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I'm all for getting rid of absolute immunity, but it's a very bad idea to throw out grand jury secrecy just because of what happened in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. In every other grand jury proceeding, the prosecutor does not sabotage his own presentment, and when the grand jury doesn't indict it's because the prosecutor's evidence is crap, and so the secrecy prevents an innocent person from being smeared. Keep in mind that grand juries are entirely one-sided - the defendant does not have a chance to refute anything the prosecutor says. Get rid of their secrecy and you've just given prosecutors one more way to abuse grand juries.
Thank! I really have no idea how I could've explained it better in context, which is the most frustrating thing.
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This looks like the work of someone very deep inside the tech bubble. I strongly suspect that this kind of "live off of rounds of funding without making any profit" mentality doesn't really exist outside of the tech startups in the bay area.
I thought it was true as well, about ancient greece as well as midieval times.

People talk about how children used to drink beer until fairly recently -- I'm not sure if _that's_ really true either, but it is usually explained that the reason for this is that the water couldn't be trusted and nobody drank water, and that part apparently isn't.
Great work! This is very intriguing!
I disagree from a practical, as well as financial standpoint.

It's very difficult to patent a software interface design as you have to prove a lack of existence of prior art and the patent must describe the specifics of what you are patenting.

These days there's very little new under the sun. I don't see anything remarkably unique about that particular interface. I'm certainly not saying that it wasn't lifted by their competitor, but that analytics dash also bares a striking resemblance to Google Analytics and a host of others, not to mention Microsoft Excel. Okay, it's blue and has large Helvetica numbers- is that what you're going to patent? Okay, I'll change mine to a green color scheme with Arial fonts. Your patent is no longer enforceable, and your IP attorneys who tend to be paid quite well will charge you tens of thousands of dollars to prove that.

I can imagine it feels like a major violation and annoying to be ripped off, and I don't condone that strategy, but I doubt that CB's competitive advantage is a color scheme and some data labels. A design patent would have basically no value in this scenario.
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Specially looking for any kind of constructive feedback. How could I make it useful for YOU?
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My guess is the Rubyists aren't switching, but picking up additional languages such as JS or Go or Rust.
So basically you support Adolf Eichmann's claim that "following orders" was a legitimate excuse for participating in the Holocaust? Either that, or you do not understand PG's argument.
His table at the end purporting to show a plethora of strange aspect ratios is just his rounding errors.

When repeatedly folding paper, the aspect ratio alternates between two numbers. (Consider after two foldings, each side is half the original. Same aspect ratio.) Unless of course you have soulless A series paper, then they are all the same.
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I was recently discouraged about pursuing an idea because of legal reasons - people making meals for others. But apparently lots of states won't let you cook perishables in your own kitchen and sell them to others. Are there ways around this as well? Is it simply a case of get big fast enough so you can provide a service so good that people would rather you stay than be shut down by a legality?
> Are you actually saying you think the FSF have failed?

I think the FSF has failed in making popular RMS's extremist exclusionary ideology which sees the eradication of non-Free software as a moral imperative, even at the cost of technological progress and of the utility of Free software for its technical, rather than ideological, functions.

I think the FSF has succeeded in using copyleft licensing to create a critical mass of Free Software which established well the pragmatic case for Free software, and -- because the pragmatic case for Free software has been so well made -- has demonstrated (entirely unintentionally) the conflict between (larger, AFAICT) group those whose goal is increased availability, utility, attractiveness, and use of Free software and the (smaller, again AFAICT) group whose goal is RMS's one of eradication of non-Free software and avoidance of Free software utility in producing/generating non-Free software.
Yes! I have read that book HHG with towel at hand at least 5-10 times also, and all the other books at least twice. Only saw the movie once .
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Interesting. I'm really deep into music, collect and buy lots of niche stuff from all kinds of genres, I listen to my collection quite a lot and enjoy it, but I find it increasingly difficult to discover actual good music that I wasn't aware of before. Sure, we all know the usual recommendation engines and some more specific year-end lists help too, but generally the recommendations feel all too narrow - "You like The Antlers?" - "Let me suggest this band that fits into the very same sub-genre and probably has been named all over the place before."

That's just not good enough. Whenever your taste isn't bound to certain genres, yet still very specific and hard to put into a score, it gets difficult. Actually I think this is a problem better solved by a small round of enthusiasts, real humans instead of algorithms or crowdsourced data. The latter always seem to fail when your taste ranges from, let's say James Holden (electronic, weird, yet carefully crafted), to Miles Davis, each for very different reasons.

While I buy my music, I enjoy the community over at what.cd which is just as enthusiastic about music as I am. Another community that helps can be found on rdio, which I use for previewing and discovering music - I only follow people with taste I can absolutely agree on there, and I'm really not a social network guy, but the community on rdio is great and knowing what those guys are listening to is very rewarding, and sometimes a good tastemaker.

Yet, I can't say that I'm completely satisfied with those options - there have to be some better places out there.
Do you have recommendations for projectors? Anything that can be used during the day?
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I think the NSA down voted me. And I totally agree with your statement.
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Hmmm... I'm not sure that's true.

Looking around my desk (in London, UK) I have

- a few flyers (A5) - much more convenient for people to hand me in the street, big enough to get information across on, not to big to big cumbersome for me and (presumably) cheaper than A4 to print in bulk

- a postcard (A6) from a colleague who went on a lengthy vacation

- business cards - some (but admittedly not all) of which are A8

- and lots of A4 - it's what I print out when I need a hardcopy.

I don't currently have any A3 on my desk, but I've used it in the past when I have complicated diagrams to analyze and want to get it all on one sheet.

I often print out documents as 2 (or sometimes even 4) pages to one A4 sheet to make it easier (and more tree-friendly) to read away from my computer - this works OK because the aspect ratio remains the same.
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There have been many efforts similar to this in many languages, but most of us seem happy to stick to the more succinct canonical form, supplemented via /x # comments when things get too hairy
But Netscape was running at a much faster pace. They got ahead of us on features and they began to give their browser away at no cost to end users. This made Netscape the standard by which all other browsers were judged. If our browser didn't render something exactly like Netscape, it was considered a bug. I hated fixing our browser to make it bug-compatible with Netscape even though we had already coded it to "the standard". Life's not fair sometimes. :-)

Everyone who's not the current marketshare leader goes through this feeling. And it's changed quite a few times.

I was stunned. That was 50 times the size of the Spyglass browser team. It was almost as many people as Netscape had in their whole company. I could have written the rest of the history of web browsers on that day -- no other outcomes were possible....Looking back on the browser wars, Tim Krauskopf remarked that we had beaten everybody who didn't outspend us by a factor of five. :-)

Pretty much describes what Chrome did to the competition.
Perhaps it's harder to make something like Dropbox work? I wouldn't know; just wondering. Having Guido Van Rossum on board either means that they're doing hard stuff, or they like hiring overqualified people...
Go can pass around byte buffers without copying them... a core use case for its core functionality as a network server. The real problem you'd hit with frame processing in Go is that it doesn't give you access to SIMD, nor does it have a nice GPU connection for computation.

I like Go, but I don't really consider myself an "advocate", and part of that is not overpromising to people. If you've got really heavy-duty computational needs, like in science or graphics, it's a bad choice right now, and I expect it to remain so for the forseeable future because it's not a core concern of the devs, and I'm pretty sure they'd view it as dilution of their goals and value proposition. (Correctly, I might add.)
The next thing you know, we'll have a Secret Court. Oh, wait.
Made in 3 weeks. Wow.
Seems like a reasonable way to even the playing field between independent students and members of academic and social fraternities, which traditionally handed down homework and intelligence on professors that was extremely valuable to a busy student.
The reality is that a total career change often requires deep soul searching and reflection.

Here's an interesting book by Dan Miller that might help guide and frame your thoughts> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74022.48_Days_to_the_Work...
At that stage why do you even need exploits? No-one would flinch at giving the installer for a game or codec admin permissions.
My problem with BTSync was that it was too resource-intensive, especially compared to Dropbox. It's been a few months though: has this improved?
He may have meant "say".
It means that they are adapted to a much higher stimulus level and lose interest if they have seen something beforehand. Also that they are a conceited brat who is convinced that they are the center of the universe. Or at least that's how I read their comment.
Why would we want to return to "the late XIX's century" [sic]? The pain of the Civil War and the invention of cattle drives are tough to connect to the birth of the Internet.

Perhaps this is a form of performance art...
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So pretty much almost every well-designed language that I like or was curious about is losing popularity in favor of Java and JS. Sigh. I remember when Ruby was #2 on GitHub. Those were the days.
For whatever my opinion is worth (guess what I'm not: an attorney), that final bit of absurdity was added on purpose so that the Supreme Court pretty much has to take this case.

It's a thing you see sometimes. A lower court can't really make the ruling it wants to make for a variety of reasons. But what it can do is poison the ruling in a way that forces an appellate court to make a decision.
The way I've heard it wasn't that people drank wine instead of water rather that wine was less alcoholic in antiquity. Then people asked why and concluded it might have been more widely drunk. I don't recall hearing of it as a substitute for water. Just that it was weaker and thinking if the implications that could present.
Their rules don't state that they need to. Had they chosen to enforce their ethics code internally and take internal action against the students, they'd have been within the bounds of that policy.

That said, they didn't do that: they used the DMCA. Their use of the DMCA is a strange choice in my opinion, but is likewise valid if the repos contain original work created by the university as part of the problem set.
As another poster said, Muji has very affordable ones in a variety of styles (gridded, lined, plain, record). They're very thin and cheap, but I love them and have been using them for years. Alternatively if you're near a Kinokuniya (they have a couple US locations) they have a stationery section with other common brands (e.g. Campus).
"Getting the copyright for the code into the university's possession"

There is no copyright transfer agreement nor is this a work for hire. This case at UIUC appears to be a copyright issue related to school provided materials which were further modified by the students.
First of all, outbound filtering. You might want to look into it. I'm installing outbound filters for all my friends and family, with stuff like this it's not hard to help them see the benefit.

Second, what's the big deal? If it only takes 15-30 minutes for an ad to appear, simply return the TV the first time it displays one. I could understand the outrage if the TV waited until after the return period had expired before doing this, but this doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Return it and blog about your experience, naming and shaming the manufacturer, and share your experience with your friends and family as well so they can avoid the same mistake.

Shame on you Samsung for thinking it would ever be appropriate to insert advertisements into the consumer's own content.

Edit: As an afterthought, I wonder how the TV behaves if it can't access the Internet to download said Ads. Anyone with experience able to speak to this?
Ignoring the fact that both SuSE and Red Hat are paying the involved engineers their paychecks in order to get the feature in their silo first.
Why not use a burner running Linux?
I don't see the revelation here. The reality always had to be much more nuanced than a simple "they always drank short beer, never water." That's silly. Of course people would be able to recognize clean water, and would not hesitate to drink water they felt was clean. It was, after all, probably the second liquid every human ever born became familiar with. However, sources of clean water were much harder to come by in historical times than they are now. A short beer, with alcohol content low enough not to cause inebriation, but high enough to make bad bugs uncomfortable, was a reliable alternative.
" But right now, there's still doesn't seem to be any Go equivalent of nginx in development. Go is probably getting mature enough, but I think that if actually squeezing every last ounce of performance is your goal, it still can't beat nginx."

There's no nginx in development because the built-in net/http library is actually pretty close to it already. Nginx beats it, but only by something like 25-50%, and if you compare the nginx source code to the net/http source code you'll see why nginx is going to likely retain that lead and Go isn't interested in the code quality tradeoff it would take to catch up to nginx. If you ever need an example of C used as "portable assembler", cite the core loop code of nginx.
For a scientific paper, you are correct.

For practical or business purposes, this is a nice bit of incomplete information to help make a decision. I want to take a serious, time-invested dive into a new statically compiled language, but which one should I pick? An old die-hard or the new-hotness? I could make a guess from reading the docs and such, but I'd also want to know community activity and support. This is a handy chart for getting a sense of that.

Or, I'm a business owner who just hired my first engineer. He's saying the backend should definitely be built in Groovy, or maybe he'd be willing to do Scala or something else, but definitely Groovy, yeah, Groovy man. I might be able to get a better idea of which would be beneficial for my long-term business prospects (hiring more engineers, etc) by checking out a chart like this as I might not have time to do real in-depth research.

As a scientist you require complete, sound and accurate statistical data. As a business practice (this site is about start-ups, no?) you need to be comfortable making serious and important decisions based off of incomplete and possibly inaccurate information because making fast decisions is often paramount. You can and will always make other fast decisions later and decide whether it's worth the effort to course-correct if you need to due to new and more accurate information.

This is maybe too deep an analysis of a fun little infographic, but as a former professional poker player who made a living off of incomplete information you got my cockles up.
The fact that they have such a massive share of the market despite the mediocre quality of their products really is a testament to their marketing.

Even just among Android phones, their products are neither the most affordable, the most powerful, the most user-friendly, the best supported, or the best constructed but they have managed to become the go-to brand for people buying an Android handset.

Pretty much everyone I've met (yeah, anecdotes) with less of an unhealthy interest in consumer electronics than me defaults to "iPhone or Samsung" when looking at phones. Of the people I interact with most often, about 50% have Apple Phones, 45% have Samsungs, and the remaining 5% have Moto X's or Nexuses or other brands.
another way of writing the same thing is

A / A^(1/2) = A^1 * A^(-1/2) = A^(1 + (-1/2)) = A^(1/2)
I don't disagree that modern, high-quality wood items exist, but the actual wood available today is inferior. The hardwoods that came from old-growth forests are fundamentally different, as the wood from a tree that has survived hundreds of years is different than the wood from a tree that is only 50-60 years old.

One reason for this is that in larger trees, the rings themselves play less of a role in causing warping. Another is that many trees that make it to 50 years in a modern forest wouldn't have made it to 400 years if left alone. Old-growth forests have much greater spacing between trunks as the overgrowth trees that were successful outcompeted their neighbors; to have survived 400 years indicates a tree that was given superior placement and nutrition.

Finally, when trees are much older, they are much larger. This means that relatively more of the wood comes from the center of the tree, where there are fewer knots, voids, inclusions, etc. The moisture bearing part of the tree is on the outside, and in many species is unusable, so you have a much higher uniformity and yield in board feet from a bigger tree.
To me it says they assert copyright over a large portion, but I would look for something more firm on actual copyright status of uploaded code. Other schools apparently use stub code for assignments so classwork is derivative, but I haven't seen that is the case here.
> "being immune to a lawsuit as long as he was acting within the bounds of the law"

There is no need for immunity when one acts within the bounds of the law. All that protects against is the hassle and cost of frivolous lawsuits. Absolute immunity prevents having to have another lawsuit to determine if the conduct in the first one was appropriate, and so on.

But you are right that absolute immunity of any kind is nuts. It's the mark of a tyrannical regime, and claims of self-policing do not in any way diminish this.

However, the real problem is that gag orders can be enforced after the trial is over. Why would any form of democracy want to lock up crucial information about how its laws are being interpreted from the public? What is the point of even having laws if the public is not made aware of how they are being interpreted in court?
Are you sure? I'm usually very careful with my usage of figures of speech but I'm no language major so maybe I should clarify that I meant that I could see edge cases but not a general purpose one.

Did this clarify my point or in any other way contribute to your undestanding?
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Good blackout curtains. Pretty much anything with HDMI input will do, honestly... I generally get projectors from places that recycle office furniture, you can get a 4000 lumen XGA projector for $75 that way.

I prefer LCD over DLP because they degrade more gracefully.

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Sure there are. Twenty seconds on Amazon yielded this:

http://smile.amazon.com/Upstar-P55EWX-55-Inch-Definition-Wid...

That's at the budget end of the spectrum, but there are non-"smart" 4K TVs among the better brands as well. This site has reviews of several low to high-end 4K TVs:

http://www.whathifi.com/products/tvs/4k-tvs

Or, you could get a 4K computer monitor, and an HDMI splitter to port the sound over to your surround system. There are always options.