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Has this been going on long enough to have an effect? Also, is the kind of crazy made harder by the nascent fear of online exposure actually the kind of crazy referred to as "psychoticism" in the article? (Possibly. It does include "thrill-seeking" and "impulsiveness.")

I'm also not quite sure whether internet exposure will (or, indeed, has) made people more conformist, or more secretive, or perhaps even more tolerant (by provoking conversation about "open secrets" for instance.) Probably all three, to different extents in different people. Is the pressure against doing "crazy things," assuming it's even the relevant kind of crazy, significantly affecting the people who would otherwise have the best chance to become revolutionary scientists?
It's not slavery if you pay an amount that is fair for the foreign employee. In the Philippines, $275.00 USD is equivalent to a 2k job here in the states.

That's not slavery. As far as classifying quality of work effort by country, try it yourself and in a short time you will learn that different cultures deliver different types of workers, and thinking, and creativity. I know that sounds strange, but it is true.

And here is the funny part of the entire deal. If you suddenly found yourself transported to Russia, Romania, India, the Philippines, or China, good luck getting work as Americans are mostly viewed as fat, lazy, complaining do nothings, who barely understand the concept of a hard days work for a fair wage.

Ask every foreign employee that works for me and not one of them would agree with your comment. They are grateful to have the work, to work at home, to raise their families well, and to do so by using their brains.

I don't feel the least bit bad for outsourcing either. Americans are the hardest employees to manage, and rarely deserve their high cost. There is a huge downside to working with the ME generation. Most think that a job is an entitlement. Ugh...
There is a simple reason for our disagreement. You do not believe that reason is (possible/efficacious/valid). I do, though this belief is not based on faith. The argument for why reason is valid is given by Ayn Rand. You are not familiar enough with her argument to defeat or disprove it. Anyway, my response to your specific claims follows. I respect your wish to end the conversation, so I don't mind if you don't respond.

The mere fact that something is necessary for knowledge does not mean that it is true because it has not been established that we are able to know. Nor is it established that we are able to experience.

It has been established. All the evidence supports that we are able to know and that we experience. I don't know what you mean when you say that this has not been established. No, we are not omniscient... but, for example, we could not build computers (for example) if we were not able to "know".

As you can see, there are far more fundamental axioms than the one that the Objectivists posit and even these can be reduced further.

No, I honestly can't see that. What is a more fundamental axiom than those of Objectivism?

The choice of which first principles to choose are by no means an objective one, but instead a pragmatic one.

No, they are objective. They are the only primary concepts that are implicit in and fundamental to all knowledge. Can you name some other concept for which this is the case? They are also self-evident, though they are not the only concepts for which this is the case. (By the way, self-evident does not mean "obvious".)

You're establishing a useless distinction: If you told my about a Faerie you saw one day and I believed you, then my belief would not be without evidence; your testimony counts as evidence. Doubtless, you consider that to be insufficient evidence, but it is evidence non-the-less. You are positing a 'faith' that no one, religious or not, holds.

My report of seeing a fairy could count as evidence if you consider me a credible source and if the properties I ascribe to it are not contradictory to other evidence. Religious faith does not have evidence to support it, because the Bible and religious leaders are not credible enough to outweigh the evidence that suggests that miracles and so forth are impossible. In fact, if you ask a religious person to justify their belief in their religion, ultimately, they will cite faith as the source of their belief. I am positing a "faith" that all religious people hold.

Not to put to fine a point on it, but what you seem to mean is that faith, as you define it, is a belief based in something other than Objectivism, which is also a useless (and subtly religious) definition.

Objectivism is not "subtly religious" because it is based on reason. If you can show Objectivism to be in error, please publish a paper showing the error. It is clear from this discussion that you do not understand Objectivism.
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That just replaces their Actionscript interpreter + VM + JIT implementation toolchain, which was already awesome.

What everyone complains about the terrible quality of is the Runtime, which sucks ass on every platform but desktop Windows (where it is decent), and will continue to for the forseeable future.
Why do people write silly things? How would you enforce "search neutrality"? How do you define "relevance"?

Network neutrality is necessitated by the lack of competition in the telecommunications market. If Time Warner and AT&T both enact policies I disagree with, I'm screwed. There are plenty of search engines, there is a relatively low barrier to entry for new search engines, and the switching cost is zero.

No, we shouldn't try to regulate the author's business plan into viability.
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I would completely echo the original comment - set up your renewal codes and whatever else to do a split test (a/b or multi-variate) - that is the surest way to get the most correct answer for YOUR audience/market.

What works for someone else MIGHT work for you, but then again, it might not - and that is a big risk to take. When it comes to pricing and pricing frequency, you can do nothing better than to trust your own customers - they'll respond differently to you than someone else's customers to them.

Split test it!
Loper-os seems to be full of people ranting about the good-old-days, saying how much we've lost, and offering no solutions. The links can be interesting, but so far I'm just vaguely annoyed by the whole site, and haven't learned squat from three articles.
My vote would be Arthur Whitney: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
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I can't stop wondering about this one. I am probably biased towards wanting to believe, but would really like to see a forensic analysis.
Or "RSS" anywhere in their implementation! Dave Winer poisoned that well quite thoroughly: everyone else produces Atom by default (or exclusively), and his products (which only he uses) are the only ones that don't consume Atom. Feedburner automatically uses older formats for known-shitty clients all from one URL.
Unfortunately, after having just spent a good few hours of my Boxing Day holiday (because Boxing Day fell on a Saturday, we get a Monday public holiday in leu) in a shopping centre, I'm inclined to agree
It's not binary. You may have enough evidence to suspect someone may be planning a crime, but not enough to go to court, or enough to go to court but not enough to get a conviction with any degree of certainty. In this case it might make sense to perform a more detailed security check. It makes sense for a minor inconvenience at the airport to require a different standard of proof from sending the person to prison. Of course with TSA watch lists "your name sounds fishy" appears to be a sufficient standard of proof, but that's a problem with the implementation, not with the concept itself.
I don't do it much lately due to school, but I spent several years learning to be a weaver. I've done everything from belts to blankets, and even tried my hand at spinning yarn. Weaving is actually a lot like programming (the Jacquard loom was one of the first machines to use punchcards) in that you set the system up with a set of rules and then run it. Different systems give you different languages to express the pattern in, just like programming languages. The awesome thing about looms is that they're bootstrappable technology: give me some wood and tools and I can build a loom that I can then weave on. On top of that, the potential patterns you can create with these simple programs are innumerable, many of them quite beautiful.
this is really interesting. my hypothesis is this: the resources to learn anything you want, literally anything, exist online. in some cases too many resources exist ie- learn php or rails. Someone needs to organize those sources and the best ones. I was thinking maybe you organize topics into "virtual syllabuses". So say you wanted to learn web dev, you would go to this link for intro to everything, these set of links for RoR stuff, these set of links for mysql, etc. Also keep a list of blogs to continually read to stay up to date. saw youre a bc alum. what year? drop me an email, would love to talk more: j@jasonlbaptiste.com
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I learned a little bit of Common Lisp early in the summer and dabbled a bit with Scheme the last few months; my resolution has been to learn Scheme, honestly, alongside The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer. So, kudos and good luck!
I think it depends more on the complexity (conceptually) of the product and the cost. A user might be more inclined to commit for a shorter trial period and test the usefulness of the premium features - for consumers, 'cost of a latte' seems to be a much easier decision to make than $50. There are also other parameters you can tweak, the first one that comes to mind is the utility of the free offering, especially for a community site - more users means more network effects, more community participation and more opportunities for conversion. Right now your free offering seems to be drastically more limited than the pro account and that might be something you could play with.
We have no reason to sell GitHub, the business is doing very well and we're all having a great time.
Agreed, there can be some hassles. But your audience is very different. What works for software subscriptions might not work for music subscriptions (in your case). My hunch says that you will see decreased sales with monthly $5/mo sales as you have a community where a person needs time to seep in and he would rather prefer to take one time (annual) hit than month-after-month hits. Read Predictably Irrational for details on how monthly v/s annually affects customer psychology.

But then it is just my hunch (which is usually very wrong). You can start with a simple survey on checkout (if they prefer monthly) or ask your existing paid subscribers if they are willing to switch.
totally agree with you --- i think it's one of the best action movies i've ever seen. when placed head-to-head against other movies of its genre, it truly shines.
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summary? fish oil isn't healthy?
One problem with that is you're not dealing with UI preferences but people's money. Users might respond negatively when they find out pricing options available to some were not available to them and they, for instance, ended up with a subscription plan that's not entirely to their liking.
Everything you mention is true including the readily apparent line of questioning for those traveling to Israel. What you should note, though, is not the acute subject of questioning but rather the method. A screener in any terminal in the world knows at the least two facts. One, the city of embarkation and two, the destination. With these two facts alone and not including any other known information, both overt and covert, a trained screener can weave together a battery of questions that would be quite difficult to answer untruthfully without rousing suspicion. I've had it done to me many times and no two times are the same. Always different.

Again, it is the method that is important. A specific answer to a specific question in itself is not important, rather the exchange as a whole is what paints a picture of the one being questioned. Lets take your line of questioning - A guy says "I'm visiting friends... where? Comstock - it's near Sargent." Now the screener may not know where that is so lets go with that... Oh, Comstock? Where is that from (lets say) New York? How are you getting there? Is someone picking you up or are you renting a car? Who is picking you up? Do you have a rental car reservation? Where will you be staying when you get there? And on and on. This is how screeners are trained to question. They use the answers that you supply to continue probing until they are satisfied with the story as a whole.
It frustrates me that evidence is now available on the effectiveness various styles of unarmed combat but so many people seem to ignore it. There is a lot of placebo product sold in the martial arts industry that is designed to make students feel good about themselves while falsely claiming to be effective.

The advent of MMA gave us hard evidence on which martial arts were real. If you can't grapple (wrestling, Jiu Jitsu, or Judo), then you have no business being in a fight with someone who can. The styles of striking that emphasized full-speed sparring and competition (western Boxing, Muay Thai) appear to be much more effective than traditional styles based on learning various forms and katas.

The very rule changes that allowed MMA to stay legal in the US have corrupted its use as a pure laboratory of combat. However it is still the best legal experiment for the testing of martial arts. There is nothing stopping a Nth-degree blackbelt from stepping into the cage to prove the validity of his discipline, except for Thai boxers accustomed to kicking people in the face. So far, the challengers are few (again, except for Lyoto Machida).
I think if you refuse to comply with a flight attendant's directive, or the pilot's, you can be charge with interfering with a flight crew, or something. So whether a regulation is secret or not won't keep you out of jail; the regulation can be secret, but when the attendant tells you to do something you have to do it. My understanding.

IANAL
Presumably as part of an AJAX request?
I'm in avatar right now. It's beautiful but too long , and it lacks depth and cohesion. If you want a sweet scifi movie with actual plot see district 9.
If it's not designed for punching people in the face, then it should drop the "martial" from its description and simply describe itself as an "art", like dancing.
"The advent of MMA gave us hard evidence on which martial arts were real."

I see your point, but playing the devil's advocate here, fighting in a ring under rules is still very different from a fight on a street (no "rounds", no referee, multiple opponents, no holds barred, weapons, uneven lighting and general chaos). Japanese martial arts may have been designed to deal with fighting armored swordsmen on a battlefield, for example. So the "framing" of MMA may just show the effectiveness of various styles within that frame. Still useful, but not the ultimate lab (as you point out).
Also .. one more point is that I don't want to necessarily have only monthly/yearly plans. I think its best to have both with some discount if you pay yearly. Again this is just something I have seen on most sites and not experimented with personally
How about for $500m?

Not saying that's what would be offered, just noting that there is probably a monetary threshold where "having a great time" no longer is relevant.
What Assembler? It didn't come with one, and what do you need mnemonics for anyway?

You programmed in the absolute using the alt-numpad method to input arbitrary bytes, at least to bootstrap yourself.
> Also, is the kind of crazy made harder by the nascent fear of online exposure actually the kind of crazy referred to as "psychoticism" in the article? (Possibly. It does include "thrill-seeking" and "impulsiveness.")

I really doubt it. There's a lot of room between "unoriginal confirmist" and "whacked-out nutjob".

I liked this article because it supports my personal biases, but it's worth noting that Medical Hypotheses is a unique journal that's not peer reviewed (despite being published by Elsevier), and is devoted to providing "a forum for unconventional ideas without the traditional filter of scientific peer review."

But, I agree with the article that the institutions of science bias too far in favor of the staid and obediently unoriginal type of student. I get the impression that there's too much emphasis on short-term incremental research, and not a whole lot of true curiosity-driven creativity.
IMO something older than 6 months is old enough that it shouldn't be killed, but I don't intentionally submit dupes that are less than a year old.
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Are you sure? http://www.switched.com/2007/09/21/nyc-subway-stations-wired... says towers were added more than 2 years ago. After all, not having cell service in the subways seems like an enormous omission that would have millions of people screaming.
Any modern Unix Shell -- just because they're character-addressed doesn't make them not a GUI -- they have interactive screen-level features using curses. If it wouldn't work via teletype, it's a GUI.

All of the state information is available via the filesystems (including procfs/sysfs) and environment variables -- on a modern system you don't even need to exec.
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I think any backlash probably has more to do with the hype surrounding the movie than the actual expectations set by the trailer or the production company.

My wife and I have lots of friends who rave about Avatar. We know some people who called it "the best movie [they'd] ever seen". We saw it and were thoroughly disappointed as such.

As an action movie, it's fine and cool. As "the best movie ever", not even close.
wow thanks so much for that link! it's great to see that cameron's original script (which really seems like a short novel) had much more depth and soul. however, i suspect that he was first and foremost aiming to make a dazzling action film, so unfortunately a lot of the back-story and slower scenes had to be cut. i can't imagine how he could've squeezed in more story without cutting much of the action.
The Droid is hands-down the best non-iPhone phone on the market.

Huh? I just tried the Droid tonight at the Verizon kiosk, and I found it slow and confusing. HTC Sense on the HTC Hero is better by leaps and bounds.
More than why not, I'd like to know why?
(cross-post from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1018254)

wow thanks so much for that link! it's great to see that cameron's original script (which really seems like a short novel) had much more depth and soul. however, i suspect that he was first and foremost aiming to make a dazzling action film, so unfortunately a lot of the back-story and slower scenes had to be cut. i can't imagine how he could've squeezed in more story without cutting much of the action.
Agreed about District 9, but please don't be "that guy" who's going online during a movie.
Yeah, go back and watch the previews for it...I think there was a lot of footage that got cut.
Just landed in SFO. Some observations:

o United has (for now) discontinued Channel 9 (the pilot/ATC channel)

o The Pilot said the following "The TSA has requested I notify you of the following - You will not be allowed to move around the cabin for the last hour of the flight, you will not be allowed to have anything in your lap in the last hour of the flight, no blankets, jackets, nothing. We will make an announcement 15 minutes prior to the last hour of the flight so you can use the washroom."

So, when the announcement came that there was 15 minutes until lockdown in our seats - there was an immediate rush to line up for the washrooms, that spanned most of the cabin.

Interestingly enough, absolutely nobody paid attention to the 'Nothing in your lap' rule, and nobody policed it. People kept working on their laptops, tray tables were down, and nobody said anything. People kept wandering to the washroom.

One of the more ironic elements of the trip was as follows, the pilot announced "I will not be allowed to point out landmarks as we are flying" - and then 30 minutes prior to landing he noted "As you can all see on your left side, we are flying over the Golden Gate Bridge"

Definitely a bizarre experience.
OK, read RSS as RSS/Atom :)

But I wouldn't go as far as saying Winer is the only RSS publisher - HN feed is RSS based, Google News is RSS, NYT uses some RSS/Atom hybrid, Flickr offers both and so on..
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Guile had a bunch of intentions towards being a language-agnostic VM, a decade before that was popular.

RMS has been deathly afraid of losing total control over developer tools -- GCC's whole architecture was purposely designed to frustrate anyone trying to write out-of-tree code that handles/produces any of its internal representations (which is why companies are pouring money into llvm/clang). Imagine the bricks he would shit if emacs was a useful target for external compilers!
I was referring to the "X as a martial art" metaphor in general. Not your piece in particular. I should have been more clear.

This whole "Listen to how much Programming is like _____" thing is overdone. We're scientists, engineers, craftsmen, painters, artists, etc. and now we're also martial artists. I just don't understand why we can't be happy with being Computer Programmers.

And I understand that a rational criticism of me saying this is "well obviously this guy isn't exploring the deeper meaning of what's said here," but why does there need to be a deeper meaning behind this all? It just seems so meta.
This is what I was going to suggest.

1. choose a canned forum package,

2. install and configure it,

3. find some moderators; show them how to admin the site and make backups

I've never used phpBB so cannot recommend it.

Edit: maybe have a look at [mwForum](http://www.mwforum.org/).
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I use TweetDeck. I have found it to be an incredibly powerful application. At any given time I have about 5 columns up and I see trends and interesting content on the those subjects in real time. The noise is already reduced a lot by the more pertinent info getting retweeted more making it easy to spot.

For example, during PDC, I had a #PDC column up, and I almost completely effortlessly kept up with all the latest info. A #monotouch column is a more permanent member of my collection, it alone has me staying on top of that community, again, just about effortlessly.

I've actually completely abandoned RSS altogether.
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I got in from Boston -> SFO about an hour ago. The only major difference I noticed was the lack of channel 9. The pat-down did seem a bit more thorough than usual, perhaps. I had no problem with electronic gadgets in my carry-on, passed through Boston security with no problems, there was no lockdown for the last hour, and I had my jacket on my lap for half the flight.

YMMV. I suspect things are pretty inconsistent between flights at this point.
I'm almost always within a few miles of my home or office. Both locations have high speed internet connections. Skype offers great rates on international calls.

Just an idea, I'm not saying it's definitely a good one.