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I completly agree. I think there is a ton of low-hanging fruit in our economy, in terms of energy use. The fact is that energy has not been a resource worth conserving during the entire industrial expansion thus far. Energy's always been something that is cheap and getting cheaper. So there's never been any economic imperative for energy efficiency, so it's always been cheaper to burn more energy than to invest in efficiency.

I think an economy in which renewable energy sources are exploited, and in which energy is used as efficiently as possible, is one which could continue expanding for a long time after peak oil extraction is reached.
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It's both, they have no understanding how the real world works, and so they think they are doing everyone a favor with their agenda. And they have neither the desire nor the ability to change.
Ever run a business, have a rental property, etc? Any of that will push your tax prep past 120 a year, for personal taxes alone.
On that day, there were no visible sunspots:

http://soi.stanford.edu/production/gif_images/intensitygrams...

But, a week later when it made APOD, there was a big one:

http://soi.stanford.edu/production/gif_images/intensitygrams...

Here's a very active day from a peak in the last cycle:

http://soi.stanford.edu/production/gif_images/intensitygrams...

These are not true white-light images, but they are approximations. Also, their contrast has been enhanced.
yes, exactly like we're doing with the stackexchange.com homepage, perhaps? http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/customizing-stackexcha...
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No way dude, the stinky hippies only complain, they don't offer solutions. So yeah re-reading your comment, maybe you're right, but it's hardly the morally position they/you always claim it is.
It can be intellectually tempting to try and deconstruct these basic concepts....

I'd like to see a unified theory of version numbers while you're at it. It'd be nice to account for Ubuntu, OpenBSD, Mplayer, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, the Linux kernel, and TeX at minimum. After that, care to decipher what "beta" or "alpha" or "pre-release" means?

If the Perl 6 community is more interested in using linguistic evasion....

I'd take your argument at all seriously if it were more honest, say either "I don't believe any implementation of Perl 6 will ever meet the 6.0.0 spec" or "It shouldn't have taken ten years to release Rakudo Star." Those are debatable positions.

Arguing "But it doesn't really exist because you didn't releeeeeeease-release a fiiiiiinished-finished version!" is precisely the epistemological-linguistic ticky tackery you claim to decry. Even so, it matters not at all in the real world because there will be a new release next month and the month after that and the month after that ad utilitarian, and you're welcome to use it at any point when it's useful to you.
>The main playback controls apply to the content in the main window.

First of all, that's wrong. You are able to stop a track in the iTunes store, so you can control media items from other areas of the program while browsing. You just can't pause, even though there are no new playlists to start in the iTunes store. So since you can't do anything with the stop/play button other than control the current track in the iTunes store, there remains a lack of explanation as to why I can't just pause a simple track while browsing iTunes.

Again, to simplify, the issue really is just this: "why can't there be pause functionality in iTunes store? What would it prevent? Why would it be better to keep just the 'stop' function?" If you can't answer that then you have no argument.
It is. It is and it always has been. Because since we've all had phones, we've been under a social contract with them. When the phone rings, you have about 30 seconds to choose between being ripped out of your current focus (work, reading, eating, in-person conversation, etc.) or to not answer at all (which can come off as rude).

Sure, caller-ID and voicemail have mitigated these problems somewhat, but at the very least your concentration is broken when the telephone rings. Email and other textual messaging are much less invasive and you respond when you choose.

Having said that, I do find some rare cases where a phone conversation is better than a textual one (complex but short instructions, for example).
I would love to see an english translation of this.
> Will Perl 6 be able to turn things around, or is it too late?

Community plays a large role here, I think.

The Perl community (both 5 and 6) overall has a practical can-do attitude. This attracts users.

Perl 5 seems to have more grumpy (though still helpful) users.

Perl 6 has Larry and lots of courteous, friendly, and helpful users. It's a community you want to be a part of.

The Python community has a "no, you're wrong -- that's not Pythonic" feel to it which I think turns a lot of users off to Python.

So, I think Perl 6 does have a chance. Personally, I'd probably be more on-board with Perl 6 if it didn't look so darn complex.
(wasn't intended to be snarky, I don't think there's anything wrong with doing the same project for 10 years. That's how long it takes to hit the home run. Maybe the whole "10,000 hours" thing is more finely targeted than people initially assume)
It didn't all land in the same place. The 2006 paper mentioned upthread documents 124 separate reports, spread along a path over 300 miles in length down the coastline of India's Kerala province.

Nor am I not suggesting any unusual atmospheric phenomena; I'm pointing out that that part of the atmosphere is known to differ substantially from lower altitudes. Multiple interacting tides, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_tide
Yup, I was thinking an "elephant in the room" kind of thing.
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In this case, censorship does not lead to increased demand. In prostitution, demand is fairly constant, and supply is what is usually affected by legalization. Legalization tends to increase supply (women willing to engage in prostitution), which has the effect of increasing the number of prostitutes, making their jobs safer, and lowering prices (there is an risk premium embedded in prostitute pricing in countries where prostitution is illegal).
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The Cook County (Chicago) Sheriff, Tom Dart, has been leading the charge on this. The Tribune had an article a few days ago about him increasing prostitution busts, and putting up ads around O'Hare warning johns to stay away.

With all this moral outrage coming out of him about prostitution, I'm expecting that he'll soon be arrested in a prostitution bust.

Anti-prostitution groups always drag out trafficking as a reason to be against prostitution, and also child prostitution. But being a prostitute or being a john are both misdemeanor offences, whereas trafficking and sexual child abuse are both very serious felony charges. It seems to me that anti-trafficking and child sexual abuse laws are a lot more effective in dealing with those problems than general anti-prostitution laws are.

The argument about trafficking really rings hollow. These busts mostly target the prostitutes. If they really wanted to find trafficking victims, they'd get a lot better luck approaching women not in the context of arresting them, and asking them about their situation. Throwing women against the police car and slapping handcuffs on them seems counterproductive if your goal is to limit trafficking. If anything, it reinforces everything the traffickers tell the women about the police, making them less likely to cooperate.

If a women is not a victim of sex slavery or underage, it seems absurd that she could be charged with a crime for selling something she can legally give away for free.
I use nagios, and for some rails projects I use rpm (but i'm not terribly impressed with rpm), might be more worth it when we get more traffic.
"I agree with the author, but there is one point he seems to have overlooked; brand."

That's exactly what I was thinking. Users have to learn, through repeated use, to trust automation. They might take a chance and buy an intelligent sensor-equipped washing machine, but only if they can control it manually if the intelligence turns out to suck. This is one reason why they appear to prefer complex products.

But there's a way around that: get a reputation for really good automation. (Yes, it's a chicken-and-egg problem, but I'm sure it's doable for consumer electronics.) Where users are confident that automation will work well, I predict we'll find that "users prefer complex products" is less true.
There is something seriously wrong with the mindset of the individual ITL - and the culture of airline staff - when someone as just-minded, good-natured and principled as Adeo is getting escorted off a plane.

The great irony is that it is Virgin supposed to be disrupting the industry.

[edit disclaimer as this got downvoted. I did Founder Institute with Adeo. He is intellectually fierce, but even when he's ripping a new one in you he's still good-natured. ]
I guess I didn't explain myself well enough. Give candidates the entire file and tell them how it will be run. Then it's trivial for them to develop on their local machine.

I'm positive most of the failures you'll get are syntax related. Let people check their own! If you want to check their syntax for them, that is going to be a lot of work and make it harder to add new languages. Include the unit tests with what you give the candidate so you are not just limited to string output if you want, but you could give just them the formatter too. Keep up the good work though, it was actually quite fun doing a couple of the tests :)
That question also has "Bootleg DVDs" as a possible option.

It's a multiple choice question with no "other" option. Netflix including any given option doesn't mean they think it's a big threat, just that they'd like to know if it did start siphoning away lots of their customers.
In case you're wondering: this only affects Craigslist users in the U.S. It's fine here in Canada, for example.
For a single-user use case you could use http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_single_token which doesn't require you to go through the OAuth token acquisition dance.
I have a friend that would disagree with you. He is from Holland, and when we have gone out to eat we have discussed the differences between our customs.

He enjoys tipping. He says that back home, because the Dutch don't have a custom of tipping waiters, the service suffers. There is no incentive for them to provide more service than the minimum required to not get a complaint... Which is quite low when expectations are already low across the board.
It's got absolutely nothing to do with optimization, it just happens to be rather fast. As far as I know, there is know other tool out there, fast or slow, that offers zeromq's level of simplicity.

1) It's a networking library

Yes, but one that's easy to use. Versus BSD sockets, which have an annoying array of quirks when programming for multiple platforms.

Moreover, it's consistent whatever your transport. One thing I've found using zeromq is that, because it's so simple to use, it makes you want to think in terms of message passing. I use a queue to push messages between threads at practically no cost. Then later if I feel like it I can shunt the consumer to a different process, or a different host, or several different hosts with a load balancer. I could do the same with raw sockets, but I'd rather eat my own leg with a spoon.

2) It uses a binary protocol. Good luck debugging that with syslog.

It's just a packet. You can put whatever you want in it: XML, JSON, protocol buffers, msgpack, JPEG.... The wire protocol is trivial.

It also has jolly nice bindings for Python, Ruby, Lua etc, allowing you to bridge between C or C++ and your scripted components with zero hassle.

Go on, give it a go.
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I believe pets are allowed in Apple stores. I've taken my dog several times.
Wow, no wonder nobody likes the music industry.
The easy deployment, easy snooping and administrative tools are all big wins for STOMP on ActiveMQ, even if it doesn't hit millions of messages a second.
This is yet another well-written post.. i think Ilya has that rare talent for accurate and engaging technical writing. I'm consistently pleased with his work. Thanks.
From the perspective of the police force, prostitution being illegal is 1% moral uptightness, and 99% pragmatism. Having prostitution be a misdemeanor helps catch people in the act of other, more serious crimes, as the "crime" of prostitution justifies search warrants to otherwise-unassailable places. It's a workaround for a permissions issue, basically, and has no ethical justification.
I actually enjoy working with facebook's open graph api, BUT Using the PHP & JS SDK is a nightmare. I wrote my own class in PHP using curl, all data is returned in JSON which for me makes things simple. Retrieving the access token and authenticating each user can be handled a number of ways. Ever since they updated there policies, you are now allowed to store all of the users info once they allow your "application". I've seen alot of people complain when they use the new SDK's, but I see no reason to go that route...I think the best way whether it be a application,fan page, or external site is to present your app first, let the user actually see it and not FORCE them to allow it (which 90% of most apps do)...Once they peform a action, either redirect/ or popup/iframe to the authorization url;. I use the 'offline' permission so the access token for each user doesn't expire. Once they allow it, pull any info you want by a simple curl request, then store all there info(including access token) in your DB. Simple as that! There are only a few things I dislike, there like/comment buttons, and how you are limited to using either there iframe or xfbml (which is still an iframe).
I agree 100% - in the unregulated environment, the real evils of sex-traffiking and prostitution of minors exist side-by-side with quasi-legal adult prostitution.

Properly regulated brothels don't have traffiked workers or minors, do have STD testing and are safer for the workers and the johns. As with drugs, many of the problems are created by prohibition, and those who insist on prohibition are responsible for the continuance of those problems.
We'll probably be too busy fighting each other every step of the way. I don't know much about SA's situation but I'm going to take a guess that it was the pro-apartheid government that made it happen. Maybe they weren't so consumed about fighting with each other since they had a common enemy to focus on. I'm somewhat convinced we're at the point in the US where the opposition party (either one) would sabotage the plan for short term political gain.
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Interestingly, the one area where prohibition works very well is prohibition on firearms, but this is not a popular prohibition in the US.
It should come with a warning that its gonna peg a cpu on my macbook with firefox. Google is my homepage. I don't expect to lose half my battery by opening firefox and stepping away for 20 minutes.
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Is it applicable at national level? America's debt is 53% of its GDP.
It's probably not as one-sided as you think. Sometimes people just need to vent.

When you argue instead of listening, things tend to escalate.
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The problem, as I see it, is that flying has become an utter evil to be avoided at all costs unless absolutely necessary. It used to be that flying somewhere was a trip in and of itself. Now it is a nightmare. Now, everything from pre-boarding security (which is an absolute joke) to in flight (non)service to hoping that your luggage makes it to your destination at the same time you do to being cavity searched by customs upon arrival is and everything in between is an absolute horror show.

Truth is that there are no good airlines. Just functional airlines. At this point I am just thankful to arrive at my destination in one piece.

Frankly, I don't know why foreigners still come to America. If I showed up at JFk and got the third degree from some rude lackey on a power trip then got fingerprinted along with my wife and child I would turn around and never come back. (I know, separate issues but I'm venting.)
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I think it's related to the fact that the customer service staff onboard airlines (the attendants) see themselves as safety enforcers rather than anything else.

And that is part of a culture of "security theatre" - doing things purely to make people think they are safe rather than improve actual safety. Like the show of turning off electronic devices and reprimanding passengers for being slow.

Peggy Noonan has written some good pieces of this, most recently:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870440780457542...
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Yeah well, is it really necessary to arrest someone over an argument? If there were really no laws broken, then it sounds like some distressed worker decided to go on a power trip.

Hopefully Virgin America does the right thing and fixes their social media nightmare.
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Environmentalists in Europe have been known to protest expansion of high speed rail. Not sure if this is a common view or not.
Is there any actual reason to turn off electronic equipment during takeoff/landing, or is it just because of government policy based on FUD?
Just having a chuckle over the fact that I posted two stories - this one an excerpt from an important new book by Stephen Hawking on the sound scientific explanation for the making of our world. And the other about someone I know and like getting kicked off a plane. And it's the story about getting kicked off the plane that gets all the upvotes.

[edit post downvote. I found this genuinely surprising. This Hawking piece (the full title was "Stephen Hawking on God, Science and the Origins of the Universe") is a beautifully simple explanation of a profound and complex topic. Based on Einstein's dictum that if you can't explain something simply then you don't really understand it, its simplicity was an achievement.]
I'd take your argument at all seriously if it were more honest, say either "I don't believe any implementation of Perl 6 will ever meet the 6.0.0 spec" or "It shouldn't have taken ten years to release Rakudo Star." Those are debatable positions.

Actually, I clarified what I meant in a previous post, when I characterized Perl 6 implementations as "incomplete implementation[s] of a draft specification". I didn't say it didn't exist, just that it exists in a non-final, pre-released state. Some people call them betas, some people call them release candidates, some people call them pre-release, and you try to cleverly evade the fact that every Perl 6 implementation is an incomplete implementation of a draft spec, but a rose by any other name and so forth.

I actually expect that some Perl 6 implementation will meet a finished 6.0.0 spec within the next 5 years. But none does currently. Which is a roundabout way of saying "it's not done yet", which is apparently doubleplusungood to state so directly.

I got into this trying to say good things about Perl. I guess you've shown me the error of my ways. If I'm going to have everything I say about Perl on Hacker News trolled by defensive Perl fanbois, I might as well trot out the old "explosion in an ASCII factory" joke again.

Edit: The problem is, you're seeing criticism where there was really none there. All I made was a statement of fact--Perl 6 isn't done yet. I've even clarified what I meant by "not done yet"--the spec is draft and the implementations are incomplete even against that spec. I think that's a reasonable definition of "not done yet", don't you? I never said anything about how long it's taking or whether implementation and spec will ever meet, you just projected those criticisms onto me because you're defensive about the issue. That's bad faith. Fuck, man, I even said Perl 6 would be done in the near future! How the hell do you get from that to projecting "I don't believe any implementation of Perl 6 will ever meet the 6.0.0 spec" onto me? Are you even reading my comments or am I talking to myself here?
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Thanks for the encouragement, it's very heartening!
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Don't those other serious crimes generally stem from prohibition too? If you're running girls you might as well sell drugs too. Illegal gambling? Now you need guns to protect yourself because you can't call the police and report that your prostitute just stole $20k worth of cocaine from you. It's such a vicious cycle.
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I would recommend getting 'novice' defined for this tourney... reading through this thread it is apparent that people have wildly differing views on what novice is.

Would hate to enter as real novice (beat cpu on normal) and be up against gold players.
I'm a little surprised by that since it's just HTML and CSS. And mac chrome's having no problems; my fan's not even spinning.
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I'm not sure you've really got this whole Object-Oriented thing down quite right
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