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> If you ever see an injustice being committed without the perpetrator being caught and punished

That's the majority of them. Sadly.
We have experience with the undesirable side affects of various medicines as well eg. Thalidomide and Fen-phen and even MMR (per the CDC).

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm#mmr
This may be related to overall linux interactivity scheduling. There has been a running debate on the Linux kernel mailing list about this for years. The Linux scheduler is more efficient for server-workloads and compiles, but it is not as good for interactivity.

Very recent kernels have a new scheduler which supports a new scheduling algorithm which people are anicdotally reporting better interactivity with. Perhaps this will help the situation.
It is interesting that no one is afraid of flying or terrorism. That must mean the TSA's pornoscaners are working
I've done a lot of fixed-price projects, and rarely had trouble making everybody happy. Here's how:

1. Break the project down into small, easily-estimated features, and estimate the time required for each. Most estimates should be a day or two.

2. Allow the customer to select those features which have the best return on investment.

3. Strongly encourage the customer to budget an extra 25% to 50% for unanticipated features. There will always be a few!

4. Allow the customer to add new features, or to cancel features you haven't started.

5. Work with high-quality clients who know enough about their business to make intelligent decisions. Then, focus hard on helping them earn money. This removes a lot of stress from the relationship.

This approach only works if you take pride in your work, if you know how to estimate, and if you don't mind occasionally spending an extra day or two on a feature that proved trickier than expected.

Fixed-price projects have two great advantages: They encourage clients to think about which features will earn them the most money, and they reward programmers for good time management. Hourly projects reward you for being a slower developer, and where's the fun in that?
Gmail accounts and capcha solving services are cheap compared to the profits you could make off of getting your site ranked #1 for a profitable search keyword.
As gold supply is relatively fixed, it's harder to manipulate than valuations of internet companies. Spending dollars on gold rather than stocks will reduce the stock bubble risk and reduce price for dollars (measured in gold / $), so reducing your vulnerability to dollar bubbles caused by government policies.

It's not perfect but it's a form of insurance. Based on recent gold prices, it looks like many people are taking that insurance.

Essentially I'm agreeing with you - stop accepting dollars, use gold instead.
I will continue to search, but I also want to point out a common misperception: adverse events in the PDR or on product packaging are simply a list of all reported adverse events, with little data to demonstrate causality. Common medications often have dozens to hundreds. Clearly, some of these are valid, but with more rare events it becomes harder to say. This kind of data is important, but should be viewed in context.

Some of what you describes sounds a bit like Guillain-Barré Syndrome, but there are some more idiosyncratic elements. Either way, I hope your daughter is safe and feeling better.

My point here is not to be argumentative, but I really do feel that as a physician I have a duty to point out that the overwhelming majority of available data suggests that routine vaccines for common childhood illnesses (those recommended by the CDC and NSH) are safe and effective. Clearly, sometimes people have adverse side-effects, but the data support that the risk of a bad outcome is worse without the vaccine than with. Either decision has consequences.
Bone: Rudimentary Redis over HTTP(S)
People Problems Masquerading as Business Problems
That thing seems pretty beta, it even has a zoom button that does nothing. The translucent sidebar needs to be at least colorable (I'd opt for the standard grey though), I had a very dark background that made it hard to see where the window ended on the left. It's also a bit strange to grab and move since it lacks a top window border and any empty space up there to click on.
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Market costs $25 to submit to, as well.
Not to mention that it is coded in Carbon which I'm sure doesn't help performance. If apple isn't working on a new version then they are very shortsighted.
ExpertsExchange used to be nearly 100% scraped usenet. Then eventually a few poor souls stumbled in thinking it was an actual site and started posting questions there directly. Eventually people even started answering them.

Had they not had such a terrible site design and revenue scheme, they might have actually made the transition from scraping bottom feeder to respectable site.
> I am confident that later versions of JDK would catch up

With the current situation with Oracle, Apache and Google I'm not entirely confident that the Java language will evolve in any significant way.
Now you will never move on to Digi-Key unless you suspect Octopart's site is broken.

It's awesome to hear that Octopart was working so well for you already, even before this deal!
There are many dangers to this as well. Fundamentally, as soon as people are aware of the power they hold it will get abused. See: digg bury teams, reddit circle jerks, SEO link farms, etc. And the smaller the number of people that have the power the more likely, more dangerous, and more harmful their abuses can get.

I think the cases that Google breaks is that some people figure out some trick/technique that lets them become a small power circle, which they then obviously abuse. When Google works it's because they're able to algorithmically spread the power around and at scale see what is quality and what isn't. Therefore I think the better strategy isn't to concentrate power even within an "elite" class, in fact it's the complete opposite, it should be how to make sure the power is spread within the masses quite evenly.
What is your product’s burst mode?
I seriously thought of making this app myself a while back, and came up with a list of features I would include. Here are a few others that come to mind.

Multiple locations per reminder - e.g. notify me when there is a Bank of America and a post office within walking distance of each other.

Date/location reminder - e.g. notify me if I pass a Bank of America during the last 5 days of the month.

Time/location reminder - e.g. only notify me if I pass Bank of America during bank hours
Ask HN: Do affiliated sex ad sites really generate income?
a throw-away account.

Do sex advertisement sites where they are affiliated with other major sex based sites really generate worth-while income?

Like Hooker.com or sex.com, etc These sites have no content, just ads and links to other sites.

Does anyone have any experience? I own a few suggestive domain names and was considering the best way to make a few hundred a month so I can afford to work on my REAL dreams...
$400m is the best case too... No word on what that figure actually is (gross, operating, net). Considering they are still taking lots of investment money, I doubt they are really generating that much free cash.
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It is very useful in the B2B space. Organically, being able to figure out who you know at a company and have them make an introduction for a sale/biz dev/recruitment opportunity is a big deal. Advertising-wise, it lets you target based on occupation. Many of the brands I do advertising for find LinkedIn a very effective buy.
Google for "pink contract". You'll find at least this:

http://news.cnet.com/ATT-admits-spam-offense-after-contract-...

I recall, but can't find confirmation, that the old Uunet UUCP and usenet hub had "pink contracts", but denied them until irrefutable evidence surfaced. Why would Google be any different? As a publicly held corporation, the Google entity is what one could delicately call a "sociopath".
Let's take a page from Steve Jobs' playbook.

Get rid of the hinge. This also gets rid of the latch and reduces manufacturing costs. Get rid of most of the buttons. This way, you don't have to pay for the displays on most of them. Keep the buttons with the dynamic displays, but have fewer of them along the side. Add some "trigger" buttons on non-visible surfaces and two D-pads. Software keyboards are good enough for in-game use. Multi-use buttons with displays have the same problems as a software keyboard anyhow. (The space is not available for the other controls when you are using the qwerty keyboard.)
Sometimes I regret going to College. I hardly learned anything. The bigger thing I got out was how to organize myself and socialize.

In hindsight if I had momentum around an idea I'd have preferred to go work on that directly. Personally I learn way more through doing than reading.
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Perhaps, the Daemon(http://thedaemon.com) has been activated?
...or to wave it around all over the urinal whilst trying to clean virtual graffiti? Seems like you could turn something like this http://www.toiletmarksman.com/toilet_fly.php into an ad platform too and keep the floor and surrounding walls a little cleaner.
> Additionally, most schools nation-wide are struggling with the budget (between California and Illinois, 40,000 jobs were cut last summer.

The problem with that number is that the vast majority were rehired later that summer/in early fall. That "fire/hire" dance is part of the "we need funding" theater.

However, the real problem with the "struggling with budget" argument is that a lot of the spending in those budgets is for "not classroom". (Yes, I'm including school facilities in classroom.)

The folks who set up public school budgets do not act as if public education is a priority, so it's absurd to give them more money to improve public education.
Stuff like these recent holiday daily deal days have spurred plenty of impulse buying for me.
(And btw, building software is nothing like building a house.)

Well, building houses (buildings, bridges, power stations, stadiums...) is usually fixed price, waterfall at that (the blueprint is prepared before construction starts, etc).

Of course, the clients can change the projects, that's what addendums to contracts are for. Here you define what changes and how the fixed price changes.

Among other things, it is great anti-slacker motivator. With time&material, the construction company could take whatever time they feel like. With FP, they are encouraged not to, because it goes on their tab.

Maintenance of buildings/whatever structures is on the ofter hand often done as a T&M (it is slightly more complicated, as there are a certain baseline services with fixed monthly fee and everything above that is T&M).
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Will you please clarify your response? It seems like you're conflating 2 different things. The two things that I see here are:

1) How do we determine who is a good teacher versus a bad teacher?
2) Should we fire "bad" teachers, or should we just fire teachers who underperform to some standard?

#1 is a very difficult question. Malcolm Gladwell has a great essay on how teachers are like NFL quarterbacks: we can't really tell ahead of time who will succeed. (http://www.gladwell.com/2008/2008_12_15_a_teacher.html)

#2, are you against firing teachers who are "bad", assuming we had some decent way to separate the bad from the good (not just based on test scores, or even the improvement in scores)? Because the teachers union (at least here in California), is adamantly against even firing the bad teachers. Granted, it's a moot point until we can come up with a good teacher evaluation heuristic (and I personally do not believe it will put much weight on test scores...)

Also, WRT to evaluating teachers through students' test scores: have you ever seen The Wire? One of the main characters (Bunny Colvin) moves from being a cop to an educator. At the end of the year, he is forced to "teach to the test" (e.g., only cover test material) rather than helping his students learn (which he was doing before). I believe this to be an accurate criticism of why we shouldn't use student test scores to eval teachers: it screws up the incentives, and makes the goal for students to beat a test, rather than to get educated.
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That question is probably more important and relevant than trying to find yet another rationalization for attacking the middle class.

The middle class doesn't consist completely of schoolteachers. In fact, it largely consists of families who are getting screwed over by a shitty public school system.
If we can enable source pointers for debugging, then "good" matters less -- about as much as how "good" x86 ISA is.
I worked with Cygwin + Putty for several years. It wasn't Unix, but it made my life tolerable. I recently changed to Ubuntu and I can't believe I could live without it.
One reason is to be able to consistently work with the same language both on the server and on the client. In this way one doesn't need to change gears all the time. I do like JS, but I'd rather use Ruby (or language of choice) most of the time.
I went to college for 2 years, then dropped out to peruse the startup world. I can say that I've made many valuable connections being in the industry (more so than in college), and I definitely don't regret my decision dropping out.
Unlike politicians, clergymen or philosophers, scientists have pretty universally established standards for establishing when "your own mind" about a causal relationship between x and y is almost certainly wrong; rejecting their approach to doing it (i.e. go to school and learn for several years so you can critique the research rather than basing your view on anecdotes collected by yellow journalists) is tantamount to rejecting science as a discipline. Yes, it's elitist, but there's a reason I don't ask the man on the street to prescribe me medicine whilst being perfectly willing to debate the merits of the current government with him.
Bingo! I purchase a lot of online ads, and I can tell you, I give nearly all my ad budget to Google. I tried Facebook for a while, with the exact same ads and the exact same product, and the result was shocking. Nearly 10x less conversions than with Google. I think the reason is simple. Google users were already searching for me, facebook users were just bored looky-loos. When people start to realize this about fb it could be the short of the century.
I only have about 60 connections. But some of those 60 connections have hundreds of connections. So it is pretty easy to see where someone is working now (assuming they work in technology/marketing and keep their LinkedIn profile up to date). I think of it as a 'Alumni Directory' of sorts - where alumni is anyone you've every worked with (or even someone you'd like to work with).
No. It is not. I'm really tired of this argument. It assumes other platforms are the same as Linux, and that's incorrect.

Here's why you're wrong:

Unlike Linux, Mac OS X ships with a standard, stable, and exceptionally complete set of libraries. Apple goes to great lengths to maintain binary and API compatibility, and this means a few things:

- Most applications will only require Apple-supplied libraries, as there's very little that isn't provided by the OS libraries.

- Apple keeps the OS libraries up-to-date.

This feature-complete ABI/API-stable environment is not free for Apple to provide -- it takes a lot of effort to provide a consistent API across libraries and maintain the API/ABI compatibility across releases, but the advantages are tremendous. Mac OS X has been able to skate by without package management for years because this approach allows for drag-install drag-uninstall application distribution.

UNIX derivatives, on the other hand, were faced with a lack of standardization of core application libraries, a huge number of incompatible libraries to fill in the gaps, and a software distribution model that involves splatting files all over the disk. The end result is that you need a packaging system to maintain security updates, manage all the files on disk, and upgrade the world in lockstep due to API/ABI compatibility issues across libraries shared by wildly disparate applications.

So -- tl;dr -- it's not a security 'nightmare' because the core libraries that everyone uses are already shared and updated by the OS vendor.

This is also what makes Mac OS X so much nicer to develop and distribute applications for as compared to platforms that require a centralized package manager authority to keep things sane.
It seems to be a particular affliction among our group (by that I mean anyone who spends a lot of time here) that once we learn to apply one revolutionary/disruptive idea, we can't stop even when we probably should. I'd say it's because we're used to trying to think of how to scale-up every idea, but I've been accused of armchair-psychology before... :)
This is why I think it's better to reduce the context-switch between server and browser and not eliminate it. There's going to be a context-switch there no matter what you do, so there's no sense in paying such high prices to try to eliminate it.
These posts about how a type system can guarantee correctness always make me a little envious of the poster. Not envy that their work isn't hard, but that it has a kind of straightforwardness, with problems so well-defined that a proper analysis guarantees you've solved it completely.

In my work, the types are usually so nailed-down there isn't any question about them. Yet the problems can be so nonlinear and ill-conditioned that even moderate testing-- say, hitting the code with 1000 test cases-- is just not enough to convince myself it's working correctly. It often happens that a unit test runs just fine at that level, but bumping it up to 10,000 or 100,000 cases reveals weaknesses in the code.

Illustrative example follows-- no need to read if you "get" that, in some fields, a type system simply doesn't detect the interesting bugs. A few months ago, I was testing methods for solving problems of sorption to room surfaces. In terms of types, it could hardly get more explicit. Take an object representing a sorption isotherm, plus two double-precision numbers giving gas- and sorbed-phase concentrations, and return the equilibrium concentration at the sorbent surface. The only way to specify the types more completely would be to tag all the numbers involved with units.

Guaranteeing convergence turned out to be a royal pain. To get a useful answer, you need to force convergence to very tight tolerances-- tight enough that, on ill-conditioned problems, you run the risk of asking for answers below the machine precision. That means you need two termination tests-- one on the defining equation (is the error close enough to zero?), and one on the returned result (is the current best answer within a tight enough bracket?). And within that framework, it's very easy to create algorithms that, due to finite-precision effects, fall into infinite loops because they fail to actually change a bracket point when they add a small number to it.

So again, types were not an issue. The only way I was sure I had all the convergence pitfalls out of the way was extensive unit testing. And the baby tests I ran during initial development-- sampling 1000 combinations out of a database of sorbents and chemicals-- simply didn't do it. Once I had "working" code, and stepped up sampling to the 100,000 range, it was easy to discover oddball combinations that would cause problems.
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Self-incriminating Crypto Passphrase and the 5th?
I heard somewhere long ago that if your encryption passphrase was self-incriminating for any kind of crime (stealing a candybar when you were a 13 or willingly speeding last week) you would legally be protected by the 5th Amendment if you were ever legally forced to divulge the keys. Is this true?
One of my former coworkers operated a few ad-based porn sites, and he made some decent money a few years back, but it quickly dried up. He said he made as much as a few grand per month per site, which was enough for 3 guys to party and not have to work, but by 2009 the revenue had almost completely dried up.
Most risk capital is lost? We hold risk capital for a 7bp event (99.93% chance the situation will be better than this). Then we have prudent margins. Why the fuck would we burn through 90% of our risk capital most of the time?
Very black hat SEO yes. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a distributed version of xrumer or other link spamming software.
Although this admittedly isn't my specialty, I would imagine that they only generate worthwhile income if they have a fairly significant amount of traffic. Ergo, it's not as simple as "put ads on this domain name and wait for profit," but instead would require getting traffic to your site (which most people in that industry tend to do by spamming).

It's definitely possible to turn a profit, but it's not as simple or clean-cut as you might believe. That said, sex.com just sold for $13 million, so if you happen to land on something good, you're probably in the money!
This would explain the "Became a Gmail Ninja" marketing: www.google.com/mail/help/tips.html
Thx, they even compare it with the googlers aswell :)
Google seems to like building systems that automatically
scale across all keywords and niches

They haven't been doing a good job lately.

For a high-competition keyword it takes many many more
links to change anything.

Not that many, and do you think that's a problem?

Search "viagra": http://www.google.com/search?q=viagra

This is the third result (after wikipedia + viagra.com which have a hardcoded boost): http://www.genericviagrarx.net/

Here's a sample of links to it: http://www.google.com/search?q=link:genericviagrarx.net

I.e. there are thousands of forums / blogs where you can post your link to (even in a proper context, the more popular the subject the better). Hire a couple of offshore workers for $5 / hour, and in a week you'll have thousands of links pointing to you.
So allintext is essentially a honeypot for bots? Otherwise it seems weird to offer the option at all, if all it does is get you banned for being a robot.
I've seen recruiting agencies using it to contact potential employees. So there's a use case. You can put in language names in the "keywords" section on advanced search, and it becomes a nifty tool to find people skilled in those languages (near you). Probably a godsend for recruiting agencies.
no one sets out to do a project of meaning or scale and chooses these tools, do they?

We certainly have (Parenscript) and it's vital for two reasons: (1) there are cases where we need to run the same code on either the server or the client; (2) we get the full power of Lisp macros. The latter means our source code is much smaller than JS we would have had to write by hand. Somewhat unexpectedly, there's a key efficiency issue here: making heavy use of abstractions in JS would make our code significantly slower. With Parenscript, we can write concise source code with nice abstractions that compiles to low-level, efficient (but still readable) JS. It's one of those rare times you get to have your cake and eat it too (an adage that really doesn't make sense, yet still always comes up #1 in the search results in my brain!)