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I recommend chainsaw nunchucks over chainsaw fencing. It's a personal preference.
I was explained to really early on that "mystical energy crap" is a visualization tool. You can think about how you should control breathing and contract muscles in a sequence while balancing OR you could imagine being rooted to the ground and channeling "energy" from your grounded foot through belly onwards to the arm and fist "through" the target you are aiming at (just one example). It's all for practical purposes, see it only as a tool (unless you're into Kempo+Zen). It's all based on hard cold facts - for example it's easier to bear the load, punch something or absorb an impact while exhaling rather than inhaling.
Ignore everything, go with Brazilian Jiujitsu. Saying BJJ doesn´t work in real life is like saying Ruby doesn't scale.

If you want to become a killer machine, learn BJJ, box, wrestling and muay-thai and stop programming. If you want to get fit and exercise your mind and body, train BJJ.

There are plenty of gyms in the US with great black belts. Look for Alliance, Gracie Barra, Paragon, Brotherhood.
Here's another way - socialize medical research funding, at least for antibiotics.

Antibiotics are inherently less profitable than other drugs because doctors try to avoid using new ones so that the bugs don't develop resistance to them. By the time they're freely used, the patent might have expired, as patents of the kidney-killing drugs mentioned in this article have decades ago.

I don't really see a good market-based solution here.
I'm already using ten.tld as my company name and domain. I've got digitalmedia.tld and thought that its straight-forward self-explanatory nature would be better than ten.tld - when communicating over the phone with potential customers some of them are misspelling ten (tem, tel).

I like the "a perfect ten" idea. It's catchy :)
That data structure can be actually used for a log structured database where the sparse vector is the log file and the dense vector is the record index.

The index of the dense vector is then the record identifier, and the dense vector contains the offset of the valid record in the log database.

The record identifier is a handle to the record data. It can be reused when the record is deleted but will remain the same for the lifetime of the record.

The dense vector is very compact and may be stored and retrieved efficiently, even if stored in the log itself. The record key index stores the association between the key and the record identifier.

The GC or crash recovery process can easily locate valid records by checking if their offset matches the one found in the dense index.

So this data structure is not just of historical interest. Thanks for the link.
Big quake question: Are they getting worse?
Just as a personal observation, I much prefer the traditional style. All these "I want..." and "Give me..." style dialogs make me want to vomit.
I know someone who contracted MRSA after randomly scraping his knee. Almost killed him, and it came out of nowhere. Some hospitals have MRSA fatality rates over 20%. Scary as shit! Antibiotics abuse has screwed us, I guess, along with the sloppiness of many healthcare providers.
Everyone's model of work is a job
I suppose that answers your closing question of "Any ideas?". ;-)
> Just imagine what kind of tow this will be on morale of other operatives.

Oh poor Mossad, how will it ever manage now...

They just assassinated a person in another country, in cold blood, using passports from countries they are supposedly allies with. The main problem with that, is of course, the "morale" of the Mossad agents. Just like the the morale of a suspect charged with first degree murder should be the biggest concern of everyone involved.
Does anyone worry about the built-in Law Enforcement Access systems that the cloud services have? Bruce Schneier wrote an essay (http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hackin...) describing why that was bad and how it played into the Chinese hack of gmail. I hate to be a wet blanket, but just can't help to wonder, how many people stop and think of their privacy and the privacy of their corporate data, or do they just rush, following the herd over this particular cliff?
In a nutshell, manufacturing != manufacturing employment and the trade deficit just doesn't seem to be linked to the latter.
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When you're in a confrontation, there's either fight or flight. The practitioners of parkour consider it a martial art in that it represents the "flight" aspect.
I study Krav Maga. I prefer a practical self defense oriented approach. It is the system developed by and taught to the Israeli military. Moves are generally very simple (important so you can be effective without years of training). The problem with pretty much all other martial arts everyone is mentioning is that they have morphed to work ideally in a competitive environment. Sure, knowing just about any martial art will give you a huge advantage against someone who isn't skilled but there are alot of things people just don't train for with BJJ, Tae Kwon Do, etc.

For example, one of the first things we learned is defending yourself from various holds and chokes. The first move, after securing your throat or loosening their grip is generally to hit them in the balls. This is one example of something most martial arts won't teach you because that's generally "against the rules", however, in a self defense scenario, there are no rules (there are however laws that you may break so keep that in mind).

You really want to avoid going to the ground if at all possible. It just makes you more vulnerable if anyone else decides to jump in and you never know what you're rolling around on. Besides, what are you going to do, put someone in a submission until help arrives? A really effective way to break a hold is to grab their pinky and twist it in a direction it doesn't want to go. If they don't let go just move on to new fingers. Also, feel free to bite them. Hard. You can also pull hair, gouge eyes, fishhook, etc. It's great to know how to defend yourself on the ground, but you want to be on the ground as little as possible as it can be a dangerous place because your opponent is probably not playing under the same rules you are.

If you want more of a philosophy then it's probably not right for you. This is pretty much just about winning fights when it matters the most.
"Regan's or any other era's budget deficits pale in comparison the the unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security."

Actually, the biggest unfunded liability is the interest on the money that our Department of War spends. We borrow that money, and leaving alone the issue of defaulting on these loans or inflating them to nothing, borrowing all that money has a huge cost. I like to toss out the amount of $1.5 trillion a year on "defense," adding the cost of the interest on the loans - probably not a bad estimate.
I seriously suggest reading "Predictably Irrational," which goes into the psychology of pricing and the behavior of buyers in very surprising ways.
we need to look at alternate ways to enhance our immunity

Vaccines suit this description. But natural selection will favor bacteria that beat your immunity, however your immunity is enhanced. The bacteria for which we have effective defenses, of whatever kind, we forget about, but the few kinds of bacteria that can harm human beings continue to be surprising. That's the arms race of natural selection.
By "contact" he means strikes such as punches, kicks, etc.
I have no idea what this guy is going on about.

Anybody with a modicum of common sense realizes the climate is changing. It always has been. It's also painfully obvious that we haven't had good data on world-wide climate for a long period at all -- it's just a tiny drop in a very huge bucket.

There's probably some technical point about the standard of statistical reliability, but, quite frankly, who cares? Either you can state significantly that some decade or two did something or not, and in either case the climate keeps changing and one decade out of countless eons does not much of a measurement make one way or the other.

So for Joe Six-pack the underlying issue isn't there. What's left out of that? That people misquote each other in news media? That slogans and broad, fuzzy statements are used in the public discourse in place of scientifically exact ones?

Is this guy mad because people don't debate climate science in the precise terms he would like? So it's a cheap shot at people who "dumb-down" things in common discourse? Sounds elitist.
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It is a martial art; it's just not an Asian martial art.
Seconded. No book has made me more conscious of my spending habits!
Patients are equally sloppy. When they feel better, many discontinue antibiotic use. Providers too readily prescribe antibiotics to try to appease patients with, say, an obvious viral respiratory infection, but these are most often less valuable antibiotics such as first generation penicillins anyways.

Judicious antibiotic use is important, both for patient and provider, but there is a more pernicious problem lurking: the use of late-generation antibiotics - still critical for hospital use - in feed to produce larger livestock more cheaply.
After rereading the article and reading the comments on this thread I'm inclined to agree with you as far as it pertains to Apple. The overall point I made applies though. Not necessarily to Apple itself but to behavior of Western companies in general.
Despite the on-again off-again media hysteria, it would seem that there is some promising research on the horizon. Check out the TED talk by Kary Mullis:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/kary_mullis_next_gen_cure_... "Drug-resistant bacteria kills, even in top hospitals. But now tough infections like staph and anthrax may be in for a surprise. Nobel-winning chemist Kary Mullis, who watched a friend die when powerful antibiotics failed, unveils a radical new cure that shows extraordinary promise."
In the case of Nasuni and the Filer product; we have thought about this. All data is encrypted using your encryption keys, before being stored in the cloud. You're perfectly right to be concerned though.

Storing your data in the cloud, in the clear does open you to risk, which is one of the reasons cloud storage has not "taken off" for businesses in general, and why we do so much work to encrypt and protect all data before it is sent over the wire.

We wrote a blog post on this recently, in fact:

http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/security-and-the-nasu...
I've actually got a pile of programming books I'd like to get rid of as well, but don't want to give them to my local charity shop as I'm guessing they're unlikely to find any buyers for them there. Anyone having any other suggestions (well other than just posting to HN) what to do with them ?
Oh, let's cut the fud.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02...

From Associated Press (link is to Washington Post):

"Israel's parliamentary opposition leader on Tuesday praised the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month"

Let's think about it. This definetly caused a diplomatic blow to Israel. If they indeed didn't do it, they would have revved up their propaganda machine to the maximum denying everything. They are not, they are praising it. At this point arguing if Israel did or not is a little silly I think.
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Yeah, yeah, I know my comment was too off the cuff and sentimental.

But the ethical evaluation of labor practices is not as simple evaluating an improvement in standard of living. There is a line that can be crossed - the line certainly isn't crossed in your NYC vs. Arkansas example, but it /can/ be crossed (min age, min wage, max hours, safety, etc.).
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Methods used by Skype to protect its integrity is described in presentation by Philippe Biondi and Fabrice Desclaux: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-...

Definitely worth reading - actually the integrity tests consume more CPU than VoIP itself.
I can't point to any research, but it seems the bias lately is "keep it simple", which would point to your second option.

You can add a simple "expiring credit" function like Skype has (if your account is untouched for a year, they tell you to begin using it, however little, or lose it) to keep your books sane, and a service to transfer money out for e.g. a $10 fee.
I used to do kendo and loved it. I tried taking a kung fu course for a phys. ed. requirement at college and hated it.

Martial arts are not some magical thing you do; this isn't anime, people. They're just highly refined methods of bringing the hurt to someone.

Kendo was very good exercise; the time we did 1,200 suburi for the new year (100 per month) was quite the workout. I regret dropping it due to schedule problems. However much I enjoyed it, though, I don't really think it conferred any special advantages to me as an engineer compared to any other form of exercise.
Alright, here is a better 'morality guide':

Assassinating someone is a crime.
Yeah, I went to a Taekwondo place that also taught Hapkido and found it a very good combination: Taekwondo will get you in very good shape (Olympic-style sparring builds up cardio and flexibility quite well) and Hapkido is what you actually use if you have to mess a dude up.

In general, I'd have to say it really depends on the teacher...a good teacher can make any martial art useful, just as a bad one can make any completely useless.
Surely kids will just get sunglasses?
A Chinese friend of mine has been on about this 'Internet of things' for a while now. He claims there is quite a lot of government-backed Chinese venture capital chasing 'Internet of things' startups.
I've studied a couple martial arts in various amounts: Judo, Kendo, Tae Kwon Do, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. All are interesting in their own ways, but I recommend Judo and BJJ... or Kendo if you need to vent by beating people with sticks :)

In fact, I would say to try Judo and see what you like about it. If you like the throwing, then stick with Judo. If you like the grappling (which unfortunately, sport Judo mostly lacks these days...) then switch to BJJ.
No, the original was right. You'll find it loses its effectiveness when you clinch someone who then stabs you repeatedly. Or perhaps you roll across a large piece of glass or get your head bashed against a curb or pavement. I think BJJ is great for what it is but I hate to see people confuse it for something it isn't.
What threshold do you need to get that downvote button? I don't see it yet.
Should the Apple iPad run Mac OS X instead of iPhone OS?
Worthless without context. What I'd really like to see is the change in US manufacturing as a percent of world manufacturing over time, and the trajectory of US manufacturing in comparison to the level of manufacturing in China.
If a woman desires sex with a good looking guy but marriage with a rich guy, it's in her best interest not to talk about the former, lest it be difficult to manage the latter.
You do know A Christmas Carol is fiction, right? That Scrooge and Marley don't really exist?
> The US has assassinated A LOT of al Qaeda and Taliban members in the "war on terror",

I don't like the "if we do it, it's ok" ethics though. So if US does and does it A LOT (sic) then it's ok?
Multidrug therapy will become the mainstay. It works for HIV (HAART) because despite the high mutation rate of HIV, it is exceedingly rare for the virus to sustain the ~3 different mutations required to confer resistance to 3 different drugs simultaneously.

I imagine that this will, in fact, be how we end up applying our targeted cancer therapies as well.

Let me put it this way: each base of the genome of a {cancer, bacterium, virus} has some chance of mutation at each replication step. If you target just one protein, then you may need as little as one mutation to confer resistance. In a normal human genome, you would expect this to happen to the nucleotide of interest once every hundred thousand cell divisions. Obviously a cancer has a higher error rate and millions of rapidly dividing cells, so this would occur quickly. If you target two proteins, you would expect both mutations to co-occur once every (100,000 x 100,000) cell divisions. If you target three proteins... Now you are getting somewhere.

Certainly it is not quite this simple. If variants with one mutation are more fit than those without it, then resistance to one drug in the cocktail will be selected for. But with HAART, we have seen that the multidrug approach is fairly - perhaps surprisingly - robust to that possibility.
Hate to be nitpicky, but the U.S. Mint does not print anything. They mint coins. They fund operations with licensing the Minting machines to other nations and collectible coins. They also at one point minted other nations'coins.
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In general, I agree with you. As applied to our kids, specifically, it doesn't ring true. They are both excited by the same games: Spore, Club Penguin, Rock Band, Zelda, Pokemon. Some of which seem like 'playing house' (Club Penguin) and others 'escape/imaginative.' In their non-computer time, they play a game they've invented called "Creatures." I'm not sure what this game entails (it appears to have no real rules), but it seems partway between 'playing house' and 'escape/imaginative.'

Judging by the general level of tidiness around here, nobody's really that into 'playing house.' ;-)
So is there evidence that English majors are better at that kind of metacognition than, say, engineering majors? (I certainly don't credit MOST business majors with a high level of metacognition, but maybe all we have going on now is yesterday's former marginal English majors becoming today's marginal business majors. Maybe neither major program adds value to the students enrolled in it.) I strongly suspect that engineering majors have more experience reading harder material more closely than most humanities majors, but I'm basing that mostly on my close acquaintance with my contemporaries. There may well be published research on this subject--what does that research say?
Secondary conclusion: As long as manufacturing productivity continues to improve, increasing our manufacturing may lead to American prosperity, but it won't save the economy, in that it won't produce jobs.

Long-term, I've actually not been concerned about American manufacturing for a while now. Why is overseas manufacturing cheap? Primarily, cheap labor. When does that cease to be an advantage? When labor is no longer a significant cost in manufacturing. We're getting there pretty quickly, and IMHO robotics has only recently (i.e., last two or three years) taken off, which should be able to continue the increased-productivity-per-human trend for a while yet.

Bad time to become an assembly line worker. Good time to get into robotics for manufacturing, probably.

I had a contract job in a tool & die facility a couple of years ago. It wasn't a factory, it was a "build-to-order" facility that had a wide variety of equipment in various places and they needed better tracking of their jobs and such. I didn't mention this to anyone, but I was struck by how much work was being done that could be automated in the near future. Tens of jobs dedicated solely to moving things around, which robots are going to be able to take over in the 5 year timeframe. Another tens of jobs that involve placing a metal part just so in a press and pushing two buttons (two so you have to use both hands). QA can't be replaced with robots entirely, but it could be helped. The bulk of the people on the floor were not doing things that required human judgment, even for human-class vision or human-class pathfinding. The future is basically now.
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we use celery for task scheduling in the web app we're building. it's pretty fantastic for our needs, haven't had any major issues with it. they just announced 1.0 but we're still on .9.
And that's great - the less demand there is from the illegitimate users the less compelled the cracker are to crack.
Oh! Another question (and I'm not trying to be a dick; I'm just really curious - data storage/retrieval in the cloud solves 1,000 other problems): how's Nasuni different than Cleversafe? Cleversafe runs their own data centers, I believe, but other than that, it seems similar: http://www.cleversafe.com/
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It isn't really that they are arbitrary, rather there is a continuum - some "achievements" are clearly fake and others clearly real, but there is a grey area in between where it depends on the specific situation and goals of the person involved.
For years I've taken two 325mg aspirin once or twice a week rather than take the small 81 mg each day. Works better for me.
"BJJ works well in a cage and between two people. Keep in mind that's a very controlled environment."

I knew a cop in Philly who said it's saved his life countless times, and asserted it was more useful than Judo and Tang Soo Do. YMMV
I'm in the same boat. I'd be happy to give books away to people locally (I'm in Los Angeles) but I'm kinda too busy to deal with the post office. There's a cool web site or two that address this problem (a friend of mine is a big fan of one which I believe is called PaperbookBookSwap.com or something like that), but it's not worth it to me to wait at the post office. (Waiting in lines drives me nuts.)

In the past I've given books away to the local library. Where I live now, they only take donations on Saturday mornings, so I've just been giving them to Goodwill instead. There's something about donating a Haskell intro to Goodwill that fills very stupid, though. I hope they have some system where they put them all on eBay or sell them upstream somewhere to some kind of distributor, but I think they just throw them on the shelves.

If we were to build or find some kind of "free programmer books" site where we could just co-ordinate giveaways, I'd be very happy to kick in a ton of books, and probably to keep doing so for years.
It's not an app, and it doesn't work for others, but for you: use noise-canceling headphones.
In general, folks tend to produce things that other people are willing to pay for. Why should pharma be any different? And why is this wrong?

Because having individuals with limited resources independently pursuing their own goals doesn't necessarily maximize overall utility, or even any actual individual's utility. It's entirely possible to have a scenario where, say, nobody would individually pay for something to be researched, but everyone would be willing to chip in a small portion of the cost if everyone else did the same. Since it's difficult to ensure wide-scale cooperation, it doesn't happen and the result is that everyone is worse off.

I don't understand the mindset that sees a problem that, by elementary game theory, doesn't have an optimal outcome reachable by simple self-interest, and proposes that what we need is more self-interest.
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

I don't buy this. Humans are risk-averse and a having a job isn't the best way to earn a living - it's the easiest and to a certain extend the safest.

Founding a start up, or working as a freelancer isn't for everyone, and pointing fingers and yelling "you're brainwashed because you didn't make the same superior choices I did" isn't very constructive.
People who say that usually have no kids.