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> There is plenty of information out there to make informed decisions

It's funny you should say that, given the number of people who thought they were making informed decisions to support Obama, especially in 2008, and who have since found so many reasons to feel so deeply betrayed.

Short of mind-reading, I'm not sure how you imagine it possible for citizens, almost all of whom have lives to lead which do not revolve around the ambitions of the current crop of politicians, to inform themselves in as accurate and precise a fashion as you seem to consider trivial; for almost everyone, it comes down to a choice among competing sets of analysts, all of whom arrogate unto themselves the mantle of reliable authority, and all of whom have not only equal reason to lie in support of their own desiderata, but equal lack of compunction to dissuade them from such mendacity. (That's why they call corruption corruption; like any rot, it spreads.)

As for "punish[ing] dishonesty", I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on precisely what benefit there is in choosing one pack of liars over another. Given the track record of American politicians, and especially of American presidential candidates, favoring one in particular seems less likely to succeed at "punish[ing] dishonesty" than to act as a strong selective pressure in favor of the most skillful and least scrupulous liars available -- something I'd argue was not just perceptible but obvious in modern American politics, except that I think the presidency has been the province of liars since at least as far back as Andrew Jackson.
>Mr. Obama was told before his inauguration of a supposed plot by Somali extremists to attack the ceremony[...]. Although the report proved unfounded, it reinforced to Mr. Obama the need to detect threats before they materialized. “The whole Somali threat injected their team into the realities of national security in a tangible and complicated way”[...]

So a non-existent threat was what made Obama decide that the surveillance state was necessary. Great decisionmaking here.
Yes. William Taft went on to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after being President: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft

Reportedly, he hated being President and wished he'd never done it, but loved being a judge.
There's a much easier answer, the URLs aren't identical (I chekced).
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I ran across an interesting implementation of Tcl for .NET once; in case anyone else wants to check it out: http://eagle.to/

The code is available on CodePlex, under a BSD-like license: https://eagle.codeplex.com/
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Kevin Spacey is a notoriously private person because he feels that it makes his acting more believable. The chance of him agreeing to meet employees at Netflix is pretty low but it would kind of cool.
It's not the same URL. Yours was the mobile version (it has a m.) and his was the normal URL.

I think this one got more traction just because of the timing of the post too being in the morning and getting enough traction to make it to front page.
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I don't understand, why does that second part make it OK?
Everything that's wrong with the current intelligence approach in a sentence: "And he trusts himself to use these powers more than he did the Bush administration."

This completely vindicates Snowden's point about the current system being one of policy instead of law, and of enabling turnkey tyranny.
Fun fact: If you have a private German TV broadcast license, you are required to give a certain amount of airtime to independent companies. And you are required to air news-segments - the quality may vary :)
So, I don't disagree entirely, but I did go to college with a home schooled guy who was one of the most pleasant, hardworking, and intelligent people I met. I have no idea if religious reasons were part of the reason he was home schooled, he didn't really talk about it, but these blanket labels aren't really helping - home schooling sometimes seems to turn out positive results.

If one were to read your post cynically, they would see that you were advocating everyone be forced into a worse education (often provably so, especially at many public schools) so that we could make sure the parents didn't teach them anything you disagree with and beat them up.
Precisely the model we follow :), and the reason we named the tool that way: "Not only does Half-Life refer to the scientific model, it refers to the feeling that we spend half our lives on answering e-mails."
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I've never really met a "normal" home schooled person. Either they are incredibly naive, or really odd, or behave strange when in a group.

There are certain things you pick when you go to school, just by being among other people.
The same with any other incremental backup. You have a backup retention policy and go back to the last good one. Being in the cloud doesn't change that.
We still have our Cray-1 (with serial number #001 in the Bradbury). If someone is really serious about doing novel research, I can probably pass along your name to the folks who can give you access (after they approve a proposal).

Here's a picture of it that you probably haven't seen before (in this resolution anyway): http://i.imgur.com/OHqUfmk.jpg
Even though there may be cases where home-schooled kids don't fare well, I can say that I learned more during my homeschool years (4th-7th grade) than any other time, and that broadening of my interests helped me go on to a top 20 university. Some home-schooled kids may have a worse experience, but you can't write off that entire demographic so easily. The reality is there is probably even more negligence in the public school system. Go watch Waiting For Superman when you get a chance!
Hmm. Among your premises, it seems you believe that a primary, desirable function of the education system is to limit the influence parents have on their children -- in essence, to protect children from their parents' parenting, including sociocultural influences like religion (and, by extension of that influence, also politics and philosophy).

... Permit me to express a measure of doubt on a variety of levels. The overall desirability, the extent to which that can work, the hubris involved, et cetera...
Let p be a prime number, and let

s = cos(2 * pi / p) + i * sin(2 * pi / p)

be a primitive pth root of unity (ie a complex number such that s^p == 1). Now, consider all complex numbers of the form

a_0 + a_1 * s + a_2 * s^2 + ... + a_(p-1) s^(p-1)

where the a's (a_0,a_1,...,a_(p-1)) are integers. Note that the fact that s^p == 1 means that we can multiply two things of this form and end up with another thing of this form. Likewise, we can add two things of this form, and get another thing of this form.* For the sake of notation, let's call the set of all such complex numbers Z[s] (where "Z" denotes the set of integers).

In 1847, the French mathematician Gabriel Lamé[1] published an attempted proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (ie the assertion that there are no positive integer solutions of x^n + y^n = z^n for n > 2) that carried the implicit assumption that every element of Z[s] except 0, 1, and -1 break down uniquely into irreducibles (much like factoring positive integers: 12 = 2 * 2 * 3, and that's the only way to break 12 down into primes (up to reordering)).

However, this uniqueness of factorization doesn't hold when p=23, as discovered by the German mathematician Ernst Kummer[2]. The failure of this approach to proving FLT resulted in the discovery of a significant amount of Algebraic Number Theory, in an attempt to "build more machinery" to get around the problems posed by Lamé's proof. Eventually, Andrew Wiles found a proof of FLT in 1995 that relied on Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms (two fields of mathematics of which I know pretty much nothing).

Another, less long-winded example is the Bridges of Königsberg[3]. In 1736, the following problem was posed to Leonhard Euler: is it possible to take a tour of the city of Königsberg in such a way that each bridge is crossed exactly once and you end in the same place where you start?

It turns out that the answer to that question is "No", and in his approach to answering the question, Euler laid the foundation for Graph Theory. Also, the roots of Topology can be tied back to this problem, as well.

* - In particular, the set of such complex numbers form what's called a ring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Lam%C3%A9

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Kummer

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler#Graph_theory
> Catholics are in general more accepting of scientific evidence than Protestants

In my experience, the opposite is true (in the UK, at least).

Consider the condom issue.
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I assume you get an error on the hourly, daily, monthly, whatever update which you are notified about. Then you can redo the semi-manual setup of the scraper.
I was homeschooled growing up. My brother graduated high school with 36 college credits (dual enrollment), I graduated with 23, and my younger sister graduated with 26. It was like we went to college for a semester before even graduating.

Somehow I managed to graduated university with high honors (sister is in civil engineering on a full-boat scholarship, top of her class, brother got a full boat as well.)

Lastly, my other younger sister (14 years old) is going to be a sophomore next year, is currently teaching herself Python/Ruby, and takes senior-level math.

Homeschooling was the best thing that happened to me: I learned to love learning.
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Is there a properly recognized name for "argumentum ad anecdotum?"
Sure, it is difficult to initially understand how a house-cat and a monkey once shared a common ancestor. Understanding this fact requires a great deal of knowledge about biology.

But the basic underlying assumptions of Evolution are self-evident. Just assume that you have something that makes copies of itself but does so imperfectly. This means that mutations may form during the copying process. Selection will then act to favor those mutation which are beneficial, and disfavors those mutations which are fatal or detrimental. These basic ideas of how evolution works, which apply to all objects that make (imperfect) copies of themselves, is almost self-evident.
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A glib answer, to be sure. What do you recommend regarding the unelected civil service bureaucracy which has such a large hand in how the United States are administered? I can't imagine seeing any president take on the State Department, for example, but having seen at least one senator do so, I suspect I know who'd win.
And then you focus in your work email for a while and personal explodes. At least this happens to me as a vast portion of my network is international.
Personal/Individual responsibility is a dirty word. There is no incentive for a representational democracy to create an environment that fosters the development of personal blame. It can only grow and continue if it focuses on social responsibility and blaming the other group. Like 1984's Goldstein.
I agree that central Texas also has its fair share of conservatives, but how does the Wikipedia article about Houston prove this? Houston is 2.5 hours from Austin.

Election results alone bear out the fact that Austin is still one of the few Democratic strongholds in Texas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Texas#Current_situa...
Indeed, yes, you hit the nail. I see certain religious beliefs, including "creationism" and "vaccinophobia" as existential threats to a free and open society.
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BBC Radio 4 has a programme called "Bringing Up Britain" which discusses the topic of educating children about money.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jj0s5

I don't know how long it will be available for.

Some tradtitional kids-and-money activities are harder to do today. I submitted an article some time ago about in reased policing of lemonade stands.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171665
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The greater vulnerability may be exposing all passwords to a single attack. The non-centralized redundant nature of the internet is a loose analogy. My server may go down, and it will suck for me, but it doesn't necessarily increase the risk to your server.
Every study I've seen contradicts this common sense argument. Combined with the fact that home schooled students still must take and pass state standardized tests means the students have to be at least meeting the minimum educational requirements.

I have a family member in Texas with a home schooled child. They attend group teaching sessions, sit in on other classes, and use the many reference books that are provided for home school teachers. Home schooled does not mean "taught only what the parent wants to teach", nor does it mean "taught only what the parent knows". There's a legal definition surrounding home schooling.
There's also the changing of what's shameful.

Smoking marijuana, using cocaine a bit? Admitted in an autobiography, there are even pictures of the former.

There are the usual rumors he's homosexual, although his daughters would indicate he's at "worse" bisexual. After getting reelected, this would result in exactly what???

To paraphrase Edwin Edwards, he'd only be in danger if "caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy".
> It also does not matter what schools anywhere teach if your children do not attend that school.

I'm afraid that I have to disagree. If a significant number of my neighbors' children are taught that the Earth is 6,000 years old, that blacks deserve scorn as penance for Cain's sin, and that the rapture's arrival is to be expected nigh on any moment now; that is a problem for myself, my children, and everyone in my community. People who believe those things support public policy that is incompatible with the type of place that I want to live.
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Is there any way to restrict your app's environment beyond the default sandbox restrictions Google applies? For example, disabling things like urllib2.
Going to disagree with you that it's a "legit issue". The people in guantanamo are not comic book supervillians. They do not have special powers. The whole NIMBY thing surrounding them is just as silly as saying that maximum security prisons shouldn't exist.
As far as I know they don't actually produce shows, which might even have something to do why they are critically acclaimed.

"The money went not only to the talent involved but to the look and feel of the show which is much more cinematic than most things you’ll watch on TV. That’s because MRC, the production company behind House of Cards, insisted that Fincher and his crew be given final cut — something that is virtually unheard of in the world of TV where everything is produced by committee."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2013/07/18/the-...
Although antirez made the sane choice of embedding Lua in Redis.
I don't understand the purpose of your comment. OK so perl is great. This article isn't about Perl...it's about the semi-obscure and commonly underestimated Tcl (which is also a great language).
I find it really interesting that homeschooling has such a bad reputation in america. In the UK my impression of it has been overwhelmingly positive. People who I have met who have been home schooled have often had broader education without the limitations of a national curriculum and with significantly more freedom in what sort of things that they learn.

This is balanced by the governments right to the quality of education a child is receiving and potentially serve a school attendance order.
Keep in mind that not everyone was born here, went to high school or college and made a lot of friends. Also from all the friends and colleagues you have many of them might not be interested into what you are doing or want to get involved into something extra, some might now have the time, some might not have the qualities you might be looking for and some you might not trust.

I can tell you that from my perspective the relation to find a founder is directly measured in trust and that is why i find it very hard to just go out and pick a person i just met a few days or weeks ago even if we somehow "click" in terms of vision etc.

This might as well be a negative on the idea of starting a business with someone else as it is generally easier to be more objective with a co-founder you don't really know when it comes to making decisions and evaluating his impact on the business, good or bad, than when you are dealing with friends, colleagues or family.
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Yeah, the experience without ads is a lot better. I've actually moved to Google Music, because a lot of the music I like and listen to isn't mainstream and Google Music allows me to upload 20k songs of my own.
You may want to give Grooveshark a try as well to be able to control you queue.
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It came out in theaters first, they acquired the rights to it after it had been released there. The best I can find about availability on Netflix is "early this year".
Hacker News can be often a surprisingly good source. Some of the more technical designers I know frequent this place. I know I do, at the very least.
Ah, so there indeed are required standards for home schooling? I did not know that.

What are the consequences of not meeting these standards?
It's probably a typo (or copy-and-paste-o) but if your ls -l of the binary with setuid is showing "-rwxr-xr-x" then you're more than likely running a rootkit version of ls that hides setuid info.

From your gist:-

ls -al /bin/nano # -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 191976 2010-02-01 20:30 /bin/nano
chmod u+s /bin/nano # installs the backdoor
ls -al /bin/nano # -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 191976 2010-02-01 20:30 /bin/nano

What you should see is:-

# whoami
root
# ls -l /tmp/sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 109736 2014-01-16 16:20 /tmp/sh
# chmod u+s /tmp/sh
# ls -l /tmp/sh
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 109736 2014-01-16 16:20 /tmp/sh
# chmod u-s /tmp/sh
# ls -l /tmp/sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 109736 2014-01-16 16:20 /tmp/sh

If you've got 'ls --color' then you'll see the filename is different when setuid (white text on red background rather than light green on default background - if colours are the default).
NO.

This entire discussion is an awful bag of anecdotes, with this "common sense" thing right at the bottom of the pack.

Let's base our discussion on actual facts and statistics, shall we?

If homeschooling is worse, the statistics will bear this out. If the statistics don't bear it out, then it's not worse. This "don't bother to look for facts, just think about it" business is reprehensible.
>I want to elect someone who will force the people's ideas into law.

What about when the people choose an ethnic group that they want to lynch en masse, or a particular type of music that they want to make it a crime to distribute, or to start a mass extermination of sharks in coastal waters, or to have the EPA offices torn down and replaced with a massive monument to the 10 commandments?
Just because someone or some organization is really really bad does not mean that all critical thinking ceases and every contrived scenario becomes true.

Down that path lays dragons and madness.
The part about "feminism forced women to turn to the government as a surrogate husband" being taught in a charter school is the accusation I found hard to believe. I can actually believe that there are some people against the teaching of Evolution, but I find it hard to believe that anyone would be stupid enough in this country (USA) to teach a misguided view about women's rights in this in a public school, even if it is just a charter school.
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Personally I recommend reading the actual FCC blog entry before voicing your outrage or relief:

http://www.fcc.gov/blog/ensuring-open-internet-now-and-futur...

It's far more well-written -- and notably prescient -- than the NYTimes blog post.

That said, AT&T's "Sponsored Data" announcement ahead of the court's ruling is very interesting and I would not at all be surprised that both events have resulted in a Sword of Damocles[1] hanging over the FCC -- or, more to the point, we are all holding our breaths anticipating a final clarification of policy.

Most notably is that the growth of the internet has been mostly organic where regulation has been scarce, however I would be fairly content with reducing the impossibly tight grip of telecom monopolies in municipal environments. The Chairman touches on this saying that broadband is terribly scarce, and attempts to exert pressure on such monopolies could have unintended side-effects -- most notably reduction in service to customers.

That is a valid concern that's very difficult to approach, however I believe competition should be enforced in larger municipalities (>1M population) and 'sponsored data' initiatives would be more suited for mobile broadband services.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles
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The Burroughs-Wellcome building in RTP is another Modernist design under threat of being significantly changed by a new owner. It was featured in the 1980's movie "Brainstorm", starring Natalie Wood and Christopher Walken.

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Common sense tells me home schooled students would do worse, but they in fact perform better on tests:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling#Research

I'm still anti-homeschooling, but I have to accept that these students do better... probably benefiting from having one-on-one personalized education from the parents while public school students are mostly lectured and ignored by teachers working with 30-plus students.
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The whole principle behind public schooling is that having an educated public is beneficial for society as a whole. These are the people that eventually work and contribute to the economy, they vote, they become politicians and dictate policy, etc. As such, it matters quite a great deal what schools are teaching, even if you have never met a single person that attends those schools.
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