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This particular complaint of mine is purely technical. I think that, based on three of his three book that I have read, he demonstrates a significant lack of skill when it comes to character development. Trust me, if I was going to get into nontechnical complaints, I would undoubtably be downvoted simply for creating an unreasonably long post alone.

Anyway, my time is worth too much to be scientifically rigorous. I gave him the benefit of the doubt twice already, and am not willing to do it again. And to be honest, I would suggest that anyone who thinks I somehow "missed something" in his works is giving the man far to much credit.
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The problem this year is from Dec through Mar Boston never saw bare ground. Most years there is a melt or two that helps put up with the snow. Even in other big snow years there was a melt. It makes the winter seem worse when the snow never melts.
consolas is an excellent font for both terminal and editing. if you would like to install it for OS X or UNIX, I have extracted the TTF as well as the OS X installer package and placed them into a repo here:

https://bitbucket.org/nik/consolas/

(the Microsoft license allows this if you have a license for Office, Windows Vista+ or Visual Studio)
Perhaps a better comparison would be with Bobby Fischer.

Fischer idolized Hitler, denied the Holocaust, was antisemitic and wrote fanmail to Osama bin Laden[1].

But the same Bobby Fischer played beautiful chess that it's impossible not to admire.

I don't have a good philosophical framework to process how I can admire the beauty of Fischer's play (and Card's writing) and yet disagree incredibly strongly with their other views. None the less, it is possible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Life_as_an_.C3.A9...
Is anyone here capable of having a conversation instead of jabs, quips or snark? Or at least a good reason why a distributed or copied, shared index is a bad thing for anyone?
like in the good old times when court astrologist would be rewarded until the day of disaster when he would be beheaded.
It was just a professional risk of being an astrologist, and i don't see any difference between an astrologist and seismologist making any definitive predictions - both ride the chance presenting it as scientific result and harvest benefits until the chance is in their favor.
Have you considered the possibility that regardless of his other views, Peter Thiel may genuinely think that college is not for everyone?

I.e., don't you think it's possible that his individualist, pro-free thinker views inform both his libertarian political views and also his views that our rigid college-based gatekeeping system is unnecessary?
Would it make sense to separate diagnosis from treatment? If the doctor diagnosing problems had incentives for maintaining health and keeping costs low, the doctors performing procedures could focus on delivering services instead of selling them.

I could also see that approach making sense in things like automobile repair.
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I was going to say that, but then I realized that gas stations do it (generally for diesel prices) and that I don't actually know.
Kind of. I (truthfully) told people that for my 3-month window of (voluntary) unemployment I was working on projects of interest and focusing on deepening my skillsets. All 100% true. I got a great job last week.
but most regulations are useless and serve only the bureaucrats who proposed them, and there is little scrutiny on the tens of thousands of pages in the federal register.

democracy is highly inefficient for this purpose. no one is going to elect obama to change EPA regulation 1.2.093 or whatever. so the only way to sunset a bad rule in practice is to incentivize flagrant public nullification.
Whether Thiel is doing this for ulterior motives or not, do any of you think that the kids that were chosen really need 4 years of college education to be incredible? Look at what they have done so far! If anything Thiel is doing them a favor by letting them flourish with all the resources they need! At college they'd be wasting their time completing assignments designed for the lowest common denominator in class. While I'm far from a genius, the difficulty level of most assignments/projects is very low, in engineering at least.

Kudos for Thiel to stepping out of the box and best of luck to these kids. Work like crazy and change the world!
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Right wing autocrats talk about security, left wing autocrats talk about safety. What they really invariably do is take away freedom.
Hi, I'm under-educated and a single parent of a special needs child. I was a stay-at-home mom (my son was 4) when a looming divorce prompted me to re-enter the workforce.

Nobody wanted to hire me, so I started a company.

Now (almost 4 years later) not only am I employable, but I get 2-5 contacts from people who want to talk about hiring me per month.

I'm really tired of hearing the "poor single mom" drum beaten. I did it, despite my child's special needs, despite a medical condition that limits my employment options, and plenty of other challenges other people can do it to. If it's hard to figure out, and I just haven't noticed that it is, tell me and I'll write a book.

Putting myself in an employer's shoes, I'd be leery of hiring anyone who's been long-term unemployed. What does one do with the time? When I couldn't find a job, I created one. While not everyone is predisposed to entrepreneurship, surely a few months in to not finding employment, any sufficiently determined person would at least try it.

I'm not saying they'll all succeed -- but I'm not sure you have to succeed. When you start your own venture, you go from being unemployed to being employed, and that solves the original problem -- you are no longer a member of the long-term unemployed.

I think its fair to say that someone who's had no break in their unemployment more than a year (assuming they aren't a full-time student, seriously ill, a stay-at-home parent, etc.) probably has something wrong with how they approach becoming employed, and a lot of those somethings would also negatively impact their performance as an employee. It's fine to be skeptical, and it's not a slight against the under-educated or single parents.
I wonder if he would have accomplished everything he did throughout his career without that Stanford degree (and the connections that come with it)?
I'd need to read the whole article before knowing for sure how to react to that paragraph, as it appears to be part of a reductio ad absurdum -- that one would have to claim that society ought to have no laws whatsoever limiting sexual behavior in order to refute his point. This might explain his emphasis on laws, which usually boils down to an argument lauding the democratic process that got us those laws, while taking a more skeptical view on the laws themselves.

I think the issue of employment discrimination is a bit of a straw man. If an employee isn't working out he/she will be fired eventually for some reason. If a firm's corporate culture is homophobic, chances are there will be some technicality that allows for the firing of an individual in spite of any laws restricting hiring/firing reasons. I think this applies to all such laws "protecting" any group.
Getaround comes with insurance, so while being rented your own insurance is unaffected! As far as maintenance costs, you set your car's own price per hour, so you can decide how much your extra maintenance costs will be.
Great advice.

You can also easily alter old tables to use innodb if you're running into performance issues. I beleve the command is 'ALTER TABLE foo ENGINE = INNODB;'.
> They have that index already. It's called "the internet". If you're storing the entire page content, that's not really much of an "index".

Fine. Let's call it an archive, or cache, or snapshot then. I only used that phrase because it was thrown around in the post I was responding to, and I specifically put that in quotes because I wasn't sure it was the right phrase to use.

> Discarding information is the entire purpose of indexing and doing things like map-reduce (emphasis on the reduce!)

No. Just no. An index is a data structure that is designed to quickly lookup its elements based on some key. It implies nothing about what your data(neither keys nor elements) look like.

Are you serious about "emphasis on reduce!"? "Reduce" is not named reduce because it inherently reduces the amount of data you are working with. It is called "reduce" because 1) an engineer at google liked the sound of it, and 2) it takes a list of intermediary values with all the same key. It is quite easy, and common, to have reduce functions which end up spitting out MORE data than you started with

> you discard worthless information so that the stuff you care about is of a manageable size.

Sometimes, but that doesn't work in this situation. How do you know what data is worthless before you know what algorithms will be applied to the data? The only acceptable solution is to keep a plaintext copy of the data retrieved from a particular URL.
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I too use Dina (based of Proggy). I tried a lot of different fonts and there's a few on this top 10 list that wouldn't work for me but since I found Dina, I haven't searched for another font or made another change.
Well said, tptacek, well said.

As soon as I saw Orson Scott Card's name come up, I knew the conversation would devolve into his (wacky) political views.

There's now 59 comments on this thread, and while I haven't bothered to count it seems that at least 45 of 'em are in this rather dull political argument about gay rights. And since nobody has actually showed up with the anti-gay-rights position, we're stuck discussing precisely which nasty names we should call someone who doesn't share our mutual opinion. Even this rather narrow corner of debate space has apparently got some people rather heated.

And yet, there I am too, throwing my weight in on this boring topic. And this is why politics is something one must actively avoid talking about.
Don't read too much into that. They did not say anything about the engineers. They talked about the articles - a good part of which is indeed panic-inducing. Which is probably a good thing in itself - else it's hard to get people moving.

And as you say - it's a great first step, a result. And it's results that matter. So, let's toast for the universal deployment of IPv6! And DNSSEC! :-)

And IPv6 day is mostly not about getting everything onto IPv6. It's mainly about verifying that after lighting up IPv6 on the content side not too many eyeballs fall off the IPv4 truck due to unrelated brokenness (or that we can catch a significant portion of them).

World IPv6 day is exactly a trophy game. The trophy is "no more fear of IPv6". A pretty damn good trophy in my book. Let's all go get it.
Excellent point. I chose Jobs and bland opinions b/c I give equally low weight to someone's non-expert opinions no matter what domain they are in.

Do I want to ask Jobs or Card or Fischer for voting advice? No thanks. For advice on what sexual partner to pick? No thanks. It's the premise that we should somehow look to these achievers for wisdom outside their domains that is absurd.
I found that the less I put on the stage, the more the audience would imagine a much more compelling set than I could ever build

Analogous to Card's statement, lately I've come to realize that I like movies better when they don't explicitly tell you everything. I think a good formula for writing is to lay all the facts out, then remove one or two of them from the script.
I do not agree that most regulations are useless, or that they serve only bureaucrats.
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Is that because you are willing to fight it out? Or because you think you've got the people with the "wrong" opinions well out-numbered?

Use your imagination and consider circumstances where people with the "right" opinions are outnumbered, and considered dangerous. I _hope_ that I'd be saying the right things in Berlin 1935, or Richmond 1855, or Birmingham 1958, or Moscow 1920 - 1985. But I'm damn sure I'd be _concerned_ about the reaction to those remarks.
This is the definition used for assembling official statistics. It is unlikely that this is used by companies setting hiring rules.
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Has anyone figured out the equivalent of this on OSX? I asked about this a while back on StackOverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3275956/is-there-a-versio...
Insurance is a red herring IMHO.

* Have you ever dealt with a major insurance claim? Even if you were renting out your car for $100/hour, that won't compensate for the headache you will be in for when your renter rear ends a brand new Mercedes-Benz and sends the passengers to the hospital.

* Think beyond insurance. What are you going to do when you receive a parking ticket or red light camera violation in the mail that a renter was responsible for? In the case of the parking ticket, you're on the hook no matter what.

* Even worse, if your renter is involved in an accident that's reported to Carfax, the resale/trade-in value of your car could plummet.

* There are no incentives great enough to compensate for all of the possible extra maintenance and repairs you may have to deal with. Depending on the make and model of your car, even a small ding or scratch could cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars to repair.
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I am not sure what to think of it but when De Bernardinis said “the scientific community tells me there is no danger, because there is an ongoing discharge of energy. The situation looks favorable”, it occurs to me that "there is no danger" is incorrect. And dangerous.
A more precise statement would have been "there is danger, but we have no way to know the probabilities of an earthquake".
Am I right or missing something here?
I think that Ender's Game is one of those books whose appeal is largely independent of its literary merits. The people who love it really love it because they identify with it, it speaks to them, and if you don't identify with it then it's just some random okay sort of sci-fi story about space battles.

I never really identified with it, but maybe if I'd read it at twelve instead of 24 then I would have. (Though I'm kinda glad I didn't.)

I say this not to disparage the book. A fairly well-written book that speaks to a lot of people is much better than a very well-crafted book that speaks to nobody (I'm looking at you, Mr Joyce). And I'm sure there are relatively crappy works of art that I like just because I identify with 'em. But Ender's Game is just one of those love-it-or-go-meh-at-it books.
For technical support in a non-technical company, yes. But for an actual tech company, where tech is the product? A company with that philosophy will produce mediocre results and lose in the market.

Certainly the trend-setting giants (MS, Google, Facebook) are seriously trying to hire the best.
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It's absolutely feasible. I'm 29, and I worked at a regular job for a bit over a year. I quit earlier this month and last week I moved to Pune (very low cost of living) which is where my partners and I are building our startup.

You can make excuses or you can make it happen. I chose to make it happen.
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While searching for a new place to stay, I found myself wishing for a way to quickly determine best place to live between where my roommate and I work. I'm thinking of building an app that would take into consideration work locations for household members, as well as other important factors specified by the user (schools, medical facilities and whatnot). The app would determine the ideal location(s) to search. Any thoughts on the idea? Anyone else have the need for something like this?
I don't believe its all that hard to respect Bobby Fischer's chess (while despising everything else about him), while at the same time failing to respect Scott Card in general.

Unlike chessplayers, authors play an important role in society by creating literature for that society to consume. They therefore, in my opinion, should be examined with more scrutiny.^ The fact that people hold up Ender's Game as a work with particular ethical/moral significance only strengthens my belief that we must hold Scott Card to a higher level.

But hey, this is just how I operate. For each their own I suppose.

^particularly when they start using their talent to spread their hate, and start letting it seep into their other 'manstream' work.
Does anyone by chance have a (the?) list of good questions a founder should ask themselves (similar to what pg asks)? Would be much appreciated.
Exactly, LinkedIn doesn't have a competitor that can position itself to scoop its customers out from underneath its very nose.
I didn't downvote you, but I'd answer yes and point out that the same criticism applies to email as a communications channel. And while you might not buy a house with a single BTC transaction, it's not that risky as a channel to send a modest payment to someone with a trustworthy reputation or with whom you have an ongoing relationship.

There are a lot of businesses that have to deal with outlandishly high rates charged by companies that process credit card payments for non-US companies. I'd find it far more convenient to send a bitcoin payment to a supplier in China than have to go to the bank and handle the conversion that way and would also love it if I could exchange BTC for HKD or CLP the next time I'm travelling in Hong Kong or Latin America.
The original Ender's Game series covers are some of the best science fiction art I've ever seen, by an amazing artist named John Harris (examples below). Did your edition have a different cover?

Ender's Game: http://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptships/2009/j_harris_...
Speaker for the Dead: http://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptships/2009/j_harris_...
Children of the Mind: http://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptships/2009/j_harris_...

More art by John Harris here (not my blog):
http://colorcubic.com/2010/09/07/the-science-fiction-art-of-...
Great move guys! I've been working with SproutCore for a couple of years now, and reducing the framework overhead and ditching the ruby tool chain is a great step in the right direction. sproutcore.com is looking shinier than ever, and the NPR web app is awesome. I'm not even sure how you got streaming audio in a web page on the iPad.
I was about to report a bug that I noticed in Chrome today.

Then I switched to Canary, and realized that it was fixed.

Then looked back at the form:

Builds:
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It's a great day for browsers.
Awesome, thanks. I'll see if i can seed a torrent. Will post here if i do that.
They probably don't need any license. What rifftrax is doing is selling you an mp3 with their own comedy on it. It is a completely new work. The customer buys/rents the companion DVD and then syncs.

That is slightly different than OP because OP wants to broadcast the movie, or at least the exact words. The exact words are what he needs to license, even if he does perform them himself.

If OP can figure out a way to teach people language by making his own rifftrax mp3 then he is in business. Good call prodigal_erik.
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To me one of the more compelling things about Sproutcore in comparison to other Javascript MVC/binding frameworks (Backbone.js, Knockout, Angular.js, JavascriptMVC, etc) was that it seemed to offer a beautiful UI toolkit that was modern-looking and tailored to web apps.

Is part of the plan to shift focus away from that UI aspect?

If not, is there a tutorial on how to put together a simple app that uses some of the available UI components?

Thanks guys, keep up the great work.
I have a different answer than all the other replies: for me it's just about fitting as much of my code on the screen as possible. The standard xterm font is nice and compact. For every other font I've tried, if you adjust it so that it matches or beats the xterm font in terms of number of lines of code that fit on your screen and number of editor windows you can fit side by side, they are not readable. Like pretty much literally not readable. (I'm eager to be corrected if I'm wrong -- I may not have tried every font out there, but I've tried a lot of them.)

Therefore the xterm font (FixedMedium6x13) wins. But getting exactly that font in other editors like it is in xterms is not so simple:

For linux, see this comment in the current discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2584147

For osx, see my question, also in that thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2586300
I am more worried about public safety than consumer protection personally. I know in my city there has been a lot of crime associated with our heavily policed taxi industry, the opportunity for these threats to both passengers and drivers exists with a business like Ubercabs as well.
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As a standalone app, difficult. People would use it so rarely that you'd never build up much momentum.

As a feature for existing real estate sites, though, it could be great.