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I'd love to hear more people's thoughts about his "Just Say Yes To Drugs". I'm at the point of considering drug treatments, but intellectually, I'm very biased against them. I avoid illegal drugs, and rarely take legal ones. I'm not absolutist, but I'd go out of my way to avoid coffee and ibuprofen. For his example, yes, I would feel the same way about blood pressure and cholesterol, and would work very hard to change my lifestyle before relying on the drugs. On the other hand, something needs to change.

I'm scared of both the dependency and the effects. I think my basic fear is that if I find something effective, it will be suicide-light, that I'll be killing off too many parts of my self that make me who I am. It's hard for me to trust the testimony of the treated --- I presume that there are many satisfied frontal lobotomy patients as well. So oddly, I guess I'm more interested in second-hand accounts. My personal experience with treated friends is mixed. A few seem to be more functional versions of their previous selves, others are much closer to zombie shells.

It's a hard subject to discuss, though, and I don't understand whether the differences are chance, personality, or drug regimen.

How do you feel about your newly drugged up friends? Specific treatment details appreciated.
I would a pitot tube in exhaust work? There's very little 'normal' air in the exhaust, just the engine exhaust, and unless I got my physics completely wrong, will always give the same relative speed relative to the plane(pivot tube) at any given engine setting... which doesn't tell you anything about the actual airspeed (which is what you need).

Pivot tubes are 'tubes' located away from the body of the airplane for the reason that they get away from the boundary airflow to give accurate airspeed readings. Attempting to 'compensate' for other factors just introduces more uncertainty, which is exactly what you don't want when you're 5 knots above stall.
you cant have all that informations via the Graph API I think. For example the birthday dates of my friends, I cant have them via the API
I've built a lot of things I thought were "unique" only to find, after I'm done, that they were not.
Second that emotion on the exercise. And diet is equally important. While the Red Bull, pizza, and caffeine swilling stereotype is prevalent, a well-thought out and balanced diet can make your coding more productive. You'll be creating fewer bugs, thinking more clearly, and feeling more positive about your progress if your (exercised) body has the fuel it needs, too. And reducing the number of stimulants you're ingesting will help with that whole sleeping thing too.
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See what? You just used the same word in the same context, and it makes just as little sense as it did before. Using the public domain isn't "plundering", nor does it magically become "plundering" when a hypocrite, corporation, or hypocritical corporation does it. It's a completely normal and desirable aspect of having a public domain.
Your question wasn't very good. The changes suggested need to be made one time in order to affect your site's traffic many times. The changes might make the site more attractive in search results based on improved snippets. The H tags change could help google better understand the content and rank it for more appropriate searches. If you want hard numbers, it might take years of data collection and analysis to find them. If the end result is 10%, how do you know it wasn't because your users started writing more popular content 4 months after you made the changes?
Yes, it has. Notably Big River, which won quite a few Tonys (think Oscars for musical theatre), a huge number of movies (including at least one by Disney), a Japanese anime, and probably a few Family Guy shout-outs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn#...

I won't list them all, but there's plenty there.
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The narrative fits the US hopes and dreams very well, so well in fact that many believe it. I'm not saying people shouldn't be allowed to publish (and in fact they are) but this is a lot like the "I would be a rockstar if someone would just give me a break" story in music. Are we swimming in out-of-nowhere hits now that nearly everyone can buy everything you need to record/publish for less then a four-track recorder? No. The reason people aren't billboard no 1s/NYT bestsellers/directing the next Paramount isn't that the man is holding them down, it's that they suck at it. More cash won't change that much (an editor and a staff helps, but it's not a cure-all either).

That said, sure, the concept of books is in serious need of help and e-readers including kindle do help some. I know several people who hadn't read a book since high school but suddenly got used to reading on kindle/nook/their laptop/phone and suddenly trade suggestions and (gasp) purchase actual books. This is a positive, seeing as getting them to sign up for a library card or even giving them (no strings) a physical book to read was usually met with suspicion.
NYC isn't dry enough. This device operates through the evaporation of water. Using a humidity delta to create a temperature delta.
I'd say, get up every morning at the same time. Got to bed every night at the same time. Do a bit of sport [1] every day. Avoid Sugar. If you still feel like drugs after doing this for a few months, you can still consider taking them.

[1] Run around the block. Do some squads, pushups and crunches. No tools or commute required.
Apex Twin hid his face in the same manner in one of his songs:
http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10
"Error establishing a database connection"

No it doesn't.
I'm a Milestone user and long-term customer of Motorola... I can't recommend against them enough. Their problems extend far beyond locked bootloaders, far more than following HTC on this issue would be required for Motorola to be worth dealing with.
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You can use medications in a temporary way to boot-strap. The difficult thing about depression is that you don't/can't do anything that would help your depression. Medications are an unideal, but quick & easy, way to tamp your depression down to levels where its realistic to do other things that help, like therapy or lifestyle changes. Once you've made progress with those other methods, you can start weaning off of the medications. Basically, you use them to break the vicious cycle and start a virtuous one, and once the virtuous cycle is self-sustaining you don't need them anymore.
Actually the reason I'm not caching more is due to a bug in Rack. https://github.com/rack/rack/pull/157 Rack seems to not handle session cookies correctly, they are always there even when there is no session set. Varnish does not cache things that sets cookies. (e.g pages where you are logged in, like a admin panel).

This makes things served through my sinatra application/unicorn have session cookies, even if it's something like a css file. I'm specifically stripping them out at this point but it shouldn't be needed. I don't know enough about Rack yet to fix the bug myself and way too busy with exams anyway.
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My simplified summary/explanation [0]:

Several flight instruments rely on air pressure. If one of your pressure gauges gets blocked, you can get very misleading data.

This guy's theory as to what happened in this case is that the forward pressure tube (pitot tube) had an ice blockage, which led to a low airspeed reading. The autopilot tried to correct by accelerating the plane. Since loaded jetliners normally fly slightly nose-up to maintain altitude [1], the autopilot kept that orientation as it accelerated, which led to a climb and ultimately a stall.

When the plane stalled, it started dropping altitude rapidly -- but with a blocked pressure line, this could misleadingly report a high airspeed due to the increase in external pressure. As the pilots took over, they were (according to this guy's theory) trying to reduce airspeed by cutting the throttle and nosing up. Rather than fixing an overspeed condition, they were actually making the stall worse. They never would have realized what was happening because their instruments kept reporting overspeed.

[0] I'm not a pilot, but I worked in an aerospace museum's education department, and learned a lot from the pilots and engineers who volunteered with us.

[1] According to one of the volunteers, who was also an engineer for one of the big jetliners, loaded jetliners get about half of their lift by keeping their wings 3-6 degrees above level. The exact angle is selected based on load and airspeed; get it wrong, and you'll accidentally climb or descend.
Please let me know where I am wrong:

- RabbitMQ has a memory based flow control based on the total memory you have in the machine. I know I can develop something over RabbitMQ to accomplish what I want (limits based on number of messages) but I prefer to have the support within RabbitMQ.

- WebLogic JMS can block producers based on number of messages as a flow control method.
Link to the full article in PDF which is also NOT under a pay wall.

http://psychology.stanford.edu/~lera/papers/sci-am-2011.pdf

I think anyone who knows more than one language implicitly realizes the conclusions of this paper but she has some fascinating examples.
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And also the incredibly over-mastered bass in the last 15 years.

I believe it started because people wanted their car stereo to sound like their home CD, so sound engineers started to over-emphasise the bass, to bias it for radio, which led to a vicious circle.

I can't listen to anything post 2000 on my very good home sound system because the bass is so over-emphasised.
Being there and doing that I can give you some suggestions from the inside looking out. First thing and probably most important, don't do this by yourself. Find a professional you can work with, either a psychiatrist or psychologist with PA assistant (PA handles the prescriptions). This is vastly more important then the maxim about walking into a court without a lawyer. Second thing; understand that the process will take time. The combinations involve just about everything you can imagine. They factor in drugs and drug combinations, amount, timing, your health, your activities the nature of your form of depression, etc. The list may feel endless, but it is necessary in order to avoid some of the negatives you mention. As a for instance an early venture eliminated 'rage' as a problem for me, but made it impossible to play tournament chess---if you don't care about winning, winning is quite difficult! The third thing is to persist; this is the most important battle of your life, nothing else matters. Most of your anxieties that you mention are either mythic or a result of your current condition. Yet another reason to find a professional you can talk to.
Yes, a comparison with hill climbing or with simulated annealing would be nice
The traffic killed my server. I just rebooted it and activated the wordpress cache. Sorry for the downtime :(
In my experience (I worked on convergence analysis of some early GAs), genetic algorithms suffer from a combination of extremely easy implementation, a "cool" factor that plagued neural-networks-as-classifiers research in the early 90s, and a belief that biological "analogies" would perform better than decades of research in stochastic optimization.

Still, they have pedagogical value because they are easy to implement, and for many students, are their first real soup-to-nuts "AI" algorithm implementation. I've seen them serve as the gateway for students to get into CS research, but IMO aspects such as the last resort principle, no free lunch theorem, and principles of stochastic optimization are generally under-stressed, which leads to some abhorrent research papers along the lines of "Problem X using GAs".
Looks like someone has been reading Niven. That picture shows a ship built off a General Products #2 hull, and is come straight off the book "Neutron Star": http://ca.pbsstatic.com/l/41/6941/9780345336941.jpg

With that hull you could fly past a neutron star and live, if you could survive the tidal forces.
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The letter might hit some complications since the site is outside of US.
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re: third world pilots - that's a big claim with no evidence to back it up. would love to read some if you have it.
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First, a lot of people are on psychiatric medications, and you generally don't hear about the success stories: people who have become fairly normal due to the medication. If you work in a high-power job, I'd wager that about 1-in-8 of your co-workers is on a psychiatric medication. For a lot of people, they're like eyeglasses: a mildly annoying, but not really painful, treatment that nonetheless allows them to function at full capacity once taken.

Compared to real mental illness, the side effects of these drugs are minor. Real depression and panic (both of which most people never experience) are more dangerous than the milder, first-line treatments for those illnesses, which are a lot less drastic than frontal lobotomy.

What is important is to separate normal emotions (which can be plenty difficult, but shouldn't be medicated away) from actual mental illness. This is a tough judgment call to make and it isn't always made right, especially with regard to teenagers. For example, if you're sad because someone close to you died, this is normal and you shouldn't be on meds for it. That's not clinical depression; it's normal sadness.

For the record, when the dosage is right, people still experience the normal emotions (sadness when something sad happens, anger when appropriate) but don't have the biological problems (the thought loops, mental fatigue, irrational fear and anger). That's the goal of treatment: not to make someone ridiculously happy, but to remove the purely biological objects in the way of happiness.
I did answer it:

> It's difficult to say exactly since SEO isn't really an exact science.

The answer is that there is no definite answer. :)
I use GAs initially to find out how hard the problem is that I am attempting to solve. Why? They are simple and work well.
Strangely, the vi(1) linked from that page is not for the editor, but for a MIPS emulator http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/vi
It's because it makes it harder to prove that a function does one of only two things: returns a known type, or throws and exception. In Python it's legal to have a function that can return 0 or return "hello" or nothing at all.
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I’ve always found it hard, if not impossible, to “join” groups. It feels like everyone already has the friends they need. I don’t know how to fix that.

This has always been a problem for me. I used to think it was a sides-effect of the dysfunctional home that moved, on average, every three months that I grew up in. I knew I developed coping skills that put a wall between me and others. You can only say good-bye to friends so many times before you stop getting close enough to care that you are saying good-bye.

Then I had kids and saw much of my own personality reflected back at me, but in different ways and degrees. At that point, I realized I probably always would have had difficulty making friends and would probably only had a couple friends. My upbringing made that worse, but wasn't likely the entire cause.

Now, I find that I don't know how to get around that. Articles everywhere say, "meet with people", but I feel more lonely in those situations because I don't know how to break into the conversation. Depression makes it worse, because you are constantly asking yourself, "why would they even want to know about me?" There's only so many times you can go to the entrepreneur meet-up and not talk to people (even after presenting) before it starts doing more harm than good.

I agree with the article that connecting with other people is of number one importance to fighting depression. I would really like to find the guidebook for doing that. :/
The major role of the publisher has always been to make sure copies of a book sell.

They select work they think will be commercial.

They pay advances to authors so the author can live while they're writing.

They baby step books to market with limited printings, and then test / edit / revise and tweak cover art etc.

If there's a glimmer of a winner they pour money into advertising in magazines, to PR people, etc.

They pay for exclusive positioning to get it at the front of your B&N store locally, pay reps to go out on the road and talk to local book stores, etc.

So if the end-goal for most authors is to make a living from their writing, how is publishing going to be disrupted?

Authors are still going to need advances.

Reps may no longer hit the road to independent bookstores, but they certainly might hit the road to meet influential bloggers.

Advertising dollars will still help raise awareness and sales.

So while the publishing industry is certainly going to transform, it's certainly not going to be destroyed.
The operating principle isn't rare. We use swamp coolers here in Arizona all the time. But I wouldn't use them to store food.

There are a number of limitations to them. The maximum cooling you'll get is 20F less than ambient, and that is entirely dependent upon humidity. So these only work in places that are extremely dry (yet also have plentiful water to run these coolers).

With the "pot in pot" method I wonder how they circulate air. You need a fairly constant supply of dry air for evap cooling to work. I'd imagine a porous exterior pot (think whiffle ball) filled with a spongelike material.
This is the best caching plugin I've found for WP: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

It supports disk-based caches and memcached.
To eradicate bad thoughts and erase memories is the reason I started learning Spanish: http://dreaminespanol.com/spanish-lifehacks/eradicate-bad-me...

Okay, that and a hot Spanish woman I was interested in. Both were good motivations to take on a new language.
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Yeah, you can. You can get alot out of the Graph API.

https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields=birthday&access_token=[...]
PHP is actually one of the slowest mainstream interpreted languages. At Facebook levels of scale, that becomes a serious problem.
Weird, I've decided to leave FB and was working on doing this an hour ago. I ended up using:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ficlccidpkaiepnnbo...

You can also use this method:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/12/how-to-mass-export-all-of-y...

but for me it only exported contacts that had their email address visible. "Facebook Friend Exporter" worked better.
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A private corporation restricting access to information isn't censorship. If it were an article that the government put behind a paywall, you might be able to construe it as such, but even then it seems silly since there's still no limit on the expression itself.
It's the money. Without the money, we never would have gotten to this state.

So, in that regard, it's an artificial, state-enforced monopoly. A limited monopoly affords the producer the opportunity to make a living in return for significant contributions. However, we've... "regressed" to essentially unlimited monopoly, the boundaries of which we continue to expand (e.g. DMCA).

We've exchanged physical fiefdoms for "intellectual" fiefdoms, to similar effect.
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BTW, I imagine a pitot tube placed on the body of the engine would not need extra heating and would be very unlikely to ice. You can even place it inside the exhaust and compensate the reading for engine flow.

There are such things in the engines! They're used to feed the data about engine performance to FADECs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADEC) and the crew.

But they're totally useless for airspeed calculation! Bear in mind that air flowing trough and around the engine has totally different dynamics than the air passing around the rest of the airframe. Well, that's kind of the point of the engine - to create thrust, isn't it? That's why airspeed, altitude and AoA sensors actually have to be placed further away from the engines - so that they give as accurate picture as possible.
It's their entire business model as well.
It's not about readability or "keeping the riff-raff out". Needing to type "return" itself is a minor detail, but explicit returns are a strong sign of having statement-oriented semantics, rather than expression-oriented semantics.

In languages based around statements, things are done for their side-effects. Returning a value is itself a kind of side-effect, hence an explicit return statement.

In languages based around expressions (Lisp, ML & Haskell, APL, etc.), the language itself gently encourages side-effect-free programming. In Scheme, for example, you usually use a begin block when you need to do things for their side-effects. While it doesn't prevent side-effects entirely, it does make them stand out, and adds a subtle pressure against their overuse.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the WSJ blocking access was censorship - I know they're fully within their rights, etc., etc. I just thought it was amusing.
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The basic idea is that a neutron all by itself has a lower energy state available to it, which is to decay into a proton, an electron, and an antineutrino. On the other hand, in the nucleus of a stable atom, a neutron decaying would result in a higher energy state for the whole nucleus.

Does that help?
I used one of those in college. I lived in an un-air-conditioned apartment in Denver, and during the summer it could easily get over 90 degrees inside. The swamp cooler would bring the temperature down to about 75 (so long as I closed the blinds). Also, one of my friends had a whole-house swamp cooler, mounted like an air-conditioner on the roof of his home. They work beautifully in dry climates.
First, let me reiterate that my site is for fun, and nothing more.

But let's assume that it were a business, and I'll explain how my question is not only good, but the most important question a you should ask. We have finite resources and time, and we have to decide what to use those resources and time for. How do we do that? I could implement all of these changes in a 2 days let's say, or I could use that same time and money to add some feature my users have been asking for. Which should I do?

To answer that we have to estimate in some way the impact of each. Saying it "might make the site more attractive", "could help google", etc isn't a good answer.

"If you want hard numbers, it might take years of data collection and analysis to find them."

No it wouldn't, and what I'm offering here is to do the changes and measure the change.
IIRC, natural gas -- or propane -- powered refrigerators are not all that uncommon, either. This pre-supposes more infrastructure, but it's still not electricity.
The link to mocrosoft.com was a typo?
> much influenced by lobbying today

'Much' seems even to be understating it.

One can ask the question: were any of those increases ever backed with evidence -- actual economic evidence that this deliberate restriction was sound? I do not know, but judging by the abject lack of evidence even now, the answer seems most likely no.

The degree to which there is a lack of evidence is the degree to which the whole thing is just a corrupt gravy-train.