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You're right, it didn't start with the Internet. But the arrival of the Internet, and the simultaneous dismantling of publishers' editorial checks, has amplified the trend.

It's also led to this weird reverberation effect, as false news is sometimes rediscovered and re-reported on secondary blogs, news sites, and forums. One example is this bogus quote, supposedly uttered by Mariah Carey:

"When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world. I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

In the summer of 1996, the quote appeared on a satirical news site and was re-reported as fact by MSM sources, including The Independent and the San Francisco Chronicle. Fifteen years later, the hoax was still being perpetuated by celebrity blogs and online forums.
I think the main question is: Will there be an alternative?
You don't have to lie on a bed in the hospital. You can still use a birthing stool or something (assuming the hospital has them, but they're cheap, so there's no reason not to).
... and that hasn't been a problem for programmable programming languages like Common Lisp. In fact, it's a strength.

A great example is GLSL. It's a great system but the context switching required by the programmer and the plumbing necessary to send the compiled program to the graphics card... tedious. cbaggers is working on a CL package that provides a DSL that compiles from Lisp to GLSL code and helpers which compile and upload the code for you. You can essentially live-edit GLSL code without switching gears.

This is useful.
all of this, every time:
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Thanks yangyang. Yes, that's an open issue that we're working on fixing.
"And secondly, that we weren’t motivated by making a lot of money "

You've learnt a lot, that's worth fair bit. Going forward, you will need to make money. How are you making any money from this?
>"There's no viable way to produce more of it."

If you throw enough money at a problem, it starts becoming viable/feasible.

Have a look at the Diamond production industry for comparison:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond

Note, don't let the "synthetic" part fool you into thinking they're not real diamonds. They are real in every imaginable way except they're not "a girl's best friend".
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maybe I am not understanding what you mean, but I thought that metaprogramming still involved knowing both/multiple languages.

I get the sense from the article that he was trying to eliminate the overhead of glue-code and meta-languages while also preventing context switching between languages.
For those who have not been following this discussion, I suggest reading this comment by Ian:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/smT_0BhHfBs/MWwG...
> 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.

FYI, the only one of those that is not a federal offense in the U.S. is spending too much.
I was one of the early users of it in 2009:
http://hmap.unh.edu/atlas/

and it seemed they stopped developing it very shortly after it came out, as there were 'known bugs' with ugly hackarounds that never went away. The plug-in stopped installing for me on OSX about 2 years ago. A regretful technology choice.
Technically, as I say above, it's viewed as "less lethal".

It can definitely kill, and I've read people have been charged for using it in what seemed to be legit self-defense. It's definitely force and not something to be used casually.
AS cool as it sounds, they probably feel they should continue executing on this very focused strategy first. They can branch out later.
Those are great ideas. You can't accomplish any of those things until campaign finance reform is enacted.
> Most of the patents in the pools also aren't incremental, they're independent patents that cover different parts of the same standard.

Is there any analysis that supports to this statement? Having seen many hundreds of patents, many of them in the video encoding area, I wouldn't hesitate to describe most of them as incremental improvements.

Also, the likes of Apple, Microsoft and Google end up paying the MPEG-LA much, much more than what they get paid for their share of the patents in the pool. They certainly do not cancel out, and if they had their way, they'd rather not pay anything at all. Unfortunately, with those codecs enjoying so much popular hardware support, they have little choice but to partake in the pool and pay their dues.

Anyone willing to contribute innovation to the market has a simple option: invent some technology that is valuable enough to be included in the standard, offer their own patents to the pool and get a share of the licensing pie. That way, inventors can do what they are good at (inventing) and vendors can do what they are good at (implementing and commercializing). Classic division of labour.
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WorldWind is not going to be an option in the browser much longer either. Applet support requires the Java plugin, and that's also going to be affected by the push to deprecate the NPAPI (plus a lot of places have it disabled already due to the ongoing security concerns).

Cesium's excellent. Still missing some features compared to GE and WorldWind, but the core dev team has been cranking away on it consistently, they're very responsive to discussion, and I love being able to dive right down into the source to see how things work inside (as opposed to the giant binary black box that is GE).
i have similarly wondered how important drive cache size might be for these types of use cases. multivariate regressions including brand, cache size, rpm etc. as predictors of various performance metrics would be super interesting in a place like blackblaze.
I spent forever trying to get KeePass/KeePassX to work on Linux, Windows, and Android. I eventually gave up due to version incompatibility and continue to use Lastpass as it works well on all three.
The first time I read rayiner's post, I took him to mean a firearm that is illegal for anyone to purchase or own, i.e. an "illegal firearm". Reading it again, I realized his phrasing was ambiguous and he could have meant "illegal possession of a legal firearm due to immigration status", hence my edit.

So basically, it could be a legal firearm possessed illegally, or a banned firearm, based on his wording.
From that point of view, at least interface{} is type safe.
Tolkien disliked allegory though, did he not?
So here's the biggest disruption challenge of them all: make a city functional. Sadly, that's more a political than a technological problem.
It seems that many "journalists" these days can't be bothered to learn much about anything that they "report" on.

I miss the old days of "two sources or we don't print".
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Great thanks! So I think there are two things about your code which are different. You are getting the names and values of the spam function with show_me() ? My version gets the next level up which is the names of the variables passed in to spam. I believe I tried to use some of the same standard functions at first. But this had problems when a function is called over more than one line of source text, and some other limitations. You don't necessarily get back what you expect without properly going into the source and parsing. I'll take another look though since I might have just missed something obvious. My Python isn't /that/ strong.

Completely agree with your list comprehension suggestion. The list comprehensions are crazy by design to troll monoglot Python people who hold a false belief about readability of code just being identical to language syntax. If I handed you that code without the comments, and without sensible variable names. Which is frequently what I do get handed to me by people I work with. I've found a myth persists about Python being inherently readable (the opposite of Perl!), and many scientists who don't have a programming background just go with this idea especially as it gets them off the hook of learning to program well.

With parsing and grammars I am still more happy having a parse fail and tell me what the garbage data was and where. It's very rare any code would be able to recover from completely arbitrary and unknown problems with a file. With exceptions being thrown you might at least start processing the bit of the file you already have and just set a state that shows the whole thing didn't run. Asking a language to do more for you feels a bit much. Your point about validation overhead I'm not convinced by since you have to check the characters for a record start/end state anyway. Plus it just means garbage data gets even deeper into your program! At some point you have to check it's valid. Fail fast. Checking a small set of match states isn't going to kill performance if the grammar/regex engine is any good. One of the ways I'm getting around this in my Perl 6 libraries is just having a thread that deals with file IO, parsing and object creation. Then a users main program can just deal with the stream of sequence objects as they come in.
The way the stick men are drawn in contrast to today is really interesting.
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Been a TON of work. Would love feedback on the design, marketing, etc.

If anyone lives in TX, would love to have you attend :-)
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The comparison is unwarranted. Mercurial and Git were designed to solve the same problem (quite literally, even: both were conceived as an attempt to replace BitKeeper as the distributed version control system for the Linux kernel). Go and Rust were designed to solve very different problems. That people feel the need to constantly compare the two languages is because our industry is fad-driven, causing people to be ever on the lookout for The Next Big Thing lest they get left in the dust. This incessant veneration of novelty results in people who have only shallow understanding of a large number of technologies, leading to comparisons that are based only on superficial traits.
In the UK a midwife is a qualified registered specialist nurse.

It's a protected term - you can't call yourself a midwife withoutthe qualification and registration.

Most midwives are employed by the NHS.

Obviously they're not doctors - they can't prescribe medication or perform surgery.
I have a problem with sharing every thought that pops in your head. If you don't have something new to contribute to the discussion, why add to the noise?

As for "food for thought," have you really never thought about how reading and experience shape your beliefs? I thought this was pretty basic stuff. Maybe I'm wrong.
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>Is there anything in place to ensure accountably of news releases in news organizations?

News organisations are in the business of shaping public opinion and/or providing public entertainment. They're not in the business of encouraging informed debate - which is a minority interest at best, and bad for business at worst.

So - no. There is no accountability in journalism or in media ownership.
It's not about ISIS crucifying or not crucifying its members; it's about ISIS constantly deciding exactly what we're talking about.

Most of ISIS's PR strategy would rightly seem insane to most of us, but ISIS wants to amplify how extremist they are. They want to be perceived as a group willing to do anything for their cause. With every story they're saying, "We are creating a perfect Islamic state, and nothing in our way will stop us. You should both fear and respect us."

There's an interesting PR term called "agenda setting." You can't dictate whether or not people agree with you, but you can decide which angle they're looking at you from.

The beheading of US journalists was completely intentional. They wanted us to be afraid of how ruthless they are. Now we're getting stories of "Teenage boy from country X left his family to join ISIS." That's just them recruiting.

The sad part of all this isn't that ISIS has a PR machine, but that we're so awful at detecting it, and that we let them get away with it even when it's made up out of whole cloth.
My guess is ISIS has a public reputation they want to uphold which is an amplification of what they're actually doing. By planting the story they benefit from the extremist world view without having to actually commit the act that the story is about. Its also faster to make up a story and leak it than going out and actually finding corruption and do the act for real.
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I'm paying good money for NYT subscription, and I would easily pay a bit extra to have another party fact-check it. Say, $20 per year is a no-brainer.

You'd have to do it well, though - if you screw up, which you will on occasion , I expect a full report as to how it happened.
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Thanks for the link, Ian's comment is very interesting and goes into the direction I was stating in another post.
I don't understand why anybody would be blaming them. This is 100% on the author of the story and NY Mag. They published the story, it's their responsibility to fact-check it. I for one think it's hilarious that they got this story run at all, although I can understand the stress of being at the center of a hoax and all of the attention it brings.
As we struggle through this point in our history of what news is, we must remember that journalism ebbs and flows on its integrity. Look back to the 1880's where yellow journalism was rampant (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Puck11218...) and could be faulted for the Spanish-American war.

Journalist and the newspapers they work for must find a way to get you the reader to part with your money to fund their enterprises. The online sites do this through link baiting, local newspapers do this through circulars/coupons and piggybacking onto the latest outrage (classifieds died when craigslist was created), and the TV stations rely on murders, perceived and actual racism (George Zimmerman's audio recording being doctored to appear racist) and missing children to get viewers.

The amount of time that it takes to properly source, investigate, corroborate, and expose a story is nothing compared to the piggybacking approach. Example 1 is the University of Virgina fraternity rape story: A single reporter writes up a fantastic expose on a UVA fraternity hazing procedure that includes an alleged gang rape, friends pleading to rape victim not to go to police, and a university system appearing not to care. The correct approach would be to interview the victim, the alleged perpetrators, the university, and the friends to get an idea. Each of these individuals must be contacted, a source found, agree to be a source and then be on record, this all takes time; if you estimate a week per source (very generous) and there are 15 must contact sources (those involved with the alleged gang rape and those friends), that is 15 weeks worth of just putting together information. Then write up the story, anywhere from one to two weeks. Get the editor and the ombudsman to sign off on the sources and information, one week. You have almost 20 weeks invested into a single article, for Rolling Stones that is 5 magazines before getting a single article. And then, at any point the story could turn out to be suspicious to bogus.

Now, be any of the TV shows / newspapers and you simply pull a Puffington Host and extract parts of the story and refer to them in snippets and viola, you save yourself 20 weeks of time and money. That is why the Ryan Holiday stuff is not too surprising.
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Gates actually addressed this[0].

The upshot is that as countries get richer, fertility rates decrease. Allowing these poorer countries to lead better lives will paradoxically lower the population increase. If you look at the western world, negating immigration, many countries have a shrinking population.

The more pressing problem of the future, ironically, will be under population - at least if you consider the economic impact and our way of life. Our economy right now is built on so much growth and young labor. What happens without poor countries and when more people are retired than working?

[0]http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/#myth-three=&section...
News to me, but I haven't spent much time in the North Island so maybe I just haven't seen it. I'm not really a North Island/Maori expert.
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Unfortunately not the most direct apples-to-apples comparison. The WD Red drives are designed for use in NAS systems, whereas the Seagates used are desktop drives. Seagate does have a brand of NAS drives (called simply enough Seagate NAS), though not apparently at 6TB.
They might be working for free as part of some sort of partnership. In the aftermath of this, a good PR firm would have no shortage of ideas for monetizing these kids' infamy. In fact, it's quite possible the NY Observer paid a pretty penny for this exclusive interview.
All this goes away when we exchange messages with other providers (eg: Gmail).
You hit the nail on the head. Sort term (5/10 years) solutions get you reelected. Long term 25-50 years, get you kicked out after 1 term for a lack of progress.
Tried both, same thing. I'll try again later :).
i wonder if this will increase or decrease the use of 'parallel construction.'

in other words, will this reduce the unlawful use of surveillance tech, or merely prompt officers/agents to walk by places 'by chance' to observe things 'serendipitously' because they're still using inadmissible surveillance tech but also know they'll need to fabricate something plausible for the courts?
> (specifically loading images in the case I tried, where it used to back door to ImageMajik and this took 20 seconds to bring in a gif)

Not sure when you last tried, but in my tests on Windows this is much better now due to switching to a more direct API:
https://github.com/timholy/Images.jl/issues/24#issuecomment-...
http://fair.org

Who is going to pay for it?
Simple for me. Simple for you. Not simple for a lot of the people using Tor.

Simple is many times a relative term.
I'd be really interested to know if the New York Magazine is footing the bill for the PR firm, it already looks quite bad on them and it could make sense for them to do so just to save face.
Just the Senate? I'd gladly accept just proportional representation in the House, as long as the Senate is restricted from meddling in party politics, and just oversees the division of power between the federal level and the states, and the constitutionality of laws.
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Check out Q from Kx Systems. It uses an SQL-like dialect but is still powerful and expressive. Here are some simple example programs: http://code.kx.com/wiki/Sample_Queries
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Let's see...

"The birth of a Paradroid" - Paradroid development journal for the C64 by Andrew Braybrook:
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap3/para_birth01.html

"Mental Procreation" - Morpheus development journal for the C64 by Andrew Braybrook:
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap23/mental1.html

"It's behind you" - R-Type Arcade conversion for the ZX Spectrum, free e-book by Bob Pape:
http://bizzley.com/

Free sample pages of the development journals for Prince of Persia and Karateka by Jordan Mechner:
http://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/

Prince of Persia code analysis after it got open-sourced in 2012; by Fabien Sanglard:
http://fabiensanglard.net/prince_of_persia/

Analysis of Pacman; long after the fact:
http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html

Any other? I'm sure there must be many nowadays...
Google favors recent news sites over old general knowledge.
Paradoxically, reducing death rates in the young actually slows population growth. One of the biggest reasons why people in poor countries have so many babies is because so many die young.
Typically saying "illegal firearm" means it is illegal for anyone to own the firearm in question regardless of the person's status or how they got it. If a person is barred by law from possessing a firearm then it is possible for them to have a "legal firearm" in their possession; for example, if someone not barred by law owned the exact same firearm then there would be no issue.

But I read the post in the manner that I'm guessing was intended, so I personally don't see it as a big deal.
I've self-hosted my email for years, and for the past 5 or so have had a stable IP address. I've got SPF records, but am missing DKIM.

I've had no problems, but just recently I had two separate emails be ignored by GMail users. Some followup communication suggests to me the mails were never seen, but I am unable to find out if they ended up in the spam folder or not. (At least one other GMail user did receive a recent mail from me.)

That has shaken my confidence in my email setup, which has run without issue for many years now.

And I don't have any end-to-end tests, other than seeing people reply to my emails. I occasionally check my domain on various blacklist checkers.
The web is dominated by PHP!
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I'm just saying it's silly to call the government socialist based on the gov't % of jobs growing in an otherwise shrinking economy. The government could be cutting jobs (not that Detroit's is) and still growing as a % of a shrinking-faster economy.

Sorry if I stereotyped you.
> So, my question was, if they had a reasonable suspicion he was a drug dealer but not enough evidence to obtain a warrant, then why not let ICE handle the matter since he was an illegal immigrant anyway?

That effectively lowers the standard for searching homes of illegal immigrants from probable cause to reasonable suspicion. That's probably a harder political sell than trying to get enough evidence to find probable cause for violating of a gun control law.
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Actually there are enough governments that "attack themselves", it's called a multi-party system. For instance, in the Netherlands it happens quite often that the cabinet "falls" before the voting term is up. Make no mistake, the Dutch government are no saints either (sucking up to and practically being a US vassal state to name just one thing :) ).
Have you tried tweeting at Google asking for assistance with this? I am yet to try it myself but apparently you can bring companies' attention to your tech support problems now on Twitter.
Why link to an screenshot of the crucifixion story, and not the source itself? I was quite interested in taking a look at the original article.
Not having to refresh the page with each click?

It's disruptive, slower and more expensive to submit the form through HTML, the rest of the page (you can see a snippet in the video) needs to be built again, which means more database queries which are not needed. Furthermore, the rest of the form does not depend on the first answer. There's really no reason to completely rebuild the page again.
That's the benefit.

I do agree with you that Javascript is fundamentally just as flawed a language as PHP and it attracts the same kind of developers. Some really talented ones, mostly mediocre ones.

When I have to use Javascript I feel like I'm working against the language instead of with it.