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Mamet's opinions about acting (and directing) are a crock of shit

They are. Proof by counterexample: go watch Ian McKellen perform Richard III (1995 film). Here's a YouTube clip of a few opening scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5-SUDrHMU. This is simply brilliant stuff. Now imagine actors, no matter how good, merely reading the lines — without an overriding concept for the show, just reading the text and moving just enough to make the action make sense. Laurence Olivier's 1955 Richard III is rather like that; good mostly because the play is awesome, not because it's a good movie or a good production.
> But these are videos of slaughtering of civilians.

Unless I've missed something, the evidence Wikileaks claim to have hasn't been released yet (that's the 5 April date they keep mentioning). And yet, they describe it as a "massacre" and you echo this by using the word "slaughtering".

I have little sympathy for governments who try to do dubious things claiming national security/terrorist threat/whatever as justification without presenting any real evidence. I have equally little sympathy for Wikileaks, trying to drum up publicity at a time when it is desperately short of money, doing the same thing with just as little evidence shown. If it's that important, why are they waiting to reveal it, and practically daring the security services to stop them?
There is no file uploading as of now. I simply have a script that pulls 500 new photos from Flickr every morning and then another script that adds 20 more photos to the frontpage every 30 mins.
Why can't they be like clojure and pick a name that isn't overloaded by everything else...
Iceland or any other country is not under US jurisdiction!

CIA is not law enforcement agency!

Wikileaks is a medium for whistleblowers, not a "spy agency"!
Yea your right it won't really change arc anyways. pg hasn't ported it to not use set-car! etc...
Agreed. Favorite quote " ..Destructive agency Rainfall Daffinson does ugly sites calm.. "

simply brillant site!!
[ http://rainfall-daffinson.com/about/copypaste.html ]
The point in question is whether HIPAA and other health privacy standards allow a provider to describe their architecture. They do (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_an...).

Whether a business chooses to talk about their setup depends on a variety factors including their business model. However, keeping such things private is often security through obscurity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity).
Or maybe Digg's model is flawed. I don't know if it is or not, but from everything I'd read it was far from optimal. I'd love to see more about it though. Now, relationship graph traversal is an issue for normalized relational systems, but in these cases, things could be split pretty from articles versus recommendations.

One big problem I see in these comparisons is when a NoSQL person claims that their box is processing 5000 req/sec, what does that mean? Are they denormalizing this so much that it's equivalent to 500-1000 req/sec on a RDBMS?

Another thing: when Digg was starting their type of site was very novel. There wasn't much out there that approached the scale and growth they experienced. I'm sure that StackOverflow has been designed with scaling in mind.
Forget war, what about painting the bikeshed?
12. The Dodd bill would sharply reduce the pool [...]

s/would/could, per this exchange: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1214242

Without disputing grellas' far more experienced explanation, I would like to reiterate that any shrinkage of the investment pool would be an effective rather than an explicit consequence if this bill were to become law; jurisdiction over the terms of admittance to the accredited investor pool remains with the SEC.

I know, Dodd is a Democrat who leads his committee under a Democratic administration, and Democrats are stereotypically in favor of tightening regulations on business rather than loosening them. Concern about the likely outcome is entirely understandable, although I don't believe Democrats lie awake at night dreaming of new ways to inhibit small-scale capital formation.

Also (and for the last time, I promise), AFAIK no changes are proposed to the provisions of Regulation D which confer accreditation status on any prospective investor who accepts a directorship, partnership, or executive office in a business, regardless of their financial wherewithal (although accepting such a position incurs obligations of its own, with corresponding costs of compliance).
Why duplicate reality?
But in this case, the regulations don't require it.
JQueryPad - Dedicated Editor for JavaScript & HTML
It can, however, be arbitrarily long.
Maintainability and Python's more powerful, i.e., I'm more dangerous with it, than php.
Some of the concerns seem more sensible than others. Lossless audio I'd put fairly far down the list: in blind tests, nobody, not even audiophiles, can tell the difference between high-quality mp3s (e.g. lame -v0) and FLAC.
And They have an obligation to do what's in the best interest of the citizens of this country.

Classification is useful only so far as it improves our well-being. Nuclear launch codes and radio frequencies fall under this. Keeping something classified because it embarrasses a gov't official or maybe costs him a job is not.
Thanks for input, I will add that to the todo list. thanks!
A person is smart. People are dumb.
I wasn't referring exclusively to HIPAA. I also assumed that medical software companies would tend to be the type that don't like their employees blogging. It's not even just security, but general trade secret stuff.
I am actually going to really consider implementing this. I think you are right. Before I had the option of allowing users to submit photos, but no one really submitted anything so the site kind of died. I realized I need fresh content to make the site addictive, but your idea will take it a step further.
Seems you would be more interested in the Rainbow 6 part of the Tom Clancy franchise. I've only played the original (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancys_Rainbow_Six_(video_... ) so i'm not sure if the sequels are similar, but in the first you could design the entire mission waypoints, literally hit "go!", and sit back and watch. You wouldn't have to take control of any of the men if you didn't need to (sometimes you have to because the AI would get stuck trying to climb a ladder, etc).
Confront any member of one of the online shouting societies and they will tell you they are speaking from deeply held personal beliefs, even if it's on an issue that they knew nothing about or held diametrically opposed views just a few hours before.
Wow, I guess having actual digital distribution will save some cash.
Meanwhile The Hackers Are Kicking Your Asses
Despite the headline, this seems mostly like an attempt to get more detailed information about the brain structure that gives rise to consciousness, not really an attempt to solve the "hard" philosophical problem of how it could even be possible that a brain structure (of any sort) gives rise to consciousness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
1 in 2 Americans Will Have a Smartphone by Christmas 2011
I believe the key here is "figuring out" - choosing a particular behaviour in a setup not found in natural setting. If a particular behaviour is hardcoded in DNA (e.g. bees building hexagonal cells), you cannot say it's been figured out.

Well, maybe by the evolution but not the animal.
You mean "37signals".
Heyzap (YC W09) Explains How It Is Bringing Social Games to the Web
Upvoted. I wish all legislation involving money were required to express quantities as percentage - of the federal budget, a criminal's assets, or whatever else - rather than absolute dollar amounts, whose value and significance fluctuate over time.
Precisely. Even if my latency is 0.1s-0.2s, that is still not a big deal if I write my app well.
it's not any harder than any other linux platform; you just need to account for the small screensize (800x480 if I remember correctly)

The big win is that you can port existing linux apps targeted at other mobile platforms (or even desktop platforms, if you can make them work at 800x480) You also have a full linux stack for debugging on-device.
And what about government employees with access to sensitive information who can't keep the secrets they agreed to when they signed up? Do you think the public should get to know who they are so they can decide whether the leakers can still be trusted to hold government jobs?
Isn't the Norvig solution completely straightforward? Just the basic back propagation algorithm?

So maybe in some cases it just helps to read the literature a little bit...

For example at the Google Code Competition (forgot the proper name), I am not very good, but I learned some things from reading solutions of older competitions. I think there even is a book dedicated to solving that kind of problem. It would probably help a lot with writing a Sudoku solver, too.

Edit: not to take away from the Norvig solution, it is probably beautifully crafted. But come on - it IS the straightforward solution? Or what am I missing?
8 seats isn't very much.
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I don't give much of a rat's ass for StUdLy CapS and other typesetting affectations.

Is 37{" S" / "s" }ignals populated with smart guys who have stuff I want to listen to?

Absolutely!

Do I care to contort myself to follow their affectations?

No.
Marko Bijelic: Hey You Losers from Hacker News!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1222014
Suck me!
FWIW, if you're searching for a better interface, django-filebrowser uses Uploadify which works quite well.
Right. But the different types of planes are going to different destinations. So you would fly your 737 to your hub and then use a plane with more cargo space for the flights expected to have scuba gear or skis. In this way a mix of planes might be more efficient.
I thought they used telltale sounds to detect the guy who they just caught in France, no?
Well, to me, you are trying to solve the wrong problem. Everyone is voting for what they like which all goes into one big pool. I think you should let people create groups with their own rules.

Flickr already has a very active scene where people create groups that are voted on in various ways, but it's very ad-hoc. Here are a few examples of the types of groups:

Post pictures with at least 50 favs
http://www.flickr.com/groups/greatpix50/

Pictures with a least 4000 views
http://www.flickr.com/groups/views4000/

Post a picture of a tree, comment on one
http://www.flickr.com/groups/the_tree/

Post one, award two
http://www.flickr.com/groups/history-mystery/

Top 20 Travel Pics
http://www.flickr.com/groups/top20travelpix/

I would suggest looking at what these people are doing and seeing if you can make a better system for them.
Here's a starting point:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-m...
I find Wikipedia's policy on typesetting of trademarks pretty sensible, and mostly use something like it in my own writing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(trad...
This line of ESR's

> As Linux grows, there will come a time when your raw talent is not enough.

is the key bit.

...and I think it was proven true several years back, when Linus found it increasing hard to keep on top of dealing with the inflow of bug fixes, patches, features, etc.

Raw talent is never enough for the really big problems. Proper use of routines and procedures are a brain amplifying technology.
Because the probability of success asymptotically approaches zero as each vendor tries out the same idea and offers slightly less for the solution :)
And, as I have said here elsewhere, the disobedient must be willing to face the consequences of their disobedience else it means nothing. I have little respect for the draft dodgers of my youth, particularly those who now expect all will be forgotten when they return from Canada to visit their aging relatives, but for Mohammed Ali and others who subjected themselves to imprisonment, I have a great deal of respect.
Interesting article, but I don't see that it even attempts to address the nature of consciousness. It talks about what the brain is doing when it is consciousness, but that's not even close to discussing why we experience consciousness when the brain does that.
There are two parts to propaganda.

How omni-present it is and how believable it is.
In the Soviet Union, propaganda was universal but universally disbelieved since people learned to discount it.

A mechanism which gives people strong incentive to support the official version in their own words creates much more believable propaganda.

If China has mechanism for creating propaganda that is more omnipresent and as believable, then I suppose it has a leg up. But in ways, omnipresence of propaganda can sometimes work against it's believability.

Just much, those states which have a powerful central propaganda mechanism can erode their credibility over time, especially when they use it to attempt to dispel things that are directly visible to ordinary people. The USSR's propaganda naturally became less effective as the country's production system fell apart. China's recent economic growth obviously reinforces the credibility of the state there.
> Trademarks in CamelCase are a judgment call.

OK, I guess that I agree with Wikipedia on this one!
Wages and the Cost of Housing in America
In Gratuitous Space Battles (aka the best-named game ever) you plan out your strategy, hit play, and watch. I haven't actually played it yet, but it seems like a perfect "baking" style game for you.

http://www.positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/
can you? My experience has been that large corporations, never mind the government, are perfectly happy to pay 2x or 3x the rates in order to deal with someone large.
Yeah we prefer small groups and focus on actually getting work done. We want to figure out by actions not words if some subsets of us would make good teams.
You're not, but as you say this approach imposes its own difficulties. A piecemeal approach often, though not necessarily, gets faster results.
You are 100% correct.

This is a good example of Python making it harder for you to do the wrong thing. Sure.. you could access that "private" attribute, but you have to do it in a way that isn't obvious, and definitely more hard to read.
Because the discussion is anticlimactic when viewed from that perspective. It has lots of message, the vast majority of which are technical. AFAICT, Linus never responded to ESR's email. But, ESR's point is still sound, which is why I suspect this got posted in the first place.

Have a look yourself: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0008.2/0240.h...
True, but I can't imagine more than a couple of those tables are accessed at the high frequency rate that requires performance optimization.
The hedging point is just another of the unsubstantiated assertions he makes. As you say, there's not even any reason to mention hedging. If they use less fuel they make more money independent of their mechanism for better knowledge of their future price of fuel.
"He further shows that a machine with the correct minimal set of operations can calculate anything that is computable, no matter the complexity."

Does anybody know what this principle is called?
Wow. I'm certainly no GIMP fan - to be honest, I hate it - a bad attitude to have towards a piece of software I know, but technically so promising and continually let down by bad UI issues I kind of feel it's like an ex-girlfriend.

But kudos to the GIMP team for doing it first.
Quite awesome, though I have to wonder how much computing power goes into reading the zero's and one's, controlling the servos, powering the led display, programs, etc. relative to the amount of computing power of the turing machine itself. A ratio of 10,000 to 1? A million to 1? A billion?
They can install your product, but not if you bundle Perl/Python/Ruby in that directory?
Well said! Few hard problems are solved entirely from scratch, unless it is to boost one's ego. In almost every field, the key is to identify problems with similar patterns or constraints.
"The Unit" was aweful on multiple levels. But Mamet's point is basic and correct: Any scene, thus, which does not both advance the plot, and standalone (that is, dramatically, by itself, on its own merits) is either superfluous, or incorrectly written.

True for all literature really.
This is very cool! Thanks for posting this link.

A very nice description of Turing machines, Abacus machines and in introduction to recursive functions can be found in the book "Computability and Logic" by Boolos, Burgess and Jeffrey.
Fair points.

What kind of generic information would help you? We're pretty excited about graphs, social software, collaborative filtering, event coordination, behavior analysis, and collaborative editors, but would consider working on anything interesting with a realistic chance to succeed. We like iterating and letting the market guide us. These are roughly the things we agree on, and why we are considering to work together.

If you email us at founders@iter8.org we can give you more personal info.
hmm, looks like I should carry a clip of the show "Friends" on my iPhone and show it to people before I make them a bad offer to increase my chances of them saying yes.
not since arc 3.1

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=10254
Also, many many people already know JS/CSS/HTML, like me.

I picked up phonegap and had my first app on the store in a week of spare time. But then I rewrote it with Titanium because it was kind of slow, which took at most another day.

It felt like Christmas, and I found iPhone skillz under the tree.

But now I want in-app-purchase, so I'm learning Obj-C... so the above was all for nothing.
Twitter ID generation transition
Anti-counterfeiting agreement raises constitutional concerns
So, Jobs really drives a car with no license plate! Interesting.
What if you want a Mac that's not ugly?
tl;dr: A perspective on corporations, governance, politics and stakeholders from an analyst at the Ayn Rand Center.
Presumably it's also Wal Mart, Glaxo Smith Kline, and Pepsi Co with you.
Makes sense, but I'm not sure I like the way it's headed. Scheme is so named due to a Lisp system called Planner. "Scheme" and "Planner" (and, I suppose, "Gambit") have mostly neutral connotations. "Swindle", "Larceny", "Heist", and now "Racket" are obviously criminal.

It's not a good direction, PR-wise. You end up with people having to justify to their bosses why they want to use something called Racket for work, or justifying to parents why their kids are learning Racket in schools.

(And then there's the inevitable analogy: Python : Pythonista :: Racket : Racketeer)
Thanks for letting me know and I think by Uploadify you meant the Jquery plugin, right?
Torvalds never really followed up, with just one paragraph a lot later in the thread: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0008.2/0241.h...
"On the whole, people tend to _want_ to share, because it ends up being the easier "quick hack" in many cases. So I'm not worried about that part overmuch. I'm worried about people who share even when it doesn't make sense. And I'm worried about people having bad interfaces, which makes even sensible sharing end up as a experiment in horror.
That's why I'm so un-interested in the "let's share" argument. I don't think that is where the problems are. "

The more interesting "follow-up" is historical, when kernel development started using BitKeeper and then git, instead of Linus' email inbox.
The difference between attacking Safari and Chrome is that once you've found the browser hole, which may well exist in both browsers, you still need to break out of Chrome's sandbox. If one is going to attack a WebKit browser, Safari's definitely the easier choice.
Celebrity gossip? Jesus.
That line stuck out for me as well. I just finished the new Wheel of Time book the other day; It's much better than the last 5 or so for precisely this reason. An object lesson.
Good comment, but I wouldn't quite say that using a non-relational database frees you from having to think about a cohesive data model. It might be more accurate to say that for some data models non-relational stores are a more natural fit which frees you having to think about how to force your model into the wrong container.
It was a slightly snarky reference to this:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1088-how-not-to-apply-for-a-j...
Also good for work travel when all you want to do is show a couple of presentations & take some notes, but don't want to lug around a couple of thousand euro MBP with you. :)
I think this is a good idea, but I had the same reaction to the lack of information. What I want is specific information, not generic. For example:

1. How many of you are there?

2. Why are you withholding your identities?

3. Are there several organizers looking to find co-founders for several different startups, or are the organizers already committed to working together?

4. Is the point to co-found companies with the organizers or will it be setup so that any two (or three) attendees have a chance to group together?

5. Name one example of a "pretty impressive" thing that you've built. If you insist on being secretive could you give an example of a similar thing that somebody else built that was as impressive as the things on your resumes.
'PLT Scheme' to just 'Skeem'?
" Iceland or any other country is not under US jurisdiction! CIA is not law enforcement agency!"

Right. The Central Intelligence Agency doesn't have "jurisdiction" the same way a law enforcement agency does, because they're not law enforcement. They exist to "collect, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence [and] engage in covert action at the president's direction in accordance with applicable law."

"Wikileaks is a medium for whistleblowers, not a "spy agency"!"

Imagine what a reckless policy it would be for the CIA to decide "we do not investigate Wikileaks because they're just whistleblowers". Wouldn't that make them a possible haven for actual foreign spies? Put another way: how do you know Wikileaks is completely free of foreign spies?

The CIA, as an intelligence agency, has the duty to gather intelligence on groups like Wikileaks. They have the duty to have a clear understanding of what Wikileaks is doing, and to act against them (individually or as a group) if it is deemed necessary by the president or others in the chain of command.
Overall they are looking to change the id generation away from guaranteed sequential to time based but remain 64bit unsigned int. From the post: "...Instead IDs will be derived based on time: the
most significant bits being sourced from a timestamp and the least
significant bits will be effectively random."

The main concern on the thread is the since_id and also the max_id used mainly for pagination and caching.
Interesting focus on the legality and Constitutionality of how ACTA might be accepted. Rather than Senate approval, the Obama administration has suggested the use of "sole executive agreement" option for approval. Scary to think ACTA could get all the way to approval without public discussion and debate!

EFF has a page for asking your Senator to investigate ACTA here: https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=Us...