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The reason there is no hope for those in Dante's hell is because they are in death as they were in life. They are not so much being punished as they are simply extending the less than ideal life they lived before. In this sense, there suffering is not so much inflicted upon them as it is self-inflicted. This is the reason that there is no hope for them; they are their by their own will. (I guess it is assumed that their character becomes fixed in death.)

As to Dante not having subtly, I have to disagree. For example, the contrapasso associated with each circle of hell at first seems to have nothing to do with that circle's particular sin. It takes, at least for me, quite a bit of thought to be able to begin to see the subtle connection. These connections, though, often reveal something quite profound about human nature.

I am likely quite biased in my opinion, since I believe the Comedy is perhaps the greatest work of literature ever written. I think it is a pity that the Inferno tends to get the bulk of the attention. Even though it's great, the Purgatorio and Paradiso are even more fascinating.

Edit: There is no denying that Dante had strong political opinions though: about Florence, about the role of the Church in politics (that it shouldn't have any), about the Holy Roman Empire, etc.
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For an extensive treatment of this, I recommend the book "Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art Of War".
Climate change threatens vital NASA launch pads
Delhi: woman raped allegedly by Uber cab driver
I doubt this highly. And if they are moving to DASH it is implemented by Flash.
Why wasn't anyone else running a validating node? Where is the code for the validating node?
No, because it's perfectly clear. But perhaps I can restate: indutny's behaving in bad faith, which should be perfectly obvious to anyone. Max Ogden (the original and unofficial author of the opinion posted above) would like to believe there is no antagonism here.

If this were just some third party, perhaps this wouldn't be significant. But indutny's on node core, the technical committee, the advisory board meetings, and is the original forker of io.js. His actions are central here.
> What's more, the size of the bounty might be revealed only after it's been reported.

There's more than enough information on what Facebook tends to give out on various types of vulns. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a website out there that aggregates this sort of information. Even if you don't know precisely what you'll get, you'll at least have a rough idea.

> However, I'm unsurprised to find such reasoning on HN.

Honestly, as someone who is decidedly not a capitalist usually: either the bounty is a token "thank you", or it's a capitalist-minded attempt to get people to report vulns rather than ignore them or sell them on the market. In the former case, the amount doesn't really matter so long as it's not insulting, and in the latter, my argument that if it gets people providing vulns, it's enough, applies.

It's specifically not "payment", because payment-for-services requires that services were actually and specifically requested. It's a reward or a "thank you", and should be thought of as such - perhaps similarly to a reward for finding a lost kitten.
I think it depends on how you go about it. If you just make it available and from the outset make it known that's what you're doing, then I think it's fair game. If, on the other hand, you spent time convincing people to use it and then just abandon it, I think that's kind of a jerk move. I see this happen a lot with freelancers using open source as a means to drum up clients.
I specifically thought that might be the case as I was posting, so apologies for the useless comment. I should have listened to my conscious on that one.

That being said though, allow me to take the opportunity to express the utter disdain and contempt I have for the reference of Hanlon's razor. First off, any rule that uses the word "never" is already probably going to be wrong most of the time. Secondly, there are innumerable instances where stupidity would work in place of malice despite the fact that it was actually malice. I see it used almost exclusively by apologetics of some sort or another. It's a useless straw man of a logical fallacy not conducive to intellectual debate.

It's official, Hanlons razor should be put into retirement and not used by anyone with a respect for logic and rationality.
http://choosealicense.com/licenses/

All open source licenses are not liable for damages arising from the use of open source code
So because your attempt to dismiss half of android as being irrelevant because it's 'not sanctioned by Google' failed, you now decide that Android devices outside the U.S. don't count? I guess this is the closest you'll come to conceding that you were wrong.
Sounds like a win-win! Why waste taxpayer dollars making policy or decisions when the private sector is happy to do it for free?
Some people prefer to live with more than a sheet of drywall between themselves and their neighbors.
I really like your analogy: money is the crystal meth of politics.
My first exposure to Dante was John Ciardi's version in college for a philosophy class I took.

I loved it since it gave an outline to each Canto and described what you were about to read. You then have his notes at the end of each Canto, which helps if you missed some of the references he makes.

Here is that version - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-inferno-dante-alighieri/...
Recently I heard the woman behind "Order of the Good Death" on Fresh Air, who also has the "Ask A Mortician" channel on Youtube.

It helps when I'm in the beginning of writing my will and directives -- 'cause I expect to die sometime, hopefully later than sooner.
One of the parts of The Divine Comedy I find interesting is that it is an extremely effective demonstration to point people who still believe the hard-to-kill myth that the idea of a round Earth was unknown to Europeans before Columbus to, because of the sheer level of detail Dante goes into about it.

Purgatorio, canto II [1] in particular explicitly "place" purgatory at the opposite side of the globe from Jerusalem, and describe in detail how different stars are visible, and how the time is different in Jerusalem, over Ganges and in Purgatory, as well as how the seasons are different in the southern hemisphere. The differences between the hemispheres etc. are revisited several times to make explicit how Purgatory differs, for example in Purgatorio, canto IV, verse 55 onwards [2].

[1] http://www.italianstudies.org/comedy/Purgatorio2.htm

[2] http://www.italianstudies.org/comedy/Purgatorio4.htm
I'm not very familiar with the DC market, but I did a quick search on AngelList to write this comment. Here's a few company's that jumped out to me:

- FiscalNote: Real-time open data analysis
- Contactually: CRM
- Vero Analytics: Analytics platform

I know that LivingSocial is based in DC. I believe they may be the biggest startup in the city (size and popularity).
What's the difference? The only difference between a $3bil drug purchase and a $3bil crop/infrastructure stimulus is that one assumes you can control spending.

Why wouldn't heavily funded drug dealers reinvest in their community? Or, how would crop/infrastructure funding not directly support the drug industry?
Yes, but tax policy changes. If taxes were even, there would be no difference between dividends & stock buy backs for stock holders, but there would still be a difference for option holders.
Woman executive raped by Uber cab driver, accused on the run
> I'm not familiar with how the constitutional federalism rules play out in regards to the behavior of public officials in the states.

That's an interesting question. The constitution says, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government" (not Republican party -- there are no parties in the US constitution). I think most people have taken that to mean no monarchies.

But consent of the governed also rules out corporatist states. However since state attorneys general are either elected directly or appointed by elected officials it may be considered (by transitivity at the very least) that these As-G in fact have the consent of the people to act against their interests.
Dropbox lands in Seattle
Doesn't this get abused immensely ?
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"If humans are the scourge of the planet then it's difficult to see why population density is of value. . . . Density simply improves the availability of goods and services."

I don't follow. Density does not merely improve _availability_ of goods and services. It improves the efficiency of providing those goods and services (besides other efficiencies). So to me it seems that density is of value, and that applies whether or not humans are the scourge of the planet. Using resources efficiently = Good. Wasting resources = Bad.

On another note, I would add that getting all your culture from the internet and tv is probably not the best thing. The cocoon of your car separates you from having to experience street/neighborhood culture firsthand. Not a good thing in my book. Far easier to detach yourself from people you see on tv than people you walk by on the street.
Fixed-frequency callbacks,  stricter wall-clock affinity than setInterval
All very good points, to which I'd add:

A product manager needs to have the ability to communicate effectively with people across a diverse set of roles, including customers, marketing people, designers, developers and upper management - and they probably all have different points of view on what's important to have in the product.
> JavaScript code is more of a trap because it runs without the user having to do anything!

Dont worry,the EU will fix that! It will ask for "explicit consent" to run javascript in the browser ,just like that inane cookie law /s
Hmmm... I guess we can never know the hearts of men, but it seems like many people state that they don't fear death because of a belief in the afterlife, but the vast majority of people seem to behave as though they do actually fear it.

Similarly, the religious often talk about how they're "not really saying goodbye," yet they seem to grieve as though they really are saying goodbye forever.

Not judging or anything, losing a loved one hurts and people need ways to cope. Still, people's stated beliefs often seem at odds with their actions.

Edit: a word.
> No, they're not. Software released under the BSD and GPL licenses would both be considered "open source", but only the latter is Free (per RMS' and FSF's definitions of "Free"), for many significant reasons.

Well, no. All three versions of the BSD license are recognized by the FSF as "free software licenses"; only two of them are OSI-approved "Open Source" licenses,

1. The original four-clause license, which is neither an OSI approved Open Source license (apparently its never been submitted for review -- OSI, unlike FSF, does its reviews based on submissions, rather than on its own initiative) [0] but is an FSF-recognized Free Software license. [1]

2. The three-clause BSD license, which is both an OSI approved Open Source license [2] and recognized by the FSF as "a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL." [3]

3. The two-clause BSD license, which is both an OSI approved Open Source license [4] and recognized by the FSF as "a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL." [5]

[0] http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause ("The original license used on BSD Unix had four clauses. [...] The four clause license has not been approved by OSI.")

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD

[2] http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

[3] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD

[4] http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause

[5] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSD
> 4. Python is hardly used in the real world, while something as big as Facebook is built on PHP.

Google used to run a lot of python and it's probably still the case. Youtube is built almost exclusively on python. Among many others.
No way to disable things is a dealbreaker for me.

It should be possible (if slightly annoying) to disable restrictions, but it should only ever be temporarily disabled.
Okay now I see your point, but Dart is far from replacing Node or IO as the next cool thing.
Sexuality as a public affair
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The raw terror of the inevitability of death without comfort of distraction or mental illusion — "fleshing," as Puchner describes it — was brilliantly captured here in a way I've never before heard or read expressed by another person.

It's relieving, in a way, to know that I'm not the only human to chronically go through it.

I especially enjoyed his comment on the difficulties of erecting a comforting fantasy of an afterlife:

> I’ve endeavored, in my weakest moments, to believe in heaven — or at least some vague, harpless afterlife my brain won’t snicker at. But I’m still pretty much paralyzed with fear.

It's a curse, in a way, to have (be?) a brain trained to recognize and solve problems, optimize expected outcome, and see through bullshit when the popular solution to existential debilitating dread — religion — crumbles at the slightest analysis. Ignorance is bliss, to add to Puchner's ostensibly empty bromides.

That said, I've personally found that two core ideas can consistently keep me grounded (even in fits of hypercritical 4 a.m. breathless terrors):

1. I'm conscious, which is fundamentally the only thing I can really be sure of. For consciousness to arise in a completely material universe is so outside of any scientific understanding (at least currently) that there may very well be room for a kind of immortality. If consciousness is the universe experiencing itself (to borrow from Alan Watts), perhaps life is just a temporary segmentation of a tiny piece of eternal consciousness that will later be rejoined.

2. If you're reading this (ie: enjoying the temporary luxury of life), you've got a fair chance of living considerably longer than any human that has ever existed (Kurzweil et al.). It's possible that unbounded mortality could be achieved within your lifetime. This presents a new problem: the inevitable heat death of the universe (I realize the irony of immediately complaining about a lifespan that has reached eons, but it would still be a finite existence), but it's possible that there are areas of physics that have yet to be discovered that would permit hopping to a new one.

I write this precisely three weeks before getting married to the most wonderful, caring, talented, driven, intelligent, and just generally enjoyable companions I could have imagined spending my life with. I think this event has resurfaced these previously successfully buried distresses: when you have more, you have more to lose.

I'm reminded of the "4EVER YOURS" story from this year's Valentines Day Google Doodle[1] that really hits me hard:

> "This will end someday...someday, one of us will die, then the other will die, but we have now."

The mental tricks are nice for when I'm in a moment of weakness, but there is something starkly beautiful and painfully focusing about the possibility that this could be it. That every time I hold her hand, every adventure we take together, and every late night goofy conversation is limited. It's a clear and constant reminder to really make these cherished moments count, though I wish with every fiber of my existence that I could make them last forever.

1. http://www.google.com/doodles/valentines-day-2014-us
I heard, Free Software is not about code reuse, but something about user freedoms.
Why the First Meaningful Thing to Be 3-D Printed in Space Will Be a Buckle
Letting someone else write a letter doesn't surprise me all that much. I had a friend who was trying to get some federal legislation passed and he pretty much wrote it and handed it to the Congressman's staff. They passed it off as their own.
My Air Force dad liked it, too. He also liked the P-47 Thunderbolt, another ugly CAS airplane that could take a lot of damage and still get the pilot back home.
No, they aren't. Both the pragmatic benefits and the perceived (by some) moral imperative stem from the same source, but neither the perceived moral imperative nor the pragmatic benefits that motivate self-interested actors to participate in open source are dependent on the other.
An Uber competitor should make a deal with the owner of the phone number.
Nice effort - although it would have been better if it had both the original and translated version side to side. Poetry of this caliber is way beyond meaning and words, and can somehow be enjoyed even with a limited understanding of the original language. I remember when, many years ago and with a very limited knowledge of English, I tried to read the original works of TS Eliot. I was blown away. The original/translated versions helped me to get started and I never looked back.

The Comedy is an unbelievable work. I read it in full in my twenties and always keep a copy with me. It would probably be my 'desert island' book if only one were allowed (plus The Four Quartets of TS Eliot, if I could take two).
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The LPC54100 series will be available... in the first quarter of 2015, with pricing starting at USD $1.99 in 10K quantities.

If you came from the future to inform us that NXP lied about their chips costing $1.99 in 10K quantities in 2015, then your beef is with the NXP marketing department, not minthd.

minthd is just relaying a number he read in a news article, which in turn relayed it from a NXP press release.
So basically the only value of secret was as a tool to harass and intimidate.
No idea why you're downvoted, because your point is pretty much valid. There are no software licenses for many sites, yet they are full-fledged pieces of software. I guess, this is legally grey area, that nearly no one bothers about.
Touché. Can someone here calculate the added costs (bandwidth and energy) of add it that much payload to every JavaScript snippet?
Am Arduino is not a production solution. It's great for prototyping, but to expensive for mass production. You go with something as small and cheap as possible.
Good riddance. It's a damn shame that the $35 million investors dumped into this vapid shit - an outrageous number even with the current level of rampant stupidity in SV if you ask me(doubtless because the founders were ex-Googlers) didn't go to something actually useful or interesting.
Consciousness is an evolutionary adaptation that enhances survival, partly through the ability to think about one's death. That may be the only "purpose" of consciousness. So it's not a curse any more than your small, weak, cooking-dependent jaw is. Perhaps religion is the buffer that prevents conscious beings from despairing more than is evolutionarily optimal.
Those who make jokes, think.

Americans hate immigrants since they take their jobs.

At the same time, if the poor countries becomes independent its a problem for power struggle.

What can be the ideal solution for this ?.

I am an engineer and really want to do whatever possible from my side to resolve this conflict. Any suggestions?
With the M series coming online with newer processes, they become very competitive with 8bit MCUs produced with older tech.
The fallacy here is the assumption that there is value in JavaScript in any form. As a long time web programmer, I can tell you I could care less about the freeness of your Javascript. I don't want to see it, read it, or spend one second trying to understand your smelly bowl of web code.

Fight some other battle, gnu!
the recent "steam broadcasting" (live video game streams served via steam's service)

uses DASH and is works with pure HTML5 (no flash needed)
It strikes me as a bunch of "adults" acting like teenagers with this app.
I am not sure why you are being down voted as you are 100% right. It is not the stated aim that is the problem it is the implementation which is being corrupted.
This top 10 list isn't very good, it seems like something written back in 2006 or 2007. Shared hosting? Forget that, buy a VPS or EC2 and host it yourself.

The only reason I would use PHP now is if the Hack language is being used and everything is reviewed for coding style.
How is lobbyists writing letters anywhere near as bad as lobbyists writing bills. Letters have very little legal significance, it's just bureaucratic infighting. Bills are what become law. Attorneys General are charged with prosecuting the people the executive branch wants prosecuted. They are the legal attack dogs of the the government. It is not at all surprising to me that they use any tool that comes to hand in support of their goals.
I think the argument still applies.
Looks to me like something similar to Evil, but which follows no Vim conventions at all and has way fewer features. Maybe there's an audience for it; I tend to think if you're going to go with modal editing Vim offers a tried and true model, for which Evil mode already provides a really good implementation.
I'll bet it's still faster in plenty of circumstances.
It's hard to beat superior asymptotic complexity.