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I'm glad the UK government have ensured that every child will be learning to code - I wish they had the foresight to implement it 10 years ago. What concerns me is the people teaching the children to code - surely tapping into local community networks and reaching out to people who have been developing for years will allow the children to explore more exciting tech. Learning to code with Scratch is a great start - I'm just worried about the support networks in place to developer these young coders. Of course, the super motivated students will developer their skills outside of the classroom - I hope schools support those students who perhaps aren't as keen to code when they first start as well.
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There's already plenty of accurate forecasting available, but it's suppressed and distorted by elite interests.

So most voters either have no access to it, or they're told expedient lies by the media.

The US has an large organised mass of 'think tanks', 'foundations', and other propaganda fronts which exists solely to lie to the public and directly influence policy makers.

Debate is not the answer to this. You can only restore real democracy by making the distortions explicit. That means logging and listing all lobbying efforts, making sure no off-record cash transactions go unreported, and removing anyone who lies to the public for profit from any kind of political influence.

DemocracyOS is tinkering around the edges of this. Local democracy is a start, but it won't start to have an effective influence until national policy power is distributed more intelligently.
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I have followed this regularly (it used to follow price more closely). This does seem unusual.

Interestingly: MIT BitcoinExpo was March 07-08
What the author forgets to mention, either intentionally or not, is that the drivers of Lyft are also millennials. Both drivers and passengers participate in a bottomed-out value chain, where the driver and the passenger cannot afford anything more expensive. Paupers driving Paupers, and Kings spinning this off as an "environmental cool meets individual liberty".
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That sucks. How does the hierarchy work exactly? What makes him more authoritarian to what goes into the article, technically speaking?
Has anyone here closely investigated the research that led to recommendations to brush teeth after every meal or at least two times a day, as e.g. suggested on toothpaste containers, and to floss frequently, etc.? Any idea how well designed / how complete the relevant studies were? Have there been more recent improved studies? In the last few years I’ve heard second-hand some alternative recommendations to brush before meals rather than after, but I haven’t ever done my own research review.

I’ve long suspected that a good diet + brushing the teeth very carefully a few times per week would be more effective than drinking soda and sweet and starchy foods + brushing after every meal, just based anecdotally on how my own teeth feel to my tongue depending on my diet and toothbrushing frequency.
There is a very interesting engineering optimization strategy at play here, would love to do/see a blog post on it.

Simple structures, with a large safety margin and simple control flow vs complex structures, very light weight but at the limits of capacity.

Like an ethernet switch doesn't need complex flow routing algorithms when the raw backplane bandwidth is some multiplier higher than will ever experience contention.

It always seems to me, that things built near their design limits will eventually expose a catastrophic flaw.

Human engineered items that have stood the test of time, Roman Aqueducts, Brooklyn Bridge, DC3, Dodge Dart, Toyota Corolla, AK47, PDP8 all have commonalities in their design philosophies.
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When I was in my early teenage years I was already making some development efforts on Pascal, VisualBasic and later on I switched to linux and started doing Perl CGI web apps.

Back in time when I had to choose if I want to do CS degree I was already paid as a web developer and doing what I was going to study for. Then I asked some friends that were actually studying CS and they told me that they have a very tight schedule with work in the following disciplines : FORTRAN, ASM, C, C++ . I told them that's too low-level for me and probably I will not use it for my work so I decided to go into completely different sphere ( I graduated law ).

Now I'm not the best programmer lived on the planet, but certainly I still do what I love and I'm paid for web development as high as a senior person, because of my experience - not CS degree.

So... If you think you can make benefit to web development, why don't you start with a simple open source contribution to any of the existing projects and reduce Wirth's law [1] a bit with some low-level skills. But for something more complicated, please consider some experience first in that specific area.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
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> I was so happy the day that decision came through

District of Columbia v. Heller and the related McDonald v. City of Chicago were both decided 5-4 in favor of gun freedom. One more "proud Latina" and things could have turned out very differently.

It's amazing how preserving our fundamental rights often comes down to the personal prejudices of Supreme Court justices.
Because UK judges have a history of demonstrating some degree of independence, whereas Sweden has a history of the police illegally handing political asylum seekers to the CIA, knowing they'd be handed over to the very regimes they were fleeing in order to be tortured.

Not only did they do this (and Sweden was forced to pay restitution), but part of the Wikileaks documents revealed how Sweden objected after Swedish military intelligence years after these renditions had supposedly stopped, caught Swedish airport staff assisting CIA rendition flights.

While one might hope this has now finally stopped, Sweden is pretty high on the list of countries I would not like to be in if I was wanted by the US, given recent history.

Swedens official neutrality has been a joke in Scandinavia for decades. "Everyone" knows that there is a lot of close cooperation with the US behind the scenes.
Makes perfect sense, but I'm surprised the answer is to shut it down, rather than to build a competitor to GitHub.
What do you mean? I took the code straight from the example, and it prints "worker registered" in the console when I add a logging call there.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorfulness

Colorfulness, chroma, and saturation are related but distinct concepts referring to the perceived intensity of a specific color. [...] Chroma is the colorfulness relative to the brightness of another color that appears white under similar viewing conditions. Saturation is the colorfulness of a color relative to its own brightness.

I don't think the original article, or Wikipedia, give a good clarification of the difference, but there does appear to be one.
Hmm, I doubt it would be ultra-slow. They'll probably bring out new ones somewhat regularly (maybe every second year).
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Right, it's great for them, but I was talking about high school
Sure, however you want to word it. Point is there are no obligations to maintain the relationship on either side.
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> but all the advice I find online either sounds made-up or is "consult with your accountant".

There is a reason that so much of the advice is 'check with your accountant' - the U.S. tax system is incredibly complex and the IRS does not accept ignorance as an excuse for non-compliance.

In this particular instance, you will need information about tax treaties. Here is one page - http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/International-Businesses/Unite...

However, I cannot minimize how important an accountant is. Your last sentence seems to indicate that you think this is a joke. First, the IRS is not a laughing matter. Second, accountants are professionals and tax law is not the kind of thing you can pick up on a forum someplace.

Finally, the IRS filing deadline is April 15, you do not have an accountant yet, and it strikes me that you just started thinking about US tax. You need to get on this right away because again, ignorance is not an excuse for non-compliance.
Which one?

1) Unity3d

2) http://unity-linux.org/

3) https://unity.codeplex.com/
> My app meets all the criteria, but I don’t want the banner to display. Can I control this?

> Not right now. We are working on ways to give developers the ability to cancel the display of the prompt. Follow our “Intent to Implement” on blink-dev mailing list.

Hahah, that's good. No-opt-out is always fun.
If convincing people to use a more structured UI is difficult but they're quite happy giving you all the information you need in their own way, why not just accept the data in the format that they want to give it to you in? It seems like a pretty simple NLP problem - you've got a known set of drug names and contractions, a set of timing intervals and a set of dosages. If they're not bothering to provide some of that information that might be an issue (depending on how well you can rigorously determine and encode the context-specific assumptions that they're making), but if they are providing it all to you like that then parsing your clean data out of the text can be done with extremely high accuracy. Potentially higher than the accuracy of a doctor picking from a set of dropdowns, before anyone says "extremely high isn't good enough for healthcare".

I'm sure it's an avenue you've explored - what's been the major challenge?
It's interesting you mention Baldur's Gate. You have to realize that its setting, the Forgotten Realms, already was a fully developed one. It already was 10 years old and was being developed and expended by multiple people. And with continuous fan feedback

Now contrast this with Mass Effect, when you have a team of (just throwing a number around) 10 people writing the story and the setting during it's 4/5 year development in secret. You can't possibly expect the same level of detail or complexity.
Yeah, my mistake. I guess my argument was against how there was "nothing scary about them." This article wouldn't exist if there wasn't some concern about buybacks.
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http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/matrix/rdoc/Vector.h...
I get the impression it's more important to Republicans than Democrats.
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Most probably there is a treaty to avoid double taxation between both countries.

The general rule is IMO (I'm not an accountant): You either are employed in the US and pay US taxes or you are a company or individual in Spain offering services to a US company, then you are taxed in Spain. The latter means you have no employment contract but a consulting contract.

I am European but I work also for American companies as consultant and as such I _have to_ pay taxes in my country of residence (Luxembourg).

The good thing in my case is you avoid VAT, the subjective thing (good or bad, depends on your perception) is that you are subject to the obligatory social security deductions ranging from 25% to 40% (in the countries I know).

Taxes must be paid as well if you pay social security but they shouldn't play the big role unless you earn big (>= 8k E per month)

Whether paying social security is good depends heavily on your country of residence and it is kind of up to you. I'd preferably not pay social security in Germany but in Luxembourg it's tolerable.
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Wait, one mental construct - an umbrella term for behavior-driven neurochemical imbalance, makes another mental construct, an abstract notion of a constant rate of change within some process, makes it to be felt slower? By what? By another set of electro-chemical processes?)
I used to think this, but I was amazed and impressed by the amount of attention the El Capitan Dawn Wall climb received in the media. That was very much about pushing the technical limits with only the normal climbing risks.

I was particularly impressed because as far as your average non climber is concerned there are things you can walk up and things that are impossible. It's hard to grasp what "very difficult" means if you have no frame of reference. You can grasp what "very dangerous" means though.
"AWS? What is this? I just use Heroku..."
"It doesn't matter if the stock is undervalued."

Warren Buffett has written the opposite of this numerous times. Paying $1 for something that is worth 80 cents (even if it's your own stock) destroys shareholder value. The math and logic behind this is so basic, I don't understand how anyone could believe otherwise.
The Guardian are not entirely at fault here. They reported what execs said, whether those execs were embellishing the abilities of the app or trying to seem cool is irrelevant. What they said about tracking users was never denied by whisper, they simply added some clarification after the fact but the execs who made the claims were not saying it was done to prevent illegal activity.

I feel for the guys who were sacked but they were media relations people. I work in an office and if anyone external comes in we are advised to be aware of what we are discussing and the confidential nature of the work we do. The media team shoukd have been the ones giving quotes and everyone else shoukd have been warned that there were journalists there and everything is fair game to them in those situations.
Its a good idea but its a huge time waster if they don't ban the multiple companies that ran bait-and-switch games on me. Also their fee is very high, which employers claim not to care about but definitely do.
> The person that paints their Lamborghini matt[e] black.

This person buys the Grandmaster Chime, which is truly hideous, expensive, and has no sense of style. I would not wear it if you gave me one.

... or maybe, just maybe, taste is subjective, and old-money aristocrats and their lapdogs don't have a monopoly on it.
interesting, as his games' stories are some of the best on their own merits, and then are combined with some of the most defining experiences in gaming as well.
One example could be Google. It has initiated and developed mindfulness based Search Inside Yourself program. http://siyli.org/
I've got a few issues with this sort of idea, and to be frank, Internet-based pseudo-direct democracy has been raised many times before, although DemocracyOS.org seems to have married the idea with political consultation software.

1. I don't see anyway that direct democracy by way of an online poll or consultation is any better than the representative democracy that many countries already have. Such an approach will result in a representative in a legislature who will be biased towards a more technical and engaged audience than the wider community.

2. If there is a need/desire for direct democracy to be more widespread, why not just bring about true direct democracy? It might take years or decades for the approach of The Net Party to spread to a wider number of jurisdictions. Why not put the same efforts into the wider adoption of true direct democracy, which will probably take the same amount of time.

3. In a (my) perfect world, a mixture of representative and direct democracy works best. I'm not sure turning representative democracy into a pseudo-direct democracy will have good long term consequences. I doubt (putting cynicism aside) that every voter in a democracy has the time and energy to put as much into politics as a paid politician puts into it nowadays, hence I think we'll always need a bit of representative democracy.
> What makes him more authoritarian to what goes into the article, technically speaking?

Nothing, in theory. In practice, if you edit, they revert, you edit again, and they revert again, that is then an "edit war" and they can have the page locked for a while. It takes effort to make a change that even one person really doesn't want you to make - if they keep it up, you eventually have to go through the bureaucracy.
Unfortunately I think that's exactly the market Apple aren't aiming for - but will probably get.

Watch is a slow-motion PR disaster. It's doing a lot of damage to the Apple brand, because Apple seem to have stopped pretending to make useful, affordable, luxury, and are now trying to make unaffordable, useless, luxury - which is a completely different market, for completely customers, with completely different rules.

This would be fine if the product itself had clear Veblen-differentiation. But it doesn't. Watch Edition is just Sport Watch in a blingy case with a nicer strap.

That is so not how the luxury market works.

High-end luxury is defined by evidence that you can command some other human's skill and work. So, you can't have mass-produced or machine-made high-end luxury, by definition.

If it's not hand-made, or hand-marketed, or hand-concierged, or very strictly limited, of fundamentally different and exclusive in a way that proves that someone has had to work hard for you personally to make it, it doesn't tweak those luxury neurons - no matter how much gold it has, or how much it costs.
Note that if he leaves the embassy he can be arrested by the British police and tried in English courts for failure to comply with conditions of bail. And I'm not sure anyone can reasonably argue that he didn't do that. He was bailed, and didn't show up to court upon summons — it's the textbook case.
There are a few different things he is accused of doing so Im not 100% what you are referring to with "it".

He is accused of initiating sex with a woman later an evening after consensual sex had finished and she became "half-asleep". The legal questions to be answered is: was she half-asleep, ie, does he contest that statement and if so, what conclusion can be reached by a court.

Furthermore, there is an accusations that consensual sex was agreed under a condition, and that Assange broke that verbal agreement by ejaculating inside her. Its a rather odd situation for a sexual molestation case, but I guess that the court would first have to establish if both parties had reached the same understanding, and if the above mentioned act then broke it.

On either of the two cases, my best guess is that we will never know.
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> The general rule is IMO (I'm not an accountant): You can choose to be employed in the US and pay US taxes [...]

I'm not an accountant either, but I'm pretty sure any European nation's tax office would take a dim view of this point of view. If you do the work in Spain, you'll need to be taxed in Spain, especially if you're not trying to fly under the radar.
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"To complicate matters, most of the people in the industry are young men, a cohort not good at acknowledging their own problems, or understanding other people’s."

Does this not seem like oversimplification and rampant stereotyping?

I am a "young man" (well, below 30 anyway, though in SV I'm probably a bit long in the tooth), and it hurts to be constantly and systematically belittled in this manner. I have problems, and other people in the industry do too. Singling out one particular gender and age group and making them the bad party doesn't help anyone.

A great related article: (http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2014/06/on-depres...)
I do? I was saying that being ignorant in CS may lead to lame mistakes, and I have seen many web developers who appeared ignorant in CS, and there has been a case of some central web framework with an O(n^2) queue.
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I think his point stands though, that Google cannot be trusted to keep services going. This will adversely affect their appeal in many minds, including mine. I have used Google since about 1998 (?) and you'd be amazed how many products have come and gone in that time.

Apologies for the rantiness of the post below, it isn't meant aggressively, just more frustration at no apparent direction seen within the Googlesphere.

The removal of features that people use with no warning and non-implementation of features immediately after release is really really annoying. It makes their stated goals ("index everything") meaningless/temporary/untrustworthy, and dissuades me from buying services from them. Freeloaders use their products a lot (I do!) but I would think twice about ever ever ever paying for software from them, or for a service because you have no idea when it'll shut shop. Even products they still produce appear to be completely disjointed (see the Play Books app on Android and the complete disparity found with their web interface...)

Here's a list of annoyances in products they've released to much fanfare, then apparently just not bothered developing anymore:

1. Google+, yes all of it. And I use it! (where is it going now that Gundotra has left?)

2. Maps: My Maps now isn't integrated into the Android app (they spun it off??), Latitude is gone, Google Local is gone but apparently still there (you can read reviews but hidden and secret GUI controls are now the order of the day for working out how to do anything in Google Maps)

3. Google Drive desktop client: will it ever tell me how far it has got in uploading a massive file? The web client does, the desktop one doesn't. Surely that's an OBVIOUS feature in a filesync utility. Don't ask about their promised Linux version. Couldn't they write it in Go or something?

4. Google Hangouts Android client: the forced update from Talk with the removal of features (is someone actually online? a presence feature seen since MSN Messenger that somehow escapes Google's notice)

5. Google Chrome OS: why is it even here? There was much talk of being stiff competition to Windows and OSX but it's like an Etch-A-Sketch toy operating system. I think TinyCore Linux does more?

I'll stop now because it's coming up to lunch time and I'll get indigestion.

I am a big fan of Android, but their incessant removal of features within their core apps and then rereleases of similar-but-ever-so-slightly-different apps ever year at I/O is getting wearisome.
Because the UK has a policy of refusing extradition where there is a possibility of a death penalty.

http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/fact_sheets/extradition/
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gem: --no-document --verbose

in your ~/.gemrc may speed up some things and show slowest steps (where '--no-document' means the same as deprecated '--no-rdoc --no-ri').
Please don't. It sounds like you're recreating flash and we all know how annoying flash guis were.
I'm really surprised by the amount of smugness in the comments here. A bit of good-natured teasing, followed by a wheelbarrow full of "ruby-devs" this and "web-devs" that.

Take off your Hats of Superior Coding. Any one of us, regardless of honorific titles, could have made this mistake, and you know it. Being steeped in CS Fundamentals does not immunize you against bugs.

Congratulations to tenderlove for finding the bug. Remember the details - it'll be a great war story in a few years.
Sort of reminds me of Huxley's "Brave New World" when they traumatized the young children to recoil at nature so that when they grow up they never want to take trips out to the country, and so that they would spend all of their money on expensive sports equipment for recreation instead.
Not that I install gems very often (Node.JS is my primary platform) but I find that the majority of the time is installing the different docs.

Check the difference between "gem install sass" and "gem install sass --no-rdoc --no-ri" and be amazed.