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Maybe I'm grossly misunderstanding libertarianism, but I've never seen a libertarian say, "we have a duty to help those in need". I've never seen a libertarian say, "the fortunate have a moral obligation to help the less fortunate", or "the fact that so few have so much while so many have so little is a fundamental injustice that needs to be rectified".

Instead, I read, "if you feel like helping someone it's good to do so, but you have no moral obligation to it", and "the problem with the poor is that we're not incentivizing them to get out of poverty", both of which display a profoundly alien concept of human morality and indeed human nature. Libertarianism is the conceit of the fortunate that they are deserving, and that the unfortunate are undeserving.
Also I don't understand why there should be more white space at the bottom than the top? Is it because people like to write notes on the page after they have read it, so writing them at the bottom of the page would seem more natural?
Got this from the WSJ[1]. Here was the key part of Judge Pauley's decision:

"No doubt, the bulk telephony metadata collection program vacuums up information about virtually every telephone call to, from, or within the United States. That is by design, as it allows the NSA to detect relationships so attenuated and ephemeral they would otherwise escape notice," he wrote. "As the September 11th attacks demonstrate, the cost of missing such a thread can be horrific." [emphasis added]

There is no proof that such surveillance would have prevented 9/11. As has been noted ad infinitum (but perhaps not often enough for Pauley) the 9/11 hijackers were already under FBI surveillance, and had been for some time prior to the attacks. Therefore, there is no reason to believe that increasing surveillance would have prevented 9/11.

Even if we assume that vastly increased surveillance would have prevented 9/11, I fail to see how that is relevant to judging the constitutionality of the program. Cases are routinely thrown out of court because evidence was obtained illegally, the judges in those cases don't say, "Well, the evidence obtained can be used to keep a violent criminal off the street, so it's okay."

One of the most important services our government is tasked with providing is the fair application of law, and the dispensation of "blind" justice. It's remarkable, and deeply troubling, that Judge Pauley has used this kind of reasoning to rule in this case. He has undermined the legitimacy of his office by doing so.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230448380...
"We" have already rescued Iraq, has it made life of the ordinary citizens of Iraq any better? I dont think so... http://rt.com/news/iraq-poverty-war-crisis-414/
I think if you asked a North Korean today if they wanted "American expansionism" or their current state of affairs, the answer would be what any starving person would do, choose the lesser of two evils that feeds them.

I hardly think North Koreans would have a problem with democracy and freedom that feeds them than their leader which have failed them and forced to praise them at gun point.

It's funny because lot of left-leaning South Koreans have a naive view of their Northern cousins. News flash: North Korea is a time travel to Chosun Dynasty gone horribly wrong, nothing to do with communism. Some actually believe South Korea is under worse condition because of Uncle Sam that saved the country just as they were about to get overrun by Kim Il Sung, than under Japanese Imperial rule because of "democracy and freedom". I invite these people to defect to the North, and see why there's streams of North Koreans going the other way and staring at you like you are crazy.

Vive la revolucion!
Jesus wasn't compiled, he's dynamically interpreted. :-)
Silly me. Here I've been buying computers all these years based on their ability to help me get work done.
Embarrassingly I only found this about 2 weeks ago after deciding to give powershell another shot, it is rather good I must admit. I just got in the habit of typing cmd/pow in start and hitting enter.

One of the disadvantages of relying on HN for tech news, few MS stories apart from the occasional "new VS released"/"C# is awesome but lets rag on it anyway"/"wow, F# is great (no-one uses it)" stories.

I seem to remember when powershell first came out the only way to manage the next generation exchange was through the CLI? Quite a few tools lost their GUIs for a little bit? 2008? Am I wrong? Are the GUIs back now? I lost contact with my sysadmin friend and have mainly been working with small companies since that tend to outsource everything to google apps so am completely out of touch on Windows sysadmin.
"Proofs and Refutations" is a fantastic book, I really enjoy that style.

If someone is looking for a more lightweight introduction to Lakatos I can highly recommend "For and Against Method" which outlines his "arguments" with Feyerabend.

If you're not into science theory (imo) Lakatos is basically Popper++ (I think most people have heard of Popper)
And sounds simple too!
I felt old when I see this socket. I learned my way around personal computers on machines with 40-pin CPUs. Everything I do these days would be science fiction back when I started.

Not very plausible sci-fi at that...
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The line numbers in the book reference a 92-page printout of the source code here: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6/xv6-rev7.pdf
> Yes and no. The majority opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft clearly discusses retroactive effect

Sure, it discusses it because that was a challenged aspect. What it doesn't do is say that the retroactive effect is justified because it creates a motivating incentive, it says that the particularly challenged retroactive extension isn't a violation of a posited quid pro quo requirement because inclusion in future extensions is justifiably viewed as part of the existing bargain based on the unbroken past history of including works created before extension in extensions.
The other common use is Windows paths since traditionally backslashes are used as the delimiter. (Obviously hardcoded paths in code aren't generally a great idea, but that's another story.)
TCP is actually extremely complex, see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol

I don't think I could implement it in under 4000 sloc, and I'd guess it'd be over two months worth of work for just a minimal TCP stack that could interoperate with the internet at large.
Absolutely, I started using a Compose Key for Emoji's, and other new Unicode (no kidding).
1. Generate all permutations of the input.
2. Return the permutation that is in order.
3. Profit!
I really don't think North Koreans have any choice they can make on their own. They need outside countries to assist them, to save them from a family of lunatics who shit on the concept of human rights.
Well, a lot of them aren't wrong answers, just really inefficient or overly-complicated implementations.
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I believe the safest and least weird thing to do is simply not call anyone by the ridiculous honorific "Sir" or generally maintain the distinction between knights of any order and the rest of us.
> Interesting; what bothers me the most when using PHP is that it feels easier to introduce security flaws than other languages. Not that it's hard to code safely, but sometimes the most obvious way to e.g. access a database is the unsafe way (which is partly just because there're a lot of old libraries and bad advice floating around). Charset handling is a similar area; I've seen lots of PHP code that appears to work fine but goes wrong when given non-ascii characters. It wouldn't surprise me if there were similar issues with timezones, though I haven't dealt with them enough in PHP to be sure.

Well in my case we work on mobile apps so the client doesn't do anything unexpected with respect to character sets and time zones. Probably that's harder when working with random web browsers. Security wise I agree with you it's easy to do wrongly, especially with the simple DB API's that can be used naively.
i'd like to start a blog that tries to recapture the spirit of the old "acorn user" magazine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_User], focused squarely on the hobbyist programmer, but not shying away from accessible write-ups of complex topics. a sampling of articles i remember off the top of my head:

1. pacman style game developed from scratch, with a discussion of sprite animation and techniques to make a monster chase your character through a maze

2. software + hardware guide to connecting a beep-when-you-whistle keychain (remember those?) to one of the input ports and make your computer do interesting stuff when you whistled

3. graph an arbitrary f(x, y) = 0 function via numerical methods (trace the intersection of z = f(x, y) with the xy plane)

4. basic text adventure with a discussion of representing a map via a graph, using an array to simulate pointers

5. an introduction to forth for basic programmers

the key point is that these were both complete projects, and jumping-off points to explore the topic in greater depth. as a kid i found it very inspiring, and learnt a lot from it.
>If they created a new image, the Superman trademark would have applied. //

Trademarks indicate origins of goods/services. Unless they used the trademark in a way as to convince people that the video originated with DC Comics then they're supposedly fine.

It's a notional consideration but after the lapse of a copyright the "man in the street" should be expected to be aware that the copyright has lapsed and so to be able to buy previously restricted works from any company. Images adapted from a PD work then should be allowed, provided there is no effort made to use that image in an otherwise infringing way.

Of course you can be sued for anything and DC Comics would most likely enact a very expensive lawsuit - in a sane legal system however they should probably lose, especially if they were attempting to use their trademark to prevent the release of material which would have been copyright infringing before the lapse of the copyright term.

If the estate of a creator of a work can use TM law to prevent PD works from being adapated and used then that cancels the deal made in copyright between the state and the creator whereby the works have a presumption of fully entering the public domain.

[Does anyone know of any caselaw covering situations where a major element of once copyrighted - but now PD - works is also a valid trademark?]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Das_Keyb... The possibilities are endless, of course :)
Overall government revenue worldwide is maximised by balanced copyright - that promotes the more efficient creation of taxable creative works, and use of copyrighted works in business, by allowing reuse of public domain works, but still incentivises forward progress to further enlarge the pie of which the government gets a slice. I suspect that at the moment, balance means shortening copyright terms drastically.

Overall campaign finance revenues, however, are maximised by supporting copyright expansion, because copyright holders who already own substantial collections of copyrighted works are willing to back politicians who support their interests, but there is no equally big pot of money for politicians in favour of balancing copyright.

It is one of those cases where what is essentially legally sanctioned corruption allows for regulatory capture of the political process against the interests of the government and public.
The North Korean stakeholders both inside and outside the regime understand how tailored it is to needing a member of the Kim family at the top. The destabilization is something they fear tremendously. There's a lot of inertia here and many structural problems to changing.

There are groups though that do what you're suggesting with balloons. News does get into North Korea in small doses - but nothing like to the degree it used to get into the Eastern block. It's much more locked down.
Yes, let's start a land war in Asia against a country with nuclear weapons and an arsenal of conventional weapons pointed at the people of Seoul.

Feel free to define "rescuing the entire country of North Korea" if you feel I've misinterpreted you.
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agreed - I don't know how many points you have to flag, guess I am no where near it.
> Yes, let's start a land war in Asia against a country with nuclear weapons and an arsenal of conventional weapons pointed at the people of Seoul.

And on the doorsteps of both China and Russia, just for added chuckles, too.
Something along those lines, but I'd like playlists of playlists. Easily compose whatever I want that way.
Because of the Prime Directive. Although we may think we are doing good there is no way to know if our actions may lead to cultural destruction and ultimately cause more harm than good.
That's insane. I wonder what they already have in store for the next 20 years.

Reminds me of this article I just read, "Ray Kurzweil: This is your future" http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/10/business/ray-kurzweil-future-o...
The back of my brain sees hundreds of tiny little pins just waiting to get bent.

Fortunately I gather at some point they actually switched to slight protrusions on the socket that contact nearly-flat points on the CPU.
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1994, Clinton administration was prepared to launch an invasion into North Korea but was stopped by Jimmy Carter cutting a deal with North Korea and also the South Korean president at the time opposed Seoul becoming shelled with North Korean rockets and artillery shells.

The opposition comes mainly from South Koreans themselves, they do not want a war, they rather enjoy the status quo and look the other way when their own countrymen on the other side of border are getting massacred. Economy is more important in this mindset.

North Korea sinks a South Korean ships and kills 50 sailors and then proceeds to shell an island. South Korea's response is to do absolutely nothing but look to United States for "what do we do now" because their capital is in the artillery firing range of North Korea. The difference is that this time South Korean president Lee Myung Bak ordered airstrike but the South Korean air force generals replied by saying they need American permission, essentially suggesting South Korean president is not really in charge of it's own military in the time of need.

It seems like whenever South Korea doesn't want to take action on North, United States is willing. When United States is unwilling, South Korea is willing. A stark reminder that two countries, although an alliance forged with blood spilled during the Korean War, cannot share the same national interests because in the end, they are two different countries, with different culture and perspective.

If you are not willing to pay the price for reunification now, you certainly won't be able to reap the benefits of a reunification when it inevitably happens.
Do you consider doctor (MD or PhD) to be similarly ridiculous, or do you make a distinction?
I've never had any issues with Samsung or Kingston SSDs. The 840 EVO series and Pro series are the best performance for the money you can get.
Exactly. Plus the fact that words get much longer so things like input placeholders may get cut off, or words get pushed down to the next line.
Most of Exchange can be configured through the GUI - which is essentially a wrapper around Powershell commands - although there's bits and pieces that can't be, especially while initially setting up the system.

Office 365, however, requires a lot of Powershell administration, as it doesn't support the GUI management panel, and the web admin panel doesn't expose much functionality.
Sad that a replaceable CPU on a desktop is "feature" or even noteworthy. I'm sure Apple will "fix" this.
And this is the key reason why micropayment schemes don't work.

If they were effectively priced, the decision cost of trying to figure out if an item was worth purchasing or not would exceed the value of virtually all content.

It's why bundled subscriptions became popular, at a time when these were tied to a service (delivery by the publisher) and a set of enabling technologies (low-cost printing, paper, and ink). Even if a given article within the magazine, or a given issue in the year, left you wanting, the gross price was about right. And the result was achieved: people could share and commonly discuss ideas.

With Web-based publishing, the tollgate which postal delivery afforded is gone, and an alternative business model is wanted. And the result is that we're not discussing the content of the article (pretty light, BTW, from Google cache), but of the publishing model itself.

Twist: Though that topic is HN-worthy in its own right.
I don't think they count the CPU as a field serviceable part, and those gpu cards look equally ugly to actually replace in practice. It would have been rather nice had Apple gone with industry standards for the various modules -- MXM seems a lot nicer and less error-prone of a standard for connecting cards to the backplane than the monstrosity they went with.
The hard part would be identifying the person in the photo, if you didn't already have a list of suspects. Facial recognition isn't that great, but perhaps we could make only partially automated (i.e. the human points out where the nose is and stuff like that.) Then use some kind of bayesian probability to narrow it down (20% of the population has this facial feature, calculating the probability distribution of different faces/facial features producing the image being analyzed, etc.)
My guess is that it's because people are much more likely to hold a book by the bottom than by the top. Either because you want to avoid wear (as mentioned above) or because you don't want your reader's hand to be obscuring the text.

(Both of which also explain why the outer margins are larger than the inner margins.)
Dogecoin possesses the ability to appeal to a broader audience through its emotional appeal. It has brought a large number of individuals into the crypto-currency arena than Bitcoin or any other crypto has ever done. In only a few weeks it has gained more media attention that Bitcoin ever did in two years. It's current Reddit membership is now 20000, only exceed by Bitcoin (for cryptos). Dogecoin also provides a lower entry for the average person. It looks much nicer in your account when there are 10,000 Dogecoins as opposed to .004589 Bitcoins.

Dogecoin's success will be the success for all cryptos, so let's support it's ascension.
If that's what what it means to be a libertarian... today I learned I'm not one of them.
"At a deep level, the act of discover and the act of creation are identical." -Kevin Kelly (1)

Years ago I spoke with Kevin about this notion and it's relation to quantum mechanics. "Did the particle already exist in XYZ state (discover) or did you observation manifest (create) it." We agreed, it's the exact same thing.

(1) http://kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2010/01/tending_the_gar.p...
When is recently?
"What good is basic income if it does not encourage people on it to learn new things and find new sources of income or look for a job?"

I dispute the notion that fear of significant poverty is the only thing that can motivate people to do such things (or the best way to do it).

"What if basic income makes a majority of people not learn anything and just never learn from their mistakes and failures, and always have that basic income safety net to rely on even if all they do is play video games, get drunk every day, get stoned every day, abuse people every day, and just become a jerk to everyone because they have no responsibilities at all?"

I don't see how our current system prevents abusing people in any way that our system plus basic income would not. Regarding the others, I think escapist overindulgence in these things (and anything else on offer) is a problem we need better mechanisms for confronting. I don't think limiting people's resources is a necessary, sufficient, effective, or appropriate approach. Oftentimes people fall into these habits because they feel there is nothing they can do to improve their situation.

"I don't think this basic income (while it does sound nice) has not been properly thought through. Do you have any peer reviewed sources on it that I can learn more about it?"

I'm sure there've been plenty of economics papers in journals through the years, given that Milton Friedman was an avid proponent. Regarding an actual experiment with Basic Income:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
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See for example, the Star Trek TNG episode that used Sherlock Holmes. At the time, the studio assumed Sherlock Holmes was in the public domain, but were contacted by the estate and told they would have to license the character if they wanted to use him again. This almost prevented a follow up episode, and probably did prevent other follow ups to what was considered a good story line.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Elementary,_Dear_Data
I have had the same thoughts about inflection points and political class doing whatever they need to do to stay in power and the like. It all sounds good, but I always had the feeling that failed to explain everything that's going on.

I have personally come to the conclusion that US politicians today are just limo drivers for the banksters and the business elites who get to dictate where the limo goes from the comfy (and safe) back seat.

I interpret messages from ultra rich/powerful types (like Mort Zuckerman) to mean that they have a worry about a race/class war against the rich that could wipe them out in a NY minute. It's a rational concern, things do seem to be slowly turning against the power elites.

If class riots truly are the big worry of the rich, then gov't entitlements aren't altruism or charity, they're gifts intended to placate the masses. Mass riot worries could also explain why local police departments are getting armored vehicles and military training from the feds. And it could explain why the IRS/surveillance state seems so preoccupied with weekend/holiday dissenters like those in the "tea party".

I don't have any answers for our social problems; I think we're screwed because of all the corruption. That doesn't stop me from questioning the motives of those that claim to have the answers.