skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"One is replacing all taxes on productivity, that is, on land use, with taxes on the value of land itself. The other is the Lockean pre-monetary system. It would have to rely on a judicial mechanism, whereby you assert your claim to land by demonstrating that you are using the land. While the latter method does not provide any community funds (a mixed blessing, perhaps), it does subject your landhold to the discretion of that judicial mechanism."

Why should it be any business to the government what you are doing with your land (as long as it is not illegal)? I am not even sure the government should have the right to judge the value of any land.

I can understand Paine's argument. And for that I think it is not unreasonable that a light tax be assessed to land ownership. But today's property taxes are far too high.
The toolset is free and open source, you can attach it to any wordpress install.

https://github.com/bearded-avenger/aesop-core
Yeah, Erlang is proper shared nothing. With modern multicore phones I think low-number concurrency in Web Workers should be enough.

My problem with using Clojure libraries is that I don't really know JS very well :( I really am all Erlang...
Libertarianism hardly maintains the monopoly on Capitalism. Socialism itself was never in practice in North Korea especially (which could barely even be considered Communist), nor anywhere else in the world, really.

Remember that Marx's "Socialism" was the utopian part that came after "Communism" where people would simply contribute what they could willingly, and take only what they needed gratefully.

Like other utopian fantasies this has never been accomplished on any large scale in any society anywhere.

While I certainly agree with you that free-market capitalism is much better macroeconomics, it's important to remember that just as the military is not the end-all/be-all of "winning wars" (just look at Iraq or Vietnam for proof), neither is capitalism the sole societal device needed for "the general welfare".

If nothing else, government has a big role to play in ensuring that vigorous competition actually is present in a free market (witness the disaster of having a few large banks "too big to fail" due to previous deregulation). They also ensure that "externalities" in operating a given business are not charged to the public at large. Government has also typically proven much better at helping to provide things the public needs that don't have short-term profit potential, yet eventually prove necessary for a stronger economy. Free public education, extensive infrastructure, etc. in the Western democracies is a very large reason why the entrepreneurs can rely on there even being available a workforce with the needed knowledge, skills and abilities (to use an HR term).

Just like anything else it's possible to have too much government, but that's essentially axiomatic.
AOL springs to mind as well. Facebook Pages are very similar to AOL Forums, Keywords and all.
I'm liking the variadic functions syntax. It's definitely better than requiring all extra parameters to be sent as arrays. Even if that's how they end up in the function.
Yeah, you could argue that if it was an accurate 100F for the human body, but you'd still want the bottom level to be something useful - freezing point of water is as good a zero as anything (well, short of absolute zero).

My bigger question is why Metric stuck with Celcius and Kelvin instead of factoring in the Gas Constant (R) into Kelvin so the math would be completely constant-free.

Of course, then you'd have water freezing at 2271 and boiling at 3102, which wouldn't be fun in conversation.
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Because it's much faster than other languages at its difficulty level. Which can save a lot of money.
That's just the way records work in Clojure. Methods that are implemented within a record have to come after their interface.
Not having generics reduces explicitness (because you don't specify the types of your containers) and reduces safety (because of all the casts and manual implementations of things like swap functions).
>Source code of the customized Arduino IDE will also be made available; the GPS / Beidou / GLONASS navigation kernel library integrated will remain in library file format.

Sounds like the guts are in a binary blob.
I'd recommend talking to a Canadian CPA. In my experience Canadian CPAs have far more relevant experience dealing with Canada-US taxes than US CPAs do, most US CPAs are focusing on other pools of countries.
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Though I'm no where near as accomplished as he is I find myself seeing similarities between us. I spend a large amount of time learning new stuff, trying to absorb knowledge and information. My biggest shift recently was trying to filter it down to actionable information, what is the sense of knowing all this junk if I don't do something with it?
"Conformist"? Is this high school or something?
Relevant: http://simpleprogrammer.com/2014/01/09/importance-finishing-...
There is a method `onCreateThumbnail()`[1] that is supposed to allow you to do this, but it doesn't appear to work (reported bugs in 4.0-4.2). The best you can get at the moment is to blank out the thumbnail[2] (for security reasons) or opt out of being shown in the list [3].

[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity....

[2]: http://commonsware.com/blog/2012/01/16/secure-against-screen...

[3]: Use android:excludeFromRecents="true"
In ten years it might actually be a first-class language.

It's going to take a ferocious amount of work to shed its reputation as a web-only scripting language.
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Exactly. Time constraints and laziness are my two primary reasons for preferring a package manager over source compilation. That's not to say a good sysadmin shouldn't know how to compile from source--you should--but building every package from source and wasting time on a system with a strong package manager almost seems criminal or at least disrespectful to the people paying for that time. Package managers are a time saving device, and these days they're generally very good. If you have a need that isn't met by a modern package manager, I can't help but think it's an exceptionally niche use case.

I used to compile many of my packages from source because of tunings that weren't present in the pre-built packages or pre-built packages that weren't available/out of date (this was probably on FreeBSD some 10+ years ago, although I'm reluctant to include building from ports in this because that is mostly automated and doesn't really count). But when I migrated to Gentoo where builds are automated (and then to Arch) and later experienced the Debian/Ubuntu side of things, I began to appreciate what a colossal waste of time it was to dig through configure options, set flags, etc., much less doing everything else manually. It's just more convenient to allow the platform itself to take care of things or offload worrying about dependencies to the package maintainer who probably knows more about building these packages than I do (or care to).

Again, it's not to disparage the value of building from source (or knowing how), but I have other things I'd rather put my time into, like whining about compiling from source. ;)
First, talk to people looking for developers. That part is fairly easy: just about any networking event in NYC has a dozens of people looking for devs. I don't know where you're located, but the same is probably true for your area.

Once you're talking, convince them that working with you will be easier/quicker/more-effective than working with anyone else. That's the hard part, which definitely requires some practice. Pro-tip: don't try to convince anyone that you'll be the cheapest option, which is almost always a losing game to play.

If you prefer, I'd be happy to do the hard work for you. I run a startup that connects senior freelance developers with high-paying companies: http://getlambda.com.
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They sent Phoenix, which had a scoop and dug down a few centimeters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_probe
Assuming John Smith comes back to the store a few times and you're willing to crunch the data, I think it would be very doable.
Exactly. There's no reason for the government not to torture all suspects to death, because they can never be sure that there's not another volume somewhere, or whether the outer or adjacent volumes that they've gotten access to that appear to have the information that they want are decoys, or even whether the bearer of the computer has knowledge of or the ability to open the relevant volume which may or may not exist or be a decoy.

The rational thing for the government to do would be to ignore the computer (after forensics), and work on the person. If the information turns out not to be productive, escalate the torture. When the suspect dies and/or fools you into a significant expenditure or public failure, you lose and the suspect wins. Same as it's always been.

edit: of course, faced with the fact that there's no reason not to torture you to death, you may just become a willing collaborator.
Yes what?

Also, you wrote:

> decoration [...] forms a [...] functor. That [...] Functor also provides a monad

That is entirely at odds with the statement:

> Decorators do not provide a monad at all

Frankly, at this point i'm strongly considering the possibility that you're just trolling me.
GPL-style FOSS is not libertarian (which speaks to individual liberty) almost at all.

In fact it goes the opposite direction, and says in essence that individual people are too damn stupid to do what's in their common interest. So instead of letting you (the new recipient of GPL source) do whatever you want with that source like a BSD-style license would, restricts your ability to certain things with that source, all in the name of the greater good.

Even FSF recognizes that such a license is not the single useful tool in their overall goal of advancing Free Software, which is why there are other GNU licenses.

But GPL at least is socialist in the actual Marxist sense; people can take if they need it, but have to contribute back as well (even if that "contribution" is limited to not taking it proprietary capitalists), and can certainly contribute changes back to the commons in accordance with their ability.
Cannot view the page in Firefox because it's freezing the browser and the memory usage jumps from 155 MB to 880 MB (even with clean profile without add-ons) :(

Edit: It's doing the same in Chrome too
Oh yea of course, there are always cases that are clear black-and-white, but the same could be said about due process. If fifty people watch a guy stab someone to death, a police investigation and full trial probably isn't quite as necessary; that doesn't mean due process shouldn't exist, because the job of determining the boundary for "obviously guilty (or obviously insane, in the original example)" needs to have some formalism around it.

I'm not even saying that the government _shouldn't_ be involved in assessing mental health, just that people are wary of it for a good reason (in the same way that people are wary of any form of testing as a requirement for voting, because of the way that it was so horribly abused in the past).
I think there are 2 things at play that prevent a rails-like monolithic framework for js at the moment:

1) Front-end applications tend to have wider variation in functionality requirements from the start (real-time, graphs, animations, forms, modals, pushstate). There isn't a "standard CRUD app" that people are building with front-end js, often js is just being used for a single effect or widget.

2) Performance tradeoffs are very tangible to end-users. For instance, in most cases, straight HTML is still lighter and snappier than an AngularJS app (until you click on something, then that's another tradeoff) but an app served by 2 rails servers will usually be indiscernible from one served by 1 sinatra server.

With rails, you can say that the performance penalties are worth productivity gains because those penalties are really only going to effect deployment costs, not the UX. With JS, every extra bit you add to your framework is going to effect UX.

For me, the biggest pain is still dependency management. Bower is great for pulling stuff in but then I have to blend it with requirejs or an AMD loader or hand-wire it into my html. Likewise, when I want to remove something I have to touch a bunch of files. I'd love to just be able to "bower install backbone" and get back to writing code but building such a feature would require bower to be able to understand my project's structure.
I assume because you can break the CD in half and use it as a weapon
You're right, there's a lot going on, but -- and you are just going to have to believe me on this -- each method gives me something the others don't. As will ori. And honestly, I don't mind the extra moving parts: having recently suffered a catastrophic drive failure that set my business back a quarter, I am okay with a never-too-much-overkill approach to backups.

My problems number two: On the first hand, there are often bizarre interactions between versioning systems when they are hosted atop of one another, breaking encapsulation in unexpected ways. You can't use .vmdk snapshotting on btrfs, for example, because the performance is whatever the opposite of 'breathtaking' is. (Sighgiving?) Meanwhile, a git repo on a Dropbox share is going to chew itself to pieces the first time there's an fs-level merge conflict in .git. I could go on.

The second problem is the flip side of the first -- there is no way of importing and exporting history between versioning systems. I shouldn't worry about git and dropbox: dropbox should offer itself as UI for git.
I don't think so. It just piles up all the futures on top of old futures which just makes it more spaghetti-like.

Like their OOP and Namespaces - Sure, cool that PHP has those but compared to other languages like Ruby, C#, Java, etc.. PHP implements these futures horribly.
0 is uncomfortably cold. 100 is uncomfortably hot. The temperatures that non-STEM people (“humans”) deal with on a day-to-day basis can be represented with satisfactory precision using two digits (OK, three in Australia), no negative numbers, no decimals. It’s a great system for casual temperatures.

Whereas “reasonable” temperatures in C run from what, -18ish to 38ish? Where’s the sense in that?

If you want to defend a unit of temperature, defend Kelvin. Don’t pretend that ˚C is significantly more reasonable than ˚F. They’re both bonkers in their own way (mysticism about the vitality of water is not a real justification).

If (more likely) you just want to make fun of Americans for being rubes, use distances or weights or volumes as your example.
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IIRC farming is notoriously underpaid, but I believe you are right about the rest.
I don't see any new rock in the second image. I see that the second image has different shadows/shadowing. Were the pictures taken at the same time of the sol? You can also see that the angle is different which will also lead to different shadows too.

It appears to me to be more of a sensor "malfunction" of the camera.

EDIT: I can't find the "original" photo from the archives for sol 3528. Can someone link to the two original images?

EDIT 2: Found it... http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/3528/1P441385681EF...

UPDATE: It appears to me that some rocks moved. I'll be posting image shortly.

UPDATE 2: The two original images I used are

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/3528/1P441385648EF...

and

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/3540/1P442453196EF...

Below I highlighted points to look at in both images:

http://i.imgur.com/IO6xGzl.jpg
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A couple of things: first, where the commenter you're replying to said "leave or face a felony" (emphasis added), and, second, where you happen to know that the author lives in DC, where there is no "had a legal firearm on me" unless he happens to be a law enforcement agent himself, which seems not to be the case.
I'd say the difference in view between subject matter experts and others has a number of causes. Some are pure ignorance: for example, most people do not know how tenuous the security of the Internet already is, and thus how harmful it is to try to actively subvert it. But those can only really be part of the story; security protocols seemingly haven't been affected all that much in practice (c.f. Dual EC's brokenness in OpenSSL), and the core question of whether it is acceptable to spy on private communications doesn't really depend on technical details (indeed, there was plenty of anger over just spying on plain-old-telephone-service records, which most of the people here don't know those details about). So I would also nominate...

- More technically inclined people have more (for some, I'd say an order of magnitude more, however you want to define that) of their life online, so they (a) have more data online and thus more to lose, and (b) tend to care much more about anything which affects their activities, since it is more important to them.

- Having a connection, direct or broad, with the technologies and the people responsible for securing things can make their subversion feel more violating; so can knowing that many things (email, Google's backend) could have been secured better but weren't, partially due to a false belief that the US Internet didn't need to be treated as an adversary.

- Connections in the "tech community" causing a bandwagon effect in topics that spread well beyond technology itself. In the context of one forum, such as this one, this is quite clear (the political norm here is very far from the mainstream in areas that have nothing to do with tech); less so the more broadly you define the community, but I think there is some group bias to be found even if you include every programmer in the US.
We all have ultra-naive hopes though. :)

I happen to share yours... maybe someday.
other countries don't seem to have the same attitude that america has.

in general terms, in most places, the law is applies equally to everyone in the country[+].

in contrast, in the usa, many things apparently depend on whether you are a citizen or not.

those are quite different approaches. both can be made to work (neither "falls apart"). the american one appears arbitrary and unfair to me.

[+] obviously there are exceptions - immigration, for example.
I signed up pretty darn fast. I've been doing meetups, networking, everything I can imagine to get business development moving and I still have not found that 'thing' I'm missing to land a new client.
Odd, arrow keys work just fine for me in three different browsers.
No, we never did that, although we sort of considered the idea when we transitioned from backbone. We're using https://github.com/FineLinePrototyping/angularjs-rails-resou..., its newly-added native Coffeescript class support is pretty nice. I'd considered talking about data modeling in this post but it was long enough already, and to be honest we're still kind of struggling with coming up with some really solid reproducible patterns here.
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> That is the wonders of the BSD license and others that follow the same principles, profit for free from the work of others without giving anything back.

Does any Open Source license require monetary donations from companies using the code?

Sony and Apple and a lot of other companies using BSD licensed software DO give back -- in the form of code and employing developers to work the projects.
It's a personal observation after many years of being acquainted with libertarians and technologists. My personal theory is that a low (relative to most) ability to see status/class relationships between people leads one to care less about relative social positioning - which leads to a rule based theory of politics.
Is it awful that I didn't finish reading his post?
I think OP may be talking about expectations of the world.
Those days I guess the phrase "linked list" shouldn't really appear without the phrase "locality of reference" somewhere near. From what I understand, the only practical context in which classic linked lists could be better than dynamic arrays on current hardware, maybe except some really atypical applications (huge objects in the nodes?), is when there is a lot of appending and removal done on the ends of the list, or if you need a lot of insertions somewhere in the middle.

The wikipedia article on linked lists linked in the article explores a lot of angles and is really excellent. There are some newer, cache-friendlier versions of linked lists, I hope they will start being covered more commonly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrolled_linked_list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDR_coding

Given linked lists are the workhorse of every Lisp, I wonder if there has been work on using those kinds of data structures in Lisp implementations, or is for example Clojure still using classic linked lists internally.
> A history graduate learns how to analyze disparate sources of variable quality for a specific purpose and argue a conclusion.

If you think that's how history is written, I have some bad news....
I got into C++ around 1993, after a brief contact with C, comming from Z80, 68000, Turbo Basic/Turbo Pascal.

C++ gave me a stronger type system and the abstraction capabilities to write safe code, namespaces as poor man module system.

Given what I was already used to from former languages, I never liked pure C. Did used it lots of times when requested to do so, though.
The problem isn't the data, it's the services, which for the most part are geared towards motivating and entertaining you, not helping you interpret your data.

One reason for this is that the human body is too complex (and the data too incomplete) for simplistic advice like "walk x steps per day to reach weight y".

You're also unlikely to discover a novel correlation that can be used to lose weight (and write a book and get rich)... But what you can do is use your data to determine which known solutions are working for you, and which are not (e.g. do I really sleep better when going to bed before midnight, all else being equal?).

I'm eager to see how exist.io handles all of this! (I run another service in this space, zenobase.com)
I suppose, in the wake of the Nürnberg Assizes, it makes sense to argue in this fashion. But I've never been all that strongly convinced by the argument that "only following orders" is never a defense, especially as applied to civilians; it seems to require of every human a degree of moral fiber which has never been commonly found at any point in history.

Had these grandmothers, in their youth, rebelled against their rulers, they'd have failed, and even those who survived would've been abused in every imaginable fashion. How does this imply that they're at fault for the abuse they suffer at the hands of their grandchildren's cohort today?
Can you do C#?
I don't think I disagree with any of that.
I was corresponding with you guys and never got an email back from Ken. I was also asking about part-time work.
Here are the raw images of sol 3540: http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/opportunity_p3540_text...
Sol 3528:
This would be a good honeypot. Randomly generate a 32-character SSID and send out a probe request with that. To have greater confidence, you could randomly generate another SSID and send out another probe request. If both are accepted with a similar signal and noise level, perhaps it is one of these karma APs. (The process could be fine-tuned, generating N number of random SSIDs and specifying the range for signal noise levels)

You could then war drive to amass a location of suspected karma APs.