ago this came up ( explainshell.com ), what this basically does is letting you write a command and it tries to explain it by pointing you the lines from the manual.

Finally, I think what also helps is installing a virtual machine, choose your favourite linux distro, follow tutorials and try to customize it! It takes years to become an expert, so I see nothing wrong if you're ok reading manuals and following tutorials.

Hope this helps!
> They make use of many specialist databases, extensive internet searches (carefully tailored not to disclose novel material), journals relevant to the art.

How is that contrary to the core concept of the assumption that "Government knows everything"? If they do use specialist databases (source?), and subscribe to journals, it is still simply just more files collected in their computer system, which patent examiners use when searching key words/phrases located in the patent application.

A few months, there was a article here on HN about how patent writers carefully choose words in patent application just so key word searching Google and patent databases won't result in prior art. The industry that writes the large mass of patents knows how to exploit the mismatch according to a word/phrase system.

Europe patent offices might have a current better time dealing with this, since the brute force method illustrated in the article do not exist here. Like with SQL injections, its harder to do an exploit without the possibility to try until the claim string matches.
I built a cheesy cross platform app a few years ago: http://jessehouse.com/blog/2010/06/01/pomodoro-timer-applica...

not sure if it qualifies as "a good mac app"
See: Strontium-90
The point is they don't rationalize or justify what they do, they simply don't care. They know it's wrong (by societies/normal people's) standards, but it doesn't violate their own.

This is what I consider evil, and I think it's important to separate it from people who think what they are doing is ok. I.e. "Someone else would have done it anyways", a thief who steals from a bank because "they have insurance" or "they are rich assholes who don't deserve it", or a dictator who tries to do what he thinks is best for the country even though his policies are bad.
It is. Some people believe that we should lead the concept into healthier territories, which would be a superior outcome to the status quo. Others believe we should avoid using it altogether, and that any use of the term automatically perpetuates the macho, ego mentality- whether intentionally or not.

There's not much winning to be had, I've never seen anybody really change their minds about this, because we feel good about the side we pick. Best IMHO to just acknowledge the deeper issue, address it and keep moving forward.
Granted, but it's not hard to make a container difficult to open. Case-harden that bitch and add a lock. In the Goiania incident it took those assholes days to open the container.
>Because you don’t realise how much the barrier has moved. We didn’t care when we had to pay unreasonable taxes last year. We don’t care when politicians lie to us in front of our sad faces, time after time, election after election. We don’t care about other any other person’s rights. We don’t care about unfairness all over around us. We don’t care about any kind of oppression, anywhere in the world.

Hey, you arrogant ass. You're speaking for yourself. You may not care about them, but some of us do. Some of us are very angry at all the things you listed, and some of us try to do things about it. So while you're complacent, and you're okay with politicians lying to your sad little face, I strongly resent you projecting that same complacency onto me.
Why isn't the advance button be in a fixed position? Why make the advance button's position dependent on some other dynamic element, like the text length in this case? This makes going through the slideshow very tedious.

Fascinating content, however.
I'm not a security guy, but isn't this just "cryptowashing" if there's a man from the NSA on the inside?
How about they use the same vigor to search for cocaine shipments or Gusman?
Most of the measures you suggest seem to be centred around teaching children, conditioning children and banning things from children.

However, I think we need to think more about why people overeat, and then address that problem directly. It's closely related to why they smoke, why they gamble, why they take drugs, even why they swear. It's not just a health issue. Trying to coerce people into being 'virtuous' often has the opposite effect to that intended: one of the reasons why teens smoke and swear is seemingly because they know that authority figures don't like them to, for instance. Trying to live up to the expectations of other people is tiring and stressful; people look for ways to relieve that stress -- guess what they choose.
That's an entirely meritless accusation. I wouldn't want the power if it were handed to me, and frankly, if I were "in charge" of everything, the very first thing I would do is repeal any and every law that places anyone above, outside of, or beyond the purview of the law.

Our nation was founded on the concept that nobody is exempt from the law, and the NDAA, Patriot Act and laws of their ilk are antithetical to that core tenet. They destroy the fifth amendment entirely, and do severe harm to other rights.

That said, on the quality of your reply, I'll end this conversation here. Regards.
Because there's nothing wrong. The ability to store energy as fat is a natural survival mechanism. Your body doesn't care about looking good on the beach, it knows that Winter Is Coming and it's tooling up to deal with it.
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Two suggestions, slightly contradictory, but either will work:

1.) Spices. there are loads of really interesting, amazing spices out there, but even a simple sautée of olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt, and black pepper can make almost any vegetable taste amazing.

2.) Stop eating over-flavoured foods. Doritos etc. have a ridiculous amount of flavouring; if you eat foods like this consistently then you'll desensitise your palette to the subtler but still absolutely lovely tastes of vegetables, in the same way that staring into a spotlight makes it difficult to appreciate the aesthetic qualities of twilight. You can't re-sensitise your palette by simply cutting down on hyperflavoured food; you need to eliminate it almost completely. After a while, you'll discover that brocoli and green beans are wonderful, and Doritos are absolutely brutal on the tongue.
> like it's some bug that takes 2 days is just lame.

Unless she was spending full time on it, it was not some bug that takes 2 days.

At the same time: If you've never come across some trivial, stupid little bug that has left you stumped for far longer than it should have, you're either superhuman (or have selective memory), or you're a total beginner.

Your dismissive tone is really offputting.
The answer is simple. A doctor won't be sued for not giving an obese person diet pills. These drugs aren't very effective, and they have side effects such as raising blood pressure. A typical doctor will just tell you to be more active and eat less.
It's worth pointing out that "losing weight" isn't a panacea for health. Yes, it would almost certainly be a very good thing for significantly overweight and obese individuals to shed pounds, period, but the article doesn't address the fact that in and of itself this is unlikely to make them "healthy."

There are lots of people who are not overweight who have many of the same cardiovascular issues commonly associated with obesity (high cholesterol and blood pressure, insulin resistance, etc.).

If the goal is overall health and well-being, the title of this article is arguably misleading. Diet drugs might "work" when it comes to weight reduction, but it would be unrealistic to ignore the fact that without real lifestyle changes (diet, exercise), many of those who use them will likely be plagued by the same serious health issues.
Same same but different. The PBOC has taken swift action, while other central banks have just been talking.
"heaven help the user who tries to broadcast an advertisement"
Neither is as easy as "source activate".
As far as nutrition goes what the government thinks is a nutritious lunch is far from it. It's way to pro carb/starch/sugar and anti fat. A typical lunch when I was in High School would be a decent sized slice of pizza, piece of bread, a scoop of corn, a sugary milk. All of those are carb sources.
Another reason that's not touched upon in the article is that many of these drugs are Schedule IV drugs. While prescribing a Schedule IV isn't theoretically more onerous than prescribing antibiotics, often pharmacy chains, insurances, and the government can combine to make busy primary care doctors less likely to prescribe them.

I know many a PCP that rage at the fact that Phentermine is schedule IV, which adds extra complexity to prescribing it.
When you think you can use CRTP instead of virtual dispatch in your program, you didn't need virtual dispatch to begin with... you needed a generic algorithm to operate over your object classes. That's exactly what run_crtp() is, the CRTPInterface class is completely redundant except that it provides some degree of compile-time concept checking (which we'll hopefully get in C++17)

Virtual dispatch is useful for type erasure, when using abstract types from plugins, DLLs or generally "somebody elses code". IMHO, the valid use cases within a standalone program are actually fairly small.
This is a nice article and props for including and dissecting generated assembler!

A key thing here is that inlining is what enables zero-cost abstractions in C++. A virtual call is slower than a regular call, but the main problem is that it builds a barrier that effectively stops inlining.

It'll be interesting to see how devirtualization in GCC will do for real world programs.
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> "Why don't we align our medical system with prevention instead of expensive and risky cures?" That's a good question, actually.

Money. Long term care is more profitable than prevention.
You seem very willing to wish away the structural power of money by blaming the middleman. This is rather like blaming maggots for death.
Not a fun answer, but, we sponsor visas, and how we do it is "retain an immigration lawyer".
As time goes on I'm more convinced arstechnica doesn't understand the increasingly non-Wintel world we're in. Things like the comment about Intel based phones, the whole premise of the article here (without going into how the whole point of WP8 was it was supposed to have the same API as RT, but it actually didn't and thus was pointless) and their confusions about the XBox are all indicative of a mindset that still believes in the ultimate invincibility of MS and Intel.
The folks at Microsoft must know that enterprise was never ever going to deploy Windows 8. If you need to test a new feature set why not test it on home users who have no choice? Then in five years time sell a polished windows tablet to business as peoples old laptops die.
There's a few upsides. First, it plugs into my workflow really well. If I have some silly idea for a site I can just register the domain name, point it at this app, and drop some content into a text box and it's live, with the possibility of writing content in Markdown, Textile, or any of the other markup languages that Gollum supports.

Second, and really more importantly, it let's my wife easily update pages that she cares about. For example, one of the microsites hosted on there is our wedding website. If she wants to change or add something she can do that without having to muck around with text editors and git and stuff. And if one of us messes up, it's easy to revert back to a previous version, since it's just Git.
Driven in large part by an insatiable lust for the currently illegal substances in the US. The US War on Drugs has disrupted tens of thousands of lives in the states as well as abroad.

Mexico is like any other country, there are places you feel perfectly safe at night, and there are places where you don't.
> Why don't we stop subsidizing corn so much?

Because corn has at least some value, and letting the land lay fallow would cost the tax payer even more (though that is sometimes subsidized too) in order to maintain the stabilization?

Or are you suggesting that farms don't need the stabilization program at all? As a farmer who farms in a country without subsidies, I would agree with that, but I understand the reasons why Americans value the program when you look at it from a threat of war point of view.
Actually, RTS games are also a hard problem for engines because they require a lockstep shared-state for multiplayer. This means you need a very high level control of the language your game-logic is built in to make sure your floating-point calculations are identical across all devices and everything is perfectly deterministic. This is a problem for "complete-platform" cross-platform engines like Unity.
Good luck getting a tanker truck into a modern skyscraper's lobby. They've all got anti-truck posts concreted in around the perimeter to prevent just that.
One may have "improving skills not already good at" in his agenda, but then shouldn't expect the resulted performance to be the same as with "being already pretty good at". That was the underlying idea of the blog post - the performance comparison.
In Belgium, the biggest health-insurance provider (and probably others) subsidizes sports club membership fees, gym subscriptions, ....

Their goal is to reduce the cost of treatment by encouraging prevention. I'm not sure how many people make use of it.
Even a 2-of-2 transaction would work, without any arbitrator, if both buyer and seller place additional funds at risk and specify a verifiably neutral means to sacrifice funds in a non-destructive way. This could be as funding the jackpot of an automatic lottery, giving to the EFF, or as a prize added to the next block mined--any transaction that is verifiably not controllable by either party.

The seller commits the sale price in bitcoins. The buyer commits double the sale price. If both agree the sale was good, the seller gets what the buyer committed, and the buyer gets what the seller committed. If both do not agree, the entire amount goes to the verifiably neutral address, or becomes a windfall for the next block miner.

If the buyer cheats by accepting the goods and rejecting the transaction, he pays double the sale price for it. The seller is twice as screwed as usual. If the seller cheats by failing to deliver, he loses the cost of the item, and the buyer is twice as screwed as usual.

Normal transaction:
There is a Nash equilibrium for both parties reneging. You cannot buy or sell with confidence unless you have a retaliation strategy, like chargebacks and blacklists.

Bonded transaction:
The only Nash equilibrium is at both parties being honest.
Articles like these are so sad to see. They're on the same level of reporting how large the shit was of some celebrity's dog when a national crisis occurred the day before. If journalism isn't dead it's certainly being slowly strangled.
Because they "cause side effects and yield undramatic results."

Doctors are protected from the consequences of prescribing statins and SSRIs because everybody else does it too. If you could get a critical mass of them to start prescribing diet pills by directly generating consumer demand, the floodgates would open. We're one good advertising campaign from everybody 5% overweight having a bottle in the bathroom - of a 'new' formulation of course, because I'm sure a lot of these are going out of patent.

Then we'll find out that they really don't work any better than placebo and cause nerve damage, but the lawsuits will drag until all patents expire.
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Starting with broccolini instead of broccoli and haricots verts instead of green beans goes a long way. They cost more though.
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I have a very simple fix to propose. Any patent claim that is or could be implemented in computer software in whole or in part is automatically invalid. Accusing a computer program of infringing is prima facie evidence of invalidity.

That would fix pretty much all the nonsense of garbage software and business method patents overnight. It would eliminate nearly all patent trolling. And not a single patent that actually provides effective incentives to advances the arts, technologies, or sciences would be affected.
There are few things in life I can count on reliably. ALEC generating terrible model legislation is one of them.
Or it could be a very grand gesture of confidence in their status.
The multiprocess code is in the main branch, just not enabled by default.
The DK effect is that everyone is bad at estimating their ability, the lower skilled have more error in their estimates. The DK effect doesn't apply to the person, it applies to the person in the context. I might think I am more skilled at auto repair than I actually am. And in fact, I might think that because I am a bad ass at writing codes.

It might be that the DK effect is _more_ pronounced in someone who has mastered a skill that they think transfers to other problem domains.

But who knows, I am not a cognitive psychologist, I only play one on the internet.
The guidelines have changed. The school lunch program is putting more emphasis on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. That said, it's still not perfect, and not every school participates, hence "we kinda do."
> “The goal is clear: We want to be sure that governments use legal processes rather than brute force to access user data,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, said in an interview.

The problem is that there are secret legal processes that have been abused to "access user data." The only way to actually secure user data from state actors willing to abuse legal process is to put it out of reach of anyone but the user.

The lesson has been that there is no middle ground. Security experts are living in the past, where they can cooperate with authorities in some cases and not end up betraying their users to pervasive surveillance.
Since multiprocess is in the regular Nightly, the code is in the main line of development (mozilla-central). Based on the preference, it decides at runtime how to handle the content/chrome interface.

But when Mozilla does branch off separate trees, VCS merges and lots of automated tests are largely sufficient.
The gemfile.lock (and I assume the node equivalent) are reactive things in the sense that they're generated for the final configuration (much like pip freeze).

I'm not really against of tracking dependencies recursively, but not for the final purpose of building a grand requirements file (which people will end up using and tweaking). I'm more interested if there are conflicts between different 3rd party libs (e.g. if one needs package==1.0.0 and the other needs package=1.2.0) and if they're not necessarily backwards compatible (e.g. v1.4 vs v1.6 of django).

Now, if you want to change the version of a 3rd party which, in turn, has altered dependencies, you'd need to clean up the venv anyway to be on the safe side. Currently I end up just rebuilding the venv and performing a pip install. On distribution, you could build an equivalent of a gemfile.lock via pip freeze (again). Hence, no real benefit of a pip-compile. Still, a pip diff (e.g. between 2 requirements.txt, tracking recursively dependencies) would be of more value imho, particularly if the devs would agree on a pattern/best practice.

There's also the matter of adding yet another file (requirements.in) to the setup framework (setup.py, metafiles...) and somewhat changing the meaning of requirements.txt.
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Most do but some filter for it. Really varies site to site.
To be truely pedantic, at the time they were on the Bitcoin blockchain, it wasn't until well after the incident started that the developers and pool owners decided to reject that blockchain (which was just as compliant with the stated Bitcoin rules and had a mining majority) and switch to the other side of the form.
The social media bubble is inflating just like the dot-com bubble before it...
The biggest surprise to me is it requires Adobe Flash.
Perhaps they should just eat cake... "We all work the same hours" I'm sure you work 2-3 jobs at minimum wage to keep things going and rent paid. The dollar menu at McDonalds looks a lot more attractive than cooking when you've barely got money for food or the time to prepare it.

Eating well is relatively Expensive. Sure you can cut out the car and carbs and obviously all poor people have their liquor and smoke money set aside... Or maybe poverty is a bit more complex than your overly simplistic and a bit dickish analysis... Just let them eat cake (Preferably gluten free)...
Time to sell Bitcoin.

Merill Lynch just said buy Bitcoin, setting a target of 1300 (I hate the way Wall Street pulls these numbers out of thin air, but they are on the sell-side).

This is the same Merill Lynch who collapsed their own company with dodgy investments and had to be passed off to Bank of America, another company laden full of dodgy assets and dodgy accounting.

If these guys say "buy", isn't it time to run?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-05/bofaml-sees-bitcoin...
Your nap is probably too long. Either that, or you are sleep deprived, thus getting into deep sleep much faster.
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