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Subverting the legal system and making common things illegal is just one way of artificially skewing a natural balance in order to make a profit purely out of arbitrage. There is a reason why drugs and copyright have basically no democratical backing and are routinely decided by "experts" behind closed doors.

The crazy copyright reality just shows that there is a deep, underlying problem with the whole system, which makes it possible for a few to have enough power to simply not allow a widely perceived skewness to be democratically corrected by the populace. We have to obey minority-made laws which a majority of our peers doesnt support. Certain things are simply not allowed to be voted on, and at the moment this is no more apparent than on the issues of drugs and copyright.
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1. The directional information is perceived due to the stereo sound. If you manage to give the location information to the receiver somehow it can generate the stereo sound appropriately. Maybe by using an ultrasound sender and receivers that are located near one's ears.

2. Beeping was just an example. Just "encode" the information as motor noise and it will sound more "natural".
Hey Ohad,

I've already mailed you this, but for the others to read:

Some of the decisions are inspired by "The 4 hour workweek" book by Timothy Ferriss; You could see this as one of my "muses" if you're familiar with it. My price is based on the idea that it should be somewhere in between $50 and $200, too cheap and it isn't worth the hassle, too expensive and people would have to think a bit more about it or they expect extra support. I've checked out other courses as well. Real life courses are a lot more expensive, online courses are a on average a bit cheaper, but most of them are videocourses and you don't have the option to ask questions or do the self tests.

My first try was a plain text course. After creating the second chapter for 50% I knew this wasn't the way to go. Way too much text to read, people could buy a book and get the same.

Next try was a video-course, something like lynda.com is offering. It's nice, but: most of the video is just static for minutes, you listen to teacher and the only animation you will see is a powerpoint transition or someone typing in some code. Video's consume a lot of bandwidth as well and what I really missed was to option to click links or copy code snippets during a video-course.

Next try was video with popcorn.js. This worked, but still had the same video issues and I lacked the space on my screen to show the extra context.

My last try was the current one. It worked like I wanted it to work, but I couldn't get the speech right myself, so I made a written script and had a voice-over do it.

I've only created this first chapter to see if people are interested (another useful advice from the book), If I get enough potential orders I'll finish it, since it takes a huge chunk of my time to finish all 21 remaining chapters and I need to pay the voice-over as well. I don't really have any expectations, if it works out: great, if not: another nice experience, no big losses here.
And at the same time you have less people dying because of the noise: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/23/sciencenews.uk...
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This seems to be a 404 for me.

Is it working for other people?
That actually dates to the 1950s and is based on concepts up to a century older than that. Break-bulk has been recognized as a bottleneck in freight transport for ages.

It's evolved and become dominant with standardization of container sizes and fittings (by 1970) and with the deregulation of the US shipping industry and introduction of double-stack rail transports (both in 1984).

I suspect more significant recent advancements have been in inventory and logistics management (though bar-coding of rail cars was already happening in the 1980s) and overnight air and other rapid freight. Not quite as visible as containers, but vital to keeping the boats, trains, and trucks moving, and with JIT delivery probably accounts for much of the success of big box stores, and now Internet-based retail and shipping.
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Tried most of the non-Apple Terminal alternatives, but personally I have always kept returning to Terminal because there is something about its finishing touches that add up.
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A bit presumptuous, yes, but I'd wager not for most people- out of the people I know who use tablets (mostly iPads), very few of them do any reading on them. Maybe the eInk bit would change that, I don't really know- the N2E is basically the first mainstream eInk tablet, so there's not a lot to go on.

However, for the sake of argument, let's assume that people do mostly read on their tablets. Unless B&N did something to the N2E that I'm unaware of, Android doesn't really do page-based scrolling. That's kind of what I was trying to get at with the horrible refresh rate comment- even if it can technically do email and social networks, it's not going to be a great experience (kind of like the Web on the Kindle). Here's a video of Angry Birds on the N2E, as an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k22BB8VPI5o

(Edit: I do seem to remember that the N2E has a web browser built-in, so, assuming that it has pagination, that would work alright for email/social networks/HN. Though, IIRC, it's a slightly hidden feature- even B&N doesn't want to admit it's in there: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/container/standard_bothna... (#10) )
I really like this idea of basing your decision on the need to normalize or not. It certainly fits document-oriented databases and key-value stores, but I'm less sure about column-oriented databases (I have no experience with them, except many hours trying to understand them...).

The single-purpose vs. multi-purpose that comes from denormalization vs. normalization would explain why certain companies stick to RDBMS for their main data and use NoSQL only for certain specific scenarios.
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Here's the idea: create a new political party whose policies are solely focused on issues relating the the Internet and technology.

Would you vote for The Internet Party?
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So what makes it for hackers? The Github backend? Including a plugin for code by default? http://redraftable.com is a blog engine for hackers, other than the author won't release sources while the project is still immature.
There's more than just what is in that article to suggest something fishy went on in Ohio. For instance, election officials in one county claimed they had received a warning from the FBI that there was a terrorist threat, so for security reasons they excluded the normal press and public observers from the vote counting.

It may just all be coincidence. Maybe the "terrorist threat" was an honest mistake. Maybe the statistical oddities were really just one in a million flukes. Maybe Karl Rove has nothing to hide and he's just using an army of lawyers to keep putting off having to actually be deposed over the 2004 Ohio election because he wants to make sure the lawyers have work in these tough economic times...
Undertaking "optimization", in this case selecting and developing with a NoSQL datastore early in the process, should only be considered premature if the costs of doing so (which will be mainly represented by developer-hours spent) are greater than the value provided by having a datastore that can accommodate well the needs of the application itself, development team, and end-users.

Adaptability, flexibility (with regard to schema/key structure migration and maturation), as well as ease of partitioning data intelligently ahead of demand are all hugely important factors that can and often should inform the process of selecting a datastore.

If the datastore selected for use:
- shortens development time,
- provides improved performance for anticipated scale,
- better represents the data model needing to be captured,
- avoids re-work and "post"-mature optimization of data models & datastores,
- or accomplishes any combination of the above ...
... then the selection of that datastore should not be considered premature optimization.

Finding that your traditional RDBMS does not well support the data models you have developed, especially once the product is out of the gate, will not be fun. Having to engage in a refactor and data migration to move to a more appropriate or more performant datastore will be a time- and resource-consuming process.

As soon as the initial synthesis phase of development can begin, it may be well worth the effort to experiment with multiple datastores as a means of evaluating their performance and suitability. Depending on the scope and potential for the project to scale, modularizing distinct pieces of core functionality into separate services, each with their own most-suitable datastore, can also provide great benefit in flexibility of development processes, as well as adaptability of the product to the demands of the end-users.
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How is it good to have 1million queued messages but only utilize 5% of the cpu?
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No sarcasm necessary.

I am pretty convinced that GoF did not expect how popular their book may become. Looking back, it is always easier to judge.

Looking back, with no offense to GoF, what happened can be understood. GoF did a great work for all these "I badly need to sell something new and hot to all these saturated development shops" guys. Read the pattern book once, teach it a hundred times for 2000$ a person. Great stuff.

Now, of course it is due to the single developer to use patterns or not. But the average developer is - well average. Using a pattern is much easier than to understand, when to use and when not to use.

I indeed should have been more precise in my statement: our code got bloated and unmaintainable because there are pattern all over. This is not GoFs fault, it is the fault of all the developers who just read the book and want to apply everything instantly, everywhere. It is also the fault of the community, who did not recognize at once, that pattern should be used only, if they solve a problem that is hard to solve without patterns.
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Brian Dunning did a Skeptoid episode about a related issue: 'Neanderthals in Present Day Asia'

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4040

A snippet: "Really quick history lesson on Neanderthals. They are not an ancestor of modern humans. Homo neanderthalensis is descended from a separate branch that split off from the evolutionary tree about 516,000 years ago, according to some research published in Nature. Mitochondrial DNA studies have shown conclusively that Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens evolved separately. As the Cro-Magnon Homo sapiens moved in across Europe about 45,000 years ago, Homo neanderthalensis was pushed out into little corners of the world. The last known population died out in the vicinity of Gibraltar about 24,000 years ago, thus ending their approximately 300,000 year existence.

[...]

So now we've got a fair handle on the landscape of evidence in front of us, and now we can take a skeptical look at what we've got. Basically, nothing. We have some vaguely plausible hypotheses — yeah, I suppose it's possible that relic Neanderthals and Gigantopithecus or even some descendant of Paranthropus could survive in remote parts of Asia — but that's all we really have, a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a provisional explanation for these stories of wildmen in captivity and bearing children."
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I think the argument is that queuing should be cheap and the consumers should actually use the CPU. He has no consumers yet, he just fires messages like crazy and they are left pending.

That leads me to the question what this benchmark is good for.. Someone tried to measure ~something~, but it's useless right now and targets localhost.

I'm not impressed.
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As I have already joined college, I am having bad grades. I am in 3rd year now, one year left for finishing the college. May be I should feel shame asking this question, but I am sad that I am about to quit. Any suggestions?
To me, free speech is not just a law, but also an ideal that society should aspire to. When the government was the only entity that could realistically restrict your speech, the old laws were enough. But today there exist new powerful entities that can restrict everyone's speech, harming society about as much as a bona fide government restriction would, and they don't even have to consult the representatives of the public beforehand.

An analogy: if the government were the only employer in the country, then it would make sense to make anti-discrimination laws that only forbid discrimination by the government. Then times would change, private companies would begin to employ people, and something like your argument would be used to defend allowing private companies to discriminate.

If tomorrow Google, Facebook and Twitter announce that they're going to jointly ban any speech criticizing penguins, that will sound like an attack on free speech to me. Even worse if they install automatic filters in their chat clients, to block you if you badmouth penguins while talking to your friend privately. Even worse if cellphone companies join suit and begin filtering text messages. Even though all of these are private companies that are 100% within their rights.

Rigorous enforcement of property rights to the exclusion of all else just isn't enough to make society pleasant to live in. They need to be balanced out with right-of-way laws, fair-use laws, antitrust laws, all sorts of regulations to ensure that the big guy doesn't use his power to make the little guy worse off.
Doesn't say they like it; I know plenty of people who look in envy when their neighbor buys a slightly more expensive middle class sedan and will replace their own as fast as they can, even though they can impossibly pay for that. So no, they don't get by, they just do it on a different scale; no sports cars, but with big screen tvs, middle class cars etc. You think most people buy the latest 3d tv because they want to watch stuff in 3d? Some people probably do, most just want to have something more than others.
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I don't think accounts are deleted, if you read the article it only talks about suspension (of the Google+ profile).
Yea, that's what I am feeling now. :(
Thanks guys for the comments. Really helped me think.
I can personally confirm that DMCA notices are sent to cable Internet providers, and passed along to users, over TV shows. I do not know if there have been actual lawsuits filed. Remember, set your DVRs.

On the legality, I've heard people day that if you don't upload, it's not illegal. I don't know if that's true. I suspect it's more a case of "if you don't upload, they can't catch you."
"Again, I think we need to talk about the best tool for the job, not the best tool for every job. Relational databases are not the best tool for every data storage job."

Pretty much disqualifies him as moron. Hell, he doesn't say anything.
I really don't think the regular layperson is going to be confused into thinking we can tap into it as needed when NASA describe it as the "Most Distant Reservoir of Water" right there in the headline, the first sentence of the article describes it as the "furthest reservoir of water", and the next explains it is "12 billion light-years away".

And even if this hypothetical layperson doesn't know how far a light-year is, 12 billion certainly gets across the point that it is an awful lot of them.
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I guess it's supposed to be because you can post via the command line which, last time I checked, does not make you a hacker.
It's called "Argument from authority" and he will probably succeed with his argument.
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Nobody is suggesting that Neanderthals were in East Asia or Australia. The theory is that during the exodus from Africa, genetic exchange occurred.
I agree. And using both has been the status quo for ages if you count the file system as a kind of NoSQL data store.

As far as I can tell, there are no significant qualities in the BigTable clones that are not related to scalability.
I've lost count of how many times I've seen statements about users being products on here. Can we please stop reciting platitudes?

Obviously Google would care if they annoyed enough users to lose ad revenue, or tarnish their reputation. The real argument is about whether the fraction they are annoying is small or otherwise irrelevant.
It depends on what kind of site you are trying to build. There is not just wordpress, if you are not satisfied with it, there are 100's of other. I would suggest you to find/search and give them a look before you start coding yourself from scratch. It will save your hell lot of time and enable you build a smart website that works really good.
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This is a collection of slides that are excruciating to read. It may well have been an interesting (even funny) presentation, but it's horrible on its own. I gave up midway through.
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Why not use a name which sounds like a real name but isn't yours? I'm doing so very successfully ;) ...
The idea is that you can write your blog posts in your favorite coding editor instead of some web form. Some people find that easier - I certainly feel more at home in my editor.
Thanks for getting back to this, and for the clarification. So there is someone at home after all ;-) Btw, I get where you're coming from, and I don't disagree with you on this subject.
Those are orthogonal stats, true. More relevant is queued messages vs RAM used, which i'm quite happy with: 1m messages = 65m ram.
Also think about the 1000 msgs/sec vs 5% cpu, which i'm also happy with.
Thanks a lot for having a look!
This would be good to build into the windowing system so it could apply to any application. Split any application window horizontally or vertically and put the two parts where you like on the screen.
that's because Google doesn't delete things...they just issue a permanent non-revocable suspension.
He isn't complaining about their choice, but instead that they made choice A, and are complaining they aren't getting the results from choice B.

It's like partying instead of studying for a test, and complaining you didn't pass. Of course you didn't; you chose "fun" over "boring".
Thanks for having a look!
The main thing i wanted to check for as of now is the performance (in terms of memory usage) of the hash/dictionary/list library i'm using (klib). In which case, i'm personally impressed with the work of klib's author (who, as it turns out, has chosen to be anonymous!)
With some student colleagues we build http://sharedesk.at during last semester. Its a file sharing tool build on node.js
, was fun :)
Of course not all philosophical Q's have answers after looking into AI, but there are precious few philosophers taking different approaches to the same old problems, and that's incredibly boring.

For example, few ever use the tactic of "dissolving the question". In this case, Mary's Room has had a basic treatment of that over at Less Wrong.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/5n9/seeing_red_dissolving_marys_room...

http://lesswrong.com/lw/5op/qualia_strike_back/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/5ot/return_of_the_beisutsukai/
If someone is known to have a high level of knowledge on or experience with a topic, then giving weight to that person's opinions on the topic is not a bad thing to do.

(also, I'm tempted to label comments like yours "argument from informal fallacy" -- you've offered no actual critique of any actual arguments, you've just named an informal fallacy, apparently in hope that people will take that in itself as an argument)
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that's a mistake.

eventually you'll have to login into your Gmail or Analytics where you gave your real name. Google will then cross reference your IP and notice that the information they have on file is fake. So they'll suspend all of your accounts.
From the moment it launched, Android has always used Dalvik VM. And that post praises them after Android launched.
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Does someone know an easy way to figure out what elements in a QR code are irrelevant?
Great. I've been waiting for this.
That's the idea of Jekyll, which is what this is based on. Doesn't explain what makes this a "blogging framework for hackers" (other than their choice of using Jekyll).
Probably that it takes six pages of instructions to get it up and running.
I ultimately went with Wordpress b/c I have so many coding projects going on that I didn't want to add another. I've used it now for two years and love it. When there's a security issue, I get notified both by Wordpress when I log in and in Google WMT. I don't have to really do anything except backup and then install the new patch. Works for what I need which, TBH, was quite simple.
Yes, I would. But I think Pirate Party covers the most important Internet issues pretty well already.

Your next best thing in USA seems to be Ron Paul. He's one of the very few and maybe the only one in Senate who defended Wikileaks, and he'd probably defend Bitcoin, too, as well as other Internet related issues. But the USA political system seems very rotten anyway. I'm not sure even Ron Paul can do much. They'd either try to beat him into submission (figure of speech) to do what they want, or assassinate him (if he actually wants to do all the things he's been promoting - no wars, no federal reserve, small government, etc).

I like this video about him (fan made):

http://www.ronpaul.com/who-is-ron-paul/

But I think the only thing that can save America right now is a major economic crash and a major drop of the dollar (to make them really prioritize the budget and to get people very angry with the system), followed by a revolution that will lead to overhauling the system.

I think we need politicians to be a lot more accountable for their decisions, and we need a more direct way to send our feedback than just a vote every 4 years on one of the parties, and we need this all over the world, not just in USA.
It is simple and i love it., But little too much.

Anyways, It's either WordPress or Custom CMS not any other CMS.
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NB. There's of course a gradient between complete asexuality and total 24/7 horniness. People are different.
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can someone summarize why I should move to this from Jekyll? The website is a bit unclear on that.
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Self driving cars? Yawn. Try taking a cab ;)

Flying cars are way more interesting.