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Here is someone providing no thought and adding nothing to the discussion, by definition, he is providing noise.

No. In theory, he's responding to noise by providing signal that addresses it.

There's a big difference there, though whether it's justified depends quite crucially on the quality of the signal that he's spewing in response to the noise...
No, this is symptomatic of a modern economy. Any advanced economy will have a similar focus.

If you think about it on a higher level, it makes a lot of sense. At first, the great bottleneck was having enough food, so all economies began with an almost-100% focus on agriculture. But then, as that became less and less of a problem, the next bottleneck was having enough stuff - whether machinery to make agriculture more efficient, or other items to make your life better.

As "stuff" gets less and less scarce, and cheaper and cheaper to acquire, what are we left with? The final bottleneck, which isn't going away any time soon, is that we all only have 24 hours in a day. "Services" is a euphemism for "ways to buy other people's time so you can have more than 24 hours of 'good time' (and higher 'good time' than you'd be able to achieve by yourself) per day". Whether that's bank services to speed up your money handling, or cleaning services, or web design services, or any other number of services which basically amount to helping someone, somewhere to make more efficient use of their time.

This is the final bottleneck until we figure out how to speed up our thoughts, and so all activity ends up piling into there.
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How exactly does distributing MySQL as part of your application make your application GPL as well? It's not a retorical question, can you please suggest a case? Unless you outright fork MySQL to make your own database, you can run and distribute it with your proprietary stack without being forced to license your code as GPL.

The FSF call it "mere aggregation": http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
Or with Mac OS X screen sharing, VNC, or similar.
What's the scene and rent like up in Edinburgh? Sounds far more attractive than the big shitty.
It actually looks like it added more complication than is already present. It touted the fact that it taxed use heavily, where it's not taxed today.

It also stood to undermine freedom of association, putting limits on an employer to fire you for using marijuana. It's already hard enough to fire people ('firing', otherwise known as 'get someone working in a job where they're actually creating value').
heya binomial, don't let gensim's disclaimer deter you! it's been used by many people, both academically and commercially, and it's fairly mature.

having said that, i'm always happy to hear about success and failure stories from users. so if there's something you find broken/missing in gensim, just let me know.
Forgive me, but the link you're citing marks 81% by age 45 have tried cannabis at one point. Where are you getting your 12.3?
So you buy a watermelon every day? No. That is the problem with your method, you really should be doing something every day.

And if you are not sweating, it is not exercise. Make as many excuses as you want, lots of people do, but you will feel better if you do actually exercise.
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Having seen the way you look in not-too-old videos, you look overweight, and your upper-body looks rather weak. That makes me fear for your life expectancy. I love your work, and it may be crucial that you don't stop cold until at least your eighties.

Of course, getting in good physical shape won't be easy. It takes time, and may even slow down your work, at first. But you may want to seriously consider the long term trade-off.
Having seen first hand the problems of transitioning a busy site built on pure PHP to ROR and the (ongoing) performance and scaling issues I would be very careful,
In terms of incentive to learn, we're talking about maybe $10 for a book. This is a relatively small amount of money for something which will likely keep the person entertained for several hours over a week or two. In addition most readers are educated, employed and earn above average which puts them in the class of people where time (to learn these things) is proportionally more important to them than money. You talk about giving people enough incentive but I really don't see that many people being strongly incentivised to learn by that sort of saving.

You're also making the assumption that book X has no substitute and that they must read this but this is rarely the case (and in those situations the item will actually almost always have a higher value to the individual increasing the price they're willing to pay).

If I look at the Spy Who Loved Me and I find that it's £5.25 on Amazon and I think that's not a good price, I could easily see that I could get Casino Royale for £4.35. If I think that's too expensive it would take me about 30 seconds to see that I could get The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo for £2.68 or the Lost Symbol for £2.76.

Piracy is not just not the only alternative and indeed I'd suggest that in the vast majority of cases it's not the main alternative.

(If you think that £2.68 is too much for a novel then might I ask what the reasonable price is at which you'd buy rather than pirate? My guess would be that it's likely to be in the area where the publisher essentially doesn't see you as a potential customer anyway (at least not a profitable one) and broadly doesn't really care what you do).

Beyond this you assume that initial attempts at piracy will be positive where research shows that this isn't the case. If someone attempts to find a torrent and spends half an hour battering their head against password protected files, dead links and so on, they're just as easy to write the whole thing off. At that point buying behaviour is actually reenforced as they now longer see downloading as a viable option.

As for habits the use of the work "exhaustive" to relate to an Amazon search which might take 30 seconds is misleading. I agree that you're not going to search 50 sites to find the best price but a search on Amazon to get a ballpark figure isn't onerous at all. Where someone has made some sort of investment in a new behaviour pattern it might be true that it was more of a one way trip but in this case the barrier to returning to legitimate purchasing is so low as to not be there.

EDIT: I would accept that there are some instances where book piracy will be (and is) rife. Generally these would be where the price is higher (computer or academic books for example) increasing the incentive, and where the potential customer / pirate is more familiar with the technology and therefore the barriers to moving into piracy are lower but for mass market books I don't see it being an issue in the way you describe.
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Someone used this principle to create this strange bicycle: http://www.china.org.cn/china/photos/2009-05/07/content_1773...
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I'm sorry, if you're competent you can make svn work.
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Can someone explain the what Cameron means by altering the intellectual property laws?
Another thing I wonder about is this:

Company X makes white computers. It has all sorts of employees: hardware designers, software developers, industrial engineers, factory workers, janitors, even gym instructors and aroma therapists. Over time the company evolves or is replaced. The new company mostly manufactures. A lot of the engineering is done by other companies. The hire janitorial service companies and employees can get their own damn aroma therapists.

The second situation is contributing percentage points to the "service," but fundamentally nothing has really changed. Same people doing the same jobs for the same purpose, just structured differently.
Unless they also do something about the weather, I'd still pick California.
Looking at it now, it seems I described Google AdSense fairly well. Although I was thinking more along the lines of something that would insert itself into your social interactions, like Twitter sponsored tweets.
I think its most users. Remember also that a lot of facebook users don't use it much and don't understand all of what it does.
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I don't know if it is possible or not - but I seriously doubt that UK civil servants are the best people to try and do it.
I never upgraded because my 3G is jailbroken and I didn't feel like the hassle, but didn't update 4.1 fix the speed problem? Wouldn't this trash their whole case? The article mentions 4.1 but doesn't mention any of the consequences.
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That's a usability bug: google maps should allow you to choose a journey without toll roads. This one not only has tolls, but in three currencies (U.S. dollar, Japanese Yen, and Hawaiian Coconuts.)
Being told by companies/lobbies, media and social networks that global warming doesn't exist although there is clear scientific evidence that it is, that's what is wrong here.

How would you educate people that are driven to false conclusions by greedy companies?

First of all this topic is important to address, because it effects us and, above all, our children. Second, this is no topic of "believe" or "taste", it's a topic of marketing campaigns and manipulated statistics versus clear scientific data and common sense. You just need to look at chinas and the U.S. pollution of the environment[1]. Do you really think this has no impact whatsoever?

Every twitter post into the direction of anti-global-warming is just another little push in the wrong direction.

Also: Being tolerant is great! Ignoring the wrong in the name of tolerance is wrong.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO2-by-country--1990-2025....
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the problem is that some movies can't be easily [legally] downloaded/distributed. take "tears of the black tiger" for example. one of the best films ever made, but nearly impossible to get from blockbuster, netflix (only recently could one watch online), or apple movie store in any other medium than DVD. how many more movies are there like this? my wife and i pick up japanese films from tokyo all the time that we can't get elsewhere.

i would wager there are plenty more films available on DVD than on downloadable format. sure the reasons for this may be stupid ... but they're reasons nonetheless [for now].
Let's be clear what you are talking about here: In section 10.6.2 of the 2007 "Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability" IPCC report, someone put in an incorrect figure for glacier melting. That's one mistake, after years of scrutiny, in the IPCC report that talks about the impact of climate change, which is not even the report that shows climate change is real. To imply you think that undermines the case for climate change beggars belief.

Now, you're not wrong in saying that quoting the WWF in a scientific report seems to be a bit of a screw-up. It shouldn't have happened, and the reports need to be reviewed more carefully to stop it happening again — except careful review did find this mistake, it was corrected, and the rest of the report, all 976 pages, still stands.

Additionally, as I alluded to above, this is not the "The Physical Science Basis" of climate change report, which weighs in at 996 pages and no-one to my knowledge has found any mistakes even as bad as the glacier example.

You cannot disregard that particular IPCC report for one mistake; that would be absurd.

And even if the whole of the "Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability" was hogwash, you still cannot claim climate change is not happening, as it is the "The Physical Science Basis" that gives (funnily enough) the scientific basis to climate change.

Bringing up the Himalayan glaciers shows a basic misunderstanding of the IPCC process, the scientific process and the magnitude of the error compared to the weight of scientific evidence for climate change. Please provide a peer-reviewed, or even non-peer reviewed, paper showing mistakes in the accepted literature and we'll talk.
I strongly disagree. While I prefer cycling or running to a stationary bike or threadmill, I can use the latter without worrying about the hazards of traffic or terrain when I'm exhausted after a long day of work. I've hurt my ankle too often while running in nature absent-mindedly.
> > The 80 chars limit has a justification: expressions that don't fit on 80 chars (or two lines using parens) are not readable anyway

> I disagree. There are many cases, especially after 2-3 levels of indentation, where 80 characters is an unreasonably narrow space.

Some people would say that after 2-3 levels of indentation you should be looking at refactoring your code. Probably to pull something into a separate function/method.
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Yeah, its because many of the ad networks that you may load into it simply cannot work asynchronously (document.write). So they have to enforce synchronous loading on the ad manger code.
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Ah, you mean "Chaco" -- it's easier to find with the correct spelling. :) http://code.enthought.com/projects/chaco/
I think this can be an ethical thing to do, provided some circumstances hold. Consider the sides to be S and T, then the circumstances are:

1. S are in the wrong

2. the debate matters, i.e. if S wins, bad things will happen (e.g. creationism will be taught in schools as science)

3. the chatbot will suck up more time from S than T (e.g. because T people are more likely to recognise it as being a chatbot).

Note that each of these is likely to be true if another circumstance holds -- that S is composed of people on average less intelligent than T.

Finally, what a delicious irony it would be if an evolutionarily programmed chatbot was written that succeeded in wasting the time of creationists!
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it's taxed ... just by drug dealers who get to charge a premium for something that could otherwise have been cheap and/or could be generating a revenue stream for the government. not saying that i'm pro-pot, i'm not. but i am anti-regulation of substances which create an incentivized underground market, to a large extent.
As a libertarian one of my major issues with global warming is that we're basically wasting our limited time & resources trying to address it. Whether our climate modeling is accurate or not, we're basically so far down this rabbit hole that we'd be better off focusing our efforts elsewhere. This TED talk explains it pretty well: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-122089912362687601#
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> the Wii sensor goes into a slot under the screen but above the base

No need to fear the Wii sensor bar, it's not a sensor. It's just two leds, the sensor is in the wiimote.
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I just attended a DVCS talk today (http://worldtour.fogcreek.com/) and one simple difference between SVN and DVCSs is still fresh in my mind:

When you are pushing your changes back to trunk, how safe is that process?

In a normal SVN workflow, when you're ready to commit your changes to the central repository to which a team member has also committed changes, you'll end up running 'svn up' followed by 'svn commit.' If you have substantial code changes and you screw up the merge during 'svn up,' there's little record of your pre-update code. In the case that you accidentally select the trunk version of a changed file for the merge, your own recent code may be overwritten.

With Git/Hg/etc, you are constantly committing your changes to the VCS. And you commit before you merge your working copy with any changes pulled from the "central" repository. If you screw up the merge, the DVCS has a record of your local work-in-progress code changes.

You could argue with SVN that any sufficiently large feature transaction should be done in a branch. Then the merge back to trunk will be safe with the branch's commit history. Pragmatically speaking, however, many people - especially small teams - end up doing all of their SVN-based development simply using 'svn up' and 'svn commit.' I know I have.

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All so backward - why even have the middle man. How about a sensible use policy, illegal to sell pot, but make it legal to grow your own, still illegal to grow with intent to supply. Or even cap the amount of plants you are allowed to grow. In the UK you can make your own beer, or grow your own tobacco, but there is a cap on production.

Not everything has to be a business!
I think it depends on your taste. I thought Chasm City was a lesser novel in the series, though it's an interesting mix of a hardboiled detective story with space
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>The real problem with the way you're arguing is that most of the meta-critiques that you've offered about the way mainstream climate change scientists act read almost exactly the same as the anti-evolution arguments that biologists have been assaulted with for decades.

So what? In both cases people are claiming some party should fundamentally alter how they live (perhaps implicitly in the case of evolution) and/or what the believe based on their findings. Of course this will be faced with scrutiny! If the scientist is correct he/she should be able to prove it. If he/she thinks the evidence just strongly suggests their theory then it should be presented that way leaving the other side to simply agree to withhold judgment for now [1].

>but those arguments mean absolutely nothing, because they are always offered whenever people disagree with the prevailing consensus in a field, whether it's correct or not.

That makes no sense at all. Arguments are meaningless because they are used too much? Utterly illogical, have I misunderstood something here?

>I've always gotten the sense that they really felt that the data supported their claims. Now, that doesn't make them right, but be careful about assuming that they're just perpetrating a fraud for some reason.

I'm sure most of them do. But do you think people from the other side aren't just as convinced of their opinions? A big part of the problem is both sides assuming the other is disingenuous.

[1] Not being convinced is always valid unless there is concrete irrefutable proof. Forming new "theories" based on being unconvinced and evangelizing based on them is not as it is "argument from ignorance" (i.e. "See, they don't know, no one does! Therefor the true answer is...").
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Any advise you can get by asking such a broad question, is anecdotal. From a technical point of view, it usually doesn't matter - You can build applications on both platforms. If your application is atypical, there might be a point in picking one over the other, but what really matters is the people that should work with it. If you have php programmers at hand, using php is probably a better idea.
I was using "put work into it" as a shorthand but yes, this is what I mean: many counter arguments have merit as well. People always tend to assume the other side isn't being rational.
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I'm sure you could review the dialogue if needs be.
There were some late commercials stating that prop 19 actually reduced some rights of patients to grow their own, let cities opt out of some things and imposed new penalties for some things. I don't know how true those statements were, but perhaps they created some doubt about the measure.

I voted yes, but I think many people simply vote no when the situation isn't clear.
The fairest and most useful thing to do then seems to be to train everyone at the checkout counter to be fast. Pass a minimum serving speed threshold before you can serve the main counters.
You have got to admire the evil villany we're up against. Buying the 'M' in LAMP and then exploiting that position.

Business first, not the heart and minds of developers.

Luckily the 'L' + 'A' + 'P' cannot be bought.

LAPP stack anyone?
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I find it scary that someone could write comics with such clever jokes, while simulaneously being so oblivious to the security requirements of running a website. Trying to address an anonymous hacker via Proggit is beyond ridiculous.
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It's extremely important to draw a distinction between cool and practical. HN is all about the cool new hotness. People here are always on the bleeding edge of technology, so they tend to flock towards those instead.

Also, hiring PHP developers is easier than <insert cool technology here> developers. There are just more people with PHP knowledge. Not saying that is a good reason to use a language, but it is a factor.
I hear this very cynical reasoning often but it's simply not true no matter how populist it is. The main difference is that if you're selling a product or a service and people don't want to buy it, you tweak your product until people will like it. Facebook, however, cannot switch its userbase. It can, however, find new advertisers that are a better fit for its users.
You can attach urgency to any claim as a reason we don't have time to be sure and can't waste time with contrarian voices.

In fact, it has been said that doing what some MMGW proponents suggest would keep e.g. India in poverty 100 years longer. People suffering and dying right now! We have to act fast to stop the MMGW movement and save them! See?

Stop using this tactic to shut down discussion.
I take it you never experienced the wondrous performance of a device running iOS 1.x? Seriously: software does more over time, and the hardware gets better to better be able to run it. If you install newer versions of Mac OS or Windows or Word or iPhoto or /whatever/ on an older machine you are not going to be happy with the experience.
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