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Mechanically, my browser is asking for index.html. At that point, your server can decide what it's going to send, but I'm not obligated to ask for any other data from you - nor am I obligated to execute arbitrary client-side code.

Web site operates make a calculated risk when they offer service the way they do, in the same way that Starbucks does in offering free wi-fi. And a lot of people don't do it that way - for instance a lot of coffee shops give you the wi-fi password with a purchase and I suspect in the future we may see a move to using enterprise WPA2 and "purchase enables x hours of access" policies.

Saying things should work differently gets absurd quickly: you don't earn money just for showing ads, you need click-throughs. If no one clicks through, are they still stealing? What if my browser renders the ads and I just tape up my screen so I can't see them etc. etc.
> A parallel argument against writing the Bill Of Rights was that it was completely redundant: every enumerated right was already protected by the limited granting of powers to the government.

This argument is a no-go. There are plenty of places where the government infringes on individual rights while pursuing legitimate government ends using otherwise reasonable powers. Restricting the ends and powers is not enough, unless you beg the question by defining the powers to not infringe on individual rights.

I'm well aware of the difference between positive and negative rights, and that distinction does nothing here (nor is it so easy to define, in practice). Judges might hold that there are rights to privacy, rights to family, rights to tradition, and a million other things. Thoughtful people have disagreed on these things since before the US existed.

> and the legislative & judicial processes exist solely to identify & resolve these conflicts when they do arise.

Vague to the point of being useless.
See my response to ctdonath.
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I think of online advertising in the same way as I now do smoking in a workplace, pub or restaurant - I can't believe people used to live like this. Using someone else's browser and seeing the distracting and intrusive ads feels a bit like trying to eat a meal surrounded by the smell and eye irritation of second-hand smoke.
I might be missing a trick, but if I were Box or Dropbox I'd be reaching out for merger discussions with the other. A combined entity would dominate corporate and retail markets.
I appreciate the sentiment, but this feels almost nothing like windows 3.1. It has the skin but that's about it.
Despite the awful keyboard layout of the latest models, ThinkPad still has the best touch of all laptop keyboards out there. It is sad that there is no better alternative for those people who actually type while Lenovo pushing them away with new layouts.
I wish more people understood this.

It's fairly easy to condense simple matters into left or right biases but easier still when the purpose is to appease our tribal nature as a species (us versus them). Of course, the latter serves political interests quite nicely and in a manner that helps keep the coffers overflowing.

That's not to say that I don't treat some matters as black or white (I do because of my own biases--and when I do, I think I'm right :) ) but it bugs me more than it probably should whenever I see this notion repeated that anyone who shares my political persuasions must, by virtue of our "patriotism," secretly desire a police state. It seems to me that the police state and the true patriot ought to be at odds with each other. Perhaps my understanding is skewed, but I can't think of a patriot who would wish for fewer freedoms, excluding for a moment Orwellian-esque double-speak like the PATRIOT Act...

The problem isn't necessarily any one political group as much as it is to do with politicians. The majority of which have been so insulated inside the echo chamber that is Washington DC and so far detached from their constituency for so long that it seems they (and any agency you can imagine that they interact with) feel separate from--and probably above--oversight.

If I were in a real conspiratorial mood, I might suggest that the divisive nature of US politics is entirely intentional and serves to keep us apart so that we may not work together to toss the bums in power out onto the street.

Sadly, though, I think I've already said enough to invite trollish remarks so I ought to stop while I'm ahead. ;)
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Freedesktop provides hosting for systemd, but it is not really a project under their banner.

I won't go into it that deeply, but I think departure from the "unix way" is folly and will only make administration more difficult.

"There is nothing more gray, stultifying, and dreary than a life lived inside a theory." --Jaron Lanier

Unix as a design philosophy is dead, or it is in serious need of a revamp in order to cope with the realities of modern systems. The complexities of modern software call for parts that function together as an integrated whole and are designed to work with each other -- not parts that fulfill one limited task and abdicate all further responsibility. It's time to let go of the 1970s conception of the Unix way if we want to build Linux into a modern system.

In fact both the dominant desktop Unix -- Mac OS X -- and the dominant proprietary server Unix -- Solaris -- employ an advanced init system similar in many respects to systemd. So there is already established precedent in the Unix realm for what Lennart is doing for Linux with systemd.

And again, there is overwhelming support for it in the Linux community, so much so that support for non-systemd configurations is already drying up in a variety of third-party upstreams. Systemd is the path of least resistance.
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okay so where is the github of this? I'd like to find some excuse to use this library.
> Engage your will to eat right, to exercise and go to bed on time so that you have the energy to get up and bring it.

One can't overestimate this advice. Regarding willpower: What I find very useful to remember is that willpower is something we all can and have to develop. Also, it's important to understand that willpower is a limited resource. Similar to training your body it has a lot to do with energy management - strain and rest. One of the richest advices I've found is [1]. I particularly like the 4 steps of development:

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2. Overcome in case they are apparent

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4. Maintain them

[1] http://swamij.com/podcast.htm see Developing Determination for Enlightenment
Trying to choose between two politicians is like trying to choose between two pairs of dirty underpants, when what you really need is a clean pair of underpants.

I forget the source of that quote.
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The process of transducing light into neuronal spikes adds significant temporal smoothing, so an image briefly flashed on the retina will be lengthened in time somewhat before it even makes it to the brain. Need to look up exact numbers here, but this isn't all that surprising.

What is quite surprising is that rod photoreceptors are sensitive to single incident photons. That's truly unbelievable.
I'm happy to see finger trees got mentioned. Finger trees[0] are extremely useful and general data structure that can be used to implement persistent sequences, priority queues, search trees and priority search queues. (Haskell's Data.Sequence[1] uses specialized 2-3 finger trees internally) They can form the basis of all sorts of interesting custom structures by supplying the appropriate monoid[3], but this does make them harder to approach if you are not familiar with the abstractions.

[3] A monoid is any structure that has members that can combine associatively. In addition, it must have an element that can combine with any other element and result in the other element. Some examples: (strings, string concatenation, the empty string); (integers, addition, 0); (natural numbers, max, 0); (booleans, and, True); (functions, composition, the identity function). The functional pearl[2] that describes the design of Haskell's diagrams library[4] goes into much more detail if you are interested in their application to programming.

[0] http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/monoid-fingertree.html

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers-0.5.4.0/docs/D...

[2] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~byorgey/pub/monoid-pearl.pdf

[4] http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/
I recently learned about the spatial index tree family in connection with data mining. I hope to implement a data-mining centric X tree (n-dimensional) solution for a data analytics package I'm writing soon. That family is is how you efficiently handle KNN lookups, afaict.
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If you're worried about the security then just verify it yourself, don't wait for others to do it for you. It's not like the source isn't available for auditing.
Let's not pretend there was a viable alternative to either Blair or Obama. Politics has descended to a level where every time the public get to vote their job is to pick the lesser of two evils.
Looks like bbClear is basically Bootstrap for health records: "bbClear is an open-source framework for rendering more usable health records. It enables developers of electronic health record systems to output a printed health record that is more helpful for patients, their families, and caregivers."

That's awesome and very needed.

Core contributors: @mjacksonw @blacktm @joshcmandel @rypan @henryweimd @matthewmccall

Now we don't have to keep reinventing how to display health records. This should be hugely valuable to the health hacker community, thanks guys!
i voted twice for Obama, i feared for society if we had to deal with more leaders like Bush. to see a hero of mine fall so hard. I personally feel betrayed... i will never trust a republican, but now i can't trust democrats either. the fact is we need to do git clone github.com/germany/pirateparty.git usaTechParty.

A party that upholds the desires of its supporters, even giving thema voice and instituting some form of liquid democracy.
I haven't kept up on things but when has Dropbox lied about security/had exploits/etc? Not saying they are perfect but other than some random people on twitter claiming they exploited them have there been other issues?
My point was not that Dems as a party were blameless, only that Obama could plausibly lie anywhere on the fault spectrum for this issue. You're correct to observe that the real fault lies with the political system that encourages the use of bargaining chips, but the people blaming Obama were the only ones saying otherwise.

I used CHIP as an example of congress opposing a mandate in order to win concessions. The CHIP issue almost certainly had roughly similar party lines, but given a few hours I'm sure I could dig up 10 examples of party X opposing party Y's mandate to extract concessions regardless of whether X==Y or X!=Y, if that would make you happy.
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> I block ads. I'd rather not read a website than read it with ads. If your business needs me to see your ads, I'd rather not be your customer.

Are you referring to the ad business in general , the advertised business or the website business ? Because blocking ads and reading the website still makes you the website's consumer, right ?
> home/end keys

Actually, they're nearly useless if you use software/OS capable of Emacs-style keyboard navigation and develop a habit of using C-a/C-e shortcuts. (Especially with CapsLock rebound as Control.)
I was going to say the same thing. But then, my MacBook DOES NOT HAVE A RIGHT CTRL KEY. I... I can't begin to explain how annoyed I am of this fact. This, above all else, is the reason for why my next laptop will probably not be a Mac.
Most of the criticisms aren't really the fault of Kanban itself though. Who did they bring in to help them with Kanban? It is no substitute for all the things you rightfully claimed were missing.
Backups? People tend to treat them that way anyways.
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i'm looking forward to China rising

How is China going to help? You think they are going to stick up for privacy and other human rights? Jeeze.

I get the sense a lot of westerns don't know how good they have it even though there system isn't perfect.
Is the operating system is about just simulating UI, file explorer, console with CD, and/or a pixel perfect game?

The real deal will be remote desktop inside the web browser. I shall be able to connect my PC (remote login) from anywhere in the world and use it's GUI.
It's not just ad blocker. There's tons of nonessential distractions on most web pages.

For example, I read a story on cnn.com, and even though I have Ghostery enabled, I am still swarmed by "Share This" (on Facebook or Twitter or Google+ or LinkedIn...) and "Print" and "Email" buttons and "Search Powered By Google" (twice!) and "health resources by HealthGrades" and "CNN Trends Fueled by zite" and for some reason, the weather in Atlanta, even though I live in California.

And then I click the Safari Reader button, and all I see are the text and photographs. Pure zen.

My theory is that websites iterate "what can I add to make people stay here longer" and thereby accrete crap. If there is to be a better way, I hope it removes the incentive to add this junk.
I feel the same way about ad blockers as I do about skipping commercials with the DVR - my purchasing decisions are almost never influenced by ads, so why would I bother watching them? I'm just afraid that someday, even without DVR's and Adblockers, companies will figure out that I'm not buying their crap and stop offering me free TV shows and websites, ads or no.
Yep, no one who used Windows 3.1 extensively would put up with losing at Minesweeper on the first click. MS was actually pretty nice about rearranging the map so that the first click would not be a losing move.
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Plus, campaign promises have a tendency toward melting away when facing hard reality.

I have a hard time believing that campaign promises are anything other than lies, told bald-facedly in order to satisfy an image being portrayed by the campaign. It's all an act, just like this NSA speech is likely just an act designed not to change anything. Reality is that they're going to do whatever they want to do.
I love how the question was locked because "it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site". It's crazy. Unless an extremely specific concrete answer can be given, a question immediately gets killed. SO has turned into such a turd of a website.
It's true that I'm not criticising generics in general, but ADL is only part of what makes C++ templates so treacherous.

I think Go needs some form of generics. Every statically typed language does. But after C++ I do understand the hesitation on the part of Go's creators.
It was the server which allowed customers to download Google software onto their computers.

If your download server was slow and randomly disconnecting transfers for no good reason, resulting in potential customers giving up, wouldn't it be important?
Also Leopold 66 key keyboards are almost as austere as HHKB, but they have an arrow cluster with similar placement to laptops. I have the 66key touch mini, it isn't bad but I like the HHKB a little better and it's hard to go back and forth.

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I'm not American, but I follow Amash. Voluntary transparency in a politician is a wonderful thing.
Without serious disclosure nothing he says matters.
Basically, there's a clash between what you feel you SHOULD be doing, and who you WANT to do. Realizing this, ideally, you immediately freeze in your seat and ask yourself, "So what do I want to do really?". The only issue is that when your brain tells you that you really want to play Counterstrike, and you immediately fight it with, "NO! I want to be a great hacker". This is the real problem.

It's very difficult to allow one's real self to express itself, even if you're all alone at home! This is why "It's like I go out of my way to not do the work I'm supposed to do". Why don't you look at it in the face? You just feel you're supposed to code, you don't want to do it. And that's completely OK. It is the cycle of self-punishment and enforced "becoming" : "I am this today, I should be that in one year" which drains a LOT of energy. Realizing this, immediately stop trying to become anyone.

Give yourself a one month break where you promise to actually find out who you really are. A break from what all you're "supposed" to do according to your ambition, parents, The Cool People, etc; Maybe you will actually find something that you are so interested in that coding will come naturally to you while pursuing your interests. Or not. You need not be interested in what others are interested in. Or, just as an example, maybe you decide on coding a Counterstrike mod? That could be fun, too!
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It was fun to beat Minesweeper 3.1-style! (Though, I missed the ability to double-click on the number to clear the surrounding non-flagged squares.)
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Well done. Although, the embedded Youtube frame of Ron Paul on Stossel in Media Player felt like jumping forward twenty years. :)
I was pleasantly surprised by Youtube popping in.
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You're clearly not sufficiently paranoid. :) Here's one using the WMF image format:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms09-06...

Seeing as how modern web browsers are basically designed to download and execute code from random third parties at a second party's prompting, wouldn't you think it reasonable that the first party want a little control over the process? After all, us infosec folks always tell people to be cautious of what they download, turn off things like autorun, etc. The web browser is autorun for the Internet!

(Never mind all of the bandwidth wasted on loading all of the third-party crap. Not all of us have high-speed/low-latency network links. Many of my users operate in very out-of-the-way places. Disabling the extra crap seems to significantly improve things like page load times.)
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I couldn't live without Home and End. They're two of my most frequently used keys. Do you know of any other similar keyboards with the home/end/pg cluster intact?
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Looking at the images, there appears to be a disturbed region above and to the left of the mystery rock, suggesting it (or something) might have impacted the ground there.

The question I've got is whether there's any sort of local slope down which the rock could have fallen on its own. That's hardly clear from the photos.
I turned off AdBlock when I realized how many sites break with it enabled, for example all sites with GTM. I used to think the sites were just broken in general but now I know better.
You are quite right. That was not easy to watch.

Most of all because as I read the body language, Candidate Obama passionately believed in what he was saying. The words march out proud and true, like soldiers.

President Obama seems barely shadow of the man in the earlier clips. He stumbles over the most important parts of his delivery and seems at one stage to hesitate as he asks himself if he can actually say what he is about to say.

Something is wrong with the man in the more recent clips. Emotionally he seems unwell.
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Calm down. All I was saying was that Nimrod is in a somewhat isolated space in which memory management is automatic and safe except for when memory is shared between threads. I'm a bit skeptical of this, because memory management is at its most difficult exactly when multiple threads are involved. So I'm glad to see Nimrod is moving to a thread-safe GC (and I have nothing against Nimrod and would like to see it succeed).

Hybrid automatic and unsafe manual memory management (when the unsafe portion is for something really common like shared memory) is not something I'm really a fan of; it gives up safety while retaining the disadvantages of automatic memory management (lack of control, overhead). I think that safe automatic or fully manual schemes are the ones that have won out in practice because they get to fully exploit the advantages of their choices (safety in one case, control in the other).
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