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Is simple, unconditional freedom really that absurd?

We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY PURPOSE, with no restrictions.

That's what we call a free gift.

That is one of the project's goals.

You're right, the patent clause might not necessarily be an attack against the OpenBSD developers' freedoms. But they do not care about their own freedoms only; they want it to be free for anyone (this includes corporations who might hold patents, and also individual developers working for such corporations), for any purpose. It is really as simple as that.
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Carl Sagan's son is a computer programmer and designs music tools
Py.spec – RSpec style tests in py.test
Interesting article - the title however is not only misleading but disturbing. I clicked because it implied that the FBI had dispensed with the inconvenient laws and judicial system and just started killing fugitives when it found them.

I mean, they sometimes do, but that's not what the article is about. If the author is reading, maybe change "will you survive" to "until you're found".
> Recent meme has reinforced that. If we want to express this idea positively, we don't say "bossy", we say "like a boss".

Similes require nouns and bossy is an adjective/adverb. How are we supposed to draw any conclusions from the use of boss?

I have never heard someone use bossy to praise the actions of a male.
Yes, I'd love to interview startup people visiting London, so just let me know when you're over. I'll also introduce you to other startup people and some great events, like Silicon Drinkabout, if you'd like.
Virtualization and network resources have a long and glorious research history, although most, if not all, of the approaches are not currently in fashion. (And maybe there's a good reason for that?[1])

"Distributed memory" is one example. Once upon a time it was a big deal. I suppose that things like iSCSI could be regarded as an application, but that is the only use I know about that's at all recent.

"Remote procedure calls", "distributed objects" and stuff like that could be seen as "virtualization", if you like. I suspect all of the major advocates of these have either recanted or died off---at least I hope so. When I'm wearing my network-protocol-guy hat, I hate these things with the fiery passion of a thousands suns.

[1] See http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.7..., "A Note on Distributed Computing" by Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, and Sam Kendall, from Sun ca. 1994, for some early, clear, and correct reasons why making remote things look like local things doesn't work as well as you might think.
No I think the height was from the radar, the part you are talking about is the ping reported a drop of 40,000ft in the span of a minute, which didn't make any sense.
Industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?
This is exactly the problem: Leadership roles going to those who fight hardest, not those who motivate and inspire.
You don't need anything fancy here. Coming from the game industry where frame updates are typically targeted at 60 Hz or 16.66 ms per frame. Even mobile games often target 60Hz. During the 16ms a game typically has to do a lot of stuff such as ai, rendering, user input. So in comparison your needs are very light. You can probably develop what you need in any number of languages and OS. I would go with what is you are comfortable with. Take a look at SDL2, you could probably put together something in one day. The only thing unusual you mentioned is the external triggering mechanism. Whatever this is you will need some kind of device API/interfacing code, so this may decide which OS you will need to use. SDL2 is cross platform so you should be good to go there.
People cheat because Gain(cheating) * P(not getting caught) > Cost(cheating) * (1 - P(not getting caught)). I would say this is true for everyone everywhere regardless of society, culture or race. India is trying to reduce P(not getting caught) because, from a policy perspective, the other terms in that equation are close to impossible to change.

The US doesn't have this problem because the gains due to obvious cheating aren't big enough. People do "cheat" in the sense of "acting unfairly to gain an advantage." For example using ADD prescriptions to get extra time on exams is a well-known trick, another is to have college application counsellors ghostwrite essays and then there are numerous other methods which may not technically count as cheating but achieve the desired effect. The difference is that people whose kids do this are also those who control the media narrative, so you've all been brainwashed into thinking that this is somehow more acceptable.
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Yes! The web will conquer the world. We're at the beginning of a new revolution. Just a few simple tweaks and everything will fall in place!

I agree. The feeling is indeed golden!

Cheers.
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um, "optimize placement of stuff in a slightly different way than other people have done" and save billions of dollars over the span of time, due to very high price of silicon wafers?

ok.
I never said that. I was responding to "The easier it is to update software, the less important that it is bug-free."
Unless what you want to say is "bossy"! That must be edited, we learn.
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If you see no tips by those who failed then you fail to see the difference between success and failure :)
Of course. Though I wonder if this pattern will change when it comes to the kinds of implants talked about in the article.

As an aside, I'm reading a book (Open Veins of Latin America) and it starts out with the history and how the Spaniards barely needed to do anything to wipe out the Amerindians since there was such a wide gap in weapon technology (plus bacteria) between them.

An implant which literally makes you a better human might be kept highly priced, like a Ferrari, which doesn't come down in price after a few years.

If anyone wants to see this mostly played out in a tv show, Almost Human (episode 10) introduces the notion of "chromes" who are genetically enhanced humans. Inherently better than regular humans, the show has them preferring their own company rather than mixing with regular folk. I'm hoping they'll expand on the concept in further episodes.
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It isn't even that (at least I didn't get that). It's just a standard click through advertisement that 90% of magazine sites seem to use. A lot of interesting and informative articles are hidden away behind these pernicious, easily skippable, advertisements.
Why can't I highlight text on that page? I'm not even sure how to read an article without it...
That only works for unit conversions where they're defined as ratios of each other. Nature has physical constants and engineers have environmental and design parameters that can't be written that way unless you constantly change units, which is a bad idea in a language without built-in unit checking (most of them).
Also, interesting discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/20fxv8/making_a...
I backed an animated Grimm Fairy Tales pilot on Kickstarter and our digital download was an MP4 without DRM. So, there are people doing it.
> "On the other hand it's absurd to dogmatically oppose MORE STUFF regardless of what the stuff is. "
I don't think that it is absurd to oppose stuff written a in language you can't understand, you will never be able to learn and you actually don't care about anyway.
Funny that you mention it, I get what you mean.
Its a bit like the sequence from "once upon a time in the west", where the camera goes over a hill, showing all the unclaimed land, the workers building the new railway etc. Epic scenery of a land of opportunity, golden afternoon sun rays, with a grand Ennio Morricone soundtrack playing.

Stupid really, after all its just a TLD.
Disagree on the ADD prescription point. ADD meds can boost performance but you still have to at least learn the material. Pills can't put knowledge in your head. But then again, I'm the one that wants to legalize steroids in the Olympics.
Well, going from 320x240 to 640x320 is a huge leap. After that you start to hit diminishing returns, I guess.
It's not about the word "bossy". "Ban Bossy" is just the name of the campaign.
Cool idea! I love it. Nice touch with "Free shipping, even to <my location>".

Question: what do you do about local laws for importing edible products? No doubt at least some of the countries you ship to has those.

Good luck!
Okay, I'll bite: what does the author mean by 'responsive'? It doesn't say anywhere on the page.
Node.js has another beautiful way of doing this. It's called streams there.

https://github.com/substack/stream-handbook

http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html
You missed the point of the article with your pointless nitpicking, so here it is, try again...

That’s because second wave feminism is not about protecting women’s rights, it’s about stirring up a contrived gender war and impugning western culture, the middle class and the family unit as the source of all sexism and oppression, thereby making women more dependent on the government and hiding the true source of all oppression – the state.
"What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant ... a memory chip, wired directly into your brain's hippocampus, ... an implanted interface with the Internet ..."

As long as I don't have to "give" anything to remain free from implants, I'll watch the technology with interest, and maybe consider something when it's perfected and fully under the user's control.

If on the other hand, there is any effort to impose this sort of thing on unwilling people, there will be widespread violent resistance (a prediction, not a threat).
Disabling Javascript didn't work. I tried to use Safari's web inspector and the tab crashed hard...
KVO and Cocoa Bindings are not the same thing. Just because Bindings use KVO does not mean both technologies are alike. KVC/KVO has many uses outside Cocoa Bindings or UI updates. Further, obviously KVC/KVO has a performance penalty and that is exactly why you would not use it for high performance tasks. However for just about everything else it is a great tool and will minimize the amount of code you write greatly, resulting in improved maintainability.
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This sounds like a gross misunderstanding of the kinds of guarantees made by Haskell's static systems.

The closest you're going to get it something like Atom [0] which is used to program a few different hard realtime systems. If you look at the Atom docs, however, you'll quickly find that programming in Atom is nothing like programming in Haskell---it's merely embedded there. The type system helps to ensure that your embedding does falter, but most of the errors still live in the sublanguage and I'm not sure how far Haskell's type system goes toward reducing those.

[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/atom
This linkbait style of headline writing really needs to die.
From looking at the wiki on neutron moderators[0], it seems like light water is used in more reactors globally, so would that be cheaper to use? And maybe for deployment you'd have quadcopters drop biodegradable ballons filled with it.

Would be really interesting to read a feasibility study around this.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_moderator
It's actually more like speed limit + 15-20, in the fast lane.

Try going less than 80mph in the fast lane on 101, 280 or 880 when traffic allows for it. Just try.
It's very arguable that every decisionmaking process must come down to a number, as we're talking about people and not cattle.

It's not debatable if you believe in the axiom of induction (or the axiom of choice for countably infinite sets).

Theorem: If there is a total order (a consistent decisionmaking process) on the set of people (or any countable set), then there exists an order preserving function f: People->Real numbers.

Sketch of proof: Start with an arbitrary person A. Define the ranking function f(A)=0. Choose an arbitrary person besides A, call them B. If B > A then f(B)=1, else if B = a then f(B)=0 else f(B) = -1. Choose a third person C, different from A and B. If C > max(A,B) define F(C) = f(max(A,B))+1. If A < C < B or B < C < A define f(C)=0.5x(f(A)+f(B)). If C < min(A,B) then f(C) = f(min(A,B))-1. Continue ad nauseum.

Either it's false that multiple intelligences exist, or it's useless to single-dimensinally evaluate them.

Multiple intelligences probably don't exist. But even supposing they do, claiming that the domain of a function is multidimensional does not disagree with my claim that the range is one dimensional.

Background:

A total order is a way of saying "person A is at least as good as person B" which obeys all the obvious laws. Person B can be either a real person or a standard of achievement (e.g. "passing").

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

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/metrics_manifesto.htm...
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Not if he hacks it with a Visual Basic GUI to trace the IP Address!
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I saw at least 10. I had to scroll quite always to find this one.
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Checkout PureCSS[0], it's Yahoo's minimal framework. Something like 4k gzipped. Also you can pick and choose what you want.

No SaSS/LeSS built in support, but it's small, you can just port it yourself pretty easy... it is called pure CSS for a reason I guess.

[0]- http://purecss.io/
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Theres currently a bug in chrome 33/34 where web fonts won't render until you force a repaint.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=336476
>Actually, I get the full article on my ipad through the HN link.

I can too if I use a new private session, so I assume it is cookie based. So you can only look at so many articles per unit of time before the pay-wall goes up.
Artificial rain?
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Gotcha - makes sense. First thing I do though is install postfix from ports still!
>Occam's razor is that nuclear power plants don't exist, they're just coal power plants (which already existed) with a story about nuclear power being possible. After all, do you have any idea how complicated controlled fission would have to be? It's easier if it doesn't exist

This is ridiculous. An elaborate conspiracy to fool people into believing in nuclear power isn't simple at all. Not to mention events like Chernobyl
weirdly, if I show the open apps, it's there, but if I try to switch to it it just jumps back to the 'desktop'.

Yeah, tried multiple times, even killed the app and retried. Same result.
This campaign isn't about grown women in leadership, it's about kids. No one expects little boys or girls to be very good at leadership, but boys are praised when they try while girls are dismissed. So the boys are more likely to keep trying and improving, while the girls eventually give up.
To the best of my understanding, graphite in reactors serves the purpose of moderating nuclear chain reactions. The radioactive materials in the forest are almost certainly not dense enough to undergo a chain reaction, so adding a moderator would be pointless. The issue isn't the environmental radiation (like you might worry about standing next to an exposed nuclear core), it's the prospect that radioactive materials might be absorbed by people (like you might worry about if a nuclear core was on fire in the same city as you). Spreading moderators around would do nothing to help about bioaccumulation.
You mean 20.
As an aside, I've been playing with learning Ada for a while (and all of the books I have from the last time poked at it are very out of date). Do you happen to know of any good references, online (Better!) or off?
Careful when making assumptions. Not only is 200 burgers a completely unfounded number, but you've neglected to include things like fries and drinks in your calculations.
For UI/UX inspiration, see:

http://patterntap.com

http://uxarchive.com - Mobile

http://pttrns.com - Mobile

http://zurb.com/responsive - Responsive
The whole "compare Chernobyl to an incident at a passive-safe reactor" thing is an enormous pet peeve of mine. Fukushima is certainly no such thing.
Valve replaces Steam Controller touchscreen with new analog face buttons
Doesn't caching has an equivalent set of pitfalls though?
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While that's a pragmatic solution, the problem is of course with these ridiculous business firewalls which only prevent working.
It responds well to being resized (e.g. to fit on a mobile phone screen instead of a large monitor). Although, I think it is normally used to mean considerably more than the simple scaling being done here (e.g. I've seen designs where the text goes from two columns to one if the display is narrow).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design
The quality of the beef isn't the point. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/too-mu...
Plus, with this strategy you'll have a heart attack and die within the first year, so the rest of the burgers will go unclaimed.
Agreed. For me the most important this is load time -- if it takes more than a few seconds, I move on well before even the best of current responsive solutions have a chance to load and do their magic. This doesn't address that entirely, especially in the case of large images or heavy iFrames, but at least I can start reading almost immediately. Also, navigation would still be a struggle with this solution, though just a list with display:inline would be functional.
I am working on it

I don't see that mentioned in the article; a mention or a least a link to your own work would be helpful.
This was featured 2 years ago. http://hola.org/ is an easier alternative for web browsing.
I put together a guide to use it with any text on your computer, not just web articles: https://medium.com/p/cb5aee8b75e3
You're right. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/too-mu...
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I post a 1 line solution that lets you manage complex application state changes in responsive layouts and deal with gui conflicts across responsive designs using pure CSS/LESS and don't get a single upvote.

This guy posts that HTML is fluid by default with a couple lines of CSS and gets 20 votes.

HN, I really don't understand what the hell is going on here anymore.
Why'd you censor the lyrics?

"I fail to see how the lyrics from a Jay-Z song from 2002 are anything other than completely irrelevant to the Ban Bossy campaign."

We're talking about banning words. If I had to guess, I'd bet more people would support banning "nigga" than they would "bossy". Personally, I don't think any words should be "banned" because it's simply not possible. Society may evolve to not use a word, or shun those that do use a word - but a campaign to "ban" a word does an injustice to the literal meaning of the word "ban" because it's just not realistic, or possible.
to get anywhere you need to convince a somewhat larger group than one to all work towards the same goal

I don't think this is true. For example, Linus Torvalds didn't convince a larger group to work on Linux first, and then build it; he built Linux first and then the larger group came to it because they saw that it was worth working on.

Granted, Linux was not as ambitious as the kind of thing the article is talking about; but that doesn't mean the method has to be different. Working code, even if it's for a very small subset of what you eventually want to build, is a great convincer.
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They disabled it using some javascript. I have seen this in some websites which can usually be fixed by using RighttoClick addon but it doesn't seem to work here.
Huh? Perhaps you should read what I wrote again, it appears you've completely missed my point. And yes, I read the article, and went to the website, I know what it's about if that's your point.

Here's my point: bossy is not a sexist term, for example it's used to describe poor leaders in environments like the military, where leadership is NOT just men. Acting bossy is bad. Subordinates hate it, and you can't lead by rank alone. It's a damn good lesson.

Therefore, advocating for its banning (the movement is called Ban Bossy after all) is both unwarranted, and entirely unhelpful: because it's a clear unambiguous word that young leaders get" quickly to describe adverse behavior in a leader and it's the proper English use of the word Boss to describe someone acting in a manner like a boss. What word would you use to describe this adverse behavior?

And the "Ban Bossy" movements supposition that it's sexist that it's used to describe "girls" is unsubstantiated. It's a good word to describe behavior, if someone's calling you bossy you need to do some soul searching if you want to be a leader. Don't be a boss, be a leader.

If you're acting bossy, stop and lead instead.
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I picked up the "sync three times" thing from an AIX kernel developer, who did it from before AIX had a "shutdown". (Yes, he would do "sync, sync, sync, power-off".) My theory was that using it three times gave the system time to actually sync the data.
What does a pervasive subculture with a long history have to do with intelligence and planning/executing? I do not think that the existence of a "pervasive subculture with a long history" is meaningful/informative.

You have an isolated group of people: how surprising is it that a social animal develops its own culture distinct from the larger population that they are forcibly segregated from?

This social phenomena has persisted for a long time: Is the length of the history indicative of some quality unique to members of the subculture or is it one of the necessary byproducts of existence of a legal system?
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Regardless of whether he's misinterpreted what responsive is or not, try putting "Boy, tables in HTML really do suck ass" into one of the table cells.
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It's getting to the point where whenever I see someone invoke Occam's Razor, I stop reading. People seem to think it means "The explanation is always simple", but what it actually means is "the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected."

On the disappearance of MH730 it seems a lot of people are happy to make the unfathomably large assumption that this was "probably" a catastrophic mechanical failure and that the plane has crashed into the sea, despite the conspicuous absence of any evidence for this scenario such as mayday calls, or a wreckage and now, in the face of overwhelming evidence that directly contradicts the theory that the plane has crashed (because it appears to have been under the control of a skilled pilot for five hours after it went missing, and skilled pilots are usually pretty good at landing planes) people are still positing the notion that the plane has crashed and that Occam's Razor somehow supports this point of view.

In short, "the most likely explanation" in this case, is the one that makes a boat load of wild assumptions.
Are all arrests kidnappings? Or was there something not kosher about the execution of the warrant?