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> Why not say all chemicals should be legalized.

Very simple: Law enforcement protects individuals against the actions of other individuals, and not against themselves.

Your loved one needs addiction treatment (i. e.: heathcare), and law enforcement will not solve his/her problem.
If this post is representative I want to read as little of your writing as possible..
Google is building password-free locking and unlocking into Chrome OS
That's right, lets throw drugs at the under educated and already disadvantaged that will help social inequality in our country greatly.

Why bother when mental illness has been linked to cannabis use in adolescents? It's so logical to just legalize everything and call it a day.
I lived in Michigan and saw what free-flowing drugs will do to a town. I saw friends and family killed by drugs and alcohol - communities torn apart.

You legalizers who cite theories and internet sources make me laugh. So passionate for your weed, as if its the most important thing there is.
Thank you for your reply; I hadn't thought of it that way. I realized after reading your response that I also conflated this particular match with the ones I hear on NPR advertised as "conditional matches": if we receive $W in X time, Y will contribute $Z. Some of them are also conditional on the number of participants, which is also strange.
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Actually, if you take this approach but with a twist, it's quite possible:

As was shown with Google+ widgets for performance optimization, I.G.'s talks on High Performance Websites and chatter from Polymer-using folks, deliver your first page, your template, using HTML. Pre-render things, but then make it interactive on-focus (if widget), or load your JS and continue loading data (mobile) or take your HTML and use it as starting point for a really nice template and loading framework for widgets (Polymer).

The point then is that JSON is rather useless. It's not optimized binary for machine consumption, neither is it display-optimized DOM, in which styles and content can mix and interact.

Oh and failure states are entirely possible to show. If you want a dumb failure state, code that for use when you introduce the loading spinner as a timeout helper. For more advanced failures, write the logic client-side as you would normally, then deliver and modify the HTML again as you would normally.

No one says that because your primary communication mechanism for server updates is HTML that you can't in turn use JS on the HTML to provide updates between updates, as it were.
If anything, it's another reason the US government shouldn't have it ... any insecurity they create / encourage, or data trove they maintain becomes a target for the criminals (or other nations' spies) and therefore makes us all less safe.
It's a valid way to test whether a (square) matrix has an inverse, but computing big determinants is a lot of effort (both from a "student work" perspective and from a "computational cost" perspective). The point is that in many cases, there are enormously more efficient ways to find an inverse (or, more generally, to solve matrix problems with inverses in them).
Some would argue that this is the point of federalism. Many small experiments carried out in parallel. The good ideas get adopted; the poor ones get dropped.

It's a little like the MVP of government.
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Exactly. I replaced my original mercury switch thermostat with a $25 programmable, but I still have the old one just in case.
India top court reinstates gay sex ban
Oh, okay. Thanks for the clarification.
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Up in B.C., I'd appreciate legalization with a "gondola" provision. i.e. Cannabis would be legal, but if somebody insists on lighting up on a ski gondola I'm going to be stuck in for the next ten minutes, I'm allowed to toss him out if there's a nice soft snow-bank to aim for.
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So ... let's deliver our HTML templates pre-filled with HTML data. Sounds like the best of both worlds to me, and less duplication of work if the string concat is already done for you ;-)
Call me maybe: Redis redux
Would I be right to say it isn't a lack of fear, its just a much reduced fear?
That literally made more sense than anything I've learned this semester. :)
What it is like to get acquired? [And all the 2013 Indian Startup acquisitions]
We have lot of sites available only on local area network. Is there any way I can use rainforest to test sites on man. We open sites to any IP only after testing and pushing to production.
Something like a Tesla has some 80+kW available at 500V. This is very different from running an inverter off a 12V lead acid battery. This is power at an entirely different scale. As battery technology evolves I can easily see cars, and particularly trucks, having far more than 80 kW available. A household with a couple of cars would, effectively, have a roving UPS that could provide lots of power during any time of need.

Heck, even a camping trip could change radically if surplus electrical power is available from your electric vehicle. I don't know about you, but I'd rather cook my food with electric power at the campsite than burn wood or charcoal. Over the last year or so I've convinced myself there's very little you can do with a BBQ that you can't do with a skillet and an oven. I am actually considering getting rid of my outdoor BBQ.
http://rebrickable.com - a LEGO database that does some number crunching and tells you what you can build by combining parts from all your sets. Lots of user submitted content that is also searched and can be built, everything with instructions.
+1 but I assume that one is coming (hint hint).
I'm surprised there's still people who are so concerned with punishing people for putting things in their body. Many of these things actually being present in over-the-counter medicines.

Also I despise it when people treat alcohol and tobacco as distinct from "drugs". Illicit drugs, yes.
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The problem with Fuller's reasoning is that next generation, that ten thousand becomes a hundred thousand.
Well, I noticed! It stood out pretty clearly, I'd say.

I really don't think that the intended audience of this sort of ground-up summary is going to be comfortable with \mathbb{R}^{m\times n} notation all over the place. Yes, you explain what the notation means, but there's zero chance that a reader who didn't already know that notation will become fluent in it right away: they're going to be flipping back to the definition every time. That might be okay if you're trying to teach all of math, but a person reading "Linear Algebra in Four Pages" presumably neither wants nor needs that full skill set. (I'd say that {obj|obj description} notation would make the text even more opaque to novices, no matter how cleanly introduced.)

Why not just make a less precise reference to a table of "numbers" (which, as an added bonus, would leave the door open to complex matrices without having to start from scratch)?
Wait, so "selective enforcement of drugs laws" is abusive to poor communities, but reforming those laws won't change anything?

Why do I suddenly have the feeling that I'm being trolled?
Ideas fly better if you don't slap emotionally loaded labels on them, like "liberal" and "Republican"
BitTorrent Sync? Or the idea of discovery by passing secrets around doesn't really fit small business model.
Court in India criminalizes homosexuality
I remember the first time I played Doom it was one of the best games I ever played, what beautiful memories, nostalgia.
A year or so ago I felt that the discourse on HN was so expert, I was afraid to join in. If a topic such as this came up, I would wonder, "Christ, is everyone on this board an economist too?" Time was, the pathos, the me-toos, and the ad-homs were unwritten.

I think that a lot of less qualified people recognized the quality of HN and began browsing here. When a general interest topic comes up, it's their opportunity to have an opinion.

With that comes upvotes and comments. I really don't care about your passionate, unnuanced assessment of American politics, or the articles you want me to read because they echo your beliefs. I want the stuff that doesn't make sense to me so I can make it make sense. I want to follow the economic and professional climate of this engine of innovation.

I found HN by following a link in a comment on reddit, to which someone had directed the admonishment, "Please don't ruin that." I won't say that HN has been ruined since I came here but it has undeniably changed.
``Mozilla/5.0'' doesn't seem to mean anything much— it's in Chrome's (and Konqueror's!) default user agent as well.
The genetic hard-wiring of political opinion
You might feel more safe, but you're not as safe as you feel.

Suppose that once one drive has failed, the chance of another drive failing (at least an URE, but potentially worse) while reading it entirely (as necessary during a scrub / resilver) is 10%. I don't think this is very implausible, as RAID HDD failures are often correlated, and not only because it's inconvenient to distribute HDD purchases.

The chance of successfully recovering in a mirrored scenario is 90%. You only need to read one drive.

In raidz1 with 6 drives, your probability is 0.9^5 - you need to get lucky 5 times, because you need to read every other drive fully to recover. That brings you down to less than 60%. Raidz1 with 5 drives is 0.9^4 - a bit over 65%.

Raidz2 for 6 drives combines these two stats. The probability of one failing disk while reading is 1-0.9^5. But you can recover from that. And the probability of that recovery is 0.9^4. So your consecutive probability of failures is (1-0.9^5)(1-0.9^4). Subtract that from 1 and you get your probability of getting lucky.

Work out the numbers, and you'll find it's only 86%. It's less than mirroring.

There are a couple of simplifications in the maths above (don't forget, a second drive failure means another drive to resilver, and a restart to the procedure), and a big assumption based on reliability %. But frankly, unless you think HDD failure is already fairly rare - and it's not - mirroring is usually ahead on safety, and the lead only increases with number of disks in the array.

I used to think like you do, that I'd feel more safe if a single disk failed, knowing I could still tolerate another failure. That's why my array is currently raidz2. But I worked out the numbers, and it changed my mind. And that's why my next array is going to be raid10.

Not to mention that it's hard to get much more than 150M/sec for any realistic I/O with raidz2. I have over 1G/sec of potential HDD bandwidth. Unless I'm doing a scrub, I can't touch the potential performance. And of course all disks act like they're on the same spindle, there is zero random I/O advantage for raidz.
In America social mobility is declining. Just another fact for this thread
I'm a regular user of Evernote and it certainly makes me reconsider that decision if that's the mentality of the CTO.

Time to look into alternatives.
I watched the video for a few minutes, and I found that everything he said was very stupid. But I do want to hear some good (unfashionable!) arguments for that point of view.

Can you summarize some of his better arguments here?
> Solving the resulting equation is one way of computing eigenvalues. But it might not be the one you want to use in some practical situation.

Related fun fact: Solving the eigenvalue equation is (in general) impossible in closed form for matrices 5x5 or larger, because there's no closed form solution to the quintic. So some other algorithm for finding eigenvectors and eigenvalues is often absolutely required in practice.
Suddenly I'm not as sure I want a self-driving car.

Then again, if there are no tracking cookies, maybe they can't tell if I'm in it? (Wishful thinking, I'm sure...)

Of course a self-driving car would defeat the need to catch someone after a party perhaps, so bad example? :)
You were born poor an educated before wealth and educaion where poured on your head.

OK, this is HN, so I'm sure you lifted yourself by your bootstraps out of the dirt. But the majority of your neighbors did not.
I run http://postertext.com. We design art prints for bibliophiles. All illustrations are made entirely out of text.

I've been running it while traveling the world for 3 years non-stop now. Check out my AMA on reddit if you're interested: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1rneli/ive_been_travel...
Microsoft wants to sell Windows Phones using Microsoft brand. How would developing Android handset and selling it under Nokia brand help that cause? It could be interpreted as lack of faith for their own platform.

Would Microsoft do it just to get time to convert Nokia customers to Microsoft customers? Seems unlikely to me.
I don't know if they're that much different. If you turn off the hardware RNG then generating random numbers becomes significantly slower. Maybe most people don't care, but I expect most people also don't care if their network card doesn't do TOE as a result of you shipping an open source driver that isn't feature complete rather than a binary blob driver that is.

The flaw in your argument is the assumption that the drawback of using a software RNG instead of a hardware RNG is inherently less than the drawback of using an open source driver instead of a proprietary binary blob driver. There may exist specific circumstances where this actually the case (as is obvious if there is no open source driver whatsoever), but that isn't the immutable state of the world. If you take this kind of security to be a Serious Issue then it demands for engineering effort (or community pressure) to be directed toward the goal of having published source code for all hardware drivers. One of the ways you can do that is by refusing to ship binary blobs (as Debian does), which creates some trouble for Debian, but also creates some trouble for the hardware vendors who now have customers avoiding their hardware because it involves more trouble than a competitor's hardware.

The typical response to this is the argument that not enough people run these operating systems to make the hardware manufacturers care, so you do more harm to yourself than you do to them. But that's ignoring the demographics. The primary constituency of Unix-like operating systems is the likes of IT professionals, systems administrators and software developers. These are the people who buy computer hardware by the pallet. Hardware manufacturers do not want those people to notice them in a bad way.

This is incidentally why the state of open source GPU drivers is so much worse than the state of e.g. open source network drivers. When the local BOFH goes to buy a thousand rack units of Debian servers, he generally cares a lot more about the NIC than whether it will do 3D hardware acceleration. But that's going to change soon enough as GPGPU gets popular in the datacenter.
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> For many people, especially city dwellers, you can leave your car at home

I do one better: I work from home now. When I had an outside office it was less than five miles away. Now I try to concatenate as many trips as possible into a single loop. Works out well most of the time.

If Tesla hadn't screwed-up the electric SUV design I would have bought in. I'll have to wait for another company to get it right. That's what's missing in my life right now, an honest electric powered SUV. Short of doing a conversion on something like a Suburban I'll have to wait for something like that to become commercially available. Shame that Tesla decided to go for a Gucci-bat-mobile instead of building a true sports-utility vehicle. I have a horrible feeling their SUV is going to be a failure. I hope I am wrong.
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A self published book by free software hacker about health & fitness.
That's actually a good idea; you'd probably get fairly reasonable results that way. The downside: using those tags at all makes it unambiguously clear that you care about the tip4commit tips.

One plausible possibility that might help: in the block that normally contains Signed-off-by and Reviewed-by, add a tag for marking a commit as "minor" or "trivial", in the sense used by the Linux kernel's trivial@ patches or the GNU project's threshold for changes accepted without copyright assignment.

And as a quick hack, scale the tip by log(diffstat) with a sensible upper bound.
US invasion imminent.
Microsoft hasn't acquired Nokia yet, AIUI.
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2K1...

See the heroin addicted family photo first, then make your freedom speeches.
I'm not sure what your point is. It is legal to possess and grow marijuana in Alaska.

An example of decriminalization is California where possession used to be a misdemeanor but is now an infraction and punishable by at most a $100 fine.

There is nothing subtle or technical about it.
Well, I've owned the domain since 98 and it was used to host The Hacker News Network (HNN)(@ThisisHNN) which was a blog before blogs at first and later a half hour video news blog covering infosec news.
The videos can still be seen here
http://blip.tv/hackernewsnetwork

I've had offers to buy the domain but considering the age of the domain and the traffic it still gets most of the offers so far have been pretty laughable. And who knows maybe I'll start a hologram version of HNN in another ten years.

Do not confuse hackernews.com with thehackernews.com or thehackersnews.com or half a dozen other copy cats who can't be bothered to come up with something original.

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Economic mobility is declining in the US. So which rung of the ladder you are born on is having a greater influence on where you end up.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Says He’ll Stay Whatever CEO Choice
I think the calc course prerequisites have an even simpler explanation: mathematicians don't usually manage to mention the existence of vectors until the multivariable calculus class. If you're already familiar with that idea, you shouldn't need to know anything about partial derivatives and surface integrals to understand linear algebra!
Only when the demons don't fight back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvZQKoC3vc
Glad to hear it. Funny how the answer is along the lines of "have you tried unplugging it?" or rather, "disconnect and it will work," not used to hearing that online.

Perhaps the "Internet of Things" really should stick to being a "Network of Things" + local server for control. ;-)
See the family photo on the right top:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2K1...

Should that be legal?
Can people read? The patent claims are very distinct from Bitcoin: claim 1 requires 2 institutions with customers at each. Bitcoin has no such institutions.
"According to the report, Nokia plans to fork Android to fit its purposes, similar to the approach used by Amazon."

No, please no !!!

We have the Amazon fork; various Chinese forks; and now a Nokia fork ?!?

I think this damages the Android brand. The way Google has been consolidating functionality into Play Service is a direct move against this kind of thing, whatever they say about open source being good.

Whats the point of this? Samsung is making most of the profits from Android. They dominate the high end Android phones with LG in second if I recall. On the low end, there is a slew of junk but some interesting and very capable devices like the Moto G (as far as I can tell, it could only use a better camera and build quality).

Are they attempting to compete with the Moto G and future Google/Moto devices targeted at this space, presumably as Google lets other OEMs have the high end, using their own fork and ecosystem?

Maybe they should do Plan B with Ubuntu Touch and/or Firefox OS
It sounds like there'll be gains from trade for Uruguay. For a very silly reason pot can't be grown in their neighboring countries, so they get to dominate that industry.
Despite the fact that I'm not the kind of person who "hates" Microsoft, you've got a point there: they were implicated in the NSA docs as much as Google was. In fact it sounded like they cooperated more than Google. Stick to smaller independent companies that have a good privacy track record.
Oh oh, I know! Can we help them by imprisoning them? I bet that will work great.

Throwing the lower classes in jail for being uneducated and addicted does not solve anything. These people need help, not more prohibition. (And to be clear, it is overwhelmingly the lower classes that are targeted by prohibition. Prohibition is a powerful tool for class warfare)
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Alcohol is legal, are you suggesting that making any drug legal means children are fair game too?
This is going to be interesting to watch since Nokia now belongs to Microsoft. I wonder if this is a tactic by Microsoft to tackle Google on their own turf. Atleast its better than those embarrassing Scroogled campaigns. No matter what it turns out to be, at the very best it will give the Open Handset Alliance some competition.
They know how to act surprised when the voters can see them.
I recently bought a Roku 3 and paired it with a FreeNAS server running the Plex media server. Add the Plex channel on the Roku and you get the network file support + Youtube. Getting Plex + Roku setup been the best thing I've done on my home network in years!
[I think this damages the Android brand.]

Wouldn't that be a goal for Nokia Handset Division as part of MSFT?

Thats just a trick from old MSFT except with their monopoly.
This is a lot of fun to play with!
Only until the PlexPass exclusivity window runs out. It's a (cheap) carrot for you to support Plex development.
Surely inventing new technology to disrupt markets requires a deep understanding of those markets, and the social fabric they are woven in? Surely software is made by people, and understanding people is key to understanding the process of making software? It's not an accident that the greatest inventors were renaissance men and women, with broad and deep understanding across many areas.
I was presenting the schools of thought available, so I felt it fair to attribute the beliefs to their bearers as best I was able. There wasn't any malice presented, as there wasn't any intended, nor were there any attempts at backhandedness so often seen with those sorts of examples (E.g., party A wants to lower taxes, party B wants to raise taxes, and party C wants to make sport of killing the poor.)

I'm not selling anything, nor trying to sell anybody on anything, so I didn't see the harm in being forthcoming.
Stop downvoting posts you don't agree with.
Plex Media Server on your FreeNAS is what you're looking for. If the client doesn't support a format PMS will transcode automagically for you. I'd bet this will solve your sound issues.
As far as I am aware there are no instructions for AMD CPUs to generate random numbers thus far, although Wikipedia mentions that their upcoming Excavator(scheduled for a 2015 release) architecture includes support for Intel's RDRAND.
Been able to run java on FreeBSD as long as I can remember. Maybe this link will help you: http://www.freebsd.org/java/
The problem with that is it forces you to reject good commits by people who want more than you think the commit is worth.
I work on Disconnect and don't quite understand what your page is getting at (you probably ought to be disclosing that this is your page and project, btw). If you consider the Guardian page, for instance, all the domains you've listed as third parties except Google and Twitter actually look to be first parties serving content for the page. In other words: If you go to the Guardian, you're going to be tracked by the Guardian. If you'd like, you can also prevent their pages from working properly by blocking some secondary domains they use.