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I spent a few days in a rinzai zen buddhist monastery in upstate New York about 3 weeks ago. I was also initially skeptical, and in a lot of pain. Doing the retreat with other newbies, and talking about the experience with the monks during the informal meetings really helped. I still feel the effects of it - my crazy schedules at work and tight deadlines just don't seem to bother me anymore. It's wearing off a bit now, but I still feel much more focused, peaceful and "together". I highly recommend it. - I only went for 3 days though, perhaps I'll consider a 7-day retreat someday.
I did that on purpose. I'm easy to amuse.
If Buzz had had a really compelling user experience and killer features at the start then that's what the early media reaction would have been about.

Instead they launched a half-baked product, with high expectations because anything Google does immediately has a high standard to meet, and that let the unforced error they committed with privacy dominate the news.
I have a DPhil in computing. When I started it, I thought that I was probably going to go straight into an academic career, but as time moved on I started to feel that a detour into industry might be a good idea. I'm now firmly in industry, but I still have strong ties to academia and expect that I will return to it in due course (say, once I'm rich and not spending all my time on Tarsnap).

I would strongly dispute any suggestion that a PhD is only useful for people who plan on staying in academia. I've found my doctoral experience to be very useful both while working on Tarsnap and while doing outside consulting; and in talking to other people in the startup ecosystem I've noticed a distinct difference in the quality and well-formedness of ideas coming from PhDs and PhD students compared to their less-educated colleagues.
If you are charging more than an apartment is WORTH, then no one will pay.

I think you mean it is illegal to sublet for a profit (receiving more from the tenant than you owe to the landlord) which is not the same thing.
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Ok, I was about to rage about yet another article going on about the Two Children problem and getting it wrong by leaving out a whole host of children (i.e. children in families of more or less than two children). Then it surprised me by not only acknowledging it, but acknowledging that the the 50% answer is correct when we are selecting from an arbitrary family (as the original problem is usually presented).

It then goes on to acknowledge that the 33% answer would be correct if we specifically choose a two child family that fits the parameters of the problem beforehand.

It's all about why the information was selected.
Maybe you just expect that 5 can't be modern in any sense?

That's the subversive part of the title. I believe that Perl 5 code written well--written with the full power of CPAN and features of recent releases and all of the community wisdom developed in the past several years--is as good or better than code written in almost any other language. I also believe that it's reasonably easy to teach a Perl 5 novice how to write code well.
It absolutely will be a benefit if he enjoys it, plus the added benefits of training a part of the brain that is largely believed to be related to analytical thinking.

I personally find that stress, worry, fear are bigger enemies than anything else. If I find myself stressed, then I make mistakes and dig myself into the hole further. It takes a lot to just let things go, let it all go and only be in the moment going from where I'm at to where I need to be.

I'm fortunate in that my hobby is programming though :)
I did Logo in 3rd grade, and I can say it was a good thing for me. You might be on to something there. I have always felt that the first thing any computer eduction should entail is drilling the following into peoples' heads: computers are machines that only do exactly what they are told to.
Or perhaps by having no "early termination" penalty in the one month "contract".
I guess the question is, where? I think the only place I would trust is HN.

I've got to remind myself to not be so paranoid. There aren't people spending their whole days lurking to steal 'your' idea. Even if they did, the vision isn't there to see it through.
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Just to add my voice to the chorus: I'm tired of maintaining my personal WordPress blog and worrying about the latest security issues. Posterous now has all the features I need. But I don't want to break every link to my posts.

If you have other priorities, that's cool; just know that this is a feature that's definitely going to bring you more users.
This is a great blog post and I'm glad someone put it up on HN otherwise I probably never would have read it.
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You seem to be confusing "Erlang" with "functional programming." They are not equivalent. Erlang is not what makes functional style good for concurrency — it takes advantage of some of the factors, but it is not the be-all-end-all. Erlang's actor-based green-threaded messaging is only one concurrency style.
Agreed. I'd be open to this type of situation.

But how to find said person.. there isn't an online community of potential co-founders that I'm aware of.

Maybe the best solution is what nudge suggested. The idea seems more appealing the more I type this comment. And if I want to present my idea to HN, that'll really motivate me to get my shit together.
Do you think it would be possible to replicate the relevant aspects of the math from Anathem? How much money would it take? I bet there would be a decent number of people in the world who would want to commit for a year or two. And I'd like to imagine that there would be some useful research that would come out of it...
A bit unrelated, but this reminded me of a Blackadder quote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUazM5lm1rk
could this possibly be abused by them refusing to leave?

I guess if you put in the contract how much it costs per night they'd at least legally owe you in full.
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just tried make a one liner to get info about keywords from Wikipedia.

This is just an idea can be further advanced , the command is just use of the wiki dns and few utilities like dig and zenity.
Maybe I have a weird family, but my mom does not want to write any scripts. She just wants the damn thing to work.

For her and many other people I know, it's a bit like driving a car. If you want to drive a car, you have to know certain basic rules and that's it. The guys who do maintenance and repairs are the ones who know what happens under the hood and you take your car to them whenever necessary.

I also know lots of people who know what happens under the hood and love to tinker with their cars. I'm not one of them myself. I do that with computers, but not with cars. I don't see why computers should be a special case where everyone has to know how to tinker with the "stuff under the hood".
The way they contacted Bluehost is very odd. They say they reached out via LinkedIn, which is probably not the correct way to report a security breach.

Especially that the Bluehost contact page (http://www.bluehost.com/contact_us.html ) has multiple methods of contact, include a 24/7 tech support and an extended hours telephone line to report "SPAM, fraud, or anything suspicious". Surely a security breach and malware qualifies for one of these contact methods?
* A system that is designed for mostly disk will run faster when run in memory, but won't be as fast as one designed from the outset for in-memory operation.

* Leaving out features is harder than adding features, because you have to judiciously decide which ones to leave out. A large bushel o' features can have many different subsets, and only some of these subsets are worthwhile.
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i think a good way to spread this idea would be to pick some wikipedia pages with pi in their equations and add a section demonstrating how the equations are simpler with tau.

anyone know some good candidate pages?
Does that mean these are actually legal currently? I assumed that they were illegal in most jurisdictions, since most municipalities have some sort of regulation on short-term rentals, at least to the extent of requiring registration and an occupancy tax paid, which most AirBnB 'landlords' aren't complying with. But enforcement is difficult / not a priority when it comes to single individuals renting out a room--- enforcement is usually directed more towards, say, someone who owns an entire apartment complex running an unlicensed hotel out of it.
No, I think apartments really are scarce. It's not like landlords are sitting on vast quantities of inventory to drive up rents.

That said, rent regulation (mostly rent stabilization vs. rent control, these days) does skew the market, creating a small number of lottery winners lucky to have below-market rents and driving up rents for everyone else competing for the unregulated inventory, regardless of their economic status.
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We did contact through that as well.
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Only sort of. Rent control's been phased out quite a bit over the decades and since the financial collapse, market rents are below the rent control caps all over the city. I'm currently in a rent-controlled apt, not paying full rent because the rent-controlled maximum drifted above what the market would bear.

In 2008, you'd definitely have been right.
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> I guess the question is, where?

Here: http://bit.ly/Z8U5U
Lies, damned lies and visualizations.

A great article, and a good backing for why visualizations (even in the form of damned PowerPoints) are so important when selling an idea, strategy or action, but not necessarily for the build up to making that idea, strategy or action on the sellers part.
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Imo, it'd be a good idea for AirBnB to independently attempt some sort of threshold like that. I think its strongest niche is rooms or couches rented out by actual people who also live at that location. But there are (esp in NYC) a decent number of listings that are basically hostels / unlicensed hotels, and not all are entirely up-front about the fact that you're renting a room from a commercial operation that manages a bunch of rooms in the property, not from an individual who lives there.

The rise of those kinds of operators has definitely made me warier of using AirBnB now, while I used to be able to assume that most listings on the site were legit individuals renting out rooms/couches in their own homes.
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I thought there was a wireframing tool included and I still didn't get that far...

I think the home is a bit cluttered, I spent I'd say 5 minutes on the site without a clear idea of what it was doing exactly. A video would have helped...

It's really hard for me to see the benefit of spending $9/mo to upload HTML I already created vs just dumping it on a server and discussing via email.
Yes, perhaps "are intractable" was too strong of an assertion.

I think as we migrate our data towards more flexible structures and look more towards asynchronous parallel processing, we may find that splitting out data and behavior serves us better than tightly binding them as OO methodology does.

I think ultimately we will treat our code and data as the same thing, just from different perspectives and levels of abstraction. I'm not sure most OO programming environments today support this notion easily.

I do think we will be solving harder problems, but what exactly they are falls into my unknown unknowns category.
Last week I rented a room for a week through airbnb.com at a place that is basically running a commercial hotel operation (as an aside, the place was great) while apartment hunting in NYC.

While there, my girlfriend dug up a bunch of stories about the neighbors complaining about condo unit owners leasing out units to this place. I can understand both sides of the argument; if I'd just bought a condo in a building I wouldn't be happy about a large majority of the other units being rented out every night to tourists.

I got the distinct impression that there had been a problem with crime and people being disruptive in the buildings recently, although the whole time we were there it was quiet.

Apparently the owner of this hotel has approached a bunch of building owners with vacant condos and offered to lease them. The building owners are very happy (as apparently they are getting more then they would to rent them as apartments).

I will say that I stayed in a giant two bedroom loft in Williamsburg for about half the cost of a "regular hotel"; so it's definitely appealing.

After checking out, I actually got an email from the hotel with the number for New York Speaker's office asking us to call them about bill Bill A10008.
Right on the money.

I was there in the (relatively) early days where it was exciting to ask and answer questions and contribute to the site, while scoring points(!)

Nowadays I often encounter SO links while googling things, and it has certainly become a great resource in that sense. But I rarely have a need to ask questions there anymore as everything is covered, and trying to answer questions isn't worth the effort for similar reasons.

As new technologies emerge, I can see there being waves of increased activity as those topics are explored, and if you're one of those people on the forefront of said technology I could see it bringing back some of the original charm.
Over the last 2-3 years, I think RethinkDB has literally been the only company that has made me think "wow, I think I'd really enjoy working there". (I'm self-employed) I find it baffling they can't find enough people. Are the cool kids really only doing web apps these days? What about all the army of Objective-C programmers that Apple has been assembling?
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It's only wasted time if that's your attitude about it.
fwiw, the 'going to another page' is pretty jarring. Having a paywall inside the player would make it far more understandable.
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Similar initiatives have already be pushed in other cities with vibrant short-term rental markets.

Short term sublets are already outlawed in some neighborhoods of London (e.g. Belgravia, with a potential fine of ~20k pounds). There is also a similar law in Paris since last December, although as a matter of practice it is only enforced after complaints from co-op boards and neighbors who get annoyed at the constant stream of vacation renters. The hotel lobby was behind the law in Paris. Part of the justification was also that owners of short-term rentals, often foreigners themselves, do not declare the rental income on the properties.
the picture reminds me World of Goo game.
Are we filled with that?!?!?!
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I completely agree with that.

They were a victim of the attack as well and I think their clients would be very happy with an explanation of what is going on.

Instead, they tried to minimize the issue and even mute anyone mentioning it on their forums. Pretty sad.

There is no single perfect secure company (and users known that) and specially on shared-servers it is easy for a small mistake to spread to hundreds or thousands of sites, but the way a company responds is what makes all the difference.
You're welcome. I'm working on something similar as well. I haven't fully digested the paper yet, but it resonates very well with my current implementation.
Really curious as to how Kayak could conceivably buy ITA, or even a significant stake in it, seeing as how they are VC-backed themselves. From Wikipedia: "KAYAK has raised $230 million to date"
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I believe you mean nicotine...I have observed friends taking 10 kilograms of food grade caffeine microballs and weighing and bagging in 500 mg doses to distribute at a hacker convention, with no adverse effects.
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Music isn't necessarily a rich man's game. Orchestra and band and concert piano certainly are, but music was born elsewhere. How rich must you be to play a harmonica in the evening?
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This could very appropriately generalized to all PhD students, and most undergraduate students as well.

Anecdotally, many post-secondary students view diplomas and degrees as simply documents certifying that they've put in their time, and paid their dues. In a sense, the whole academic infrastructure has been somewhat perverted from pursuit of knowledge to pursuit of dollars/fame/status.
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You know what they say: the hojillionth time's the charm.
This is already illegal, the problems already solved. Distrust of corporate/labour/professional groups that want regulate something out of "safety concerns" etc. is far too low.
I don't see your e-mail in your profile. Are they willing to relocate as well to SV?
Sorta true, sorta false. There are not vast quantities of inventory, but there certainly isn't a shortage. There are loads of "luxury rentals" in battery park city, downtown brooklyn and williamsburg that the developers are having a hard time getting people into, even with all sorts of incentives.

The prices are pulled out of thin air. The new developments have to charge usurious rents to recoup their costs, but a lot of individual owners bought their building outright in the 80s for peanuts and just charge whatever they think they can get. Any old building in the LES or east village is basically a mint for the owner.

There may be a shortage of affordable, nice apartments in places where people want to live. Good luck finding a nice place for < $2000 in the LES. However, there is no shortage of expensive, crappy apartments in "uncool" parts of the city. In a weird twist of reality it's now easier to find a good deal in the UES than it is in the LES...
I was using Erlang as an example as I am familiar with it. My point was more so that there are (as you say) many styles of concurrency, and that I hate it when functional programers use "Try programming concurrently in an imperative language" as their fall back argument for the merits of FP.
'Magical' and 'revolutionary' aren't buzzwords. Buzzwords are widely used, or even overused, and tend to imply some specific (often technical) meaning, though that meaning drifts with abuse over time. 'Open' or 'standards-based' or 'enterprise-grade security' are buzzwords.

'Magical' and 'revolutionary' are not widely used in competitive product descriptions, and don't have specific meanings -- they're intentionally vague. They're meant as, and understood as, evocative puffery.
Why don't Google stick with its claim and just leave instead of dicking around with letter of the law or spirit of the law? That sounds like a capitalist pig instead of a moral crusader.
The whole way the thing's written. I hope the blog author is the voltDB guy's uncle or publicist or something because otherwise that is one heck of a man crush to hype this up that much.

Not taking anything away from voltDB - haven't seen it, will try to see it, and encourage people to pursue stuff like that in general. But the article read like football announcers talking about Brett Favre.
Having a steady stream of noisy neighbours is no different from having one. The solution is the same; hold whoever rents the apartment accountable. (This would be easier if throwing people out was.)
I have become a little discouraged at how stale some of the posts have become. I have run into Google searches that give me results where the accepted answer is now wrong. Sometimes the posts have devolved into multiple new answers that are correct but have very few upvotes. In some cases the newer answers are rants on how the original answer is wrong.

I do think there is still room for SO to grow with newer technology that comes out. SO became a great resource for iPhone development and I think that can still happen.

What would probably help is a purge of some sort. I'm not sure how they would go about it but I don't think just re-tagging will work I think they need to flush some of the stuff out.
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Well, the one-thread-per-region thing is an interesting way of sidestepping locks. So I'll give them that.

But it's basically memcached with an SQL parser and some hand wavey stuff about how since it's replicated, the data never needs to make it to disk. That one doesn't sit well with me for some reason, even if it's theoretically true.
I'm actually less concerned about Google having my data than, say Facebook. Google already has a ton of my data, but they don't sell it off to third parties. They practically define the analytics and targeted advertising. Facebook's problem is that they can't figure out how to actually make money with the data they have so they're resorting to selling it to third parties (Google, Bing, Yelp, Pandora, CNN, etc). That is what scares me at least.
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Getting pure MDA or MDMA feels very different than a mixture. It is pretty easy for one who's past all the glitz/glamor associated with early years of drug use to become a kind of connoisseur and nail down long term relationships with the dealers who supply reliable product.