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> Compared to all other phones it was 10 years ahead in vision. All other phones were suddenly ludicrously laid out, with stupid designs.

You are wrong because you are looking at the wrong category for a comparison. Look at PDAs. PDAs had everything that the iPhone could do, more or less. And this, YEARS before the iPhone came out. I know it, because I had PDAs very early on and I remember making fun of the people thinking that the iPhone was so revolutionary at work because I had been doing the same stuff with my PDA for 5 years. Of course, the iPhone had a better browser, was easier to use, was more cool looking, but nonetheless it had nothing NEW in functionality over the previous PDAs. Comparing with phones is therefore irrelevant, the iPhone was PDA-Phone, thus being called a Smart-Phone later on by the mainstream media.
Oh I know exactly what you're talking about. Just was making a suggestion. I am in my 30s I understand the physics completely and always did even before your post.
I would like to be able to find the remote when I lose it. or my phone or wallet.
But you may still be subject to someone else's concepts of justice, with no control over that at all. It removes even the illusion of democratic control and makes you subject to the whims of others, especially if they have more money.
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As another reply has suggested, David Friedman's Machinery of Freedom is an excellent book which describes how private defense, law and dispute resolution might happen.

This video is a good introduction to the ideas presented in the book http://youtu.be/jTYkdEU_B4o
IPv6 is the new Internet Protocol, but that isn't helping it get support (much, anyway).

I know it's a terrible attitude, but I read "if adoption rates suffer, the vast expansion of the internet namespace is all for naught" and my first thought was “...and I really don't have a problem with that." So if there are a lot more people like you and me, gTLD adoption may follow a curve more like IPv6.
No one mentioned (?) it, but I still feel the shame.

I'm pretty verbose, I love my words, and people around me sometimes come to me with questions about words or their history and the like... and I still make the same mistakes you do. I often put the wrong word in when typing quickly, or edit the middle of a sentence forgetting to fix the overall context. Errors are not just due to proficiency in language, but also due to typing skills or low points in attention (pre-morning caffeine).

The thing is, most people will forgive minor mess-ups if it's clear what you actually meant. It's not something to worry about in internet commentary, which is more like an informal chat than formal writing. If you were writing a scientific paper or a politician's speech, this is the time to be concerned about the formal structure and specifics of what's going on.

Edit: it's not to say don't try, just to say don't beat yourself up over small mistakes.
Kind of misleading. Let us not forget that people were coming from the shitshow that was Vista (before all the service packs / hotfixes were applied) or XP if they didn't get Vista. The latter made people long overdue for an overhaul.
I meant "protect" in the sense of "protection money." I'd be happy to continue this discussion off-forum. You can probably PM me via reddit.
Not sure how widespread this is, but in my own experience businesses are actively avoiding buying or upgrading to Windows 8.
Rather than use a password manager, I put them in a big text file & run that through openssl (via cygwin). Though it probably isn't best, I use one of my private_key files as the password. The particular command line combination is written on paper in a safe that others have access to.

To believe the rest are important to someone else is rather egocentric.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I do not heavily follow cypto goings. How are you normally accessing the GPG public keys? The way I understood it was that you always access key servers through http or https from a key server.
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Nice. Thanks.

Most of the entries are from 2010 and 2011 though.
> I think it was extremely childish of Jobs to get so pissed.

I've never thought of Jobs as being someone mature and reasonable anyway. He was already like that in his younger years whenever the competition heated up. He didn't change.
Regarding the millennial gripes and trophy kids syndrome, funny, because this week I just read my school's magazine covering this. Not that I am agreeing with the writer, but interesting read.

http://issuu.com/ccnycampus/docs/february_2014/9?e=9281508/6...

I think there is more than just job numbers. Are the unemployed people facing risk of losing home? The average age? Average skill? State they live in? How much is government doing? People say free market small government, I think that's BS because during election both sides will propose the government to create X number of jobs by fixing national infrastructure. And the market can't bounce up on its own. A lot of jobs can be created when the state and the federal government begin fixing the bridges and damns. You don't get those without government. On the other hand, yes, private sector should try to hire more here not outsource. I don't dispute that.
It's telling that those jira tickets are both in the top five most voted on open server tickets and are from 2010 and before. (I know you know this roger, but) TokuMX completely resolves both of them.
It doesn't even need to be enforced. Just give every single cop a reliable camera and make sure that it is well known that they have the things.

Then you can ask them why they don't use the evidence recording device that would remove ambiguity from so many situations.
Neither portuguese nor (I think) spanish have either of the two 'th' sounds (/ð/ as in 'the', or /θ/ as in 'thing'), and the 'd' (/d/) sound is the closest thing we have in portuguese.
Having seen the grammar wars at the turn of the century, there is nothing like it going on at the moment. Modern day grammar nazis are just another part of general trolling, nothing particularly brutal going on.
The user you're referring to made no mention of gender.
This is a huge problem, and I think it's a good idea to legislate this (depending on the precise text of the bill) due to the positive externalities involved. I wrote a blog post making this argument:

http://andrewro.in/post/75915934983/forcing-antitheft-techno...
Cyclist breaks the law and then feels entitled to talk down the arresting officers? I can't say it's the first time I've heard this story.
It's pretty easy to do lag compensation on RTSs. You have the server run a copy of the game locally and just sync with the clients. Typically, RTSs have a lot of actions, but timing isn't as crucial. So, if things get out of sync, you just buffer until you everything catches back up again. You can even do things like vary the speed of the game (FPS) without the players noticing much. With games that rely on precise timing as a core mechanics (e.g. a shooter, fighting, or rhythm), the player is going to notice that an action took 10ms and then the next time they did it, it took 20, because they'll actually miss their target.
Can you explain more?

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

> [Belshan] used the term libertarian in a discussion of free will and in opposition to "necessitarian" (or determinist) views

The use of the word "libertarian" in free will debates is separate from political libertarianism.

But it's worse than that:

http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers...

> This essay is cited as the first to use the term "Libertarian." For Belsham it was a term of abuse. Liberty was nearly synonymous with libertine, a description of a person with no responsibility.

> Belsham dismisses the ideas of the Libertarians, citing the foreknowledge of God, as did Hobbes and the religious leaders Luther and Calvin before him.

> Belsham is a Necessarian, as he describes his fellow determinists.

So, what are you talking about?
Could you devote 100% of the effort focused on only one goal - pressuring Google or Facebook to put up the banner. Then, in 1 day, a billion people see the banner. The email, phone support is then invariably much higher.
What's the alternative? The goverment? You mean, like when HSBC launders billions of dollars from cartels and gets away with it?

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/dec/14/hsbc-money-l...

And your stupidity is also part of this, he never asked for police enforcement, he asked for the members of the site itself to look for the thefts.

Plus, when is a mistake made by the goverment the proposed solution is not "We need the goverment to disappear"; same way here; pretending the only solution is to spawn one is just as dumb. If Silk Road was just a forum instead of actually holding bitcoins none of this would have happened. But you don't expose solutions such as those; you only want to transform this in a circlejerk argument that support whatever you already believed before, a confirmation bias.
Ah, ok, I see, for some reason my browser wasn't showing the namedtuple code snippet right. Now I need to go look at the namedtuple code to see why accessing the fields by name is slower than accessing them by index.
Seriously lol. Dealing with authorities 101:

1. Be respectful at all times

2. When an authority tells you to do something, do it. Unless you have a really good reason not to. In which case, see 1, and communicate your concern or question.

3. Don't let them push you around/power trip, but stick to 1

4. If shit goes down, don't panic! you'll only make things worse. Accept that your circumstances are temporarily out of your control, be patient and non-confrontational.

The world is not made of rainbows and flowers, there are plenty of self-important people with some kind of authority over you. Generally speaking though, unless you have to constantly interact with them, like a boss, they don't matter. The less interaction and thought you give them, the sooner you can get away from them and on with your life.
Check out http://ootbcomp.com/docs/ if you want more on the Mill.
HM type inference is one possible aspect of functional programming, but there's also the Lisp family of languages which are characterized by macros and homoiconicity, as opposed to purity and static typing. Functional programming doesn't seem to have a single definition, but the languages do share a family resemblance: instead of one or more properties shared by all members, each pair of members shares some properties.
Well, to follow up, could this be extended to ownership of a domain (via DNS txt record)? Could we use this as a means of authentication of a self-signed certificate for a domain?
This is an interesting idea, but I wonder about the practicality. When you say something is MANDATORY, whose responsibility is it? The question writer, who may not have English at all? Someone else? Who?
That sounds like an interesting use case, to have a browser API whereby an extension can disable other extensions from having access to certain domains. Perhaps you should submit a proposal and/or start a discussion on the appropriate mailing lists or bug trackers.
Right, but this isn't just a keyserver. They are allowed to break those rules in their service if they wish.
Knowing some of the FC people first hand, MongoDB did actually serve them fairly well for a substantial amount of time. Until they started hitting max limits, it didn't really make sense to move to c.

Going straight to C or something like it would have been almost cargo-cultish ( eg If we build industrial strength, we will get industrial levels of traffic ).
How did "stop being a jackass" turn into "I support the guy who stole the money"?

Zed, I want to make myself clear, here: I have absolutely nothing to say whatsoever about whatever substantive claims you might be making. I'm just telling you to stop being a asshole about it.

But fuck it, I told you pretty much the exact same thing[1] almost 3 years ago, and you haven't changed since then. It's not your message that turns people off, it's your delivery. I still suspect it's a calculated ploy for pageviews and name recognition.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605957
It would be behind a NAT for most people, though, right? Not saying that makes it ok, but at least a LITTLE less bad?
Doesn't Ubuntu take most of their packages from Debian?
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> If something crashes, there is a serious problem

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Providing the system owner the ability to make that decision is a feature.
There were multiple questions/comments below about this, so I felt I should clarify one detail about the keybase client's trust of the server. When the keybase client requests maria's key from the keybase server, it does not simply trust the public key because it trusts the server (or uses https - huh?).

Rather, the server replies with links to tweets, gists, etc. -- maria's public identity proofs. The keybase client does not trust that these are honest, so it scrapes them directly and makes sure they were signed by the same public key that the server provided. In other words, the server could reply with a different maria, and simply lie, but not with the real maria's github or twitter account.

The server could also lie by omission, leaving out an identity. But it cannot invent ones that do not exist, without the client knowing.

Again, the premise here is that maria is the sum of her online identities.

The website itself is of course a different story. When you look up maria on keybase's website, you are trusting that keybase.io did not lie about her github account. Fortunately you can confirm by following the link to her gist, where she announced her keybase username and posted her key fingerprint.
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I probably should explain my position more fully. The cause of a result and the fault of a result are entirely separate concepts. I think of "cause" as anything that, when prevented, would prevent the final result. By this definition, both the officer and the author caused the abuse and arrest.

However, "fault" is in the deviation from a perfect world that caused the result. The author, showing concern and asking about the well-being of another person, is not at fault for the abuse he received. The police officer, abusing his position, is at fault.

To apply these to your example of your stolen laptop, I would say that it was partially caused by you, but was not your fault.

The way that I read Gorbzel's comment as that both cause and fault were on the author, not just cause.
I Do Not encrypt any files. I have a desktop at my home and i never saw need to. Although I don't live in a first world country. So no first world problems.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a 911 equivalent that just called a fucking ambulance or a fire truck?
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I'm conflicted. I agree avoiding law enforcement is a good idea, and I'm pretty straight and narrow. Too many stories like this and shooting dogs. But I feel like a coward absenting myself from the tyranny. Like someone else said, we the people are starting to get more and more fed up.
Just posting a lot on social media and news sites. I use Google Search, Google Translate, Mac's builtin dictionary, and Thesaurus.com (for synonyms/antonyms). Reading helps – you can "find" collections of ebooks for kindle/mobile quite easily (disclaimer: I don't support piracy, it's just that as a student I can't yet afford paying for 100% of what I consume).
> These guys didn't design Linux; it would work better if they had. They created Unix.

I'm glad in your haste to snark on a typo you managed to leap over all the bits that don't correspond with your worldview.
They actively avoided upgrading to IE-anything-above-6 as well. It's hard to draw a lot of conclusions from these articles.
It's also something that has never existed outside Hobbes' imagination
When I get someone's GPG key I can call them on the telephone or go to their house and make sure I got the right one.

I add it and use it. When you use this, I'm assuming I get that key every time from the server. I can get it and verify it once, or twice, or three times, but what about the 1000th time? What happens when I am important enough that they return a public key that is not Maria's, and I am none the wiser.
I'm under the impression that accurate data on hiring success is essentially non-existent.
OkCupid already does this with events.
Replace the word 'cyclist' with 'driver', 'woman', 'jew' etc. See where I'm going with this? Your anecdotes are not evidence of a larger problem. All that you're doing is exposing your personal bias.

Personally I notice a lot of bad drivers, but I'm not going to then leap to the ridiculous conclusion that drivers think they're above the law. Because there is larger percentage that I don't notice doing the right thing, just like with [insert chosen group here].
Multiple coalitions competing for customer dollars will lead to more economically efficient distribution of violence, just like if you replace "violence" with anything else like "bread" or "automobiles."
This might be the longest period in a while where some fast-spreading illness hasn't killed large numbers of people across multiple demographics.

Usually wars and sicknesses create a significant need to train new workers, but wars on their own aren't doing enough anymore and would only harm the demographics that are suffering anyway.

It's totally horrible for me to say this but a deadly flu pandemic is needed for the health of our economy.
The question writer. The user still has to have some ability to understand the standard language of the site.
Which of those countries doesn't have a government? And which of those countries has a society like what I'm advocating? Note that I'm not simply advocating that we have anything so long as it's not government. I'm advocating a specific alternative to government.
I've worked for a Taiwan-based company for years. It's a somewhat multilingual society, but the default in workplaces is, of course, Mandarin, and English proficiency of the overall population is lower than you might expect (and than many would like; there's been a push for better English education in public schools lately).

In this company, at least, you would imagine somewhat inaccurately.

I speak English and three or four words of Mandarin. Their English proficiency ranges from equal to my Mandarin to almost idiomatic American English (a few having spent between a couple years and half or more of their lives working and/or studying in the US).

For live conversations, "English" technical terms are just a given, even for those who I can't even hold an minimal English conversation with. There are "translations" of things like "pointer", "file", "hard drive", etc.. They don't use them. Those most fluent in English engage in more significant code switching, with entire sentences or large sentence fragments in English.

I can sometimes extract significant meaning from conversations that are not otherwise in English because of this. They are frequently surprised by this, because they don't even think about it. These parts of English have simply been incorporated into a sort of programmer's dialect, it is part of their "native" language now.

Those who are most fluent in English, however, have told me they sometimes find it easier to have technical conversations entirely in English. I've heard two different reasons given for this, sometimes by the same person. One is the most obvious: This industry basically originated in English-speaking countries, so it's built on the assumption of English. The second is probably more locale-specific: Mandarin is apparently less precise and/or concise than English. One person described it as more "flowing" or "stream-of-consciousness", another as "based on feeling". Maybe not ideal for a field where precision is critical.

Documentation follows a similar pattern. The more comfortable they are in English, the more likely they are to use English, at least in part, in documentation. Commit messages, interestingly, are much more likely to be in English than Chinese.

Within code, APIs, and file formats, identifiers are almost invariably in English. Sometimes strange English, but English nonetheless. I imagine this would be less the case if we'd had UTF-8 source code 30 years ago, but it's where we are now. Filenames are also usually in English.

Comments are another mixed bag. Some developers whose English is very poor nonetheless comment exclusively in English, others use primarily Chinese. Again, the more fluent are likely to comment entirely in English. (This assumes the existence of comments at all, of course.)

Obviously when they specifically intend for me to read or deal with something, or are modifying code I wrote, everything is in English, but that's a fraction of what goes on in R&D.
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Perhaps it's not a valid assumption - but does it matter? A large chunk of the point of the 2.0 regulation model (the graphic in the OP) is that over time reputation is crowd-sourced. Can we not just live with the existence of sleazy companies in the knowledge that over time they'll be weaned out?
You're probably right; there'd need to be incentives.

Maybe tying pay and funding to available footage?
If you'd gotten a copy of the report, with the receiving officer's signature that would have been a good start.
Please respond to comments directly rather than trying to "preserve real estate". It makes it much more difficult to follow conversations.
when will this flappy nightmare end?
You're suggesting that the possibility of market failures justifies government power. Unfortunately, government is also vulnerable to market failures, and I don't know of any argument for why government's market failures (also known as "government failures") would be less common or harmful than market failures.
But does TokuMX solve all the other issues like write concurrency, eye wateringly slow (and single threaded) index building, or there being no way to practically reduce the file sizes. (repairDB takes forever and requires the same amount of free space as already used, and compact also needs free space and doesn't remove any files).
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Autism + robots + you = impact
Need some help helping get an inexpensive autism companion robot into peoples homes.
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No, I am an individual and I am barred from certain groups and activities based on my genitals/gender/whatever. This is an anti-pattern so far as I'm concerned.

It's not a threat to me and I don't honestly care about conferences. But that is what it comes down to.
> But you may still be subject to someone else's concepts of justice, with no control over that at all.

That sounds like the current state of all governments, unless you're one of the tiny portion of society that gets to decide what government does.

> It removes even the illusion of democratic control and makes you subject to the whims of others, especially if they have more money.

I don't desire democratic control or the illusion thereof. In fact, democratic control "makes you subject to the whims of others, especially if they have more money," so I don't understand why you implied a difference between the two.
What I am interested in is data regarding users (renters).

What is their breakdown by age, sex, ethnicity, and success at booking?

I am not an ugly guy, but I am 50.

I tried to use airbnb twice to book in San Francisco, and each time, for various reasons beyond the control of the owner, my rental had to be canceled.

It's discouraging, and I suspect ageism was at play.

So who is being successfully booked, and who is getting canceled on?