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Is that a subwoofer or just a woofer in a box?
How about this:

"In a class based model, skeletal templates (classes) serve as object factories, with something general (the class) serving as the starting point of something specific (an object).

In a prototype based model, the prototype object provides a fully fleshed out starting point for other objects, with something specific (the prototype) serving as the starting point of something even more specific (the inheriting object)"
Well now we can have a more productive debate.

The "essence of property" as you state it of having absolute authority of what an individual can do with their property doesn't exist legally -- zoning laws are the first example I can think of that refutes the claim or ideal.

So there's already a legal basis for us as a society having say in what people do with their property. Quite frankly I think a lot of these laws are overstepping their bounds and encroaching on personal freedom. BUT I think there's a perfectly legitimate line to draw when it comes to using your property to provide housing for other people.

When you decide to use your property to make money by renting it out to other people, you are essentially taking on a huge amount of power over their livelihood, and this cannot be stated lightly. So to me this is where we as individuals and as a society need to decide how to govern this territory in a way that's fair for both parties involved, as it is certainly not fair to widely restrict the amount of money someone can make from their property, and it is certainly detrimental to people and communities to upheave members from their homes and established roots. This is where striking a balance makes the most sense for the strength of the community, and the individual stakeholders, and will produce a strong society as a whole.

To me, making the claim of absolute property rights is simply weak. I don't want to deride the most important point, as stated above, but absolute property rights don't really make logical sense to me either, as property is often a hugely restricting resource, and one completely established by precedence rather than contribution per se.
He also hangs out on HN occasionally... https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pmarca
Windows 2000 was the true next step for Microsoft after 98, not Me, as they prepared to jettison the DOS line entirely. Me was simply an extension of 98 with a lot of improvements backported from 2000. While it may not have been marketed as such, 2000 was as suitable as any Windows for consumer purposes. It turned into XP after relatively minor cosmetic and usability improvements.
And it's currently falling. Market cap has lost about 6 million since peak. A shame, but there were/are some absurd "price floors" at 180 and 183 satoshi that were causing other people to put buy orders in at artificially higher prices due to needing to be able to actually buy doge.

There has also been a huge influx of miners and difficulty has shot up drastically this week, indicating higher demand. So we have 2 forces driving prices up, but some of these miners seem to be stepping back since hash difficulty has increased drastically as well, and it is no longer as rewarding, though still the most profitable crytpocurrency to mine currently.
This article makes it sound like the slogan is just some marketing gimmick, but the slogan is actually just a fair description of the sad reality of the situation. HP is promoting Windows 7 over Windows 8 at this point - the default PC configurations feature Windows 7, and you can "customize" to get Windows 8.x. Good or bad, Windows 8 has been out for over a year, and is not making people want to buy PCs. I don't know if Windows 7 is making people want to buy PCs these days either, but it came out over 4 years ago, and has already served its purpose, which has nothing to do with today's PC market. If Windows 8 is supposed to be greater than Windows 7 in all conceivable ways, why is there still a demand for Windows 7, and why would a PC manufacturer need to market both versions, or even go so far as to promote the older version?
To the moon my HN friends!

Post your wallet addresses, I'll send you some dogecoins in the morning to get your collection started!

You can download a graphical client from http://dogecoin.com/
It has already overtaken Namecoin in market capitalisation.
There's more to optimization than setting -O3. Learning how various compilers behave and how their optimization features interact with your code are valuable skills and may well have been within the scope of the course. Certainly worthy of extra credit.
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Windows 8.1 is pretty amazing and its a mistake to install Windows 7 on any machine that is "made for Windows 8". I have seen multiple instances where Windows 8.1 handles huge excel files better, makes SSD's faster and runs snappier than Windows 7 on the same machine. The updating for Windows 7 is also a pain and has a huge system folder size compared to 8.1. HP actually has been very good at upgrading drivers to 8.1 so I seriously doubt they are "promoting" Windows 7. Just another example of reporting a made up story to get clicks.
From the 80s, so presumably not patented any more?
>can call and have a federal agent show up to a movie theatre in the space of a couple of minutes

He says it was about an hour into the movie. Given the cozy relationship the MPAA has with the government, is it really that far fetched? If they really thought he was part of the scene? Not saying you're wrong, but is it that simple?
This should hit home with those that read the Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator's Solution. IBM sold their PC business years ago to Lenovo because of "low margins", and they moved "up-market" to the server market. But now the PC guys are eating into their profits in the server market, too, and once again IBM is forced to sell this business due to "low margins".

It's interesting that while it's "low margins" for IBM because IBM has higher cost structures, Lenovo thinks it's actually a very profitable business:

“Lenovo has been trying to break into servers for a while as a new growth engine,” Moel said. “It could be good for Lenovo based on the right price.”

This is why Intel will never be safe in the server market, either, if ARM chip makers eat up the PC market (and they will do that), while also dominating the mobile market.
The other ideas are close to what we are thinking - don't worry watermark is not going to be introduced
Yes, generally lawyers and people in legal support professions have biased interpretations on matters of law. They're supposed to.

It is completely accurate for a lawyer to say it cannot help you _in court_ to talk to police. It cannot as a matter of law. The Miranda warning makes this pretty plain in that: "Anything you say or do may be used against you in a court of law." and many now read "may" as "can and will".

The police officer does not make the decision to charge you; that is done by a district attorney. The district attorney's job is to decide if they can get a conviction. It's also their job to get as many convictions as possible.

You may have read recently that 97% of federal drug convictions are plea bargains; the tl;dr being that people are forced to weigh a short sentence vs a brutally long one with a costly defense.

So a district attorney isn't making the decision solely on whether they can convict you in court but on if they can get you to plea as well. When the severity of the charge is high, say for example a mandatory minimum 15 year prison sentence (even for first offenders or even if you're only tangentially responsible for the crime (not exactly the same but Ryan Holle's story is a good read here)) if you're convicted, it is a lot easier for them to get you people to plea and they are more likely to proceed with charges.

When you interview with police, you have absolutely no idea what they plan to charge you with. They could charge you with things after speaking to you that have absolutely no relation to what they initially intend to question you about.

This is why you should never, ever, ever, ever take an interview with an investigating officer without a lawyer present. The safest and most paranoid extension of that is not to talk to police at all (like for reporting crimes, etc) and honestly I cannot fault anyone for that logic.
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I don't understand. In the United States, there are no secret laws, only secret surveillance. There is a distinction.
Yes, but it has fallen since peak. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of dogecoin and have a few hundred dollars worth. I'm just pointing out that value had a local peak overnight and is currently in flux after quite a long climb, then a drastic hockey stick over the past 2 days.
Some nice ideas here thanks
It's true that if he said nothing he might have been taken to jail for 8 hours instead of being detained for 3.5 hours. But it's also possible that he talked and talked until eventually, under stress, he said something stupid that led to a conviction with a 2 year prison sentence. It's basically just a gamble with your life.

There's nothing wrong with being polite, but insistent on having a lawyer with you when you speak to the police. Tell them that you will be happy to talk with your lawyer present.

If the police are questioning you then there's an excellent chance that what they are really trying to do is to build a case. The more you talk, the more things can be used to make you appear guilty in court - even if they don't seem significant to you. That is why you don't talk to the police - even if it means sitting in jail for a day.
The files are encrypted, but obviously the hardware to decrypt them is right there. Now I understand those DRM systems have advanced intrusion detection and whatnot, but still it'd be quite a good start to make off with all their hardware.
Third-party libraries are third-party for a reason.

Adding every conceivable library as standard doesn't make sense, unless you're Java, in which case no one cares how much crap you bring along.
Good idea - per seat licence or just a company wide licence?
Bizarre 'alien base' spotted on Google Earth image of surface of Moon
I doubt these post-mortems are accurate. If you can't create a successful company, what makes you think you know why a company was unsuccessful? It's just more mental masturbation. Even if the failure mode is identified, it doesn't help you with the next startup, as most of the time humans work by trial and error. A failure doesn't teach most how to succeed, just how not to fail in that exact way.
> Note that the authorities did tell him they were going to cause him more problems if he didn't cooperate.

Because it can't hurt to try, can it?. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKiYpsQhZsI for a bunch of highly fascinating examples of cops outright lying and people not falling for it. Not entirely the same situation, but this line from the article sure "smells" similar:

> I asked why didn’t they just take those five minutes at the beginning of the interrogation and they just left the room.
Cause people can upload Videos of whatever -it's a standard app store thing
I was mainly referring to DoD workers. NASA is a bit of an exception since many aspects of what they work on is public info.

The point I was trying to make is that I imagine that these brilliant engineers wouldn't be focusing their efforts on iterative improvements to vacuums and tablets.
I feel like a Machinema channel could simply make a review of the Microsoft Squared Square and the Sony Fun-VCR, and still be within the boundaries of the contract right?

Comparing the good points of the two Glossy Blu-Ray Players would make a good comparison of the two I believe.
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Things were fine for a while, mac started making money, Woz got into a plane crash and reevaluated his life, left apple and went back to school.
It's a cool concept but like other comments say it overlooks a lot of the things that make git, git.

Best way to learn? use it!

Maybe just create a dummy repo and go from there with it. Maybe use the GUI tools until you're comfortable with the command line.

For me personally, it was command line first. If you aren't sure about something with git, googling it will pretty much always throw out your answer.
I actually find this a really interesting question and as an older programmer I'm interst... QUESTION CLOSED. TOO BROAD.
And he lives in the town from Footloose.
I would love much Doge please!
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But it doesn't include great-granddaughter.
Newtonian physics must be really effective to apply to objects in space. Despite vast distances, the calculations must be (relatively speaking... ahem) easier to model than more complex systems like weather, or the brain.
Having just spent a couple of weeks in Mexico the amount of paranoia and ignorance that their northern border mates tend to exhibit towards them is just completely ridiculous.
Now someone claims to be the person in the story. Now sure how much truthfulness going on... http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-...
Must be horrible to live in a country where police can and do abuse you like this. 3rd world. Are you all out to get each other?
Notice I mentioned the irony. I wonder if there any chance Vic Gundotra can be fired.
>He was lucky they took this as evidence.

Versus what? Just saying "but there might be some super duper spy tech we're not aware of"? How would that be incriminating? I can buy cameras that fit into normal looking glasses and wouldn't be detected. Let's detain anyone not bald or wearing a scarf, as they might be hiding something.

>Anyway, what an awful experience for this guy and his wife. I guess the solution is to wear a different pair of glasses next time.

How is that a solution? A solution is to stay at a home theatre and watch your own copies. Or only go to high-end theatres where they won't have this kind of treatment. (Which really is the only worthwhile way to go out to see a movie.)
Suggest a new slogan for Meteor: NodeJS on asteroids.
Windows 2000 was a good stable system, but it was hard to find it on laptops, and it was targeted to the corporate world, not consumers. You could not go out to a store an buy a Windows 2000 desktop or a laptop. You had to order a business workstation or install it your self. I am not arguing that NT and 2000 should be dismissed, I was simply talking about consumer grade OS MS has been putting out.
There is good evidence that a lot of drugs are overprescribed - see the latest statin controversy.

And agribusiness needs a lot of shakeup too.

With the crap Holywood and the Labels are churning out lately they won't be missed if they implode ...
Wow, just wow. SEO as if it were good for the people who are on the web. Google as if it were a shadowy govt agency run by a secret cabal to rule the world. Frankly, I am surprised at so many SEO spammers participating on HN in this thread and not getting called out for it.

For the regular folks who want to use the Internet, let me put it this way:

Okay, I’m calling it: if you’ve ever advocated, used, bought, or benefitted from guest blogging, you're part of the problem on the Internet. It has always been and will always be a scummy and spammy SEO technique that devalues and dilutes the value of information on the Internet. It is pure entropy.

And no, I'm not talking about Charlie Stross taking a vacation and having relevant people write on his blog for his fans. I'm talking about the brokers, the people who buy and sell content and links, the people who see their online content as a means (way to make money by selling ads), not an end (way to give value or entertainment to people).
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Pathogenic plant virus jumps to honeybees - could explain decline
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Such generosity. Much thanks. Wow.
Did we get flagged of the frontpage or what?
This article begs the question: Would entering into a marriage to evade GST be against any specific law(s)?
Why do people hate mathematics?
Not cooperating is legal, unlike not paying taxes. He could just remain silent and request a lawyer.

LE can and will lie to you, and make invalid threats in order to get people to confess or just slip up so they can pin something on them. There's no incentive for LE to behave ethically or nicely; they don't get penalized for lying.
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It's called common sense.
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How many police officers have you interacted with?
http://www.cato.org/blog/youre-eight-times-more-likely-be-ki...
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(I do wonder why you can afford to just give away coins. Many thanks, though.)
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I think it is understood that we all read code during a typical project. I think what the OP is referring to is code reading for the purpose of improving your skill in general, to get exposed to code that you wouldn't normally see by just working as usual.
If you don't have access to ritalin, you May try to develop a caffein and nicotin addiction.

Stay away from alcohol. It makes you sleepy and lass sharp.
> Don't tell me the average user needs these.

The users that use PC as a TV do not, surely.

> Chrome OS' popularity is proof that for many

On US I guess, I am yet to see them anywhere else.
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Basically, all the commenters said that I'm taking an Inside View when I should be taking an Outside View. I disagree - http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/jj8/why_dont_more_ratio....
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No need to wait - Java 8, it's great
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> You could not go out to a store an buy a Windows 2000 desktop or a laptop.

On my home country you could.
Because it's divorced from reality for one.
To the moon!

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The wall between the United States and Mexico is a make-work project that will be dismantled in two hundred years once humanity grows out of its nationalistic tendencies.

The North American countries should loosen borders, not tighten them, paving an open road to unification. Building a border barrier feels like erecting another Berlin Wall.

Last I checked, we all live on the same planet, and are all tied to its fate for the foreseeable future.
For me, the fastest way of understanding code is a mix (back and forth) of reading it and running it. Some questions on how it works are more easily answered by running it and seeing what happens, while other questions are better answered by reading (e.g. what are all the possible cases here?).
In general it's best to only communicate with police through an attorney - without regard to the circumstances. A greater than zero percentage of people start out as witnesses and wind up as suspects.
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China orders real name register for online video uploads
Exactly. The pattern is:

1. cops do whatever they want
2. they become more and more emboldened
3. something awful happens to an "innocent" person
4. temporary measures are put in place
5. delay 10
6. goto 1
You should turn the brightness down all the way before the film starts. It's less annoying for the people around you.
Seems like we can all just unshield our microwave ovens and fry two birds with one dosage of cancer-inducing electromagnetic waves. Honey, dinner's ready and your phone is charged. Little Alex is vomiting again and his hair is all over my new dress!
Thank you Ash, I was looking for that for long time.

I'm happy that I found your blog with so many iOS resources. I'll read them all and I'll follow your activity a there.
Why not a full gui? I think I can give a simple reason. Desktop Gui libraries are large and complicated. Assuming you want a full featured cross-platform the choice would probably be qt. But Qt suffers from a lot of api version churn(much faster then c++ standards), includes language extensions(moc) and does a lot of things in a non standard way for c++(including using its own collections and strings).
The alternative I can see would be to write a very minimal functionality cross-platfrom gui library or use something other library that might not as cross platform(lacking mobile platforms(recent initial qt support but likely to improve in the future), not as easy to port, not as good looking on some platforms)
The only way is if police are held to account. That there is some sort of oversight committee, separate from the police force, that can fire officers.

For example, Mountain View PD has this female police officer that is just plain nutters in a dangerous way (aggressive and crazy with a gun).
That was the equivalent of an Oscar "I'd like to thank God, and my mom, and my dog..." speech. Twitter had just made him (another) fortune!
Other platforms doing this include Python, Erlang, Perl, and C#.

"Batteries included" works very well in many cases. Having a single de-facto dominant implementation helps.
Yeah, it's usually the inexperienced and the privileged that take on a meritocratic, neat-and-simple worldview. It's the intellectual equivalent of sticking one's head in the sand.

"Shit happens" isn't a bumper sticker for no reason.
None of those languages are meant for systems programming.
Without putting motives into Google's metaphorical mouth - and because I'm sure your logic is likely correct - even if they didn't use these tools and didn't care about open source, the good will they get for being seen doing this would probably be worth the cost anyway if they pulled it from a marketing budget.
Yeah, seriously, that post seems overly nitpicky, and the sort of "feedback" that I hope startup founders can filter out. "Head" is a commonly used term in the catering business.
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First of all, I don't think anyone (least of all Comcast) is going to roll anything out "next month." This is not a new issue for the US (having crappy broadband). This article [1] talks about what came of the $200 billion the government gave away to telcos to help build out our infrastructure since 1990 (spoiler: nothing came of it)... and the article is from 2007 so the total giveaway is even more at this point. So I don't think this is a new problem that we are suddenly looking at "next month" solutions for.

Secondly, there is no incentive for anyone (again least of all Comcast) to roll out anything next month, next year, or next decade that would significantly improve broadband in the US. For that you would need meaningful competition. We don't have that here. That's why idiots like TW cable's CFO can say things like "nobody wants gigabit internet" [2] and all that happens is the tech media gets ruffled feathers for a few days. Why on earth would Comcast roll out anything other than what they already have? What are their customers going to do if they don't like it? Go to satellite? Slower but maybe more stable DSL?

Yeah, it was one anecdote, but it was one that highlights the political incompetence and corporate graft that help hold us back from having nice things.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...

[2] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/time-warner-cab...