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10000 lux is something achievable with 100W of LED light.

Why not, instead of limiting children exposure to computers and kicking them outside, just paint the wall behind their computer white and point 100W worth of LEDs at it?

I'm sure (s)he will spend at least 3 hours per day in that environment without trauma associated with forcefully exposing the child to boredom of outside.

EDIT: Yes, yes. I know. Being outside and kicking ball has lots of other benefits. But still... People are not doing it today despite potential obesity that predictably can kill you and they won't start doing it due to potential myopia that will force you to wear glasses. So why not go with pragmatic solution?
It might be a good idea to delete this thread since this bug is in the openssl client, which is not as widely used as the library.
They're amazingly common in the U.S.

The idea is that car manufacturers would be able to undercut dealerships on prices and thus bankrupt the dealerships[1].

So it's just classic protectionism. The question why the law should protect entities that everyone hates is the baffling part.

[1] http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/eag/246374.htm
I'll agree with the statement about the advances of Linux in the past 5+ years. I must admit though, I learned almost everything I know in the terminal through wrestling RedHat and Mandrake into shape. It was extremely disheartening as a kid to finally get Linux dual-booted with Windows and then take 3 days to get Broadcom to work. - This isn't quit the same thing, but it's interesting to see how the community has taken shape to a point where Linux is a viable replacement for Windows for almost everyone.
> pages loading as much as 10% faster.

In other words, its not, that was kind of my point, however it is cool.

I suspect, the devs had to modularize / logically separate parsing from compiling / executing somewhat before they could complete the next phase (fro chrome 42) which is the script caching part: cached scripts won't need re-parsing before compilation/execution.
If by "judge MS by its Current behaviour" you mean the strong ties A.K.A. Strategic partnership with the Government/NSA then I'm afraid the answer is...never.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2521809/government-it/n...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...
The NJ car dealers are extremely rich and powerful so this is quite a significant event. It's too bad that it takes something as exceptional as a Tesla to incentivize the public to fix the system, but at least it is happening.

Disclosure: I think my current car might be my last non-Tesla
This is for app downloads; you can't install an app larger than 100MB over cellular. You can download generic files of any size in the browser, or from within apps.
The ban was created after Tesla started selling, and now it only lifted the ban for zero emission vehicles as far as I can tell (didn't read the whole bill). If Ford or GM wanted to sell direct, they couldn't.

In the more generic case, states have these laws on the books to protect the local franchise dealers. These people buy cars from a particular manufacturer, usually multiple brands. In order to protect these dealers from the perceived threat that an automaker could come in and sell direct (thus undercutting their business), laws were enacted to require a franchise to sell vehicles. Thus Ford couldn't come in and sell vehicles unless they created their own franchise, which would raise their costs to be on par with the independent franchises. I think the justification for the protection is the local jobs and businesses.
Haha no. If the article was written to be maximally useful then it would have mentioned the conclusion in the first two sentences rather than buried somewhere near the end. Clearly the incentives of the writer and magazine are not aligned with those of the reader.
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Given all speech recognition systems except Google's kind of suck, I'm going to guess it doesn't work very well.

You need a huge training database and a priori information (i.e. what are people likely to be saying; think Google autocomplete) to do it really well. They have neither.
How do you know if you have committed a crime or not?

How do you know that the LEO will not, during his discussion with you, trick or lead you into committing or admitting to some crime?
My Dad recently got malware on his Windows desktop computer, and wanted me to fix it for him. He's reasonably tech-savvy but malware can happen to the best of us. I tried searching and removing suspicious looking files, but it kept coming back, so I decided to reformat the computer and reinstall windows.

The first part was to get an image to install from. Windows offers .iso downloads on their website[0], but you need to enter the product key for the computer to access it. I used a third-party tool to dig this out of the registry, but attempting to use this key on the website gave a non-descript error-code. After googling around, I found that it wasn't giving me the download because it was an OEM-license (or something), since it came installed on the DELL computer.

Luckily my Dad had kept the disc that came with the computer, and I used this to reinstall windows. However, like the OP, I was missing drivers for a handful of things, including the built-in wireless and wired network adapters. Luckily, before reinstalling I'd found a folder on the C drive called "Drivers" which looked important, and had backed this onto a USB drive.

The point is, the whole process took much longer than expected due it being...Windows. The DRM and driver issues would likely be totally absent if I were installing linux. And the whole reason I was doing this in the first place was to remove adware, which is barely ever if at all a problem on linux!

[0] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery
No, the wouldn't. As an ex PP-er (HR), i can say that the major problem in the vast majority of the PPs are that they are literally "too liberal." The differences in how individual members perceive what PP is and should be, are so great that they tear the party apart. From what I've seen (and I've met them), PP-IS is one of the rare which has managed to achieve enough homogeneity of core members which is needed for practical work and progress.

tl;dr: You can't have an organisation where everyone wants to do things differently.
Well, your comment on London got me interested, and while I couldn't find arrest-warrant stats for the City, I did find this: http://www.met.police.uk/foi/pdfs/disclosure_2014/april_2014...

Among Greater London's boroughs (not including the City), the out and out winner for outstanding arrest warrants, with more than twice as many as the runner-up (in both absolute terms and per head of population), was the City of Westminster. The vast majority of these -- 535 of 587 -- were for "other offences" (i.e., not actual bodily harm, burglary, robbery, possession of an offensive weapon, serious violence, or sexual offences). What do you suppose that's all about? Can't all be MPs fiddling their expenses.
I suppose PL/V8 ( which RDS has installed by default) would make it trivial to write a function to do this - you'd be able to do anything with JSON in postgres that you can in Node.js or the browser.
As a Windows developer and somebody who actually likes using Windows, I'm still shocked by how pathetic Windows Update is.

I'm often reinstalling because as a developer I want to try out the newer platforms. I gave Windows 8.1 a try recently. Fresh install and Windows Update says there's nothing to update. Knowing that's BS, I force it to refresh -- after a significant wait suddenly there's 1GB of updates. Really? Why did I just download a 3.5GB ISO that is 1GB out of date? I press on and force the downloads to start because a safe system is a priority to me.

The downloads take forever to start. When they eventually do start, they randomly stop (no ethernet activity) for random periods of time. All this time I'm twiddling my thumbs wondering if there's some kind of "intelligent" downloader that is slowing down because I'm trying to do something else on the system. Eventually they finish downloading and installing and the system reboots. After the reboot... I have more hundreds of MBs more of updates waiting for me. WTF?

I go through this process 2 or 3 more times, and now I'm just left with "optional" updates. Curious, I click on the 'more information' link to hit the Microsoft website (because for some reason the Windows Update UI just shows the most completely useless generic text for each update). Apparently the 'optional' updates are "rollups"... surely that's important?! Who knows, because Windows Update packages are opaque blobs.

So I go ahead and install the optional updates. Reboot. Now everything is good, right? Nope, go take a look at the Windows Update History - it turns out a bunch of updates actually failed to install at some point? It looks like they might have successfully installed later... or did they? At this point I don't even care.

Compare with the Linux (Ubuntu, but I'm sure others qualify too) experience: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. If there's an issue I get informed immediately and because the updates are per-package it's clear whether or not I should care -- no opaque blobs here. When it's done, I know it's done and there won't be any more magical updates mysteriously appearing. I know I can run the update/upgrade in the background while I use the machine for other things. I just don't understand why Microsoft can't get the update experience right!
> Where is the source code for java compiler and jvm stuff?

Here: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/

> Can you send a pull request?

You'd do that on the mailing list, until you become a contributer with direct access to the repo,http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/

> Can you see the commits?

Yes, in the above mentioned mercurial repos.

> Can you see design meetings about the language?

Java has developed in a somewhat collaborate/committee fashion which has been open to the public since before the JVM itself was open sourced. It is probably quite hard for random individuals to contribute directly to that, but yes - you can see what's going on it the JCP process, https://jcp.org/en/jsr/overview
also, the only other post on this blog is titled "Seeking Female Cofounder for Sex Tech Startup" which is just so absurd. It's obvious he only wants a woman on board so all this doesn't just sound like a man telling a woman about her sexuality like he knows something
Hardware development is well, harder than its software counterpart, true. For one, it's about what that article said about the costs involved, although I don't fully agree on the suggested costs per iteration, as the testing can be mostly done by simulators and the physical implementation can be only a last step in a broader development chain. For other, unlike the software, on the hardware level you are actually into real engineering, forced to deal with the real-world quirks and imperfections. The hardware complexity can not just balloon as the software does. You can not add there "features" for the sake of it (so just to scratch your intellectual itch) without much of a consequence like you do in software, and this makes it boring and a less appealing target for development. When it happens however, you got that described problem about having to read hundreds of data-sheet pages and then deal with both all that hidden complexity and the real world. That being said, with some discipline, the hardware development can be done!
" That's double the population of Argentina already".

You're mixing relative and absolute numbers to make your point. Brazil has 4 times the population of Argentina.

I mean it's like me arguing it's more common to see irish in the US than in Ireland. There are 33 million irish descendants in the US - That's like 6 times the population of Ireland...
My company had a client that would add "Yet another up-sell/retention tool" every week or so. (I know, because I added them every time.) I swear they had every single one in existence. Didn't stop them from filing bankruptcy.
You might see it differently, but I never let kids update software on their own.
Even mainstream architectures don't handle excessive consistently, e.g. for shifting an n-bit integer, I believe some mask the shift by 2^n - 1, some by 2^(n+1) - 1, and some don't mask at all (i.e. 1 << 100000 will be zero). Of course, being UB (rather than just an "unspecified result" or some such) probably isn't the best way to handle the inconsistency.

In any case, I believe Rust retains many of the optimisations made possible via UB in C++ by enforcing things at a compile time. In fact, Rust actually has quite a lot of UB... that is, there are many restrictions/requirements Rust 'assumes' are true. For example, the reference types & and &mut have significantly more restrictions around aliasing and mutability than pointers or references in C++. The key difference between Rust and C++ is that it is only possible to trigger the UB with `unsafe`, as the compiler usually enforces rules that guarantee they can't occur. People saying "Rust has no UB" are usually implicitly meaning "Rust cannot trigger any UB outside `unsafe`".
You do know that the "unix cli/packaging system" thing is actual UNIX, right? Like, bona fide, certified UNIX for a while now. Homebrew is just a different package manager than you're used to, but not so different from things like apt or yum once you get to know your way around it.
I was the 'top girl' in various mathematics contests etc. (British Maths Olympiad, Oxford entrance exam) when I was at school. It didn't really bother me and if anything was useful recognition at school. I think this was probably because I was sufficiently good at maths that it couldn't possibly occur to me that I couldn't be good at maths (plus having a mum who is a mathematician was a good role model). I think actually getting a prize for being the top would have been a bit weird though and I'm trying to put my finger on why (and when I did come top in exams at Oxford, nobody commented on who the top male was!). At that sort of level, you don't need encouragment to participate.

Prizes for maths are a bit of a weird thing anyway - ultimately you are doing this stuff because you enjoy solving the problems. While I think maths contests are great - I got so much out of attending the training session they held at Cambridge to choose the IMO team and meeting other people like me, even though it was an intimidating experience at first - they are competitive enough without over-emphasising it.

All of which isn't to say that there aren't massive gender issues that need to be addressed somehow or that stereotype threat isn't real. Those are horribly thorny problems to deal with though and so engrained in our culture generally - a whole other essay!
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Basically, franchises arose because auto [Edit: manufacturers] didn't originally want to establish a broad set of factory stores. States then generally passed laws over time to keep manufacturers from coming in and competing with the franchisees because they'd have various advantages in doing so. (And it probably didn't hurt that the dealers by then were often well-established local businesses.) There's also been something of an anti-trust trend against vertical integration though that's really at the federal level so may not apply here (e.g. studios not owning theaters).
Makes me wonder. Microsoft are open-sourcing things in an obvious attempt to win back the developer crowd. Is there more they can do in enabling default (where appropriate) or quick installs of typical developer tools?
Ahh. Okay, mystery solved.

I have my minimum font size set to 18. Because of that, Firefox renders all four digits at the same size. It also does not superscript the last two digits. I just checked, and it's the same in Safari.

One could expect that, even if minimum font size is set, that the concept of "superscript" would survive, i.e. that the digits "19" would be rendered above the typographic baseline.

One could expect that, but one would be wrong. :)
> “bad-mouth other consultants to help myself get work” jerks

Those guys... Second time I ran into one of those, I decided to quit freelancing forever. The whole perception of freelance consulting being liberating from office politics instantly disappeared, and I realized that offices may actually tend to be far more civil and professional. * but depends on your city.
> I also suspect that the 'shun corruption' just means they havent been caught yet.

No, they are actually quite decent people. Birgitta has been an advocate of term limits and intends to not run again (even if term limits are not imposed). She is an artist and has been a consistent defender of the average citizen. Jón Þór is in his first term and has decided to step down mid-term to allow his replacement time to acclimate to Parliament before the next election (which is in 2017, barring public uprising). Helgi Hrafn has indicated he intends not to run again. All of them are passionate about the outcome of the next election and intend to give support to the running candidates.

Corruption of the sort you see in USA does not happen as much in Alþingi, it's more nepotism by the executive (parliamentary rule, which is problematic) than blatant bribery by funding campaigns.

Grassroots for the Pirates is very active and these public servants, truly are serving the public, not the party.
"All" is clearly hyperbole. But aside that, this is actually quite a nicely presented resource.
Why not run your own Postgresql installations instead of relying on RDS?
I'm not doubting you, but do you have any sources for user counts for different database types? I get the same sense, but I wonder what the numbers are really like.
That makes you a good parent. As would the converse.
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So I solved the problem, I think. The others steered the conversation in another direction. And when the topic did come up I found something to praise about the victim of the gossip (a small thing, since we don't work together), but I deliberately and obviously exaggerated its importance, to signal that I didn't like the one-sided nature of things. That, and the fact that I pointedly ignored him when he started gossiping, seems to have worked.

Thanks to all who responded.
This is a topic I like to muse on day-to-day - I find visualising hyperspace interesting.

Extending the same notion of there being a time dimension that is less dense the further it is from a gravity well - well, it changes certain aspects of how one might look at the universe, such as, say, why distant galaxies are redshifted, why galaxies rotate evenly throughout their volumes, and why the speed of light is a thing.
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I'm no fan of car dealerships but a lot of the hate has to do with the fact that it's such a penny-pinching business (for both consumer and dealer) at most mainstream brand dealers. From what I've heard, if you go into a BMW dealer the experience is usually quite good.

But certainly I don't see why a manufacturer who doesn't have an existing dealer network shouldn't be able to sell in whatever way it chooses.
Also interested, I've tried similar things with watir webdriver and a xvfb/headless mode but the only real 'solutions' I've come across are time-outs. Needless to say it could've been heaps better.
> well-lit office or classroom is usually no more than 500 lux

I guess we need to update what "well lit" means.
Everyone hates car dealers now, but at the time the laws were enacted; they made some sense. The problem isn't that we are protecting Ford dealers from Ford (given that the franchisee did have to pay Ford for the franchise). The problem is that Tesla never raised money through franchise arrangements and was/is getting shut out of the market anyway.
With a discussion centered on ability, but no attempt to define this nebulous concept, it seems impossible for this argument to be "true" in any strong sense.

To begin with, this discussion is almost totally void of even the mention of education (the word not appearing once), acting like all children are objects in in the global school array, with a method called "getIntrinsicScore" that gets called a few times in their life before the are casted into adult objects.

However, a simple recollection of your time in school will tell you that not everyone was treated equally by the teacher and the other students, and also that school was a pretty big deal in your life at the time.

So to talk about the correlations in test scores of children and neglecting to mention the influence of the school is not very informed. But since the influence of a school on the test scores of a child is not particularly well understood (witness the debate on "how to fix the schools"), it is really hard to make any firm claims if you include it.

It is also remarkable how the text underlies that the gap in scores appears with age, but does not attempt to explain this observation while advocating a static theory of "ability". The author states outright that there a property fixed at birth that determines your "ability", and then always talks like "ability" and test-score are perfectly correlated.

(For effect I will here do the semantic simplification the "ability" and "test-score" are perfectly interchangeable,because if the implied perfect correlation.)

So, the thesis is that the test-scores are fixed at birth, but the author also accepts as empirical fact that the difference of test-scores appears first around puberty. This is a curious behavior for something that is "fixed". It is highly worrying that this is not addressed at all in the exposition of the theory.
Pre-installed crapware on Windows machines is a huge problem, and I am surprised Microsoft does not ban this practice because it affects their brand.

You can buy signature edition Windows machines directly from Microsoft that are crapware free, which is what I did a few months ago.
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It doesn't matter in the US. A large company will take you through the ringer if there is any possibility of confusion even if they may not have a claim.
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Superherojs seems to be down for me.
> That's why I'm so excited about .NET going full cross-platform

Just remember that it's only the web stack. No part of the Windows widget/form libraries (to make GUI apps) is being opened. I see this confusion a lot.
In my many years of installing both Windows and Linux I've learned the most important lesson is always have a USB Ethernet adaptor to hand as you can be certain you'll have problems getting the WiFi card to work correctly at some point.

(Ubuntu is very good on this front. Debian not so much but that's down to politics not technology. Windows is still a hot mess)
Can you elaborate on how OS X is way behind Gnome, KDE, and Windows?
Basically, yes. It's an ugly situation and lots of people take the stance of never visiting the US because of it.
Any opinion on Kaldi vs RASR? (their open speech recognition technologies)
Sure. They couldn't say the sales tax is going up by 0.5%, that would be confusing. But they could say "the sales tax rate is increasing by 0.5% from 12% to 12.5%"
In more plain language: car dealers (companies and their workers) lobbied for politicians to ban competition. They give campaign funding, and in exchange they get legislation like this ban.
Do you ask because you are rewriting an existing large scale application (if so, why are you rewriting and why are you considering a different stack altogether?), or because you are starting a new application (there is a 95-99% chance it will never need to scale so the question is not terribly important unless it's between this and one similar technology for some reason)?