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How are exceptions like gotos? I don't see any similarity. If by "essence" you mean they jump to a specific line of code, then lots of things can do that - switch/case , if/else, do/while, function calls/returns, etc.
This is childs-play compared to what the DoD are up to with WAPS, currently in the format of ARGUS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS

Simultaneous video surveillance of 8 x 8km with a single drone, at 15cm resolution.

I'm afraid to say that while this is neat, realtime video maps of the planet will be provided by drone tech, not satellites - for now. When we can stick something in geosync with amazing eyes at a low energy cost (space elevator), this picture may change - but until then... nope.
Sounds like CodeKit's not for you then
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> They implement total control by owning both sides of the spectrum.

I've seen this same view on politics as well. Yet just because Party A is trying out propaganda does not mean they have 'won control of the debate' and everyone else who was addressing the same topics is now quiet and sheepish.

In fact, you could say the idea that 'we talked about it, therefore our reponse reigns supreme' is part of the propaganda message---that because it is mentioned by a mainstream source, it has become mainstream belief by default.
I think the article nails it on the head when it talks about technology getting ahead of social/legal controls.

I'm sure when license plates were devised, no one thought ahead to the day a single unregulated for-profit company could automate the scanning and geolocation of many millions of vehicles a year.
Like Mozilla Persona? I like it but I don't know how they can drive adoption to your average user.
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So she evokes the image of LEGO being some entity with "clutches" - sounds pretty evil to me. Seems the author is not beyond using marketing ploys either.

Yes, the language is shaped by her opinion of LEGO, or more likely, of corporations in general. But she isn't making an y real effort to convince you; it's an assumed context. If you think that corporations are great, you're not really the intended reader.

Really - are they not just a company trying to sell it's products? It seems to me the way you or the author words it is simply reframing that as something negative.

It's not reframing unless one considers that in general, a company selling their products is a good thing. But even if one does, there's still an argument to be made about LEGO's (and other corporations') way of doing so.

If the brand is "creativity is good, and you can actually build whatever you want with LEGO, not just the Star Wars model the evil empire suggests", where exactly is the problem? I'm pretty fine with such a brand.

Well, for one, there's the question of whether LEGO's actions are coherent with that brand. If the Star Wars model is the product of an evil empire, why are they selling it? Her point is that such incoherent is not some marketing failure, but actually a deliberate way to fake credibility by attacking the company that it's promoting.

(Of course, even the core part "you can actually build whatever you want with LEGO" suggests that you need to buy their products to be creative. But that's what every company would claim, so that goes back to the issue of how you view the whole system.)
I love http://themeforest.net/ - the templates aren't to expensive and they cover everything from Bootstrap to Wordpress

There are a ton of theme / template websites out there (free and paid)
Lets have that amazing discussion then.

People who use drugs, needs them. If they can come to terms of not blaming drugs and continue using them, its fine.
One can be drunk all his life and its good, because sober, he lost faith in humanity.
One might understand that there is no point in anything and he can't live on unless he is doped up with something, either it be food, alcohol, cocaine, TV shows or workout. Whatever negativity you experience while on drugs can be great revelation to yourself and about yourself. Good potential is not only happy thoughts and work performance, clearer mind, but also the depths of hell you have crawled out(or not). And also what your actions changed in other people around. It is so complicated and fascinating.

What should we do? What is "Harm"? Injury, pain, depression, death? What is wrong in experiencing that? Or Fear?
Could it be that drug war is beneficial to respecting and accepting drugs?

Can only really corrupt politician wake up the masses? And how many times it will repeat and repeat and repeat. When will one needs to change his way of life and thinking and throw away previous behavior completely.

And having conversation online by text is so uncomfortable for me, sorry, I can't write and hold thought long.
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The three tier model of Response to Intervention for school education
What is Response to Intervention or RTI?
The recent amendments made in the federal laws and the state laws instruct the schools to help each and every student with the right kind of educational tools.
Yeah, you spelled impossible wrong... I'd love to even be able to take one day and do this.
You could improve (but not solve) the problem of raw access to data. But that does nothing wrt solving the "problem" of recipients storing a permanent copy of received snaps -- all they need is a camera.

It's a little like the old (tv series) adage of don't discuss crime in a car -- it's easy to place a bug in a car, so assume that it's bugged, if you have reason to fear someone's bugging you. Even if you're using encrypted phone/voip-chat -- that won't help squat if there's a microphone in the vicinity that can pick up both ends of the conversation...
I made the command line tool on a whim and it became surprisingly useful. I copy a lot of config files around that way.
Is not like configure grunt or gulp is rocket science. If you are a solo/freelance that code to get the job done, 5 to 10 minutes of your time just for configure a grunt/gulp is not a massive lost of production time, also you get more control over what you want. Don't make it look like you would spend days trying to setting up that workflow when on reality it just take less than 10 or even 5 minutes for the avarege folk. Is really learning new things that scary, because for my understanding we as developers/designers need to learn new things every day so what is the hue?
I'm interested in knowing what principles you used to judge goto as a bad practice?

Or do you just mean that its abused a lot? (in which case, I'm less interested.. :) )
Prepros does all that for free, and it works in Mac and Windows. I could never get my shop on to Codekit because the developer refuses to port to Windows.
Mathematicians are indeed lost and confused but in a very different way from beginning students. One must put in one's dues in what Terence Tao calls the "rigorous" phase before one can become productively confused in the "post-rigorous" phase.
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s-...
a pint's a pound the world around

I always wondered if butter was the basis for standard units. There's something rather wonderful about that idea to me.
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This is true with many, many things. Very often it is the connections between ideas that yields the deep understanding, not the ideas themselves. Focusing too intensely on a single idea or subject results in not making connections and, consequently, not really understanding.
There's a GUI for Grunt in the works: https://github.com/Mobile-Team/spock
I've taken to meditating while running. I've tried many of the techniques described here but I find myself most able to work with while running is 'follow your breathing'.

Sometimes I've 'come round' after a 20 mins or so and I've literally run miles. By 'come round' I mean I am able to manage about 20 minutes.

Of course always be aware of your surroundings and this is often better on trails and tracks where there are no cars.
There's also vow of now, the 30 Day meditation challenge: http://vowofnow.com
Yes, a GUI is easier to use for some people than a command line.
Thanks for mentioning One-Time Secret. It used to support view limits but I removed the option to avoid the scenario where someone thinks it can be viewed only once but ends up still being available. It simplifies the UI as well.
Meditation is extremely overrated and is mostly a placebo.
Whats revolutionary about it? This already exists for Android.
I dunno, my five-year-old son has no problem what-so-ever re-purposing those specific elements to be whatever he wants in completely different contexts. If anything, all the newer pieces seem to make Legos much more flexible than they were back in my day (the late 70s).

It certainly has been a good marketing move for Lego -- despite having more Legos than I ever had, he still wants more, more, more -- but in no way has it been a damper on creativity.
Did you mean this one? http://blacktie.co/
I've been out of the Lego game for about a decade at this point, but it was very easy to re-purpose most "specialty" pieces. Depending on what type of things you wanted to build, it often would be preferrable to re-imagine a specialty piece because they often looked slicker/cooler than what a similar construction of generic bricks would look like.
No, I'm not conflating anything, I was referring to the suffering of addicts and their families from addiction itself, apart from the second-order crime from cartels and addicts who need to commit petty crime to fund their habit. Now one might argue that that suffering is caused largely by the mere fact of the drugs being illegal, and in fact I made that argument myself usually. That doesn't change the existence of that suffering though, even if it's relatively small compared to the total.

And all of that is separate still from the murders drug cartels commit as part of their business operations, I realize that. Apart from all that, there are still harmful effects from their acts. (hence my wording 'in no way responsible' - they are not fully responsible, but are at least contributing, and their contributions to many cases make for a lot of aggregate negative effects).
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Secondary math education, for me in the UK, didn't deal with anything outside of elementary algebra, Euclidean geometry, some statistics, and relatively simple calculus. Nobody talked to us about imaginary or complex numbers, or bayes theorem, decision theory, or non-trivial mechanics problems until I was in college (age 16+). Nobody mentioned matrices, broader number theory or discrete transforms until I was in university. I studied EE not compsci. Things like algorithmic complexity I had to learn for myself and from Knuth. I'm trying to grok group theory right now to help with my understanding of crypto. Before this, it was never mentioned throughout my education, so I don't know what courses you would have had to take to learn that. The fact that I didn't even know group theory was important to crypto until after I had made the choice strikes me as a bad sign.

The common theme at every level is learning cherry-picked skills, before you're even told what the branches of mathematics even are. Everything seems disjointed because you're not taught to look past the trees for the forest. Most people infact, even technical folk, go through their entire lives without knowing the forest even exists. Any idiot can point to a random part of their anatomy and posit that there's a field of study dedicated to it. The same goes for mechanics or computer science. You just can't do that with mathematics as a student.

I loath academic papers. Often I find I spend days or weeks deciphering mathematics in compsci papers only to find the underlying concept is intuitive and plain, but you're forced to learn it bottom up, constructing the authors original genius from the cryptic scrawlings they left in their paper... and you realise a couple of block diagrams and a few short paragraphs could have made the process a lot less frustrating.

So many ideas seem closed to mortals because of the nature of mathematics.
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Whatever you think it'll cost to allow somebody else to go on the 10 day course in your area.
Perhaps you've been doing it wrong? Thats quite a bold statement.
Just going to go ahead and say it, strait is a word as is straight. The article was titled "Please Excuse my Grammar" and misusing a word is a grammar (not spelling mistake). That also seems to be part of the point of the article, did you read the last line?

The author wanted to misuse grammar to bring attention to the fact that the education system doesn't support learning. Instead the system labels individuals and attempts to keep them in those labels, rather than helping them improve.
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"TrackDuck, a visual feedback and issue tracking startup, is aimed at small and mid-size organisations and freelancers. It lets the clients of small businesses and freelancers send feedback on a web site’s build process right there on the screen."
I have not had this problem, but I might suggest not trying to relax at all in your case. You are likely able to "relax" your heart well enough that you are actually causing yourself to start to pass out.

Relaxing your body as part of meditation is intended to help you quiet your mind, but if that in itself is a barrier, then you should try not doing that part.

You could instead practice allowing your thoughts to float away, and with your eyes open allowing yourself to "see" without perceiving. Let the goal of your meditation be simply being with the world where you are, without trying to judge or affect it.
Link to the Github project [0] for those that don't want to read the marketing spiel. ;)

Would be great to get some issues and pull requests to help improve it. I'm completely open.

[0] https://github.com/sebinsua/express-keenio
A dropping heart rate is a sign that your mind is calming way down. The same thing happens to me. Heart rate and blood pressure both drop. It is connected to the breathing rate. If you can reduce your breath rate down to 1-2 times a minute you can feel extreme calmness but it will greatly lower the heart rate. Just do some vigorous yoga or exercises after the meditation session to get the blood pumping again. Not sure about the eye issue. Maybe try open eye meditation. Example of a yogi practicing open eye meditation: http://www.yogananda.com.au/galleries/py1/images/py1923.jpg
I'd pay good money to track down the aggressive clowns I meet on the highway or those who came close to killing me on a pedestrian crossing.

The long arm of ... revenge.
If a personal HUD was so great, why do they need to bundle an outfacing camera to the device at the same time?

A personal HUD with sufficient utility might gain acceptance by people not wearing the device. Coupled to an eye mounted 'recording other people without their consent' device and Google's servers though?

(And yes, my tone is indicative of a luddite stance in this particular instance)
Single client DOS vulnerability in socket.io?
Nope. It only looks that way if you're buying one set.

The handles for lightsabers are also rooftop horns for big trucks, door handles, scepters, fence supports and robot arm extensions.

The mast of a pirate ship becomes the main barrel of a cannon, one of the pilings for a dock, and a barricade across a driveway.

The mixer of a concrete truck becomes a starship engine, a fuel tank, and the incubation chamber for your clone laboratory.

The pants of a minifigure are popular as fingers for giant robot hands. The single-piece LEGO cat is, admittedly, always a cat... but it can be chasing mice, sleeping, caged, a main character, a sidekick, a statue.

Context is everything for imaginative play.
This is not new. It is known for depression treatment for a long time.
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David Gregory (a nightly news anchor) waved around a high-capacity magazine on national television within the borders of the District of Columbia, which is a felony offense. No charges filed. [0]

Explain that one, Mister Ideological Predisposition.

[0] http://nypost.com/2013/01/12/no-charges-for-nbc-host-david-g...
Oh.. well, it seems that Debian uses GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL, I was not aware of that.

In Arch Linux very few packages depends on GnuTlS.
Yeah and Dropbox is just a GUI skin for rsync.
A killer application for selling to me:

A chording keyboard and ssh (I use Emacs anyway). This needs a good battery and enough screen quality for readable 80+ character without headaches.

Then I could go walking with a backpack filled with coffee and lunch... It might be hard to combine a readable screen with a not too high risk for getting my hit by cars.

(Possibly two chording keyboards if they leave the hands usable when strapped on?)
Knockout is pretty focused on what it is for (data binding). In my experience it works well for mobile apps as well. If you want full blown SPA with knockout check out Durandal. I'm also using it with success on mobile.
Haha yeah, people who care about prices probably have some trades in, so they probably want to know the ask/bid selection and watch out for 'walls'. They probably also want a decent chart, maybe some technical analysis tools.

The people that think speculating BTC is purely watching a number on screen are going to lose their money. Hell, people who stare at charts all day manage to lose money as well and we haven't even talked about the blatant market manipulation.

Charts I like to use: bitcoinwisdom.com, tradingview.com

For people that want to get into trading in Forex-like markets: babypips.com
I'm curious - how exactly would one refute the following argument put forth by data brokers and repo agents?

> But Digital Recognition and other so-called “data brokers” who collect plate scans are fighting Hecht’s bill, arguing that repo agents are not invading privacy when they scan a ­license plate, which is available for all to see. The data brokers do not disclose the owner of the plates, they point out, though customers such as banks, insurers, and private investigators have ready access to that information.
... per 100000 capita. 27 rapes per person would be a bit high.
Do any of these browser editor/online IDEs have any sort of Vim emulation? I'd be happy with just the basic keyboard shortcuts.

I know there are browser extensions that allow Vim emulation, but those are generally more oriented toward controlling the browser, rather than using an editor.
Lego is just a reflection of society and what we project onto it. It's up to you to build new things - all the pieces are there.
If you're not developing SPA apps you'll likely just need data binding (knockout) only. I've had many situations where I don't need the routing and other functions of a SPA framework like Durandal. However, Durandal is pretty modular so you can tap into whatever part you need since it uses require.js.
See, I wanted to review some ex-employers, but I don't put my whole career history on LinkedIn. Here's my explanation of why: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/why-i-wiped-m...

I have an ideological issue with LinkedIn. It made some people I like a boatload of money, so I like it on that front, but I also feel like the modern trend of oversharing one's economic relationships is really dangerous, so I prefer to keep my career history semi-private. I'm not ashamed of anything (except one shitball startup where I worked for 3 months and that I don't include on my resume) but I prefer to conserve information in a game (private-sector self-preservation and advancement) that is more adversarial than it is socially acceptable to admit.
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As background for some of the techniques used in F2P, there's a classic reference on behavioral psychology applied to games from 2001, way before the whole F2P phenomenon: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3085/behavioral_game_d...
Eventually, our new found love for collecting lots and lots of data about everyone and everything would come back to haunt us, making some billionaires and a vast majority living under surveillance. Sketchy but probable.
Unflagged (if it matters). You make a good point.
I'm writing a book, in my terminal. Have been for a while now, maybe 6 months, and all done through an amazing application called Wordgrinder. An old version should be in your distros repository (I know it's in Debian anyway). It's awesome to boot up to TTY1 and just start writing, no distractions possible. It's also entirely written in C and Lua so it's quite fun to hack on as well.
And Yahoo mail has taken over verizon mail, at least in some hubs.
While I agree with most of these two sentences, you can't really be sure there's no such bug in OpenSSL. I mean, not this specific bug, but a similar hard-to-imagine-random-situation bug.
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I'm not sure how realistic this would be but... my friends in lab research are chomping at the bit for something like this to eventually become a reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orXws08ODiQ
How we failed at Gonnasphere?
Come to think of it -- humans can't memorize all the number plates they see. Machines can. It's the "recording" of these images (though there for everyone to see) which takes us into the gray area.
Some people in this thread really need some tuning in their sarcasm detector.
To be fair to biturd, the less you're willing to trust Wordpress defaults, the more hassle it is. Once you get to the point of writing a child theme and writing your own code to enforce an html whitelist (as I do) and setting secure defaults in the config file etc. then you're basically swimming against the current of Wordpress' own practicality. You might as well just pick up slim + twig + phpass and roll your own, and it would probably be more secure anyway.

Although I do wonder, if there isn't a good static blogging solution in PHP, why there isn't.
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This looks interesting, but I'd really like some background on the project.
Again, who said that they're evil?

Maybe your politics are getting the best of you? Can't someone be against advertising and still enjoy the fruits of capitalism?

Personally, I hate ads. I hate being manipulated. And, I hate that corporations spend an insane amount of money every year just to get me to buy their stuff that I don't want - it just increases the price of the products that I do want.
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It's disingenuous to suggest that Brown had no actual intent to harm law enforcement agents while leaving out the fact that the indictment starts by establishing a pattern over multiple weeks of Brown making direct threats to them on Twitter, including threats of violence. The threats aren't (as I understand it) unlawful either, but the combination of threats and any actions in furtherance of them can be.