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Population genetics, as it affects those parts of the nervous system involved in social behavior, together with geography and a long common history, predisposed the Japanese to strong ethnonationalism and social stability in a well-organized and well-supervised hierarchical order. Under premodern conditions this did not preclude intracommunal violence under codes widely understood and enforced; but in the affluent post-WW2 world, with good standards of health and education, and under imposed consensual government following certain highly salutary experiences, these old factors directed the Japanese to an exceptionally high level of nonviolent social cohesion and intense but benign racial-national consciousness.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262162/people-want-know...
That's not a real third alternative, because even if you make less power, you still have to pick your power generation source.
From a review of Wilson and Herrnstein's Crime and Human Nature:

"Criminals tend to be young males who are muscular rather than thin, and who have lower-than-average IQs and impulsive, "now"-oriented personalities, which make planning or even thinking about the future difficult."

Is there any group other than the Japanese for whom that description would be less fitting?
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I agree they're great products, but I found Airbnb wasn't competing with hotels - it was competing with hostels, and on that point it was far cheaper to stay in hostels (10 euro a night in Barcelona for instance) than Airbnb rooms.
I'm really getting tired of these articles that get their hook by taking people down a notch to inflate someone else's ego.

I'm a developer, but I've also practiced a little bit of design as I made things. I've gotten better, and I can do things that impress some people. However, a proper designer is worth their weight in gold in terms of efficiency. It takes me forever to get something that looks okay.

Can't these articles take a tone more along the lines of "we appreciate you, and we're cool too?" Check that, I also hate orgiastic love fests.

Can our articles instead be flavorless factoids educate, but not inspire?
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progress can be further subdivided into 2 distinct types:

- product development progress

- market/customer development progress
From what I remember of Windows 98, it was really simple. If you shared something on the network, it was shared to everyone on the network. No passwords, no permissions, no home groups, everything was just shared. I wish Windows 7 could do this for me.

With Windows 7, I need to connect to a network, customise my security settings so that files can be shared, and even then I need to go into advanced permissions and add a user called 'Everyone' to every folder I share, just so that other people can access them. Sharing on Windows in its current format is unaccessible and difficult.

(Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm very computer literate and it's a fight every time I want to share something, so I can't imagine it's easy for 'mum and dad' users)
I agree with you, I began with functional/event-driven programming at first and that help me ramp up pretty quick, OO principles need lot of time and initial curve is steep!
Shot. Yeah I'll be changing the copy and pitch.
Not only are the units arbitrary, the forecast never goes above "1".
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The original title: "Forecast for Plume's Path Is a Function of Wind and Weather" is much more accurate. The story explicitly says that this is a model for a continuous source (which the current accident is far from being). It doesn't mean to predict radiation levels, but simply to provide information about where and how radiation releases will spread given the wind and weather pattern, and what relative intensities would look like.

This information is very useful if you have a monitoring station and want to estimate an overall picture of the disaster given the readings on your equipment. Enough such readings would give a valuable triangulation to the news coming straight from Fukushima.
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I rented my spot out for a week in SF. It was easy and casual and I made a couple hundred bucks. It turned out this girl from NY was pretty cool too, tho I was prepared to ignore her if she wasn't. I wasn't expecting much. Had tried CouchSurfing. I just saw it as a step above CouchSurfing with an exchange of money. Which is pretty much what it was. Perfect for both our needs. I'd def try being the renter next time I head out of town.
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Hmm. Shouldn't it all be on the GPU?
I'd count myself as anti-nuclear and I think lean I towards the high-side of possible effects.

But it very disturbing seeing something capable of inflaming those with really irrational fears of this stuff.

This is bad. No, don't show pictures like this now (unless there's something solid behind it and there won't be).
I don't know that OO's main goal is to be readable, but rather to manage complexity (which should help readability, but I don't think that's the focus). There's an inherent level of complexity in OO that isn't necessary when you're solving basic, learner type problems, but it can help keep complexity down when you're solving problems that have solutions that can't be kept in your head at any one time.

To put it differently, think of an algorithm that's constant time, but has a very large constant and an algorithm that's O(n). The constant time algorithm will be worse for small sets, but better for large sets (once n > that constant). That's the problem with teaching OO to people new to programming. You're adding an additional thing to an already difficult topic, and that thing you're adding doesn't really benefit you at that level of problem, but get to a bigger problem, and it starts to make sense.
Great compilation, thanks for the post. I've bookmarked it! I'm a new front end programmer and getting started with best practices is always a good thing.
right you don't get type-checking only type-hinting for performance.
It seems that the peak on the map is always one(arbitrary unit). The use of a logarithmic scale from one thousandth to one thousand; yet only using half of the scale seems disingenuous at best.
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Sure, the article says there's no risk but a lot of people will take one look at the picture and panic.
For those mocking radiation fears, note the reactor design is from the late 70's. Three of the lead engineers on the Mark I team RESIGNED because of how GE was ignoring their concerns.

In the Mark I design, fuel rods are stored outside the reactor in the same housing, above the reactor, open, while they cool. When they lost the roof, they were exposed. Their coolant has started to boil off, exposing those rods.

There was so much radiation, the government would not allow the helicopter pilots to get near enough to dump water on them from the air yesterday.

Also, maybe you should wonder why there is such a high rate of cancer, I mean extremely high, in modern society today?

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerBasics/lifetime-probabili...

Men have a 1 in 2 chance of getting cancer and then 1 in 4 of dying from it.

Women 1 in 3 getting, 1 in 5 dying.

Doesn't that seem insanely high to you? Ever wonder why?

Maybe all that subtle toxic pollution in the air and water is really starting to add up?
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There have been articles about Redbox that stated that it will buy retail copies of DVD's for rental, if it has to, to achieve parity with other rental companies. You're right, the studios don't like it, but there is nothing that they can do about it.
"Health and nuclear experts emphasize that any plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States". (emphasis in original)

Yes, we must stop this sort of hysterical reporting.
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What exactly is the intent of changing the title of the article?

The article linked with the graphic indicates over and over again that health risks are nil.

Frankly, the only hysteria that seems apparent around HN is this spate of post after post of breathless defensiveness over an accident involving nuclear power.
There's a bug though. If you click on first/last planet then the arrow will not appear at all. Naturally you expect right arrow when clicking the first planet. Vice versa.
... not only because they’re accurate but because taking humans out of the equation nixes the risk of manipulation by borrowers

Computers are objective, obviously. But that doesn't mean the input cannot be manipulated to achieve a better output. In a way, computers are much more naive than humans.

In my opinion it is irresponsible to remove the humans from the loop, in this case. A human would have an easier time rejecting applications that simply are sob stories waiting to happen, not by looking at the numbers but by listening.

Then again, the reason for this set up in the first place could be to avoid responsibility. If there is no human that took the decision, there is no accountability, no recourse. Which means that they can exploit the cases that are normally ethically off-limits to even the most sociopathic loan sharks.
As someone who gave Haskell a shot, I was very quickly put off by having to learn functions to convert from integers to floats, while such things were automatically taken care of by more low-level programming languages such as C.

Also, I was confused by the package management with Cabal, and now I appear to have broken it with an error message whenever I start ghci. When choosing a first language for students, you have to think of idiots such as me.
The OS has absolutely no knowledge of the hidden partition - as far as it knows, that area is just empty space on the disk. TrueCrypt runs from a bootloader (which you can have on a separate CD!), prompting you for a password. It uses that password to attempt to decrypt the (encrypted) volume headers - note the rest of the disk is encrypted too. Unless you install TrueCrypt the software application, there is no indication that was the tool you used.

Take a look at http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/ - it is an interesting read.
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The only thing I can relate 'everything' with Flash is that everything spikes up. Seeing this demo I noticed no big spikes on CPU, etc.
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That should be fine and will be very useful.
I'll stick with Cornification, it's a lot more satisfying.

... can I have their 10 seconds?
It's a shame he wrote "I'm not about to define design here" just before.
This sounds like Transactional Analysis, it's an interesting read on Wikipedia

I think the link is just http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/transactional_analysis if that's wrong I apologize, I'm typing this from my phone
"Any traditional OOP programmer might tell you that essential elements of OOP are encapsulation and message passing.

The Python equivalents are namespaces and methods.

Python doesn't subscribe to protecting the code from the programmer, like some of the more BSD languages. Python does encapsulate objects as a single namespace but it's a transluscent encapsulation."

From: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/OOP.shtml
I don't have good words yet to explain the problem in detail, but fundamentally, a metaphor is not the solution.

A number of years ago I wrote http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=318257. You may find that it solves the problem in a reasonable mount of detail.
That actually sounds super hard, time would be much better spent on something that compensated for every one of these ie6isms, as opposed to this which is a bit of fun.
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Yea, can you really run IE6-only web apps using it?
Not to nitpick too much, but I do believe what you're calling a "kami-dana" is actually a "butsudan". The "kami-dana" is shinto, and the "butsudan" is Buddhist, and you keep them in separate rooms, from my understanding (although I don't delve too deep into the details of any religion).
Ahem: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/health/16iodide.html
note the reactor design is from the late 70's

It's truly ironic - the reason there are so many of these old reactors around, many exceeding their original design lives, is because the anti-nuclear movement won't let any new reactors be built...
Pretty much everywhere, For UK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Misuse_Act_1990 I'm sure US got an equivalent of this
I believe both Chrome and Firefox 4 uses ANGLE if the 3D driver is too old. So it's possible to only hit the CPU with WebGL in certain instances.
what happened to mentioning that websites are NSFW? I pity anyone who followed the /b/ link while at work.
It works in Chrome latest, but it is a bit laggy on what should be powerful and fairly modern laptop (Core i5, Windows Rating 5.9). I guess it's about 10 fps away from what I would consider "sufficiently" smooth, but maybe that goes more along the lines of showing what people now have come to expect of the web rather than being a shortcoming of HTML/JS-solutions.

As for this thread, today I learned that MSIE9 is actually released. Time to get updating :)
You have the strangest definition of OO I've yet to come across.
I was irritated at how poorly the facade of playing telephone with scientific data was being maintained. This is pretty blunt about being at best unprofessional and information-less and at worst an agenda of hysteria from a source I normally consider to be better quality news than most.
What do you want to do least today? Do that first.
Thus begins the swan song of nuclear energy. This is a screaming example of why we shouldn't use nuclear power. It isn't safe, and if it goes wrong, it goes VERY wrong!
I think you're looking for

dir( object )

which lists the defined methods within a module or object's class.
I think this is a bit silly. The problem isn't OOP, it's how OOP is taught, and how OOP is abused.

To be honest most programming education is so terrible that it will still come down to who has the talent and passion to figure things out on their own, that's been true completely orthogonal to the presence or absence of OOP education.
I'm not one to minimize nuclear fears, but we're also living a lot longer. On an infinite time scale we all die, and when infectious disease goes down somebody's got to pick up the slack. In this day and age that might be cancer.
Lately I lament that Python, Perl, Ruby and PHP are the dominant scripting languages instead of Lua. None of the former really justify their extra complexity, IMO.
Note that there aren't laws against old nuclear power plants upgrading their reactors. But they haven't bothered.

I have a great idea, seriously:

Those countries who believe in the new reactors (smaller and sealed) should install one next to the home of the president/prime-minister, Congress/Parliment in each country.

Put their money where their mouth is.

I know coal and coalash is far far worse. But I also believe the lack of liability in nuclear power-plant design is a problem.
Instead of cutting it off, can you just add some ads on the page? Many will probably complain, leave 1 star reviews, and stop using the app, but in the meantime you'll make some money off the app (even the free version).

Whatever ethical issues inherent in profiting off scraped content have already been bypassed by asking for money, though any issues with the law could be a bigger concern.
In a python repl dir(object) and help, help(object) are what you are looking for. Both these functions are in the default namespace

dir(__builtins__)

Returns a list of strings for all the names bound in the prelude namespace.

dir(list)

Returns a list of strings for all the methods on the list class.

dir([])

Will return a all the methods on a particular instance.

etc… the same caveats apply to dir with getattr etc as to method_missing. additional caveat i dont care to test; it may not work on an old style class instance.

help has its __repr__ defined to tell you how to use it. It will allow you to read the doc strings for a namespace, object or function. However i prefer to run 'pydoc -p 8888' in my projects top level; this will start an http server on port 8888 that lets you interactively browser your projects docstrings and all the modules on its pythonpath.

Hope that helps
It's a synonym for attention whore.
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Text is impressive. That's exactly how I write freeform notes in my text editor. Not sure if I could get used to using a web app for this, but I might give it a try. I think perhaps the toolbars are a bit distracting - a more minimalistic design would be suitable for this kind of application.
The clustrix guy criticized mongodb that it locks the whole database quite often. Can anyone confirm or deny that?
Assuming the fees are reasonable and competitive, I will definitely use and recommend this, thanks for taking the risk Visa.

Now Google, when are you going to step up to the plate?
As long as Paypal has some serious competition ... I'm happy.

Maybe now they'll treat customers with a little bit of respect.
Since everyone could use some good news: reports immediately after the earthquake were that 5 trains were lost. It turned out that contact with them had been lost, but the trains were themselves fine. One returned to station under its own power because the conductor judged his position to be untenable. The other four stayed put while waiting for instructions. Both of these are straight out of the manual.

All were evacuated by Saturday, and it appears that all passengers and crew were uninjured. Reports trickled in over Saturday about this -- the last train was reported as secured on Sunday.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20110313-OYT1T00013.h... (Japanese)
Yeah, that's BS, I've gone through the process and had to identify friends by things like their elbow (lucky enough I knew the context of the picture and could figure it out).
Are there any known cases of works dedicated to the public domain whose access was jeopardized as a result?
Change to: What do you want to do least today? Outsource that...
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Encapsulation, abstraction, and per-instance memory? So I'm missing message passing (possible between processes), and...?
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It's an odd day when a market sector is so messed up that it seems like a good thing that a credit card company is entering it. I hope their entry somehow improves the behavior of both companies.

(Although I note it seems it will be US only for the moment.)
"Like most languages, Python has the concept of private elements:"

http://diveintopython.org/object_oriented_framework/private_...

Does that count for encapsulation?
I love Haskell. I hate Cabal. It's a bunch of semi-opaque goo on top of a compilation process that wasn't terribly hard to start with.
Love the Text implementation. Great work!
This of course depends on the sources. Mine are the official Austrian statistics. With your sources bus is still more than 2 times safer per hour.
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Go does solve some painful problems for certain communities, esp. the linux desktop folks. Java hasn't caught on writing linux desktop apps, probably because of memory requirements and there are mixed feelings about Mono. Python is just too darn slow for such apps. I imagine this is why Canonical is using Go. Admittedly this isn't a huge space.
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Does this apply to non-profit open source communities?
It's schema-less, and as the data format is a binary form of JSON, you can store arbitrary, even nested data structures directly. Indexes can be put on fields deep within the structure.

This saves a lot of time you'd normally spent defining schemas, and is very flexible. It didn't completely replace SQL for me, but it's a good fit for the heterogeneous free-form data generally encountered on the web.
I go back and forth on this. Another App Store increases competition but ultimately as an app developer I want to point my users to an apk file for them to install on their mobile phone.

We've got a chance here to properly educate users to a new medium - installable applications on mobile devices. Let's not screw it up how we did desktop applications. We're still paying for not properly educating people how to (and more importantly not to) install software (or viruses).

I hope Android gets a good permission model that makes it clear exactly what the user is allowing an app to do and hand installation off to good ol' open web.
Hmm . . . can't think of the last time I heard about a non-profit organization changing the world. Except if you count governments.
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Looks very polished!

I clicked on "Instant Personal Social Networks" expecting it to go somewhere, like maybe a page with more details - I think I was fooled by the ellipsis. IF you created such a page, a small "Or learn more..." button linking to it after the Get Started button might be helpful, so say if the video wasn't working, abd I hadn't found the other link, I still can). Finally, the last frame of your video should be a call to action, so I'm not left with a black hole on the screen. Oh, and link your logo on your blog to the main website, not to itself. You want the blog to drive traffic to the big enchilada.
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main = print "Hello, World!"

Not a monad in sight. Yes, print is an IO Action, but you don't have to use monads to do IO. Add in 'interact' and a you can be writing trivial stdin / stdout programs very quickly.
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