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I remember when I first heard about Lessig and his efforts regarding Copyleft at the university of technology here in Vienna, that was almost a decade ago - glad to read that he's still advancing even further, trying to change things for the better. A brilliant man and important role-model not only for people in computer science or law.
Yeah back then my Pravetz was already 6 years ( manufactured around '88 [1] ) old and still very popular. I didn't have CD-ROM until I got my first 486DX4 custom case computer.

[1] http://www.pravetz.bg/05-Pravetz-History.html
> "Analysis Paralysis" a friend of mines likes to call it.

This is such a common occurrence in board gaming that it's frequently abbreviated as just "AP".

http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Glossary#toc9
> ""almost certainly an underestimate", because a number of climate-health relationships are not measurable due to lack of adequate data".

How can the very lack of evidence and data logically support a claim that any estimate is either too low or too high with any "certainty"?
I'm wondering what his take on the French system is.
Basically, there is a limit on how much candidates can spend, and the State refunds the candidate (on certified expense report) if a certain score is reached during the vote. Getting money from a corporation is an offense, spending too much is an offense, cooking the books is an offense, getting undeclared money is an offense.
I didn't say malthusians are trollish, I admitted I was being trollish. I am just curious about why they're not trying to spin it in their usual fashion.
Doesn't "Post Mortem" imply analysis after failure? I'd say he was successful. :-)
Or you can also DIY with a lighter : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7foDiXX-CcE
>> The extra request to re-download images is unnecessary but easily removed to just process the data loaded with the initial page load.

Are you sure you are not inspecting with the cache disabled. If the appropriate cache headers are applied, this shouldn't issue another request.
Goodness me, I feel like I let myself down now by not releasing a flash game I made a while back.
There is social utility in digging a hole to bury it back. The utility lies in providing value as a side-effect to the community. The value is provided by strengthening earnings of the diggers and reducing the unemployment in the community.

What's missing is the project utility: nobody else needs the product.

It's a fair point that the test stand may be needed in future.
I'm not sure I'd like it, I would be compensating for the shift in mass. (What is on screen is not what is being simulated, or are the distorted pixels also used in the physics calculations ?) Other then that I can see it working very well in games with "jelly" art style.
You can compare between JPG and BPG by choosing "Mozjpeg" on one side and "BPG-x265" on the other. There are many pictures to choose from. Or did I misunderstand your question?
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I'm curious about the insignificant issues.
> It's the same in any field where experimentation doesn't require billion dollar research teams and each new idea is built on thousands of others.

So how little money do you believe has been spent creating MPEG, H.264, H.265, and all the other codecs? Do you think these were created by a handful of people in a garage over a weekend?

Meetings for these codecs were more than 300 people and those were just representatives of larger groups. This is research that does require billions of dollars and thousands of experts working for years. That's not going to happen as a charity or by weekend hackers. Linus isn't going to get frustrated at the size of video files and take a week off to come up with a better codec.

Software patents created these video codecs by funding the research and development, and patents aren't long-term barriers as many of the early formats have expired or are expiring now. You want to use MPEG-1? Go ahead. Or if you want to leverage hundreds of thousands of man-hours experts put into improving on it for the next generation then for a few more years you'll need to pay for it to cover those costs. That's exactly how patents are supposed to work.
And reading the first paragraph explains why left-wing/right-wing is not so clear-cut :

"We like free enterprise and tend to favour deregulation and privatisation. But we also like gay marriage, want to legalise drugs and disapprove of monarchy. "
We're @opencorporates on twitter, and I'll make sure we add a link to that from mapthebanks.com later today.
A lot of simulators and emulators in javascript emerging lately. Advances in javascript are making it more useful as a real programming language as it seems.
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The Economist had extensive coverage of the death of Margaret Thatcher in 2013, but I didn't see a single word of criticism of her in it.

IMHO, case closed and subscription cancelled.
I very much enjoyed this report, and especially the fact of a significant target of your attention being the ZX Spectrum - this is a true and honest approach to the programming art!

:)

Its definitely true that even learning older architectures can sharpen your focus and skill, general platform dexterity. You may not use a lot of the Z80 assembly skills elsewhere (but then again; you might), but for sure the bounds of your depth and understanding of how computers work today are definitely reset. Sure, stay 'focused on Ruby'/et al. - but if you have to pace yourself at your day-job, having a fun project/waste of time in the same department albeit with significantly fewer bits is also, as in such an attentive case, a professional perk. Old computers never die; their users do!
Yep, we know!
No failures recorded at all. This is pretty impressive for the drive manufacturers:

"Let’s review the Seagate and Western Digital drives so far:

Initial reliability (how many drives failed) – No failures.

Running reliability (3 months) – No failures

SMART Stats (3 months) – No error conditions recorded for the 5 stats that we utilize."
They present 'disapproving of the Monarchy' as if it's the exclusive preserve of the left, then link to an article where they actually imply they support the Monarchy insofar as it remains `popular`.
the U.S. and Australia are putting citizens in prison using secret courts

Guantanamo is still there; the US is putting non-citizens in secret prison without really a court at all.

The other use of the communications metadata is for targeting drone strikes in e.g. Yemen. No due process at all, just a kill list.
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Yea, I work quite a bit with government contracts, and to be honest it's a lot of fun and it offers some very interesting projects and R&D opportunities. But I work for mid sized consulting group that has at least two layers of insulation between me and the customer. My boss is an absolute hero for dealing with the stuff he deals with to make sure I just get to code. There is no way in hell I'd try to get involved in that world if I had to deal directly with the whole procurement process myself.

Also I try to only take smaller projects (up to $100000 or so) since they tend to be handled by much more sane people all around.
I thought there exist schemes like compulsory licencing, wherein patent owners must offer their patents for licencing for a reasonable fee (of course, what is reasonable is highly debatable).
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc...

I almost put this in myself, but I assumed that people would fill in the blank themselves and realize that they are comparing the output of one person to that of AN ENTIRE FORTUNE 500 COMPANY. Judging by the downvotes I guess I should have spelt it out. Mea Culpa.
Is linking to discussions of politics on HN generally off-topic?

Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i dont think its quite that -- you can tons of great ui/fonts/layouts/everything else for free on sites like deviant art/dribbble or freebbbble/themeforest etc, and also weve gotten bootstrap fontawesome etc. were definitely in a better place than 10 yrs ago; theres also more than a few people who give away ui design art by request on reddit devart and twitch.tv.
True, but this project is mapping that public opaque surface and providing a foundation for examining other datasets.

Imagine if in the future there is leaked dataset. That can then be analyzed using the subsidiary and location information assembled here. Or to note what the public financial statements were and to notice anomalies compared to the leaked dataset.

Its really about keeping track of who all the players in the game are and tracing connections between them.
First things first, I never suggested that you personally should use any particular fabrication method for any particular purpose. In the chain of ancestor comments to my post, none of them have anything to do with you specifically.

With that said, I don’t think you looked at the resource I linked, which has some great advice for using a CNC mill to make high-precision parts via resin casting. Nothing in its advised method involves milling metal. The design involved might be slightly more difficult than designing parts for 3d-printing, but it’s not inordinately more difficult.

I personally find home-3d-printed parts to be very slow to print, expensive to print, ugly, brittle, and entirely ineffective for many things I’d want to do with them (art projects, mechanisms, housings for electronics projects, small pieces of furniture, etc. etc.). Everyone I know who has tried to do 3D printing at home spent much more time fixing and babysitting their machine than actually making stuff (and most were ultimately unsatisfied with the quality of their prints). The process is by no means “simple”.

- For a one-off part, it’s often possible to directly CNC mill something out of plastic, wood, or some other material that is vastly superior in quality and can be made just as fast or faster than a 3d-printed part.

- For trickier shapes or stuff you’re making multiple copies of, the resin casting process in the link above should often be pretty effective. Compare https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4049/4501639683_37351127de_o.... to http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3487/3703543046_b9588e64b6.jp... or for a detailed point-by-point comparison see http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/ch1/

- Sometimes a few flat pieces of wood, sheet metal, or acrylic cut on a laser cutter or waterjet, or using manually operated tools is a better option than CNC milling something.

- For certain other parts, I’ve seen reasonable results ordering from Shapeways or some similar place.

There might well be particular cases where home 3d printing is the best answer, but nothing that I’ve personally run into.

In any event, do whatever works for you!
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(a) my analogy with the New Math was not meant to equate the two, only their conceptual cart before procedural horse qualities (which would also be my pedagogical concern);
(b) don't get me wrong: I agree with the "deeper understanding" goal of CCSS, and it was how I taught. The concerns I expressed were with the whole program's implementation, (un)testing, and effectiveness with less than exceptional students -- more of a systems thing than pedagogy. In fact, CCSS would have been great as a professional development "surge", if you will. All this testing, book-rewriting, and saber-rattling over accountability -- well, the proponents get an "F" for change implementation.
Larry Lessig's approach is fundamentally misguided:
1. It increases complexity and discourages participation in the election system - campaign finance regulations are anti-free speech.

2. It treats the symptom, not the problem. The symptom is that people will spend a lot to get people important to them into office. The problem is that the government controls so much money and so many things, that it is in your best interest to try influence it so that 1. the money comes to you and 2. the laws and regulations favor you.

3. The centralization of power at the Federal level exacerbates this problem, since there is one main body that you are trying to influence instead of lots of smaller ones.
Thanks for answering. Admittedly, it's been a while since I used Java, but what keeps one from using the dependency manager (e.g. Maven) but still committing the jars? Isn't that way simpler than running your own proxy, with effectively the same result?

Maybe my lack of recent Java work is is where I misunderstood. On .NET, all packages, including debug info and docs, go in a folder called "packages" made by NuGet (the .NET package manager). If you simply choose to not .gitignore that folder, you'll always be able to build even without an internet connection. Keeping the packages up to date goes exactly like it would go if you would ignore the "packages" folder.

I'd do it like this with Node.JS too, except that Node's very deep node_modules directory tree hits Windows's (ridiculously screwed up) MAX_PATH length and therefore Git chokes on it once you have more than 0 Windows devs on the team. Which is a bit sad given how deliciously cross-platform Node is.
Startup critique and hope we didn't build something no one needs?
They shy away from criticising the recently deceased. You should read some of their obituaries of dictators.

They are in general in favour of Thatcher. Why would you get a subscription in the first place, if that makes you cancel it? They don't keep their biases secret.
Ignore the haters - I read your comment and upvoted it. It is everyday sexism and role-confirming behavior, and it is off-putting to women and making them feel unwelcome. But I think people are not aware of it and mean no harm, which is why it's good you pointed it out.

I do think some people can only relate to the argument when you propose to replace Lena with a seductively pretty half-naked (gay?) man, though.
That's classic European liberalism.
Not quad exactly but still worth following is this man lifting multicopter from Germany:

http://www.e-volo.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzP0Zqxam7E#t=76
Has the legalisation of drugs ever been a strict left-/right- issue? Those on the far right tend to be libertarian and, thus, pretty anti- all laws, especially those considered restrictions of an individual's 'freedom'.
In Sweden, one group everybody hates are the classic liberals, that is: economic right, social left. This is something I find quite confusing, the only group that rightful should feel that way are the economic left, social right. So basically NSDAP (Godwins law and all).

I suppose it has to to with the self-righteous outlook the group tend to has.
"there is no "CC testing standards and format"."

I see two. One is called PARC, one is called Smarter Balanced. And they want to use them to close schools and fire teachers, so look for everyone to teach to whatever sample tests they can get their hands on.
Drop the "European". Just "classical liberalism". It's cleaner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
"They don't keep their biases secret." ... er, except when they publish puff pieces trying to claim they're neither on the left nor the right!
Be that as it may, Gates has the most leverage to solve the problems he does. Climate change is 80% a political problem. Convince the G-7 to pass carbon taxes or cap-and-trade and you've solved climate change. Anything less and you've probably failed. Contrary to rumor, money is not an effective means of effecting political change, outside of maybe a little bit of graft and corruption on the side.
"It has thrown its weight behind politicians on the right, like Margaret Thatcher, and on the left, like Barack Obama. It is often drawn to centrist politicians and parties who appear to combine the best of both sides, such as Tony Blair, whose combination of social and economic liberalism persuaded it to endorse him at the 2001 and the 2005 elections (though it criticised his government’s infringements of civil liberties)."

Interesting examples, which if anything tend to reinforce the idea that left and right are more difficult to go 'beyond', even for a venerable magazine, than they'd like to think.

So you vote for Margaret Thatcher - you get the big bang in the city, privatisations, the breaking of the power of the unions. You also get section 28[1], rabble-rousing about migrants, aggressive policing and strikingly illiberal drugs policies.

Blair and Obama (just about) managed to gain some ground for gay rights, and I suppose this state-by-state legalisation of marijuana is happening on Obama's watch, but one could hardly call them libertarians when it comes to the secret state.

What The Economist is telling us, for practical purposes, is that deregulation and so on is more important to its editorial line than personal liberties of various kinds.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28
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False. The safe harbor agreement between the US and the EU also gives EU citizens rights:

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-27_en.htm

So, ironically, it may be safer to store your data with a US company than an Australian company. Also, the EU believes (see linked page) that the NSA dragnet may be a violation of the safe harbor agreement.
Being more serious NZ has the right to join as an Australian state when they want. It is really an historical accident that they never did.
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Its getting cold and some days ago, I wanted to get warm fast. So instead of turning on the heater, I did some push ups. After I did 12, I felt quite ok with the room temperature. This lead me to an experiment for this winter:

No heater. Only excercises!

So I have been doing a lot of push ups, dumbbell curls, pull ups and all kind of shit for a week now. The temperature is a constant reminder and it kicks my butt to get up from the computer and train a bit. There is a good bit of motivation, because I get instant gratification: Feeling warm again!
I'm a happy .NET developer, but sometimes I often feel that being so involved in .NET alienates me from a lot of useful tooling built for Linux. If I need a tool there's usually something out there for me, but I'm a mid-to-senior level ASP.NET developer that hasn't used Linux in anger since university, so I would probably struggle if I decided to move over to another language.

I doubt all .NET developers feel this way, but I'm willing to bet that a lot of existing .NET developers can't wait to fire up Linux and develop in a framework they love with full support.
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IANAL, and this might be a simple case of letter vs. spirit, but my understanding was that shipping the decoder's source is allowed, so with a JS implementation you're theoretically safe. This was one of the arguments around Broadway, the JS H.264 decoder.
I get this feeling too, and I wonder if it is from a large vocal group of people who have never ever developed anything in C or C++, yet appear to know all about how "dangerous" it is and enjoy mocking the languages, whilst pointing to niche languages with much smaller development tool ecosystems and support libraries.

Is it just me?
The numbers in the polio graph doesn't match the positions! Comparison: http://i.imgur.com/3kGXyRA.png

Not a massive problem in this case but worrying.
Population growth isn't exponential. The rate of population growth has been steadily declining since the 1960's, and I believe the world population is expected to level out around 9 billion people in a few decades.
Or, create a system where the airline benefits from you gaming the system.

For example, imagine you 'game' the system in such a way that you will definitely be in an otherwise-empty seat, and you would only buy a ticket if you successfully got your intended discount. Then, airlines wouldn't be incentivized to 'adjust' and you could keep getting discounts.

We are playing with a few prototypes to do exactly this at http://www.projectcaspini.com. Sign up for the mailing list if you are interested.
It's not immediately clear what your answer to number 2 is, except less power for the government. Is it to let these people who spend this money govern directly instead?
You forgot to explicitly specify the allocator in the vector...... - it'll default to std::allocator and put items on the heap but you could potentially use your own and get it to put stuff on disk instead!

I don't find your example that convoluted to read to be honest.
Which seems rather accurate. Classical liberalism is liberal on both social and economic issues. The left is liberal on social issues and the right generally on the economic ones.
>cracking a SHA256 hash function given to them dependent on the rate at which mining is currently being done. The only known method to accomplish this is to randomly test different prime number pairs in brute force fashion.

Bruteforcing a sha prefix has nothing to do with prime numbers. In the case of bitcoin mining, an arbitrary nonce is included in a block. Different values of this nonce are tested in order to get a resulting hash with the required number of leading zeros.
It doesn't seem to imply that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_documentation
I got that part, I just didn't get the "informational control problems" comment.
That's peer review in a nutshell for you :)
I see. Thanks for taking the time to write this out - and the answer to your question is yes: there are many places for people to look and review your code (not limited to http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ and IRC).

From all your answer(s), I get the feeling that UI/UX designers tend not to spend time for free because of one of three reasons:

1. a quick design help cannot be done and the alternative is too much effort to be justified

2. if you have an MVP before you are taking design help - its already too late

3. You really dont want design help - you want platitudes

Let's say, for argument's sake, that I dont fall in any of these categories - built a MVP, took it to market, started generating revenue already. But I think I understand design (but am unskilled at it) and I can take a complete trashing of my current work. However, for certain startup-survival reasons, I need to make something incrementally better (both UI and UX). It's not the promised land, but just one teeny step towards it.

How can I frame my request for help to not piss you off, not waste too much of your time and still not kill my startup ?
APL is fundamentally cool and I'd like to think it will make a comeback. But it seems that most modern APL-derived languages focus on trying to squeeze everything into ASCII as concisely as possible.

The following is an example of quite readable ELI with only a handful of symbols:

c,[1.5]32+1.8*c<-$_10+5**!10

It's not bad, but when all you have is ASCII, dense notation will inevitably look like line noise.

APL's graphical notation was one of its original inventions, but custom keyboards weren't a viable solution in the PC era... But today the situation is different again. High-DPI displays and touch screens are becoming standard.

Would it be possible to reinvent APL notation to take advantage of high-res graphics and natural input methods? I'd love to see a tablet-only reinvention of APL that doesn't have a keyboard at all, just a number pad and painted gestures.
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