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i am not trolling. that is one of the reasons that i listed an email address so that if anyone has a similar thought pattern, they can share it without identifying with this post.

thanks. i have done stuff for others, but there is room for improvement definitely.
seriously. anyone reading this without having heard of github or sourceforge would still be able to read between the lines and understand that

a) everyone agrees github is kicking sourceforge's ass, including the folks at sourceforge.

b) no one expects this to change, including the folks at sourceforge.
maybe you need to join the peace corp or similiar. that should help put it in perspective.

you seem to have lost the novelty in everyday (for first worlders) things. time for you to rediscover it.
I agree. I really like playing with translation software as the web does not speak one language. There are, however, loads of free alternative but they are a bit harder to plug into.
Bing has made huge strides in their search and mapping system. I love it. However, for what ever reason, I still do my searches via Google.

Microsoft Ad center was also a walk in the park compared to Google Adsense. I am a novice though.
I'm surprised no one mentioned that Facetime over 3G will probably be revealed too in iOS 5.
add to that, the primary cost of youtube is probably bandwidth; and I believe Google probably pays less for bandwidth than anyone else; Google is uniquely suited to make the YouTube model work. On the other hand, the big cost for groupon seems to be salespeople. Unless google can replace flesh and blood salespeople with something automated, that wouldn't be nearly as good of a fit. Google doesn't have cheaper fleshy sales people than anyone else.

edit: on the other hand, what if google was buying the fleshy sales people? what if that is what they wanted? I mean, groupon is doing okay at penetrating the small local business market in a way that google isn't.
Interesting that the two replies so far cited the exact same URL to answer your question.
people (non-hackers) are searching for content (and people) on facebook. pages alone host a considerable amount of fresh content from businesses, institutions and organizations.

you do have to consider many of those searches as looking for stuff already in their social graph (friends, pages, etc). i know i use their search to navigate all the time.
What I said is that both initiatives are somewhat petty, and somewhat comparable (government officials deprecating "foreign" terms). The article fails to recognize that both cultures have their peculiarities, and treats this trait as being peculiar to the French.

I agree that when the President, vice-President, and SecDef of the U.S. hold up another country to ridicule, as President Bush and his leadership team did with regard to France ("old Europe" and all the rest), it is indeed different in many ways than a set of French broadcasting bureaucrats forbidding certain words.

I'm just not sure the difference works strongly in favor of your argument that the French case is more outrageous.
Isn't that true of schema.org (microdata) too? That's not a very apt criticism.
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
I would hardly call Zed Shaw an authoritative source to quote on libel law.
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Merb was never a fork of Rails. It was a separate project, initially created to address a particular shortcoming of Rails (file uploads, IIRC), and grew into a competing implementation that solved a lot of the same problems that Rails did in a simpler, more elegant way. The Rails core team realized that Merb did a lot of things better and absorbed most of that goodness.

SlimGems isn't Merb. It's not new, it's not doing anything better. The only thing it has going for it is "Hey, it's not being run by these same assholes." Well, that doesn't help me much. SlimGems isn't going to ship with Ruby 1.9.3, and it doesn't solve any problems that RubyGems doesn't solve. Loren could be making a better RubyGems, but instead he's making an older RubyGems.
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No, you write down a detailed proposal and send it to the python-ideas mailing list, which Guido mentioned in this post. The decision making process in Python is fair and egalitarian. It's useful to have a "dictator" to give the final rule on difficult decisions every once in a while, because we all are engineers who get bogged down in design alternatives which don't always end up being conclusive. Guido has never really forced himself on the community. Sure, any new ideas he brings to the table will be taken more seriously, but so would ideas brought by other senior core-devs. It's a meritocracy, after all!
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Was rereading Steve Levy's great piece about YC on Wired.com just now and scrolled down to read the comments:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/05/ff_ycombinator/

There are 17 comments on the article. 11 of them are spam comments.

I see this more and more on content sites. I assume they all are using various spam filtering systems. Yet the spammers win, again and again.

Is FB/Disqus the only answer?
If you're trolling, fuck you.

But, if not, my mom is a psychiatric nurse and currently works at a behavioral health hospital & I would be more than willing to forward this message onto her to get her opinion on whether what you're explaining can be diagnosable and treated with pharmaceuticals.

As for the depression, I've been there. I just recently stopped taking Zoloft for bouts of depression that I've had for most of my life, but didn't realize until I finally hit rock bottom.

At the least, you should see a psychiatrist and request to be put on antidepressants. However, there is a slight chance it may increase your suicidal thoughts, so if you decide to go this route to quell the depression, you will need to closely monitor your thoughts and contact your psychiatrist if you feel like you want to kill yourself.

That being said, like I said before, I just recently stopped taking my antidepressants. They helped pick me up, but I wouldn't be where I am today (copywriter for a rapidly expanding Internet marketing company in Tempe, AZ) if I didn't dive head first into something I was passionate about (i.e writing foremost, and all things tech, second).

So, you should sit down and write down a list of all the things you like to do. Make it comprehensive. Then go through it one-by-one and ask yourself whether you could wake up every day happy to go into work to do whatever item is on your list. Ask yourself whether you'd feel accomplished and good about what you do. Put a check mark next to those you answer in the affirmative to and then go through the check marked items and narrow it down until you find 1 to 2 things that you are super passionate about.

Once you find those, start mapping out a way to secure jobs in those areas. Whatever you do... don't sit at home and seclude yourself. Seclusion, in my book, will 100% lend itself to suicide if it continues for long enough.

Sorry for the long-winded response, but I've been in your position to an extent and I have a friend who suffers from bipolar 2 and he hasn't sought help and he continues to spiral downwards. If I can, I'd like to play some part in helping you get back on your feet.

If you want to talk, hit me up at houston.barnettgearhart@gmail.com. I'll respond whenever I get the chance.
proficient: I would say it normally takes a month for people to be proficient.

expert: years...
Do you have any info about how BeOS moves away from the event loop?
Totally true. At least one year in there it looks like they lost almost $1.5B: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=amazon+profit+from+1994...
We should civilize this internet thing before life gets any weirder.

Nah:

1. Not so much 'leaking' as 'hoarding'... the dripfeed of leaks is mainly from the single cables dump (a non-renewable resource). Nearly every major organisation? I don't think so.

2. I'm guessing you mean Egypt, where the military has indeed appointed a new cabinet. Not sure that counts as 'toppling' but we'll see, come September. That accounts for the 'right', who's left?

3. Yes we have an organised collective of vigilante hckers exposing the hypocrisy and corruption of other hckers, much as has always been done. Two differences now: (a) national governments have started outsourcing to the second group more and also hyping the word 'cyber', leading to (b) the public has started to become mildly amused by these skirmishes.

4. Interesting configuration of actors there. For those in Europe or America, the interesting part of alleged Chinese hacking is the unwanted free transfer of lucrative IP, which is to say trade secrets. But the US government already has behind-the-scenes access to a vast amount of global internet traffic so any large scale spying effort on its part wouldn't need to be so overt as would that of, say, China. And China is certainly not alone in facing these allegations.[1]

5. Aaand back to 3.

[1] http://www.dbune.com/news/business/3370-france-accused-of-be...
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Spammers will always win. If it is made by the hands of a human, it is pretty much common sense that it has aspects that can be exploited.

But, that's not to say the amount of spam can't be minimized. I can't say for sure, but it doesn't look like Wired has /any/ sort of spam prevention technology re:
their article comment section. A tool such as Askimet (http://akismet.com/) can quell the amount of spam, but it won't eliminate it completely.
My point is that it if the answer to the 2nd question is "no" for most merchants it doesn't matter how much you widen the channel the business is still unsustainable in the long-term. Even so, how do you see them widening the channel? Going into a completely different model that does not fit their brand? The entire discount space in every market is now chock full of competitors doing similar things to Groupon.
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In Amazon's case, it was amazon which was taking up the losses and not the producers of goods.

In group on's case it is group on as well as merchants are taking up losses and both believe repeat customers will eventually get them significant ROI. Now you may question whether offering of group on is good enough to make that happen or not. But growth like this needs investment.

Another question is - Can group on defend itself against competitor, given that entry barrier is not big. I mean does group on sign any exclusive agreement with merchants? I dont think so. So there only entry barrier seems to be the large sales force which may not be enough to sustain this kind of growth.

And last think - Group on's acquisitions in emerging markets like India. How much growth can group on expect from it? eg group on has acquired a very small player, sosasta and now trying to turn that around and into the biggest deal site. If groupon can pull this off, they will be bigger much bigger than their current valuations.
It just occurred to me that the anti-college backlash follows inevitably from the decline of the classical liberal arts education. Since "education" is now, in our society's view, nothing more than job training, why bother with it at all? Just skip it and go straight to the job, or start your own business. No "education" required.

Education as civilizing self-development is something other than schooling and training, but our institutions have abandoned that, if they ever provided it in the first place. I think they did use to, but only for a tiny elite.
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You're right, I should have said "a lot of study, and somebody willing to let you play in their lab."
This essay is brilliant! I think the most important takeaway is the last part: it is possible to learn cognitive skills using well-designed software (software coaches would be useful but less so in learning physical activity, e.g. Learning to play tennis).

Couple this idea with raw informational input like that offered by the Khan Academy or Wikipedia and you can generalize Kasparov's point to many other fields. This is the future, somebody should do this.
Disqus is not the answer. Those "blog comments [are] powered by Disqus"
Phished Facebook accounts can be bought in batches of thousands and are relatively inexpensive. If Facebook's commenting system becomes prevalent, people will just start phishing/selling accounts even more.

As long as there's a profit margin, it will be automated or outsourced.
If you can figure out how much the fund is investing in Groupon, short an equivalent percentage of Groupon.
I don't know why you say I champion the BSD license, I only used it as an example. I have never used the BSD license, for the very reasons you just stated - it is at odds with what I want the program's code to be used for.

These terms are not contradictory. Anyone can use and distribute the code for whatever purpose, and any changes made to the code must be made available to the open source community, just like the GPL, except now only that part of the program must be released as source code, and the unrelated portions of the program are free to remain proprietary. This isn't incompatible, and it isn't the GPL.
Are you serious? "Houston retirement planning" only gets 58 local searches per month. That's one of the worst micro niche choices I've ever seen.
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"Functional/reactive" has a very specific meaning, unrelated to parallelism.
We're even getting Brazuka spam here now? Porra!
That's true. Thinking about it more than I want to, it's probably possible to take away everything.

A long time ago, I asked on HN how to kill myself if I was, say, tied to a chair. The answer is to bite your tongue off (so you bleed to death), but I suppose that someone who has tied you to a chair can simply put a gag in your mouth (or cauterize off your tongue). Similarly, there are plenty of drugs that can be injected into you to stop you from thinking.

Anyway, with this in mind... I don't think I'll be able to ever sleep soundly again. Thanks! :)
My experience is consumers join as many daily deal sites as they want to. They are not loyal to one. The only cost of joining one more is an email a day.
You'd have to define "proficiency" first. If you already know other languages sharing the same paradigm(s), you can start writing real programs very quickly and just constantly reference documentation.
What they're saying is that EU countries shouldn't be permitted to make laws that ban people from using the internet.
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You know of any recommendations for something a little more in depth? Maybe a book recommendation, if not much is online?

Often times, the terminology is confusing and difficult to know where to start and ease in.
Mirror of the smaller file, (17 KiB) for when mediafire takes it down:

http://bbot.org/Fuck%20FBI%20Friday%20(FFF).rar

The IRC log is really damaging... assuming, of course, that Lulzsec hasn't embellished it.

EDIT: The archive is actually a ZIP file, with a RAR extension, which makes some decompressors unhappy. A copy with the correct extension:

http://bbot.org/fff.zip
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This is why you have a guy in Afghanistan cash it out and put the balance onto your foreign, anonymous Paypal/Liberty Reserve account. He takes a cut, but that's life. He has no idea who you are and you only access the account through compromised Windows machines in foreign countries (which you wipe when you're done).
I think the standard derivation of the Gaussian integral uses the same technique. It's between equations (2) and (3) of

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianIntegral.html

You make the single integral into a double integral, and then the double integral turns out to be easy to do using polar coordinates.
2. Don't forget Tunisia, whose revolution was sparked at least in part by the revelations about Ben Ali in the State Dept cables, or the swing in election results in Kenya back in the stone ages from one of WikiLeaks' first releases, or the "Twitter Revolutions" (overblown though that title may be) throughout the rest of the middle east...

4. The NSA has taps on the major telecom hubs, and is actively sorting through reams of data to gather intelligence. I can't find the links right now, but the story was on HN about the project's creator and his misgivings about how it was eventually used. Yeah, China's bad, but just wait until the US finds itself toppled from economic primacy and see what information they start pulling out then.
One way requires the user to have a drastically stronger password to be safe, and the other significantly strengthens passwords, protecting a subclass of users that will always exist (those that are unable to remember strong passwords or don't know enough about the dangers of password cracking to know how to effectively choose passwords).

It is madness to defend the use of MD5 for password hashing these days. It is clearly not designed for that at all.
I'm getting a corrupted archive error... is there a password?
The thing I didn't (and still don't) like about the diagram is it implies the whole "ls -l" is delivered by the terminal emulator to the shell. Which isn't how it works. The emulator is transparent to all normal keystrokes and the shell is doing all the work, character by character, even for stuff like ctrl-H which, years ago, could have been (and sometimes was) intercepted and handled by the terminal driver.

I don't think it's as simple as this. When the shell spawns a program, it gets out of the way and the program spawned receives all the input directly, the terminal intermediates, but the shell doesn't. For example, if you want to turn off echo (the printing of the characters you type), you need to change the terminal settings. This is done with stty -echo (go ahead and type that, you won't be able to see what you're typing), which communicates with the terminal driver to tell it to not print characters that are input. This is how password prompts are done.

Witness:

$ od -c
hello<backspace><backspace><backspace><backspace><backspace><control-d>
0000000

od sees no input. The input was deleted by the terminal driver. Usually, the terminal is in line-input mode, so this can happen. Now, in my case, my backspace key maps to ^?, so to actually get a control-h from my backspace key, I had to do stty erase ^H. Then, the above produces:

0000000 h e l l o 177 177 177 177 177

because the backspace/erasure didn't occur at the terminal level (in fact, nothing got erased at all, nothing interpreted the input that way, and the input was passed to od plainly). Note the output of stty -a. There are a number of line editing control characters that modify the input at the terminal level before the program/shell ever even sees it.

You can see this with strace -o /tmp/s.out -f bash then running od -c in that shell, typing the above, erasing it, and seeing that neither bash wakes up to handle the input and od sees no input (od's only read shows up as returning zero bytes, indicating end-of-file).
Yeah -- it's a really bad setup in the end though because Groupon attracts the type of customer that isn't likely to spend a lot of money in the first place unless there is a deal. In other words, Groupon can attract a lot of customers, but the quality of those customers isn't very good (at least from my personal experience, all of the people I know who heavily use Groupon don't really use it at places they haven't already heard of before). The ROI must be terrible, but it also can be difficult to measure.
I think there will be Garbage Collection added to iOS5.

Apple a year or two back had a big presentation at one of their WWDC's about a new multi-core garbage collection for Snow Leopard.

With dual core in the new iPad 2 and I imagine coming on the next iPhone this represents a perfect time to newer apps porting over.
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"If they wanted a path on easy street, the original investors could have sat around pocketing millions of dollars a month for years"

Instead they cashed out for hundreds of millions of dollars with subsequent investor money.
It is the other way around. My friend has a wine store and he was an early adopter of groupon. I think he started almost 2 years ago?
He stopped doing it because it brought in riff raff customers that were cheap and were pretty much broke.
On a tangent-- the PBS NewsHour's bemused reaction to LulzSec hacking them (which they discussed in a segment on hacking) is the best I've ever seen an organization take something like that. The FBI is a much worthier target.
I have a feeling he hasn't really been hired by Apple yet.
If there's one thing Google has shown disdain for, it's fleshy people who aren't coding. See: customer service.
... and if you really don't like Groupon's numbers you can short the stock. Although, I'm not sure how practical that is for the individual investor.
You can take a look at the most recent tech IPOs and see what you think. (dang, yoku, dmd, qlik, smt, motr, logm, ftnt, swi)
Microsoft have made some questionable acquisitions, but there is no way they would want to come in, post-ipo inflation and sweep them up then (unless of course they bomb as hard as everyone is predicting). Like FB, Goog, MS too has millions of users they could turn into customers of Bing Offers. Bet they won't though. This whole market is one giant race to the bottom.
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IP is probably useless; these people know what they're doing, and Tor, proxies, and public wifi plus a cantenna can make you pretty anonymous.

As for the bitcoins themselves, I believe that they'd be instantly anonymized by putting them through one or more bitcoin transaction before they reach real life. The FBI would have a very, very difficult time following the real-life "oh, I got them from person X" tree back to lulzsec, especially if lulzsec transactioned the bitcoins to the right person the first time around.
I didn't add one, so nope.

I just downloaded it again from myself and the new copy worked fine.

EDIT: Lulzsec created a ZIP file, but changed the file extension to RAR. Doh ho ho, those wacky guys. Your unrar tool is apparently more fragile than WinRAR, which decompressed it without even throwing an error.

Since I want to preserve the filename, I made a copy:

http://bbot.org/fff.zip
There's this magical license you may not have heard of that does just that called the LGPL. The LGPL's entire existence is about compromise.

Why are you intentionally ignoring it?
Ah yes, poor Microsoft, the lowly company that only makes billions a quarter.

Don't get me wrong, your point on stagnation isn't totally missed, but do we really still need eternal growth to be "successful?"
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