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>Maybe that's true, but do you know this or are you speculating?

I spent a few years covering 2A topics for CBS News.com (this is before I left to found Recent.io). This is true in my experience. As <brudgers> says, you can be interested in shooting sports without being interested in hunting, but I've found that both groups of people tend to be broadly pro-2A.

Note this may not have been true a generation or so ago. But since then, we've seen a ratchet effect where anti-gun politicians have tried to impose more and more restrictions. One effect has been to turn the NRA into the potent political force it is today. This coincided with the rise of the anti-gun left, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who in this clip seems to say she wanted to ban all guns (or all rifles?) but didn't have enough votes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rA6oX6eWWs Barack Obama, or his aide, filled out a questionnaire in 1996 saying he supported a state law banning the "manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns":
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_obamaquestionaire1newes...
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_obamaquestionaire2.html San Francisco tried to ban possession of all handguns: http://mccullagh.org/sf/handgun-ban/ And so on.

This has been done in the name of cracking down on gun crimes. But the same weapon that can drop a 250-lb deer can also drop a 180-lb man, and even casual gun owners have become politically active and aware in a way they were not a generation ago (when politicians on the left were not as anti-gun as they are today). Also some of the recent wave of anti-gun legislation sweeps in weapons used for hunting purposes, which helps to explain this support for 2A rights.
I almost don't want to weigh in here since LA is kind of this hidden secret gem, but the answer is to just live on the Westside (Venice/Santa Monica).

You can almost never have to drive if you work it out this way - I bike to work along the beach every day and drive somewhere maybe once a week if that. It's amazing, and it's pretty much 70-80 degrees every day.

You could also live downtown (which has turned around in the last couple years and now is becoming very nice) - the Metro will connect there and Santa Monica in another year or two.

Sidebar: what I've also found here (I moved down from SF around 2002 & have lived all over the US) is that you really get back what you bring here. If you want to connect with smart, creative, great people, they're all over here. If you expect to meet a bunch of a-holes, well... They're here too, if that's the attitude you're bringing.
Damn - has anyone suggested to them to perhaps pick a non-LOC based milestone to celebrate at? Or perhaps was the announcement aimed more at non-technical folks elsewhere in the company?
Prosecutors don't sentence.
See kids, religion has its uses ..
The linked W3C mailing list[1] provides some interesting discussion, as well as a blog post from Jan outlining this attack[2].

The conclusion: security benefits of CSP outweigh cons.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2014Feb...

[2] http://homakov.blogspot.de/2014/01/using-content-security-po...
It's a form of automation, which is, for understandable reasons, the most popular form of "progressive" PL thought. With a very powerful type system, the compiler can make inferences about the program that would otherwise be the programmer's burden. A powerful type system that is also safe allows whole classes of errors to either cease to exist, or be moved from runtime testing(where the programmer needs time and debugging skill to pinpoint their origin) to a compile-time error message. Either way, effort is saved each time the type system catches one of those errors.
"Ultimately, barring true genetic freaks (Michael Phelps wingspan for instance) anyone could achieve any level of any pursuit with enought focussed practice and a degree of luck."

So, why do you think there are so few top basketball players under five feet nine (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shortest_players_in_N...)? So few rowers average lung volume?

I doubt that is self-selection/cultural (you're too short for the NBA, so it isn't worth trying) or correlation vs causation (your lung volume is high because you trained so much)
http://xkcd.com/651/

and by turning it on you just proved you have the materials for a bomb. touche.
Because it's impossible to build a cell phone bomb that also functions?
It's not the same issue, this one is about CSP. I don't have time to make a pretty mirror (and chromium can't show me the source anyway, it seems) but I had it loaded before it was down, so here's a pastebin of the contents:

http://pastebin.com/XsWj7hDw
What about ad companies running different ads in different markets and analyzing the resulting sales data? Isn't that an experiment?
Matthew Syed's thesis is fundamentally challenged by reality. Certain activities/sports have a clear bias towards certain body types (as a reductive but clear example who would you favour to get an item off a high shelf unaided, the 6 foot 4 inch tall person or the 5 foot 6 inch person?).

It is true that training dominates 'talent'/'genetic biomechanics'. But, at similar levels of training some other factor will play a part in determinnig who is best, and at the elite end everyone is basically at the same levels of training so 'talent'/'genetics' will be the deciding factor. There is a reason why each discipline in pro-athletics seems to attract such a homogeneous collection of body shapes and why the people who 'break the mould' are often the most successful at the sport.
Just in case, here's the 'Gang of Four' book on design patterns:
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obje...
Not sure what happened, restarted the server.
In some countries this completely legal, and if it wants to be an international standard it should have space for it. (I hope there would be standard filters for each legal area e.g. filter out all protected characteristics for US applications)
Charge your phone/laptop or your wont be allowed to fly!
As somebody who deals with hiring, who is going to use this exactly?

The only 'benefit' I see is that the crawlers/recruiters can parse your resume easier.

Great for them; usually not so great for you.
Europass CV (can be embedded in PDF files, easily exports to everything using EU government web services):

http://interop.europass.cedefop.europa.eu/

HR-XML (also comes in a JSON variant, "HR-JSON"?):

http://www.hr-xml.org/
http://www.hropenstandards.org/

There is also Microformat (hResume):

http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume

Europass is used by the European Union, HR-XML is used by the US government. Microformats are probably used by many. This stuff is OLD news. We certainly don't have a shortage of usable standards.
My experience with unit tests for dynamic languages as a replacement for proper static typing done at the compiler level, is that it just doesn't work.

Sure it works for the lonely coder or small shops, but as soon as the project scale increases anything goes.

Managers will push for features over unit tests, no one will refactor code without taking a few days with the caveat not all places will be touched and the team atrition will bring in new devolpers forced to read implementation code to be sure how to properly call the functions/methods.

Advanced static typed languages with HM type inference are a better option for large scale development.

Hence it may be that is harder to get funding for other types of research.

Other issue is that dynamic languages fo their very nature make tooling harder problem to solve, hence less interesting for many researchers, pressed with delivering quick results.
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>That is part of the unacknowledged cost of open space and just part of the high cost of liberalism.

The devotion to open-space around Stanford/Palo Alto actually comes out of the backlash to all the highway construction in the 50s and 60s. I find it odd to see opposition to big government programs described as "liberalism".
Honor is what honorable people call it. Others call it gang.
In the case of Robert Harper in particular, see this blog post: http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lang...
>I don't have to accept XML that doesn't conform to my schema.

Yes you do, because otherwise people will treat your application as buggy. People have tried doing this with browsers and it never, EVER, ever works. If one app accepts malformed markup, they expect every other one to do it as well and no amount of preaching about the sanctity of well formed markup is going to change their mind.

>You're talking web services again and I'm talking about resumes.

If resumes are going to be done in markup it's so they can be consumed by web services. There is no point in having a machine readable language if it's not going to be read by machines.

>You're talking general and I'm talking about a specific place, publishing content, where XML shines.

I would rather use LaTeX for publishing content. It's complex, but it can handle layout beautifully.

Docbook is complex and it can't: http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/part2.html

For simple markup, I would rather use markdown. Markdown in YAML would probably be a better solution than docbook, but docbook's the standard now, so not much you can really do about that.
Is just a start-up that went big; the security business was just begging for disruption.
Yup. I am convinced this is another move by the NSA to increase the usage of Bitcoin.
That is just a loop in my opinion; it would be easier and more clear to express it as a loop. The power of recursion isn't really necessary, nor is it somehow more enlightened.

Exhausting your call stack in most languages is really bad as far as debugging is concerned: it loses the ability to even form a decent error message (stack overflow), and you are left with poor content for diagnosing the problem. Exhausting the heap or having an infinite loop, in comparison, are vastly easier to debug (the latter being much easier than the former, thrashing the VM system is also a pain in the arse, though less so than exhausting the stack).
Thanks. Especially the homakov post is enlightening, as it explains that removing the report-uri feature is not even enough to make this exploit impossible, as the onload/onerror events also signal success or failure.

Is there anything good that report-uri is used for that is more important than removing this exploit possibility?
How do you Haskell on embedded systems? Are you talking about baremetal with 1-32K SRAM?
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So bottom line, places where people actually want to live, are more expensive. Sounds like supply and demand to me...
Yep, all our packages have the roasting date on the label. The German post delivers over night in the vicinity of Berlin and in 1-2days elsewhere in Germany. We usually send the coffee out on the same day it arrives from the roasters.
Is this the part where you're being silenced?
I both agree and disagree.

On one hand I disagree because mathematics is abstraction built on top of abstraction many times over. It can be incredibly dense with information. An example comes to mind - Stokes' theorem. It's an amazingly elegant piece of math. It can be stated very neatly with 6 symbols - the integral symbol, omega, d omega, Omega, del Omega and an equal sign. If you were to unravel what each of the symbols meant using the closest terms related to them and then did the same for those terms and you continued some more, you'll have a small book.

This kind of thing is paralled in programming where you rarely want to just push bits around. I imagine you as a person who specializes in assembly complaining about the lack of rigor in more abstract languages.

However I agree with you because the above stuff is sometimes just an excuse for writing terribly. Firstly, there are practical considerations about the sheer length of text. Then you have problems of explaining. A professor writing a textbook can be far detached from that past when they first learned the stuff. My own teachers always told me to never write "obviously" unless I also explain why it is obvious (It can be very useful to explain to the student what needs to be obvious and why).

The best solution I can think of is writing with the online world in mind. A mathematical paper does not need to be short and concise. I envision two versions - the long online version and the shorted published version. There are after all practical and physical considerations in the latter while the former shouldn't be a big deal. In this way whoever is interested in more than the overview can access the longer online version and learn from it.

The biggest problem I see in this scheme is that of laziness - not everyone will want to write long texts.
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Calculus is incredibly complicated. Keep in mind it wasn't properly formalised until the late 19th century. It depends a lot on the book and the student, but essentially, to read Calculus I+2\varepsilon you need a solid foundation in Calculus I+\varepsilon. So, usually most of the skipping is because the text assumes the prior is known and digested (or it is just a bad book.)
You have no idea how depression works
This is about as serious as the CSS exploit that allowed detection of which websites you'd visited. In a way it is more serious because it allows the attacker to detect a relationship on a higher level (logged in versus merely visited).

http://browserspy.dk/css-exploit.php
Hey Marius, yeah, we ship 250g packages!
Type-safe languages allow you to check the correctness of a program by proving a theorem about it: it will never suffer from implementation-defined, unspecified (by the language) behavior. Because of this property, programs written in a type-safe language have many more traces corresponding to the programmer's intention, by default, than programs written in unsafe languages. The tradeoff is that the programmer can have a harder time expressing his intentions.
One important distinction is that Bitcoin wallets are free where bank accounts aren't. Phones that can display QR codes have become cheap now.

Ignoring fees for a moment, if there are Bitcoin ATMs on both ends of the remittance transaction, it's pretty easy for the participants. Probably even competitive.
You also have to press all the possible combination of numbers on your device, just to make sure there isn't one to activate a bomb. You also have to open all the apps in your smartphone, just in case one of them is "open to blow the bomb".
There's no such thing as a perfectly flat response, but that's not what you need: what you need is response flat enough that it is within human ear resolution.

(As far as I remember, headphones are actually harder to get precise response curves due to the interaction with the skull and precise physiology of the listener, but I may be mistaken in that.)

The problem with any claim from people that they can "easily" tell two pairs of headphones apart or two pairs of monitors apart is that most of the time these claims are not scientifically validated. There are numerous biases and gotchas involved in measuring audio fidelity, and one must be aware of these when designing experiments. (And the whole "audiophile" industry is based on the idea of selling snake oil technology to people with fat wallets and who think that they have better ears than anyone, and they go to great lengths towards denying the science.)
I don't necessarily think they are wrong, but I also think that (as with most "silver bullets") type-safety is not without it's shortcomings.

For example, consider the exponentiation function. When we raise an Integer to a positive Integer (2^2), the result will always be a positive Integer. You would expect the type of such a function to be: Integer -> Integer -> Integer

Except, that's wrong. When we raise an Integer to a negative Integer (2^-2), the result will be some fractional value. If we want to retain full numeric precision, it'll have to be something like a Rational. So now your function's type signature is: Integer -> Integer -> Rational.

But that's also wrong. So what are we to do? Maybe positive and negative integers should be separate types? PositiveInt and NegativeInt, let's say. But then what about subtraction? Should it's type signature be: PositiveInt -> PositiveInt -> PositiveInt? What about 2 - 3? Whoops!

So, there's no way, with types alone, to simply and accurately encode all basic math operations. All you can do is throw a Domain Error when someone violates certain boundary conditions, and tell them to check their arguments before deciding which function to call.

...meanwhile, dynamic languages will happily return whatever type is most appropriate for the arguments given.
"Deregulation" is the opposite of the word you're looking for. What the article describes is due entirely to overregulation.
As long as the DOJ are allowed to essentially lie to the public like this, why shouldn't it be fair to factor it in when trying to get an idea of how Swartz felt?

They lie to the public and exaggerate to the accused, in order to instill fear, prop up careers, and coerce the accused. Correcting the number of years doesn't qualitatively change how I feel about it much, and probably the same for Swartz.

Maybe people should focus more on it being a felony. The documentary left me with the feeling that Swartz was more distraught by the threat of becoming a felon[0], than with what length of time he'd be in jail. And it fits with the spirit of what most people are saying when they throw around "35 years": Is such a harsh punishment for downloading academic papers really fair?

[0] possibly the emotional and monetary burden of his defense on his family and friends, too
> The devotion to open-space around Stanford/Palo Alto actually comes out of the backlash to all the highway construction in the 50s and 60s.

And here I thought it was because Stanford owns over 8,000 acres and is exempt from paying state property taxes on it. :)
Cite: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/business/california-scruti...
That's because it wasn't opposition to the big government component. It was opposition to the highways. For example, someone protesting a war isn't viewed as opposing big government.
For what it's worth, the BBC bombing by one of the IRA splinter groups shook my then-house's windows, and I've been evacuated before that for IRA bomb warnings.

Maybe that's shaping my views when I think that the number of deaths isn't the only goal of terrorism. Rather, it's to scare and inconvenience people and the authorities.

Let's say "only" 20 people died. I think that would result in yet more security checks. I'd love to be wrong on this, and maybe that's why an attack like this hasn't happened to date - to paraphrase you, it'd be pointless.

I guess looking at it coldly, we should just be thankful that the on-the-ground expertise dies in every attack.
I think a lot of the fear of not keeping up might be connected to the fear of not being able to make money on something you enjoy doing.
What double taxation? They are NOT taxed in Europe, that's the whole point!!
DCSS works exactly like this: plenty of monsters don't drop anything useful. The other mobs rarely drop anything that useful (except for ammo). Actually, it turns out to be a great game.
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Knowledge worker is not limited for programmers :-) I.e. it is not as hard to imagine, that the guy asking for 16/h job could be mathematician, engineer, architect, or even some product manager in some financial institution ... and this debate with motive "maybe if we worked less hours/day, but with consistency and focus" is much older than programming craft. Ford started this with his 8h/day instead of 10h/day for his factory workers ...
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In the YT video, the shadow projection are in the wrong direction. It's as if the sun was all over the screen border ;)
But I got your point and I'll work on this
This is a popular misconception, but the article is right and the popular misconception is wrong. HSBC was fined for insufficient oversight of risky transactions. They did not "knowingly" launder money in the sense no executives were knowingly and provably involved in laundering money.
If you are a lurker:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435?m...
I am very interested into your thoughts about LateX, why we need another "standard" if we have LateX? Do you provide something in addition which is not possible with LateX?

Thanks
This probably just reflects who pitches for investment.
Actually I wouldn't value the 16-hours so much, but rather the freedom to divide 32 hours over four days. We've got a toddler and I don't want to be a parent that has to race from/to the day care.

I'm quitting my day job and starting freelancing in October this year, in iOS development in The Netherlands, Europe. I'd really welcome a project.
I have often wondered if the nice things provided by Angular.js can be provided in a simpler interface and Sentinel.js is the result of my attempts to do so. I need someone to take a look and tell me how much I have succeeded.

This is a small timetracking app for freelancers, that only uses html and javascript that I created using Sentinel.js. It uses local storage to store the data.

http://imakesnowflakes.com/ceasium/Ceasium.html
Because in your example, it is an interaction between you and the news site. You expect the news corporation to do this.

Facebook is not about communication between you and Facebook, but between you and other users. Facebook is effectively manipulating communication and the relationship you have with your friends on the website.

The manipulation of the feed is subject to the intent of the manipulation. If the goal is to make sure that you see things you want to do anyways (posts by friends you interact with often, for example), then that seems reasonable. Here the manipulation is not to make the user's experience better.
Heh, I wrote delicious originally for this.

It was preceeded by a text file called "links" in my home directory. Try that?

Alternatively, I currently use http://pinboard.in/
Foreign investors buying up houses and not living in them just as a way to store their wealth...

I'd wager that this would be more the case in places like New York, or London.

This :

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2013/04/mysterious-residen...

is quite an interesting read on the subject.
There's one thing 'EUrope' can do to better compete with US: stop pretending that everything Europe needs is more bureaucracy, more taxes and more regulations. This only helps create pathologies and destroys healthy businesses.
The point you seem not to get is not to compare health issues, but that people are not guilty of many diseases they might develop; and neither directly responsible for not getting better from most of them.
I'm with you. The "I'll teach you what I learnt failing" really makes me hit the roof.
No, but most webmail providers dont offer calDAV + cardDav or exchange on any inexpensive account.

The problem is not the device but the providers.
Probably factual inaccuracies, since Israel was not created by the UN (it was supposed to, but the Israelis declared Israel themselves because the UN was sitting on their hands, and took a larger area than UN had designated to Israel) and I don't recall Lebanon declaring war on Israel.
Airports that are operated competently will provide μUSB and Lightning power tables at security. Mercenary airports will provide for-pay stations.

Lots of international airports are competently run. Most US airports, unfortunately, are neither competent nor even competently mercenary so there will be trouble when the TSA imports this plan to the USA.