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I totally understand what this guy is trying to explain. I get invites from folks that were in diapers when I graduated high school, and I always feel that I have to be careful how I interact with them. This is especially true for girls. For boys, it's really not a big deal because there are plenty of ways for younger and older men to have entirely appropriate relationships.

Not so much for girls. Even if I were single, I think I'd have to be careful with girls, and more careful as the age gets lower. Girls tend to bond with and be attracted to male affection, and the ideal source for that is their own father (assuming the father is on the up-and-up) even through a time of courtship (courtship is about making the transition from a father's affection to a mate's affection). It would be entirely inappropriate for me as a grown man to allow a non-adult girl to have misplaced bonding because of my affections, even if they were entirely innocent.

Since I'm married, this is a double no-no. The reasons above still apply, but now since I have now vowed my affections exclusively to my wife, there are very few relationships with other women (particularly young ones) that are appropriate. Work relationships qualify as appropriate, obviously, but independent friendships have to be very carefully considered.
No. The terms are unfavourable with too many escape clauses, and you should try to moneytize the blog on your own first (adsense/adverts/etc) to try and establish its market value/worth.
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No. Beer yes. But coffee, tea, or soda, why bother?
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Perhaps I should clarify then? Tobacco farmers goes back generations and make up a significant part of the traditional economy. They are taxed heavily and contribute a lot to the local and national economies. In general, marijuana farming goes back about generation, is not taxed (for obvious reasons) and very few people who grow marijuana really on it for there sole income. Enough of it is imported so that it is not really seen as 'American.' Maybe I'm biased, being from Virginia and having friends and associated who are small time tobacco farmers (and are nothing like the faceless monsters you see on anti-smoking adds,) But the relationship of tobacco to the economy, and the relation of marijuana to the economy are different, both in function and in perception (which is what really matters.)

BTW, your link is fixed.
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Edit: That article emphasized my point.

Which isn't that one is good or the other is bad, but the relationship of either to our economy is different. While production of marijuana is increasing, most of it is controlled and distributed by groups that are considered foreign, like the Mexican mob for example. In fact, a great deal of it is grown by recent immigrants whose families are being held hostage in their home countries.

Needless to say this could change in light of legalization, but it's current stature is what plays a key role right now. As it stands, the people who get rich off of marijuana aren't Americans.

So while legalization of Marijuana may benefit society monetarily, there is no particular interest group that stands to get rich or on which the government already depends. This was even more true at the time of the original criminalization. It's a matter of why, not whether. I've stated elsewhere that I believe marijuana ought to be legal and I'm stating here why it isn't and tobacco is.

I mentioned small tobacco farmers for a different reason. Taxes, restrictions and lawsuits against tobacco increase everyday and everyday small tobacco farmers loose ground to larger tobacco firms which can deal more efficiently with the restrictions. As the restrictions increase, small tobacco will go out of business and if criminalize, the larger firms will give way to cartels every bit as troublesome as the Mexican mob. Legalize either and their's no guarantee that either will come back as a wholesome industry. (Given prohibition, it seems likely, but isn't a given.)

So those that oppose one and support the other aren't necessarily hypocrites so much as tunnel visioned. Which is all I really have to say.
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ubuntu hardy comes with FF3 installed, and typically you can install most software you need using Synaptic (from the GUI, apt-get from the command line). You might also be able to find a binary version on the site where you downloaded from (look for .deb files).

If that's not an option (which is possible with FF3 if you're using an older version of Ubuntu) then chances are you need to build the software you downloaded from source and this is where it gets more complicated (although not that complicated unless you happen to get errors).

In case anyone is new to Linux and curious here are the typical steps to building a package from source.

> wget http://example.com/somefile.tar.gz (or you can download with the browser)
> tar zxvf somefile.tar.gz (or you can extract the archive using your desktop manager)
> cd somefile
> ./configure (if you don't see a configure and there is a file called Makefile present you can skip this step)
> make (this will compile the software)
> sudo make install (if you didn't get any errors during make you can use this to install the software)

Depending on the specific software you are trying to install you might need to pass configuration options to ./configure, you should typically look for such things in the instructions for the particular software you are trying to install. Also note that on Ubuntu you should install build-essential first (sudo apt-get install build-essential).
We can't say "history made Nicotine legal, but let's pretend that THC is illegal for good reasons"

Good, because I didn't say that.
I ran across the Ravi Mohan post last year that compares Jeffries' and Norvig's approaches to solving Sudoku. Upon reading the actual articles, I felt that the comments in that thread were somewhat unfair.

Jeffries explicitly states that he is unfamiliar with Sudoku and rusty with Ruby, so of course he is going to make mistakes as he seeks a solution; it doesn't help his perceived credibility that he makes lots of little mistakes and documents his fixes for each one. His Test-Driven Design approach makes for a long and boring read, but it is what enabled him to make as much progress as he did.

Norvig, on the other hand, has a masterful command of Python and has probably worked through dozens of Sudoku by hand, never mind that he is intimately familiar with constraint propagation and doesn't bother describing any problems he had typing up the program.

To Jeffries' credit, he seems to hit upon the same solution as Norvig in the very first article (a "tree-trimming" solution, as he puts it), but he doesn't get around to implementing it. He states that he doesn't think it will run fast enough for all puzzles -- a perfectly reasonable concern that Norvig ducks entirely by running his solution on a hundred puzzles and timing them, then assuming they constitute the hardest puzzles the algorithm will encounter, in the astronomical space of all puzzles. It's not an unreasonable assumption, but it is an assumption nonetheless; there could well be a Sudoku puzzle out there that causes Norvig's algorithm to run an unreasonably long time.
>>> You can sell ad-space, or sell blog-posts (you already do some great reviews)

As I understand it, he could sell ad-space anyway. They are offering to syndicate his content on another website and monetize it there...which is not mutually exclusive with selling ads himself on the original blog.

Only thing I would not agree with is the $1000 cap - there's a big risk of ending with nothing.
It shows how much Gawker pays its bloggers per page view.

While the article implies the amount is small, it's still a number Paul can use as a baseline for comparison & negotiation.
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I've been thinking about the same thing. It seems a lot of the younger kids now have so many extracurricular activities that they do not have enough time for themselves.

I don't think it's as much parents are trying to just get the kids to do something so the kids won't be around as the parents trying to improve their kids education and life.

There are numerous articles describing how even pre schools are becoming more and more competitive. In such a world what can you do as a parent?
I think this is a normal Ubuntu review that's been spiced up by painting the reviewer as an amateur user and Mac fan. I don't believe the last part though.

The amateur user thing just doesn't seem consistent throughout. And the way he talks about his limitations as a user ("I’m not a software engineer; if I can’t grab it off the shelf, I can’t use it.") just strikes me as reciting a persona.

Two other obvservations:

* His experience with OS X must have been a long time ago because there's no mention of Exposé, Spaces, or Spotlight – which are all comparable features to the Ubuntu ones that impressed him. And if he was truly an OS X user all these years he'd know about them because they were the main features touted on the upgrade boxes. (Unless he's never upgraded from OS X 10.1.)

* From my memory and quick research Ubuntu doesn't come with KDE – you have to install it. I'm guessing the journalist read about the Linux war between Gnome and KDE and decided the throw it into his story even though it didn't actually happen to him. (Though it's possible Virginia Tech gave him a customized Ubuntu install to play with.)
This is excellent and a very useful tool that does exactly what many of the leading design agencies already do in-house e.g. as shown in the 10min video at http://www.newfangled.com/web_development_prototyping_proces....

I look forward to using this tool more and seeing how it progresses.
Funding, like all procedures and data used in the study is very relevant. In a perfect world it wouldn't, but sadly who is paying the bills often dictates the results of these studies. In that perfect world, there would also be scores of scientists who are paid to analyze studies like this to prove/disapprove the conclusion, but again our imperfect system means funding for intelligent study of Marijuana is severely lacking.

I would imagine getting US government funds to study the "potential damage of marijuana on x" would be a lot easier than getting funding for the "potential benefits of marijuana on y".

Just because we don't see competing studies does not mean the data is not there.
you installed it wrong. on mac os or windows, you download a program from /its/ website and run /its/ installer.

on ubuntu (or pretty much any linux distribution or *bsd), you look to your vendor for pre-compiled packages of this software (linux distributions using dpkg, rpm, whatever, bsds using ports/pkgsrc/packages). so on ubuntu you run whatever package management utility comes with it and tell it you want to install firefox 3. it fetches a package built by another ubuntu user and installs it.

of course, you can manually download/configure/compile/install any of this software, but using pre-compiled packages is usually much easier, faster, and integrates better with your other installed software.
I concur. I spent about 5 minutes on the site and didn't even know it was a purchasable product until i came back here and read the comments.
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This is the age old fight - they are trying to close up the 'analog loophole'. Consumers are continuously getting screwed over by hardware and software manufacturers who break their products for absolutely no reason.

HDMI is a perfect example of this. Let's take DVI and SPDIF, both open digital formats, encrypt them, and put them in one cable to make it look 'new' and 'cool'. The end result is that there are serious compatibility and distribution issues. (i.e. a sony LCD might not work with a philips DVD player.) Then people won't notice when we disable the analog component video outputs.

It's legal to make analog copies of your media for personal use. It's illegal to circumvent encryption to do so. So let's convince all the hardware manufacturers to close up all the analog outputs and add encryption to all the digital ones!

It's all one big scam to protect their content. And everyone in the industry is in on it.
or d) the messenger was paid to deliver only certain messages, whilst the other messengers were fired/never hired in the first place.
Music is also much more portable, and much cheaper. I used to paint before I left home, but I've never had the space to assemble a studio since. Without a studio, I can't just start working when the urge strikes me. By comparison, when I have my guitar or keyboard with me I probably play an hour or so a day. It's kind of like how, with a separate 'internet computer', you mostly don't go online by accident. The problem is that you need to doodle to make something as a painter or musician (or hacker).

The only time I've painted since involved jury rigging an easel out of a basement gym at the Princeton graduate college. I could take a class, but they're expensive.
Well, you said that Tobacco is legal due to historical reasons (which implies that it's legal for bad reasons), so I assumed you were implying that THC is illegal for good reasons. I apologize.
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There are also a number of analogs of THC present such as THC-V which is 500 times stronger than THC.

http://designer-drugs.com/pte/12.162.180.114/dcd/chemistry/t...
One thing he didn't mention is how the Internet has affected the economics of software.

Internet drastically reduces the distribution costs creating close substitutes widely available for free.

This makes the other economics of software kind of irrelevant. Just ask Microsoft.
How often something is repeated bears little to no relation to how true it may or may not be.

Several of the reasons I feel it is correct to nominate boomers for that degrading title are perfectly valid. But feel free to continue ad-hominem if you wish.
Marijuana cultivation is one of the largest cash crops in the US

Maybe, but are Marijuana growers as dependent on their crop as Tobacco growers? Do they have as powerful a lobby? Are they as heavily taxed?

I've read that period documentation. "Hemp" is not marijuana as we know it today and it was grown for rope, not as a drug. It never did catch on though, the climate wasn't very good for it.
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It's not so much that I despise the unwashed masses, it's just that the greatest common denominator tends to go very low, as the total number of participants goes up. Take a billion Nobel prize winners and the only things they will all have in common will be sex and violence, that and the Nobel prize.

My point is, it's not that the masses are unwashed, it's just the masses - law of averages.
It's been a few versions since I paid close attention, but as I remember OS X ships with only the bare POSIX tools, plus a few extras from the FreeBSD userspace. It lacks stuff like perl, python, curl, wget, ssh (maybe: not sure about that one), tcpdump, etc... That's all stuff the poor user is going to have to figure out how to get.

And as mentioned, the existing package systems for OSS software are really primitive. There's just no equivalent for, say, the Ubuntu synaptic tool for new users.

I'm not trying to make this into a flame war: clearly you can achieve a pretty solid command line experience in OS X if you know what you're doing. But you're never going to learn it there without a bunch of headaches if you don't already have that expertise.
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And with respect to the international community - many countries.

Canada's police turn a blind eye to it mostly, since the courts usually throw out the cases. But it creates a ridiculous situation where it is accepted and considered legal, but occasionally people trafficking large amounts are still prosecuted and face serious jail time. I really would prefer if it was legalized. This would reduce funds going to organized crime.
Not really news. Many real open source influencers get hired by companies to work on their ideas 100% of the time.
Another example of how social networks' reductionist concept "friend" fails to map onto real life.
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You still get your name published

So what?

Why should he make the choices you did?

I never claimed that I made those choices. But lots of people have. And they're not blogging about how they need drugs to get through their day.

Why is going to work every day so important?

Never started a business before, huh?

what's worse is a whining adult. Nobody actually cares about your car payments or kids.

OP isn't an adult? I don't have a car payment or kids. And if I did, I certainly wouldn't blog about how I used drugs to deal with them.
My point as that THC is a 'substance' and should be considered like any other substances which are both beneficial and harmful to our bodies. Our society gives a pass to some substances and not others based on no real data. It seems a bit hypocritical to rail against marijuana yet we have no issues with other substances that many "rely" on to function (nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, sugar etc.)

I'm more concerned with my Coca Cola (sugar/acid) intake than THC. I, unlike many Americans don't compartmentalize these substances and don't prescribe to the drugs=bad (unless Pfizer prescribes them) thinking.
I'm getting tired of these "The Internet Makes Us Dumb" and "People can't read on the internet"... These articles are usually so poorly read that I give up trying to make sense of them. I have no problem reading large, thick books, and will often work through a well written 400 page novel in maybe a day or so. I'll also sit and read through an interesting article on line, when it deals with relevant issues.

Maybe people stop reading your articles half way through because they're dull, meaningless luddite whines, and not because they've gotten stupider?

Can we stop posting these "damn kids get off my lawn" sort of posts? there are enough real problems with society these days that we don't need to make up crap about how reading online makes us dumb.
I enjoy coffee, tea and soda. However - my body seems to have a really high tolerance for caffeine, and I dont usually have much of them during the day. So I enjoy the taste of all 3, but don't get the caffeine boost some people do.

A friend of mine has the opposite situation - she can't have any caffeine after noon or she will be up all night.

Anyways...I enjoy consuming all 4. I suppose my vice is tasty liquids.
Actually, this is about EA/Hasbro making a Scrabulous competitor. "Facebook making their own version of apps" is even more misleading than the headline TC used.
It's not an equal comparison. These links are more relevant:

A post about blog syndication:
http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/01/17/make-money-from-you...

Another competing syndication network:
http://www.blogburst.com/
Thank you for this comment BTW, refreshing to see someone with such an open mind.
Actually the cube is a usability trap. I had to disable it because it increased my workspace switching time a lot even when I had increased its rotation speed. It looks cool, but gets in the way unfortunately.
Almost everything you submit is to do with ocinnovationvault.com or directly connected to it.

Are you SEO hacking news.yc? As I don't understand why this gets so many votes.
If the data is there, show it. I'm open. I think that the 'drug war' is a total waste of time and money, and that having one fewer red-herring for the police to chase around can only be a good thing.

But you can't dismiss a study just because it was funded by biased people. All people are biased. It's up to you to attempt to look past the bias to see what is genuine, and to see to it that your own viewpoint is expressed.

There are plenty of well funded liberal and libertarian groups that would be more than willing to fund the kind of research that you want. In fact I've seen stuff by Cato that would be right up your ally. You'll do far more good by finding this stuff than by criticizing the only studies being presented.
The first 10 paragraphs seem to be intentionally echoing the usual gripes and fears, in an ignorant-sounding tone. The author could have made it more clear, but I think he meant for it to sound flippant or somewhat mocking, then rebut most of it in the rest of the article.

It's a decent Mac-user-tries-Ubuntu anecdote, not so much a review. But he does bring up one good point: Apple spends hojillions on advertising, and Microsoft at least matches that. Word of mouth is great for converting power-users, but there's a reason the advertising industry churns through so much money -- it works.
This is quite interesting, but I imagine that Flash interpreting C programs isn't all that speedy. It would be nice for browsers to ship a nice-n-fast VM that I could allow applications to use. For some reason, I don't think the JVM is The Right Thing (it's been tried for years and it never worked), but LLVM or Parrot might be nice.

First, though, we need to start compiling higher-level languages to LLVM bytecode. Is anyone working on anything like that currently? (A coworker and I are "planning" to make the Perl optree run on LLVM, but haven't gotten around to that yet. I also want to compile emacs as a library that runs on LLVM, and then compile elisp down to LLVM bytecode. That would make emacs nice-n-fast, and open the door to writing emacs extensions in whatever language you want. All of these are just ideas currently. Motivation / helpers would be nice ;)
I think sports is a great investment. In teaches you discipline, teamwork and helps you gain social confidence. Great assets to have in your life.
I wish I'd talked to you last august. I think all of those things are great and make for a place I'd want to work. But everyone I did manage to talk to said that it was horrible working at Yahoo. This was even before MSFT started bidding. It's also not a vote of confidence when every manager or executive I talked to has now had an entry on TechCrunch announcing their departure.
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Fixed the link.

Marijuana has a long history too. If it were legalized, the industry would be taxed just like tobacco. If tobacco was outlawed there would be underground tobacco farmers just like we have today with weed.

It's silly to say tobacco is good because the farmers are good people who had parents who did the same thing. Their crop kills thousands of people. Weed kills no one. I'm for legalization of both, but by the numbers tobacco is the one we should be worried about.
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I know pg has better things to do then implement trivial HN features. But if someone's working on a community based startup, this might be a neat feature.

Here's my problem. I'm not a stupid guy, I may not be very smart, but I am not illiterate. However, you might get the impression that I am illiterate.

I can read my own post 100 times and I'll be damned if I'll spot the "teh" that should have been a "the".

But! If the preview changes the color, font, or how the paragraphs are laid out, BINGO! I see all my stupid mistakes. Something about visual memory and how my brain works probably.

So my dream submit form would have a preview which did exactly that, randomly, ad infinitum.

Does anyone else have the same problem, or am I the only one?