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Muay thai - not much technique or sensitivity involved."

What. Have you ever been thai clinched? Have you ever had your kick blocked, shin on shin?
it was already slow 6 months ago, so I created a new account. Now it's slow again, even worse than 6 months ago. Glad to see I'm not alone, but considering it's free, I think we can't really complain, however I'm considering yahoo mail, I've heard a lot of good things about it. Anyone using yahoo ?
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I'd just stop if I were you. Dismissing every helpful piece of advice out of hand makes you seem like a very unreasonable person.

Good luck with your startup. I hope everything works out for the best.
isn't it easy to replicate?
Actually, I'm not seeing anything about presenting this system as their own work. The book chapter linked off the top post on Habr talks about testing new image processing algorithms on the PERICOLOR hardware. The translation of the UI was most likely a simple hex-edit, and was done for usability.

If I missed it, let me know :)
Honestly sign ups are the crappiest part of GAE. It is smooth as a breeze after that.
I practice aikido.

As someone else here mentioned, it's a soft style in that it's less about striking than speed and timing.

It also consists of mental training: quieting your mind and removing unnecessary thoughts and distraction (it's been described as "meditation in motion").

Some downsides: it takes a long time to get to any level of proficiency, it's non-competitive (so unlike fencing, there are no tournaments to compete in), and only really useful in defense.

As with any martial art, the critical thing is to find a good teacher.

The best advice might be to visit several dojos of the different forms people have mentioned here, and see which one suits you best.
I used to practice KravMaga and systema as a full contact martial art for more then 10 years, both are practical martial arts, if you do not mind getting black and blue from time to time, it will also improve your physical fitness, conditioning, and instincts very fast.

For the last several years i am practicing Iaido, which is generally speaking, the martial art of drawing, striking, shaking off the blood, and sheathing back the sword.

It has no practical use as a martial method,and is highly ceremonial. I find it to be the most demanding martial art i ever practiced in terms of mental requirements. The simplest forms take years to master, it is a humbling and often frustrating experience, I highly recommend.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=gmail+fast&ctab=0&geo...

Unfortunately, my Gmail account has been incredibly slow for the last couple months as well.
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Sky news is reporting on it too, and while it looks like it could be a work of fiction (it sure reads like one - Dan Brown comes to mind), it apparently isn't.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Foundation-X-Lord-...
This is a cool project and really great that it's open source, since I want to learn more about Django, but that whitespace really stopped me with I first loaded the site. I spent several minutes thinking it must be a CSS error. It made me wonder if there was a layout problem, and how did the developer miss this. So maybe it's at least visually distracting, which takes focus away from all the good work done on the site.
That makes me believe there is no protection against contributor patents in the Apache 2.0 license...

At least they won't sue you if you use it under Windows.
Sometime earlier this fall, Google Maps became suddenly and totally unusable for me (Firefox, OS X). Whole-system stuttering. Strange thing is, only in the main Google interface to Maps (ie, searching from maps.google.com) -- embedded maps are fine, even full-window ones like on padmapper. And only in Firefox.
Well said nubian. I sent this link to a civil liberties lawyer who didn't think much at all of tptacek's comment and was surprised to see it rated so highly.
I am of the school of thought that believes in practical martial arts (ie. proven through combat, sport, and sparring).

This includes but not limited to: Boxing, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo. And depending on the quality of teacher, some styles of Karate, Tae kwon do.

I train in jiu jitsu and muay thai. Some people like the more spiritual / philosophical side of martial arts, which is totally acceptable and understandable. I've never tried any of it myself, but if you're into drunken monkey, 5 animal styles kung fu, go for it.

However, I'd hate to train something for years and only embarrass myself when push comes to shove and its time to employ that martial art in a no rules street fight.
I did taekwondo when I was little and I know some people who still do it. All martial arts are technical once you get into them, but grappling is different from striking in that what you do with your body is very similar to following a decision tree. Eventually these decisions get internalized into your muscle memory, but there's still a high degree of "if he does A, I'll do B, which will leave me open to C and D, which I can counter with E, F, and G, etc". Basically getting better at grappling involves filling out this decision tree.

Striking arts operate at a much faster pace so you really can't do that, the depth of the decision trees are much shorter, which is why I think bjj is more analytical and appropriate for most HNers.

I don't want to get into a flame war, but I personally don't find taekwondo and karate to be particularly realistic to fighting. Everyone has different motivations for training though, if you enjoy the fitness and athleticism of those arts, go for it.
Doesn't matter if I like my job or not, if I am making 80k/month from my side business, I am definitely going to quit my day job and concentrate on my full business.
Underground files outclass mainstream articles on average for the same reason that physics papers tend to have more information than newspaper write-ups about them. One is for a refined audience, the other is mainstream (i.e. it attempts not to exclude less capable readers).
Based on a personal experience, it seems to be some sort of data fragmentation problem.

I had similar problems with Gmail a few weeks ago - sending a message would take ~30 seconds, accessing labels took up to a minute, messages were appearing in the inbox 30 minutes after they arrived, etc. The slowness persisted for about a week.

2 weeks ago my account went down for about 10 minutes. Accessing mail.google.com while logged into my Gmail account would return a 503 error; my backup Gmail account, which had now slowness, was accessible. 10 minutes later, I was able to access my account and the slowness was gone.

My guess is that Gmail took my account offline while my messages were re-indexed.
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I am very near launching a rental service. I did a few $100 Google Adwords experiments, in which the ad was exactly what I was renting along with the price. I got a bunch of clicks at an average of $2-4 per click, so I know I can get clicks. The problem is, I have no idea how many of those are going to convert to sales. I'm hoping that because I'm announcing my product and price in the ad that I won't waste a lot of money on window shoppers. Anyone have any experience with this stuff? How many sales per click are you making?

Thanks for any advice,
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I would probably set up a software / gamedev company in US (and get a green card).
Distance Measurement Tool on google maps has a long list of units of measurements for distances. Really geeky.
If you live in such a country do you expect free internet services to target you? At my startup a country with horrible internet is a country I do not care about, sorry but there's just too many other people to target and other things to worry about. The sense of entitlement to free services also bugs me.
I dunno about this method. Apparently there are only 6 Haskell wizards in San Francisco. I know Haskell isn't the most popular language, but still...
For me its searches and UI. Some searches take upwards of 20 seconds. Messages take 2-3 seconds to open. Just overall slugishness
On Ubuntu if I go to chrome://plugins it says:

/opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so

Is that foxit SDK?
I heard this many months ago, when gmail was still super fast for me, but now it really has hit me. It's not just gmail either, it's also affecting google groups too. It's all been pretty sucky for at least a month now.

[edit] Google groups is probably using the same backbone as gmail, I'd imagine.
Because it's more or less an instance of the halting problem?
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I am a Yoshinkan Aikdio sensei.

I began training almost 20 years ago when I was still a major nerd programmer. With seven Karate schools in town, it was the philosophy of Aikido that hooked me.

My take on the philosophy is that we are all in this mess together and someone who is attacking us is reaching out for help in the only way they know how. They are damaged and need help. Hurting them will increase their damage and add more pain into the world. As a responsible person and martial artist, that is not my goal. Aikido provides non-violent ways of protecting yourself as well as your attackers. The founder called it the martial art of love.

It's also handy when someone you care about gets triggered, temporarily loses their mind, attacks blindly, and needs to be controlled without being hurt. (That's happened to me.)

Nobody mean or aggressive tends to stay in Aikido. It's taught cooperatively and is a very good environment. Nobody is out to hurt anyone in Aikido classes making it a lot of fun, whipping people through the air and having them laughing and coming back for more. It also seems to attract intellectuals. Many of my instructors had PHD's.

What it comes down to though, is the individual teacher, more so than the martial art. I would avoid teacher's who are on a power trip. Nice, confident, warm, instructors in any martial art are people I'm honored to train with.

I also highly recommend joining a yoga class.

John.
Second zerohedge.com and also tickerforum.org, and learn the lingo / slang / inside jokes if you want to participate, expect a fair amount of dark humour, it's how people cope.
it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times...

you stupid computer!
You should be careful how you use the term "flashblock". For desktop web browsers, most "flashblock" tools only hide the flash objects. They do this to not break compatibility as thoroughly, but it unfortunately means that browsers running flashblock are still generally 100% compatible with flash-based security exploits. It seems reasonable to expect that such tools can hardly improve the battery life over unrestricted Flash.

I don't know if this applies to Android, but on a MacBook Air, you're best off using Adblock and/or NoScript to ensure that flash objects and advertising scripts never even get fetched over the network.
My first feature request would be due dates and email reminders.
`this` is not a code smell, but trying to do variable hiding/encapsulation of attributes through closures leads to grotty code. Use the leading underscore convention. It's worked in Python for years.

The article author will also be a lot happier when he realizes that Javascript might look like Java but it really wants to be a lisp.
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Its just the Mac Flash implementation, no? Many tabs with Flash content don't make Windows slow IIRC.
Looks great, the test will come tommorrow when I compare it to my paper list and try to implement.
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If the server's under really hard load - memory or I/O or both, with the swap thrashing - I'd be unsurprised.

I've never checked to see how my stat analyzers fare on half a gig of logs.
"before I go to Thursday NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences"

Nice. And you wonder why you are not getting funding?
It's a fair point. Nevertheless, when faced with a tenfold increase in the risk of death, I suspect most people would opt for dealing with the TSA.

Regardless, the debate is pointless--GA is not a realistic solution for 95% of air travelers.
Well, i love it.
Its a great way to organise my endless daily mind jottings.

I have made it into a quick little desktop (fluid) app with some minor css changes to help it blend in a bit

Heres a screenshot:
http://www.webnibbles.co.uk/dropbox/workFlowyFluid.jpg

If you are interested in running this standalone (OS-X) you can get the app here: http://www.webnibbles.co.uk/dropbox/WorkFlowy.app.zip

Or you can get fluid from here and give it a go yourself:
http://fluidapp.com/
I am not sure technical publications and niche developer blogs are aiming for being maximally inclusive. Case in point, show me one systems programming book, however specific, that has the spec information on low-level ABI, or details on executable header formats.

Off the top of my head: "Windows 95 Secrets". Have another?

Any Unix internals book, even assembly books, with ELF or Mach-O details? the most they ever go is cover C calling conventions.

Challenging your readers is not being inclusive, it's being opaque and sloppy, leaving important details as an "exercise to the reader". Good books hold you accountable to the knowledge they contain, you're expected to take it and dig deeper.
This is orgmode without emacs and on the web. Given the usefulness and popularity of orgmode, I wouldn't be surprised if this really takes off.
Yup, no flame here. That's the problem I'm finding here in Toronto (or any major city I would imagine). I lived in a much smaller city a few months ago and was fortunate enough to have a really great instructor and an even better master. Thanks for the advice though, I'll be sure to check it out!
So, we decided on "Organize your brain." Simple but also seems to get the point across.
ah pretty handy, thanks dude
Hey this is great, is there something I can do for you in return? I'd really appreciate it if you would proofread a short article I wrote about global warming. It's only 3 columns / one page. I can do coding, hosting or payment if you'd be willing to accept something in return. The article is here http://sam.ai.ki/co2-and-forests.html and my email address is on it.

I'm not sure if you mean very short text like headlines when you say 'copy'; if so, no problemo!
I have been practicing wushu for 12 years. I find that it is a sport that constantly pushes me. I focus mostly on sport wushu forms. I do not generally enjoy hitting other people and wushu has a performance focus that resonates with me. I grew up watching Kung Fu movies so it was a good fit for me.

I think saying one style is better than the other is like saying orange juice is better than apple juice. I think you need to find the style that suits your body type and personality. Any school worth their salt will let you at least try a free class. You should try the class. Also another important factor is the skill of the students regardless of style. You should pick a school where your classmates will challenge and push you. Trying out the class will also let you see if you will get along with those people. After all if you are serious you ilk probably be spending a lot of time with them. Location is another factor. Ideally it should be close so that you go often.
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I can't think of a reason why the problem isn't convex in that the quicker you get to a point alive the better? If there isn't then GA would be a very inefficient approach.

Edit: Actually I can think of a reason that you'd have alternative paths over or under. Still I suspect GA's would be inefficient for this sort of problem computationally - but they do implement very easily and solve the problem which is I think why GA's get so much use.
Normally evolutionary computation papers which describe experimental/applied stuff like this will describe what they actually did more precisely, give actual benchmarks, and if possible try alternative approaches (as you suggested).
by the way, there's a plain text version of the page here if that would be easier for you to read / edit. http://sam.ai.ki/co2-and-forests.txt
I've been looking for blogs dealing with commercial real estate. Any ideas?
The syntax is definitely awkward. But efforts like coffee-script http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ are here to alleviate some of these pain points.
I consider my e-mails filtered and labelled beyond the inbox to be downright inaccessible at the moment. It takes ages if I take upon me the monumental task of navigating to e-mails outside my inbox.

And this is in Chrome - not some kind of Google-forsaken browser like Opera.
Regardless of copyright philosophy, it's more about honoring the expectations of each party in the business transaction. The agreement was that they could publish the article once but not republish. Regardless of the law, breaching that mutually-agreed expectation was bound to cause problems.
My suggestion would be Tai Chi (also spelled Tai Qi and Tai Ji depending on who you ask...).

You might not even think of Tai Chi as a martial art, and that's because although Tai Chi is in fact a martial art, it is also something of a meditative practice akin to yoga. Similar to the aikido suggestions below, Tai Chi is not a striking art, but is mostly about redirecting the opponent's energy, as well as moves that hinder or disable the opponent from attacking you in the first place. Tai Chi focuses on sensitivity and receptiveness rather than force or strength, so even if you do it for years, you won't come out of it looking like Bruce Lee, which may or may not be a positive for you.

I don't have a lot of experience with other martial arts, aside from a few random Karate lessons when I was young, but I've been going to a local Tai Chi class for about 6 months now and I highly recommend it.
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It's easy to take Muay Thai classes or watch it and think it's not very technical, especially in the US because Americans are generally not very good at Muay Thai. But going to Thailand and getting your ass kicked and thrown all over the place by a 16 year old thai kid half your size will make you change your mind that it's not a technical sport.
Unfortunately, CoffeeScript doesn't support implicit "this". I'm working on that problem, and I hope to share it soon.
If you add Varnish, you'll still need Apache.

If you switch to nginx, then you probably won't need varnish at all and can replace Apache.

The nginx config is much, much, much easier to work with than Apache. Transferring complex rewrite rules is the hardest thing to get right when moving over, but everything else is much easier.

Smart lobsters use nginx
It does make me question why the books and tutorials I have read on JavaScript want to cover so many object-oriented techniques. Why not treat it more like a functional or "prototypical closure oriented" language? Perhaps the author is on to something.
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Both Python and Lua share this characteristic with Javascript. Is there a name for this language feature, or for languages that share it?

I tend to think of them as "bag-of-things" languages, since they also all share the fact that objects are just tables/dictionaries, and the only thing that distinguishes an attribute reference from a method call is the "()" at the end. Certainly there's a more accepted nomenclature?
And for that enterprising individual who corners a small niche market of tablet computers that don't sell big but maybe sell just enough go the spoils. Right, right?...
One thing to take into account is that Jerry Yang and David Filo did their Yahoo directory in 1994 when there was a great need for search engines and people just didn't know what was out there. Their directory gave people a way of seeing what was there.

They also have great timing. They did it in Jan. 1994, only a few months after the first few search engines. So lots of people not knowing about their other options and a great need for a 'directory' of the relatively unsearchable web made their company very popular.
I know there's stuff out there that I won't get, like Google Voice or anything with SMS notifications, but all I asked was a 2-line description.

I wonder where you got "entitlement to free services" from.
Anecdotally, I remember other people complaining about this a few months ago, and Google was able to flip some kind of switch and make it "fast" again. Not sure what they did, but Gmail has different scalability issues than Google because with the web it's fine if there's some latency between when a site changes its content and when Google indexes it. In fact it's expected which is one of the reasons why people put so much time into SEO. With Gmail you expect all of your data to be instantly searchable as soon as it hits your inbox. Compound that with the fact that everyone has their own private inbox which is exclusive of everyone else's and you can see where it's a hard problem to basically build you a personal Google with real time search capabilities.

All that being said, I wish Google would hurry up and solve the problem!
I don't get why the author claims this is a move towards google being more closed. All they ask is that you share back. According to that argument the GPL is on the path to closed source.
That's a lot harder to quantify though, isn't it?

Especially if you are a small team, or single founder, building a web app.
Do you have the "Global Search and Indexer" turned off? It is found in Preferences / Advanced tab / General - disable and then restart Tbird.

Global search is an evil POS.
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Does the Apache license include patent licensing? Java is open source too.
Facebook could simply work around this. They don't have to use the official API. They probably scrape for AOL/Yahoo/Hotmail. They can do it for Gmail too. Then Google's only recourse would be to sue them. It'd be beautiful too because then we'd get to see Facebook argue in favor of what it doesn't itself allow.
How much "martial" vs how much "art"?

Tai Chi, Iaido, and kata-focused disciplines are more "art".
Jeet Kun Do, Muay Thai, and combat-focused disciplines are more "martial".
All are worthy, it's more a matter of what your goals are.
I suggest to try Aikido, Tai Chi, or Wing Chun Kung Fu. Aikido has by far the best philosophy of any martial art in my opinon, and it's worth learning for that reason alone. I like Yoshinkan Aikido.