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I agree that dystopian fiction is far from a new thing, and our current collective angst does not seem any greater than it did in the past.

The two elements I find most interesting about the most successful dystopias are that...

1. They are almost inevitably set in the near future, meaning that the world can be a slightly more extreme version of the world we currently inhabit.

2. They feel cathartic to experience, partly because unlike our current world where we struggle to understand what holds us back, in the near future world being portrayed the extreme elements of the world are the clear danger and allow us to be confident in knowing what will help improve things. This clarity of purpose can be cathartic.

Whether we want to admit it or not, one of the values of future-based fiction is to line up our expectations of what we expect in this time period. We're unwittingly programming ourselves to prepare for the worst. I wish we took the time to explore more diverse ideas of how our future might look like.
"Two lawsuits, one filed against Uber and another against Lyft, contend the services are negligent by violating California’s law against driver use of hand-held electronic devices."

Using a handheld mobile device while driving is also a violation of NY State law unless the device "is affixed to a vehicle surface".[1]

[1] http://www.safeny.ny.gov/phon-ndx.htm
All This Fuss About a Seth Rogen Movie
I don't find snippets nearly as convenient as the built-in auctex keybindings. C-c C-e itemize <enter> item1 <alt-enter> item2 gives me (properly indented for surrounding context):

\begin{itemize}
\item item1
\item item2
\end{itemize}

I could probably convince vim to do that, but auctex does it out of the box with no additional configuration required.

Likewise, I could probably set makeprg to latexmk or rubber or some other DWIM script, but that ought to Just Work as easily as auctex's C-c C-c, and shouldn't require a pile of configuration.

I haven't even found a way to bind <A-Enter> in vim's insert mode, because vim can't distinguish that from <Esc><Enter>.
when Slashdot was sold, E2 remained independent.

Some of the profits of the Slashdot sale went to Blockstackers as an investment to develop E2. Unfortunately, the dot-com crash (and, to be fair, not enough effort spent marketing the software) meant there was little market for the underlying CMS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAOnx97T0WA
That doesn't seem pretty likely at all. It's much more likely that the machine in question is a rack-mount server that never goes to sleep.

That said, very good point wrt grsec.
It's my understanding that - because of obscure constants in the git codebase - it's a bad idea to use dates before Sat, 03 Mar 1973 09:46:40 GMT because the usable git epoch is 1970 + 100000000s. More details available here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625480

FWIW: I routinely start my git repos with an empty commit to allow history rewrites and use Jan 1st, 1974 as my own epoch.
Thanks for ag. It was a game changer for me.
http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/about/funding/Pages/in...

Table down at the bottom. As of 2011, 60% of the spend money was spent at the study sites themselves. From the text of that report, it sounds like recruitment was very expensive, which isn't surprising.
The appropriate systems language for use on UNIX and Linux is C. The entire interface is based on C conventions. Sometimes, when all you have is nails, you really ought to reach for a hammer.
I agree about C and C++, but is there a language that exists today that you think would be better for writing security-conscious code? Should a language be invented that is specifically for writing security-conscious code?
Am I misunderstanding things? From reading the linked article, there was $1.3 billion spent studying whether we should actually undertake the study. Not the actual study itself (which presumably would cost significantly more?)
Americans aren't getting married, and researchers think porn may be to blame
http://www.google.com/patents/US726918 ? Hmmm maybe not, the patent expired last century
I know. I might as well blame myself for breathing out air that is used by a tree that is used to build a house that houses the person who pushes the red button of destruction. It's like tunnel vision, following one path of articulation that follows the model of a logically sound abstraction. Things may be connected, but, causality with regards to the relations between mind to mind is very difficult to understand.

But you are right. I look to provide utility in areas where the net effect seems most likely to be positive. When I can't evaluate that entirely I just assume neutral or no effect, it sort of just dissipates over time, like a wave collapse function, assuming entropy, or some manner of mental equality among peers.
I think you should not attach yourself emotionally to whether a certain perspective is "educational" or "instructive" to anyone. Rather, look at both perspectives in a [detached] clinical manner as just things that are.
XMPP stopped working with Jabber for me, roughly a year ago.
That's just a fluff the document is ORCON, so although the company that probably charged way too much money to generate this classified it as secret it seems that this is an SBU(Sensitive But Unclassified )/FOUO document at best.
ORCON gives the generator of the content full control over the dissemination and classification of the material regardless of the actual content.

As for your question probably both, you might be asked for multiple reasons to provide a proof that you have a hotel and that you have a return flight showing that you are indeed entering the country for a "limited" period of time.
This is actually quite a common practice in many European countries especially when young people traveling alone or in small groups from out side the EU are involved.
If you show them a hotel reservation and they see some odd discount because you booked a hotel trough the US diplomatic mission they might look deeper :)
It certainly did for the First Nations people called the Beothuk they are extinct in part due to European spread diseases. Vikings landed in L'anse aux Meadows Newfoundland over 1,000 years ago.
That sounds like you're implying that safety has no value, the only "overhead" worth considering is CPU cycles (what about the programmer's time/effort/sanity?), and that abstractions have negative value.

I don't think that's how you're supposed to software.
5.0 was pretty messed up but they've gotten the display issues sorted out since then.
I cut my teeth on Solaris, then Linux. I'm a nix guy at heart.

I really want* to use Linux, but I'm on OS X for a single reason: my living depends on my operating system reliably working well, after every update. OS X gives me this, and Linux, sadly, doesn't.
Does Rust have anything like Python generators or coroutines? I don't even know if its possible on a strongly typed laguage, but it's a killer feature form me.
Re: his edit, thank you for your compliment, but I just think there are more constructive ways to approach most conversations than accusing people of talking out of their ass, or calling them losers. :( If you truly were banned for arguing with someone important, that's unfortunate, but I saw two good reasons to ban you in your most recent three comments. Maybe I just caught you on a bad day.
Wouldn't surprise me if there's some standard procedure for police raids that doesn't distinguish between the two. Keep in mind it's generally not the experts who go out to the various locations.
I recommend Diana Kleiner's awesome course on Roman Architecture (https://www.coursera.org/course/romanarchitecture and http://oyc.yale.edu/history-art/hsar-252). It was eye-opening to me just how much they relied on concrete.

Roman concrete was called opus caementicium. The Romans had two main sources of the right kind of volcanic ash in Italy, the main one in Pozzuoli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozzolan)
but apparently they mined other places, such as in Eifel where it is known as Trass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trass). For example concrete was used in the very extensive aquaducts serving the Roman city that is now Cologne.

It is very similar to lime plaster (lime and sand) and so it is thought to have been discovered by simple substitution of local pozzolan for sand.

The advantage of Portland cement is that it cures very quickly. Roman cement takes something like a month to cure.

Another apparent advantage of Roman concrete is that they were able to throw up large structures with concrete vaults or domes with a large workforce in relatively short time frames, whereas the Medieval cathedrals (which were based initially on the same Roman basilica) took a smaller, highly skilled workforce long periods to cleverly piece together without concrete.

Pozzolan is used today, generally as an additive. Note that fly ash is similar (http://www.ctlgroup.com/lab-services/lab-tests/astm-c-618-co...). Again because of the long cure time the original Roman concrete is not in favor, but you may achieve the performance you need through the use of an admixture.

I should add that some of these recent articles may be linked to the general business interest in the increased use of pozzolanic admixtures, since there is a ready source in fly ash and also some parts of the world have vast amounts of pozzolanic ash ready to be exploited.
Real thinking for real problems
A few weeks ago I made a script to look for transaction chains like this in the blockchain, and it turned out they have been going on every day since mid-2010. Currently they account for 20-25% of tx volume but the percentage was much higher in the past (up to 50-60% for some days in 2012). For most of 2014 it was about 15%.

I'm not sure what the sender of these transactions is doing (trying to inflate tx volume? some badly written software?strange mixing algorithm?) though even if you discard those transactions from analysis it doesn't change the overall picture much.
This is why Europa exploration is important. If we discover life there, there is a good chance life is common in the universe. Just add water and you get life.
No, not necessarily, and yet the article was specifically about an Apple exploit. Just seemed off to omit that from the post title.
In fairness to the government, private industry has their own share of blame in the JSF.
Except it's not targeting Python 3

Pypy is pushing towards full 3.4 slowly, which is good because I want some of that Juicy STM support in my web apps.
"Rust" was an interesting but slightly confusing language a year-ish ago, when it had chans and tasks and libuv and M:N threading and three kinds of pointers with their own funny symbol. That language, as far as I can tell, basically stopped existing (for lots of small good reasons that added up). Rust 1.0 will be an interesting head-on competitor to C/C++ without the awfulness of C/C++, which seems like a very different thing, and a thing I personally have more of a use case for.

I think, to some extent, this is why Rust keeps being compared with Go. Last year's "Rust" was definitely something that merited comparisons with goroutines and the like. Rust 1.0 is going out of its way to make sure that it can be used for writing dynamic libraries that can be called from C or any other language with an FFI, and is possibly easier than C++ for that use case. This is completely not doable in Go (I suspect that this goal is fundamentally incompatible with having goroutines or a similar built-in concurrency story). Go seems to be a good language, but it's addressing a very different use case from what Rust is (now) addressing.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory

Wikipedia and Google are quick ways to answer most kinds of "what is X?" questions.
Rust. Some of it's design goals (as stated on their webpage) are among the exact things you mentioned: zero-cost abstractions, minimal runtime, guaranteed memory safety, threads without data races.
Depends if I trust the app or not, and what that app is for (if using twitter/facebook makes the app experience better).

I've no problem signing up using social media accounts.
Fantastic! This is actually the one thing that's been keeping me from going with my own domain for personal email. For whatever reason, no one else is doing this for a reasonable price for personal accounts.
Personally I would stay a bit longer, especially if you are considering trying to start your own. The amount of knowledge and experience you will pick up, even in the next 6 months is worth it. You say it is solid, try to see it through.
They spent money on a lot of things:

- Trying to figure out how the heck to enroll people (vanguard study)

- Decide which variables are worth tracking, and actually trackable. Every variable they track will cost a tonne, if they don't track a variable and decide they need later it's too late.

- Figure out how long they will successfully be able to track people, will they lose 5% a year? 10%? Is there a huge cliff when kids turn 12 where they all move? WHO KNOWS?

- Actually enrolling people and tracking the variables that seemed worthwhile

- Revising surveys based on stuff they're learning.

It was to be a huge study, to be honest if completed I think it would have been the landmark medical advancements of our time.

(I briefly worked on one small piece of software supporting one small aspect of the study)
if they were spending their own hard-earned cash they most likely would have been more careful like that
How to View Converted Glasses-Free 3D on Various Smartphones
Rust, for the former, Cryptol for the latter (just one caveat: written by the NSA/influenced people).
It's a little bit convenient to blame the platforms when your things don't work on them.

The reality is that the tools (cython, python) were built without mobile platforms in mind, and they (currently) are ill suited to supporting them. That's not the platforms fault; it just an artifact of the development history of the projects.

Cython is not a general purpose compile to C solution. It solves a different problem to Rusthon.

/shrug
what will really blow your mind is that thirty years from now some wise-ass will do the same with hackernews, and everyone will laugh at how shitty it looked, and that this is the group that built $10 billion companies from nothing but scrappiness, making something people want, and shipping.

Let's admit it. HN is not a highly polished web UI - there's not even thread collapsing. It works because it doesn't matter; we're communicating and sharing wisdom.

And for you wise-asses from the future: THIS IS NOT THE BEST WE CAN DO IN TERMS OF UI. Just like there were cutting-edge films in 1984 with lots of visual effects, we could have a much richer interface today if we wanted. We're not primitive - we don't care! In fact, future wise-ass, what have YOU built today? Why not pick a problem and solve it rather than snickering at the ancient past :)
Cool, AIM all over again. We learn nothing.
Yeah. Especially considering that CPU overhead has very little value for time syncing program.
rbenv is much better and doesn't overwrite "cd" (yes the builtin command). I thought everyone moved away from rvm years ago?
any working theories on the source of this or reason for it?
The fact that other things are protected by patent is irrelevant, because it appears this creator has no patents for this project.

It's hard for me to imagine myself in the shoes of someone with views on intellectual property which are fundamentally very different from my own. I believe that views on IP like his harm the software community immensely. The fact that his specific take on IP (and his interpretation of relevant US law, which may or may not be accurate) is one which he believes benefits himself, combined with the "put yourself in his shoes" argument, is not sufficient for me to change my views.
Hoping to stick it out at the full-time job for a whole year. Something I haven't done since 2011, while building a freelance network to keep side income flowing.
The other question that jumped out like that one was in a trolling context, though probably was real in that timeframe was "And there was this typewritten note found on a cataloguing card:

Telephone call mid-afternoon New Year's Day, 1967: Somewhat uncertain female voice: "I have two questions. The first is sort of an etiquette one. I went to a New Year's Eve party and unexpectedly stayed over. I don't really know the hosts. Ought I to send a thank-you note? Second. When you meet a fellow and you know he's worth twenty-seven million dollars — because that's what they told me, twenty-seven million, and you know his nationality, how do you find out his name?"

I do not feel even Google today could handle that.
Did you even read the post? This has nothing to do with "cyberwar", "terrorism" and other scaremongering words you used.

His servers were taken over by law enforcement. You're free to call them cyberterrorists if you wish. These days it's hard to tell the difference in tactics between malicious rivals and your own government anyway.
You're right to point out the cultural divide w.r.t. tooling. It just seems to me that when two different people come up with pretty identical names for something and focus an essay/paper on that name, then there's likely an opportunity for some sort of cross-pollination of ideas.
Roughly 80% of americans live in urban areas. That still leaves 60 million people.

According to http://www.bicycling.com/news/advocacy/ride-smart almost half of car-bike accidents are due to cars turning left, and NOT seeing the cyclist.
And again you seem to be taking the implicit stance that you're in a position to assess these documents, but people arguing against your position aren't.

I just want a little consistency. Are we able to discuss these, or not? If not, why are you doing it?
I had no idea the hotplug devices existed. Thank you for posting the link.

Has anyone used these in an IT support environment?
I've found that cars drive closer to me when I wear a high visibility jacket. Seems that because they can see me better they feel comfortable driving closer.
I agree. I can't believe who little suppliers their are for this service. I use FastMail and love it, but I would love to see a lot more competition in this space.
If I have a phone in my pocket with the capability to call out directions verbally, I sure don't feel compelled to buy some overpriced bike grips that'll have to be charged, and might get stolen.
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I absolutely think it's instructive to view the LCM as a specific case of meets in a semilattice, and in turn to view these as specialization of a general theory of categorical products. (Why wouldn't it be instructive? If you like, the "unusual algebraic structure" on the natural numbers which might be worth considering is that of a category with products). And I also think that recognition of such analogies and general patterns ubiquitous across mathematics is a large part of the spirit of category theory.
You could say this about any model of the universe that's computable. You don't seem to be making a claim that could possibly be useful, or I'm misunderstanding you.
I'd love to see some historical basis for this supposition that there is a natural counter balance to "lawless" power. First of all, your premise presupposes that there is some standard of "lawfulness" against which the existing power structure can be judged. If the powers that be are faithful to their own interests and rules then by definition they are lawful, since they create and administer the law. Your appeal to a higher morality (I assume, since I don't know what other standard there could be) makes a good muse for an artisan, but I see no evidence in the long, bloody history of our species that it acts as some sort of automatic restorer of natural order. Quite the contrary, in fact. It is the current state of affairs in some Western countries, in which the citizens have leave to consider whether their governments are lawful and ways to act if they are not, that is the exception.
At first I agreed with you, and thought the author only wrote 'appears to be' to hedge their sentence, because they didn't think it through 100% to be sure of their reasoning.

But consider: does the sentence read exactly the same if we rewrite it as,

>Taking these three charts together, the relatively static USD transaction value per day metric in 2014 appears to be the result of the increase in transaction volume being offset by a falling market price of bitcoin.

Not at all!! So the author really is saying something that implies a causative effect: the price is falling, so people how need a certain transaction amount (in real terms) will transfer more.

This makes perfect sense when you consider the authors follow-on sentences.

So absolutely, the author is making a causal relationship. The author even justifies it (pretty well in my opinion.)
Because OS X "just works" and I don't need the level of control Linux gives me for a personal laptop(i use linux on my servers).

Also the UI is far better than any Linux distro can offer.
I like your idea. When can we expect a prototype? Also, will you use WebKit directly (a la Python-WebKit) or branch Chromium (a la Dartium)?
The thieving nature of the divorce and child support regulations in the USA are clearly unrelated.
How would the enforcement of that work? What if I have cloned the version of the repo that was BSD, and I'm working on a yet-unrelated derivative work when the author changes the license? The answer that seems reasonable to me (not that I expect any correlation between that and the actual law) is that any version of the code that was released with a given license is perpetually under that license.
Easy solution then, buy a mount, stick it to the dash like a GPS.
On the other hand, the SEED autism study is still going strong, currently in phase two after the first five year phase ended in 2012.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/seed.html

I only know about it, though, because my wife & I participated in it with our daughter (who is not on the autism spectrum): https://ncseed.org/public/seed2.php

It seems the organizers are contacting the parents of every child born in the 10 eligible counties of North Carolina, so they must be seeking quite a large number of participants (and this is only one of the five states).
A quick look around my living room and the bar end of every flat bar bike I have is beat up and chewed up. Not a stellar place to put important pieces. Much like most "bike innovations" these don't seem to cater to those who use their bikes on a regular basis.
I would be very surprised if something like C# and ES7's `async/await` syntax doesn't land in Rust after 1.0.
One person's vice is another person's virtue; I'm not sure how that would create opportunities for collaboration :)

The irony of the situation is that languages like Rust and Haskell provide a lot of static type feedback that theoretically would make their IDEs very powerful. However, in order for that to really happen, IDE concerns have to be considered very early in the language design process. As a result, we see the tooling crowns going to languages like Dart, whose "type system" is basically designed to make tooling possible (and secondly, for the early detection of errors).
It has 'iterators' which are like Python generator objects (and are used in for-loops, just like Python's), but it doesn't have generator comprehensions or generator functions.

It's definitely possible in a strongly, statically-typed language (I believe C#'s async/await is an example), but Rust doesn't do it... yet: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/388