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Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard

Dialectic of Enlightenment - Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno

The Sublime Object of Ideology - Slavoj Zizek

Sources of the Self - Charles Taylor
> Hong Kong is just a sea port

... with one of the highest concentration of major banks and biggest financial management hubs outside of NYC.

I thought the center is where the money is, always has been. From Rome to Florence, then London, then to the New World and NYC, and now switching over to Asia.

> Shanghai is just a playground for young french men.

And, Dubai is a place where celebs can go slumming as the streets rise with unpaid mortgages and backed-up sewage systems.

I'm sure the places we've named are more than just their rumor and stereotype.
You can't. Once your device is switched-off, you can't know what position it will start up in. The easiest option is to have an initialization routine that will move the motor to a known position. For instance, move it all the way clockwise until it jams (assuming there's a limited range of motion) or until it signals a button, whatever that it has reached a position. This is known as calibration or zeroing.
Wired Digital/Conde Nast doesn't have the option to buy ads on a 'run of network' kinda basis? That sounds like utter madness.
Interesting looking at the network graph on this repo. Lots of forking but no merging in the months since features where added to wycats' repo. Seems the project could use a maintainer!

http://github.com/wycats/moneta/network
What I mean is that these far east places are more focused on the west, and less on the 3rd world. Go to shanghai or hong kong - there are very few Africans. But go to Dubai...

The money is in Dubai.
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What I mean is that the item it is turning is marked, so I can detect it's position. Using infrared perhaps?
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You are either misinformed or are purposely changing the facts.

The immigrants who open bank accounts open them using ITIN. Others, can't open a bank account because we lack _any_ documentation that is not expired. Our consulates are refusing to renew anything. Others, yet again, are stateless individuals and don't have a consulate period. Dream Act students often fall into these categories because they were brought here at a very young age.

There is plenty preventing immigrants from going to college. Tax payers are not subsidizing anything, because undocumented students cannot apply for any federal loans or financial aid. If you are undocumented and go to college, you pay out of pocket, period. There are only a handful of private merit based scholarship that are available to undocumented students. I'm one of the lucky ones.

Out of state tuition argument is moot and I'm tired of the misinformation around the issue. There are only 10 states that have legislation that allows undocumented students to be eligible for in-state tuition BUT ONLY IF YOU HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF THE STATE FOR AT LEAST 5 YEARS AND GRADUATED FROM A STATE HIGH SCHOOL. I've lived in New York State for over ten years, and my parents have payed taxes into the states treasury every single year. I am a New Yorker and the in-state tuition law recognizes that for purposes of tuition. So "Americans have to pay out of state tuition while undocumented immigrants can pay in-state tuition." is complete bull shit. Residents of the state pay in-state, out of state students pay out of state, undocumented or not. Fair and square, and available only 10 states.

You simply don't want to recognize that I am an American and a human being. If you see this issue for what it is, our fight for basic human rights, the economics of it all of a sudden don't feel that important. I am _American_, educated, and an aspiring entrepreneur. One day I just want to wake up and be able to breathe.
Bokononism: a fictional religion based on harmless untruths
Added yours to this list (with some voting) in case anyone is interested:

http://buyersvote.com/categories/the-best-books-to-learn-gra...
Japan’s Mobile Web Market Now Worth $17 billion. Virtual Items: $500 million.
Thailand is actually a bit of a counter example of this, a lot of chinese immigrants married local, and often some people of chinese origin only still speak thai... It's very different from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Sure, but this is just the Science Writing Uncertainty Principle: You can be brief, or you can be precise, but rarely can you be both brief and precise.

Langewiesche doesn't have time for a discourse on the physics of the pendulum -- which is basically just another kind of gyro. He has just a couple of sentences for his aside, and his readers are not physicists, so he grabs for the example of the Foucault pendulum, because that's a pendulum experiencing gyroscopic forces that every science museum visitor has seen.
This absolutely happened to me in high school when playing Tetris on my graphing calculator. I'd see the shapes falling as I fell asleep at night. I always thought it was because I felt only semi-conscious for stats class in the morning, and I was returning to that "half awake" state while falling asleep.

Cool to find out it's a real phenomenon.
In essence, it is the same language, just that it evolved considerably since then. There are places where you could really use a more current reference. For example, the book instructs you to define the main function like:

main(){
/* ... */
}

This is considered bad code style for todays standards. It doesn't state the return value (it defaults to int) and it leaves the argument list open (you can pass any number of arguments to the function).

In other places, it puts restrictions that are no longer relevant today. For example, since C99 (and most compilers allowed this long before C99) you can declare variables anywhere inside a block (which is pretty handy), and not just at the beginning of the function.
ID implies unique, class implies group. Harder for me to remember at first was which symbol did which, but printing that page out wouldn't have helped with that...
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+1 Reasons and Persons. The Personal Identity section in that in particular is wonderful! It's a really good book because it kind of stands alone -- you don't need to be very well-versed in philosophy to get the arguments if you read carefully.
This is a fantastic book, I'm using it to build my own IR system and it has been immensely useful. I also own Managing Gigabytes but I find this book to be much more useful and up to date.
Coca-Cola outsells Pepsi in most parts of the U.S., notable exceptions being central Appalachia, North Dakota, and Utah. In the city of Buffalo, New York, Pepsi outsells Coca-Cola by a two-to-one margin.

Overall, Coca-Cola continues to outsell Pepsi in almost all areas of the world. However, exceptions include India; Saudi Arabia; Pakistan, the Dominican Republic; Guatemala the Canadian provinces of Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island; and Northern Ontario
Not a Word: The story of Lillian Virginia Mountweazel
Show Him the Money (How the US Chamber of Commerce works)
Ben and Dion Step Down as Editors of Ajaxian.com
I highly recommend "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" by Quine. It's just a short little essay, but it's quite accessible (as far as these things go) and was highly influential (and is really fun to read too).
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Amazing! Now there's a name for this experience. I was a server admin for Tetrinet2 and naturally had all my friends playing for hours at a time. We all talked about how we'd dream falling blocks, the background music, etc.
Sorry for the tone, but I explained this to them in one of their Reddit announcement posts about their sponsored links, and their response was such that they had no concept of how advertising worked and acted like I was the one that was wrong. Now a few months later, they're begging their users for donations.

il lays out exactly what they need to do, so there isn't much else to suggest. Simply set up some ad placements on the site and get set up as a publisher with the ad network of their choice. The network does all the sales. (Edit: Later on, they can get into do their own direct sales, sponsorships, etc.) They actually were signed up as a publisher for an ad network for a while, I think, because I remember some ad taking over the screen and everyone freaking out. Maybe that scared them away from the idea because they couldn't control the ad types, I don't know.

I don't know what their mobile numbers are, but they need to get set up as a publisher with a mobile ad network too, such as Ad Mob, Millennial or Quattro.

And since they don't know how anything works, they need to get a few thousand dollars and hire a consultant to explain it all to them. I know they are sensitive about pissing off users, but I suspect that their conversations with Conde Nast and any ad network have ended up in frustrated conversations that go nowhere because they don't understand each other. They need a marketing consultant that understands both worlds to bridge the communication gap. Yes, I'm available.
I don't disagree. The landing page tests I saw were largely worthless. Most of the time there wasn't significant data, and even then it was so far from obvious how to interpret it that people simply confirmed pre-existing biases. But perhaps others have figured out how to make effective use of such data. My point was different: if you are going to do it, eschew being deceptive. Deception destroys more value than testing creates.
PhD from HST in itself is just a credential and doesn't mean much beyond that. I'm sure you've seen the commercials for "doctor recommended back-pain relief products" that are being endorsed by dentists...
not sure how solid this is, but it's a wicked awesome concept.

does compviz work?

can i remote into a windows machine? can i remote into a windows machine running IE to do IE6/7/8 testing?
You may want to consider web crm www.worketc.com, as for me it is the best CRM for managing my sales and it provides detailed reports of my projects. A Gantt chart view of the sales and project funnel is a big help --it saves me from time-consuming report preparation every time there is a management committee meeting.
Actually, at its core it is philosophical and mathematical logic. So yes, it is philosophy.
Quantum Mechanics and Experience, by David Z. Albert, is the most interesting book I read as a philosophy major.
Stock up on Kosher Coke during Passover, made with real sugar.
In search of Mountweazels, which are something "like tagging and releasing giant turtles."
I am thinking in going to Toronto to work in web development(C#, javascript with 2 years of experience). One of the reasons was because I see Toronto as a sophisticated city.

I'm portuguese, would I have a problem with my nationality/origin/accent?

I was not worried at all with this until I read your blog post.
Well, presumably you can connect to anything with a VNC server attached.

I'm skeptical that the client would be fast enough for Compiz to work reasonably, but you should be able to use VNC on a thing running Compiz -- the effects will just be choppy and useless and probably annoying. It might be fast enough I guess, but you'd need a fast connection anyway, probably something local.
How hard is it to change schools? Not all schools are equal, nor are all teachers. Ask around and find out if there are better, perhaps private, schools where you would fit in better. Ask yourself if you'd be willing to move to go to better school. I realized that I wouldn't be happy at my default high school, so instead of moaning about it or dropping out, I found a better school and went there instead.
The problem is the tax structure. The amount of taxes you have to pay to just start your business or, god forbid, hire someone, is just stupid.

And the fact that electronics arrive here with two, three times the actual price, doesn't help either.
I'm currently pursuing Rand's philosophy. Her nonfictions are very valuable because they comprise the philosophy itself. But Peikoff's books and lectures about Objectivism are also extremely valuable.

He had to overcome a lot of bad thinking habits to gain a genuine understanding of Objectivism and he is in a good position to help others get past those roadblocks.

Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand is useful to help you integrate Rand's philosophy into a mental hierarchy, and his courses Understanding Objectivism and Objectivism Through Induction are useful to help you prove Objectivism to yourself, so you can see how Rand's philosophy really is connected to reality and pertains to your life.
My absolute favorite coke vs. pepsi taste test story is near the end of this blog post (search for "About 10 years ago I did a year long part-time course in quality assurance"): http://davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com/2006/11/pentel-ai...
This idea was probably taken from Coca Cola the ad wherein a pilot of an F-16 had to do a full roll when the bottle got stuck in the console.
Zuckerburg got served - but why ?
I'm browsing on one right now. It's a great device and I think the email and web browsing on it are top notch. I would most certainly buy it again right now. It really makes bringing a PDF outside to read very enjoyable though in direct sun the screen gets washed out. Most of the videos on the web have been converted into a format that works natively on the iPad so the lack of flash does not hurt all that much. It's great to have next to my bed for morning browsing / checking email. Overall I love it.
I'm trying to collect a list of resources of this quality in this subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/learnit/
Bought one about a month ago in France. Use it for browsing everywhere a laptop isn't comfortable (while eating breakfast, while cooking, in bed, etc). I absolutely love it!

It dawned on me that in the near future, people won't buy laptops and ordinary computers. They'll buy devices like the iPad. Only developers will use PCs.

Also, don't underestimate the "future factor" when using an iPad. It might sound a bit funny, but when I use the iPad I feel like I'm actually in the future that I imagined when I was a kid. I mean, it was only a few years ago that I saw THE INCREDIBLES and the hero got an iPad like mail -- I thought that looked awesome. Now I've got one in my hands.

I'd absolutely buy an iPad again. In fact, when it's released in Norway, I might get an additional 3G version.
Also exists in the Internet Archive.

The previous paragraph mentioned the flavoring of cassia, and the following mentioned how sugar holds the flavor.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061031105033/http://theprimacyo...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this strategy result in N * 2 workers of foreign origin in the country instead of - N?
This appears to be the book, on Scribd:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7846856/Generatingfunctionology-H-...
Weather.com from 1996-2010
You're welcome and he certainly is. His "Worse Is Better" thesis (which he's not at all sure about, note that he goes back and forth on it) has got to be one of the most important ones developed in this early age of computer and software development.

BTW, note that Java is a The Right Thing language....
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What are your Dewey recommendations?
I was wondering if there was a cell phone effect wherein you thought you heard a cell phone ringtone while listening to music.
F# Versus Microsoft's Regex. A Lesson in Types
Well, if it was I/O bound - the GIL shouldn't bother it too much ;)

Don't mistake me for calm though, it drives me nuts :)
Ask HN: Daily schedule
There is a lot of interesting people on this website who are nothing short of my idols (and I can imagine that I am not the only one who feels that way). Without a doubt, one way to mimic the successes of these people is to do what they do. So I was just wondering if some of you guys cared to share what does your normal day schedule look like.

Sorry if this is a repost, I tried to find if a similar topic had been done before but I did not find anything.
I don't know if one exists, but a browser plugin that allows for cookie synching might be able to do this. If it doesn't exist, someone should make it.

Chrome has built in bookmark synching tied to your google account.
It will be cool if individual applications can be exposed via VNC and each mapped to its own URI. We can see some seriously interactive apps (maybe killing Flash at the same time!)
Online stores and payment providers have profiled countries for a long time now. It wasn't long ago that logging into your PayPal account with a Russian IP would instantly block it. Yes, this kind of treatment is discriminatory. But this is also a business decision that had to be made considering the potential cost of fraud and profits.
Interestingly, Coca-Cola consumption in the US and Canada has gone down in the last decade, I wonder how much of that can be attributed to the use of HFCS.

http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/ourcompany/ar/pdf/2009-pe...
Replace music with lawnmower, and I share your experience. Until the mower if off I think a mobile is ringing constantly.
This should be redone with % of homepage consumed by advertising over time.
Downvoted a recommendation of a philosophy book? WTF
Thanks for backing me up PG.

BTW, just noticed this too:

> by all words, I don't mean useless words like conjunctions

Conjunctions and other common words are far from useless. If you ignore them you will go badly wrong on queries like "To be or not to be".
I experience this with RockBand and Starcraft, but has anyone had this experience with math?

During exam time I'd often experience hallucinations of equations, but even crazier were the dreams: sometimes I couldn't wake up unless I performed a mathematical operation on some regular object, ie. "what's the Laplace Transform of this blue chesterfield?"
but I can tell you that connecting research to a meaningful expression is fundamental to the value of the research

This is a really interesting point, notably with regards to NASA. From the outset, NASA was at its core a defense oriented expenditure - that is to say that it was imbued with an explicit purpose.

Fast-forward to the creation of the space shuttle and the thawing of space-relations with the Apollo-Soyuz docking in 1975. It seems that from this point forward that NASA's mission of human spaceflight had lost its way, characterized today by the morass that the space shuttle has become.
This is a fantastic analogy for culture and media!
it's the green one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Exponential.svg
re: Cybernetics, a better start is probably Wiener's The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
Ah, yup, there's ways around that.

The Q&A PeopleRank idea will probably be my next start-up, if Vark doesn't beat me to it. Reading http://blog.vark.com/?p=352, it seems that they're on the right track. (Although their UX is a little clunky).

However, even if Vark builds a kick-ass product, you can still apply the PeopleRank idea to news-sites like HN.

Anyone interested in building a Q&A/news site feel free to message me.
Here: http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease25.html

Google was supplying the search results for Yahoo in the year 2000, long before Adwords. Yahoo was one of the biggest portals at the time. I really don't understand how you can say Google was not relevant before Adwords.

Google was the king of the search business back then, and that was long before Adwords came along.

Adwords was not critical to Googles share when it came to searches. Google was growing massively, everyone was paying attention to Google long before Adwords came on the scene.

Adwords allowed Google make money, but it did not contribute to growth in search.

Who was the major player in search at the time Adwords was introduced? Ask.com? Lycos? Altavista? Or perhaps, Yahoo, powered by Google?

Your position has gotten a bit blurred the more you argue. To clarify again:

- My statement is that Google was a rapidly growing search engine because they made the right UI decisions

- Your statement seems to be that without adwords, Google would have stopped growing and ultimately failed

Am I understanding your argument wrongly? Because it does not make much sense.
The music at concerts is always far too loud. It's uncomfortable and I'm afraid of damaging my hearing.
When it became tight for Western investors and companies in non web related businesses, they turned their attention to the emerging economies in Asia.

Now they are beginning to move to Africa as China and India are becoming saturated for non web businesses. What does this tell us in the hacker community especially as the web space in the West is becoming really saturated. Simple, just make your startup to be Africa friendly, if you can't make it your main strategy and you stand a better chance of not entering Techcrunch's deadpool.

So what are the advantages of doing this:

1. You will own the largest market share by the time the established web companies choose to come into that market. Eg Baidu controls 70% of the search market in China. Google and others share 30%. Facebook had to play catch up to Studivz in Germany and ofcourse sued them, http://tcrn.ch/cfpc9Y.

2. Based on the above, when the big boys like paypal etc are ready to enter the market, they will be forced to partner with you or buy you outrightly. see http://bit.ly/cESeqo.

3. The IPO's that have been so elusive in the US and europe are more easily attainable over there. After your IPO, you can come back and buy the biased established but struggling web based companies in the West. Remember how Asian companies were cherry picking US companies during the global crises, that will be your game.

So make sure you have a strategy for Africa and other emerging economies as you build your web app. Good luck.
> would I have a problem with my nationality/origin/accent?

No, you will not have a problem.
Sorry, I really didn't need to be so rude. That said, I think getting quotes right is important if you're going to use them. Otherwise you're contributing to sum total of misinformation in the world.
Maxon will occasionally donate motors to students in my experience, but I have not found them to be particularly generous with hobbiests and their motors tend to be fairly pricey.

You might consider the motor control packages from this guy http://www.kelinginc.net/index.html or similar. They close the loop for you and you position your motor based on a pulse train which can be generated by a variety of devices. The step-direction control of the servo does tend to generate more vibration than other kinds of inputs, but is very easy to interface with.

There are others vendors as well, just search for hobby cnc and servo and examples will pop up. Advanced Motion Control also offers servo amplifiers which take other forms of input than step and direction which might be quieter.

As mentioned before, gear boxes are a big producer of noise as are powertrains in general. Toothed Belt drives, especially at low speeds or capstan drives for finite rotation machines can be very quiet.

To figure out your motor sizing you need to estimate the speeds and forces / torques on your system. From there you can estimate the power your system needs to produce and then calculate a gear-ratio based on the available motor torques and powers available from off the shelf devices. Maxon's catalog has design rules, equations and worked examples if you want samples of the math.

For what it is worth, I would guess that the Kelling 350W motors would be able to move a 2KG mass with what looks to be high accelerations and speeds with a decently designed drivetrain.