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For that purpose, I often make a shell script called "find" containing the line "du -a | awk '{print $2}'" and stick it in my bin directory... although at this point I'm so used to using du, I even do the "du -a | grep pattern" dance on Unix.
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shouldn't a vaccines effect be pretty standardized?

No! Evolution guarantees that the immune system is not standardized.
take a try with this copy-paste-tool:

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As the article says, some subjects continued using more and more cocaine but eventually stopped since they didn't get its effects (which is the whole point of the "vaccine").

Still, I'm skeptical as there's no mention of problems due to withdrawal.
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One of the stupidest things we've done as a culture in the last generation, is bend our ideas about what is and isn't "well-formed", so that we don't offend computers. Fixing this is a big part of why I am motivated to work on schemaless databases. When your database doesn't ask you do predefine the data structures, it's one less opportunity for an ignorant programmer to blunt the human spirit.
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Small demographic? I'm not aware of any hackers written in C. :)
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -Picasso

First time I saw that quotation, I thought it showed an amusing lack of understanding. Now I see the point; we need to know what questions need asking before we can begin to build anything of value in response.
All the distributed/parallel stuff is, yes.

It's not meant to be a literal, pedantically correct statement, it's meant to be an insight, and enough people think that it is that this quote gets repeated. By all means print out your own page in 4-point text of what is and is not a hard problem and stick it on your own wall.
Ok, whenever someone opens with something to the effect of 'I use MySQL, so I have experience with relational databases and can make a comparison with NoSQL' all credibility is lost.

MySQL is a 'relational database', but one in which JOIN is so expensive and poorly optimized that you almost have to use it as a key-value store, looking everything up directly with synthetic primary keys.

I've had this discussion several times. Some startup guys say 'we should look at NoSQL', and I ask questions to get to the bottom of why they think that. They will say something like 'we have this huge join we have to do, but it's too expensive, so we pre-compute it'. I ask more questions, and the 'huge join' is not huge at all, in fact it is just a reasonable join, something that you could expect to do on every page view without difficulty. Well, except they are using MySQL, and it can't join for shit. The MySQL query planner is disgusting.

So, although I don't expect to persuade the world to stop using MySQL (to be honest, I love that it is the go-to thing, those of us who use a decent database like Postgresql end up with a huge competitive advantage, better performance, more features, more scaleable, amazing query planner, top shelf performance analysis), I think we should at least admit that in practice, to get any performance out of it, you have to effectively use it as a key-value store anyway. And when comparing MySQL, which is a shitty key-value store, against real key-value stores, you can make a case for some NoSQL thing.
This is a BRILLIANT idea!!
You can guarantee (for some period of time likely) that your children have an artificial tolerance for drug use w/o any ill effects.

Cocaine is used in doses (tens of milligrams) that are gigantic by the standards of the immune system. It takes aggressive immunization to create enough antibodies, which would produce frequent autoimmune disorders in a large population.
<tinfoil hat> Remember, Google is getting into the Social scene because it's a rich data set that they don't currently have access to, and Google likes data. Google wants your "real" name so they can tie all your information back together. The good news is, they'll probably ease the restrictions once they figure out how to normalize identities even with non-normalized names.</hat>

As a side note, I'm in a similar boat to Patrick with respect to my real name: at least 6 variations have been used on legal forms alone, due to length and special character restrictions, and excessive use of spaces. Fortunately it's only my middle name that gives problems so it can often be ignored, but I really like it so it's still annoying when I have to distort it.
No, but I would vote for a "sense and reason" party that works toward a moderate agenda.
Perhaps the videos and slides I linked in the comments (all previously published on my blog as well) help in that department?
Honestly, no one pays taxes in India. Your product has no market. I can speak at length about this, but it's part of the reason real estate values in India increase by 30% year over year. Everyone hides their black money in real estate investments.
I just try to read the papers with these articles.

I'm not up to date with the racial arguments you mention. I know there was something of an obsession 50-100 years ago with trying to establish a scientific basis to justify racism, imperialism, land theft, sterilization, imprisonment and subjugation of non-european peoples and there are still vestiges of those assumptions in a lot of research.

With the claim that "individuals from two different races, for example Caucasian and West African, are usually more similar genetically to some members of the other race than to some of his own", I have heard similar claims but how I understand it is they are not saying randomly chosen individuals from two different groups are more similar than randomly chosen individuals from within a group, but are comparing diversity of individuals within a group to diversity of group averages between groups. In other words, the claim is that the variation between two related individuals is greater than the variation between two unrelated groups, taken as averages. You are correct that if the claim is being presented that individuals between unrelated groups are more related than individuals within related groups, the argument doesn't make sense. It would not be surprising though if it has been presented that way in some articles and then repeated until it became a self-propagating myth. And again to clarify, I'm not up to date with any of those arguments, but just speculating on what might be going on.
I listened to this show during an out-of-town drive this morning. It is an excellent piece of journalism that digs into the business of patent trolling. The section about how the shell companies with empty offices in Marshall, Texas was particularly insightful.

One interesting thing that the show up brings up is this. Intellectual Ventures (IV) sold Lodsys the patents that they are currently using against indie mobile developers. At some point, the chief counsel for IV mentions that their usual practice is to sell the patents AND get a percentage of the royalty streams from licensees. The link between the Lodsys sales and downstream revenue for IV wasn't explicitly made, but I would bet that is the case.
Welcome to what I call Google's vision of an "Orwellian Computing Age". Your every action & communication will be monitored, and your entire digital identity can be deleted by a centralized, seemingly autonomous authority. Better comply with the TOS or you might get yourself "ungoogled".
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If that was the reason, they could just have asked for your real name without requiring that it be your public name.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google this is the 100th acquisition by Google!
The best thing about philosophy is that it helps kids prepare for law school? A backhanded compliment if I've ever seen one!
I like being able to create new identities for different purposes. Why wouldn't Google+ allow that?
Congrats to the PittPatt people on HN (I know there are one or two here)!
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The wording "Pricing starts from free." seems a little ominous with no actual pricing information up front. How much personal information will I have to fill in before you spring some charges on me?

I'd rather read something like "File for free" if that's what you do at your basic level.
Very true. I guess plusroulette is more spontaneous.
"To help fight spam and prevent fake profiles, use the name your friends, family or co-workers usually call you." And this is what bothers me about this whole ordeal. Google's playing a stupidly dangerous ( in regards to making people want to use their services ) game of determining whats a "real" name before we're asked of all things to show our ID? That's a little absurd for a social networking client.

We get why you're doing this, you're fighting this the wrong way.
A lot of new employees have either relocation or signing bonuses, that would have to be repaid if they left the company within 1-2 years. Compounding this, the bonus is usually given out pre-tax but has to be repaid post-tax.

So sometimes there really isn't an option but to finish the year(s) or take a big financial hit.
Related:
http://mobile.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/07...
Noted. Basic efiling is free on the website.
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This has nothing to do with me being smart. Your remark comes across as condescending. You are right in the sense that I don't have a first hand information (I definitely WASN'T there). I am just telling you another side of the story.

You can keep-on saying 'I was there.' which after a certain point becomes your words against others'. Just because you were there doesn't not lead credibility to your story.
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The interface is most likely different from what you are used to, yes?
I'm not sure I understand the real name policy of either Facebook or Google+. Isn't the whole point of a social graph that it is personally curated by me? The identities of my friends/circles are verified by me.
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Because, you know, Google+ is completely mandatory and there are no alternatives and you're not allowed to create or even think about an alternative or you'll be arrested or killed.
>"no one pays taxes in India"

I and millions more pay taxes. True about black money, though, but those are business people. Salaried people pay taxes at source, we do not get cash at all.
If you have to buy local, Radio Shack does have some cheaper cables. I notice Best Buy is the worst, but Apple has ok priced cables. This is mainly in locales without Fry's or other non-mainstream box stores. Heck, Apple has been cheaper than Wal-Mart in cables.

Obviously, online is cheaper than any retail.
There was an article posted a while back that illustrated this perfectly: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443316 The article asks: Is Sugar Toxic? Some readers complained that the article doesn't answer the question, but they missed the point. The author spent a lot of time and effort doing research and interviews and putting together information to make a better question. The author just asks a question really, really well.
This sort of comment is more suited to Reddit. Or Youtube.
Did anyone else see the headline and immediately think about the article from yesterday encouring people to become a technologist and get a PhD in philosophy?

I cracked up when I saw the title; I was expecting it to be a reply to the other article:)

Previous Article:

Why you should quit your technology job and get a Ph.D. in the humanities (chronicle.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2798178
Might not an effective approach be the opposite of this vaccine? Rather than trying to down-modulate the effects of (addictive substance here), if you instead up-modulate undesirable effects, then even a small dose would have less pleasure than before. Disulfiram (Antabuse) seems to be mentioned a lot in this thread, and that intuitively seems like a saner approach than "make it so they need more to get the same high".
Why do we have such an obviously backwards approach to drug abuse? :(

Because the intelligentsia have been taken over by a religion that says people are born pure and can be punished back into virtue if they get contaminated. Growing up in quiet high-IQ enclaves, their personal history is that unpleasant consequences teach better behavior. It is outside their life experience that there could be people who are too stupid to see logic, too distracted to notice lessons, too impulsive to act on logic, or too neglected in early childhood to develop susceptibility to social influences.
Eric Schmidt:

The people who built the Internet did not get a stable
version of identity; You need identity, in the sense that
you are a person, this is who you are these are your
friends and so on … The issue on the Internet is not the
lack of Facebook, the issue on the Internet is the lack
of identity.

(from http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/09/eric-schmidt-on-gauging-goo... )

See also http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/how-to-implement-rel-author .
The same thing applies to postal addresses. I look forward to the day when I can make my own shipping label when ordering goods online. This just needs to be a free text, multi line field.

The theme you touch on is covered at length in the book 'Computer Power and Human Reason'.
Now that you mention -prune, I only recently figured out how to use it to exclude a specific path from a search, but my understanding is that of a trained dog.
Copy/Paste into Emacs. M-x Fill-Region (which breaks lines)

Enjoyably read article.
Why I downvoted you: Objective discussion which leads to new ideas and solutions is generally hampered by name calling and over-generalization, which just leads to "my side is best, your side sucks" ... "no, my side is best, your side sucks". Add in the emotional charge, and people forget to think about what they say before they open their mouths.

I think you might have a point lurking in your polemic, like "I am afraid Google will start to monitor and try to control its users and content too closely, and as evidence I present their behavior on x, y, z." Why don't you rephrase with evidence, specificity, pragmatic alternatives, and scrubbed of ad-hominem name-calling?

(One of these days I am going to write a "Rhetoric for Hackers"...)
Having rollover-debt - paying off an existing debt holder with a new issue - is deficit-negative (ie. it makes the deficit worse) because of the interest involved.

The problem is a combination of the new issue capital needs to be in the door so the old debt can be paid off (as you mention in your last sentence here) and that more debt needs to be raised each cycle to pay off the interest from the last cycle.

Also, default will not be avoided by spending cuts or tax increases alone. The debt ceiling MUST be raised so the government can borrow more money to pay the bills (I believe you asked a question related to this later on in this thread). Spending cuts and tax increases will help with future ceiling raises, but are currently relevant only as part of the bargaining to raise the debt ceiling.
What if I want to find someone I met ten years ago and have no idea what nickname they have chosen? What about friends of my friends?

If one does not agree with the policy—just don't sign up.
I find fake names on Facebook really annoying.
"Even the Soviet Union" is a bit misleading, though I understand where you're coming from. The USSR banned lobotomies in 1950, while in the USA it was banned... never (though some states individually did). In fact the USSR was the first major country to ban lobotomies. Lobotomies legally happen even today in the USA, though there's no longer the epidemic of wanton misuse.

I just say this because it's easy to get into the rut where anything the Soviet Union did was bad and everything the USA did was good. There's no reason per se to expect Soviet doctors to be particularly evil compared to American ones. Which isn't to justify the many many evil things the Soviet state did perpetrate.
Or, you could just teach parents to be.... good parents.
While it's great that you're using HTML5 Boilerplate, you should probably change the default favicon and the pink selection highlight colour :)
Heroin is an opiate with many alternatives from oxcontin to the aforementioned methadone.

There are no generics for cocaine. It is a fairly unique drug that people either free base or snort.

The next jump for someone who wants to get "up" would be meth but you don't see these two being used interchangeably for the most part. I think this proposed drug has viability.
That's normal for Gameloft. It's the same in Romania. They don't need quality, they just need volume (mobile development = lots of devices = lots of tests = lots of versions), so they hire students with low salaries and put them to work unpaid overtime until they can't take it no more. Then they leave for a better job (which they could not get before because "no previous job" doesn't sound good in a resume for most of the companies).
It’s not up to you how someone chooses to make themselves known to others. If they want to change it’s probably for a reason.
Maybe his comment wasn't perfect, but there is a good point buried inside of it. I'm not a big privacy freak, but let's call it what it is.
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As patents start to run out on some of the most profitable drugs, big pharma is looking for a new business models and new drugs. In addition to the cocaine vaccine, there are reports that they are working on a vaccine for alzheimer's.

What I also find new about the Cocaine Vaccine is that traditionally vaccines are composed of biological agents that mimic or resemble a decease-causing microorganism. Cocaine addition and alzheimer's are not caused by a microorganism which would indicate that big pharma are cooping the word 'vaccine' for a new class of drugs.
Also "You Are Not a Gadget".
Cocaine doesn't just do damage to your brain. It can trigger heart attacks and death by causing the blood vessels that feed your heart to spasm and reduce blood flow.

Free cocaine does that. This immunization causes the body to produce cocaine-sequestering antibodies.

... some addicts had up to 5x the level of cocaine in their systems ...

To understand the implications of that ratio, you need to know the total cocaine binding capacity, which would require considerably more exotic laboratory tests.
Besides other pragmatic business reasons, partly because in the Christian West we implicitly believe that every body has a transcendent soul, which is the "true" person, with a "true" name, and everything else is a lie. All our stuff about self-expression, being true to oneself, god sees inside when you die and are judged, Freud, etc, etc.

However, the idea of a transcendent subject may be utter bullshit -- who knows? There was a HN thread on the Japanese not having the same need for a "real" person connected consistently to an internet persona.
When philosophy starts coming up with answers, we start calling it something else, e.g. what we call "psychology" grew out of philosophy over time as modern theories of the mind evolved from Kant to James who was trained as a physician and exposured to the empirically grounded Pragmaticism of Peirce (who was himself a working scientist).
Nice to see some objective reporting here - goes ahead to call Paul Allen "clearly a Google+ fanboy" and tries to relate 750 million to 1 billion.

"[I]s it as big a deal as people are making it out to be? Yes, Google+ might end up being the fastest growing website of all time, but Facebook and Twitter primed the pump."

"[U]nless you're counting Friendster and MySpace and all of those other networks that have since failed, Facebook is the pioneer in social networking; it's slower growth is understandable. The fact that it grew as fast as it did, actually, is kind of unbelievable."

First, we're just going to ignore companies that fail now? Hindsight is 20/20, MySpace was a huge competitor at the time. More importantly, I don't really see how having existing competitors in a space IMPROVES your chances of adoption. Google+ isn't "that newfangled social networking thing", it's that "new Facebook thing," and if anything the adoption effect is reversed.

What I don't get is this author's apparent agenda against Google+ - he even says "No matter how you measure it, 20 million or so visitors is a lot of visitors." so the article is really about downplaying how important 20 million is. I'm all for criticizing Google+, and it'll be interesting to see if the same exponential growth associated with social networks will occur when there's a big existing competitor. Let's just find more important things to criticize?
How I could I miss AWS for so long?! ;p
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Many software professionals in India use this brilliant http://www.ynithya.com/taxcalc/
Shipping address has to be on the most shoehorned pieces of data in any database in the world. The only thing that seems to have put some structure on it in the US is the 911 implementations.

For most of high school years, our house was listed as "311 Behind the School" or some other variation. There were no actual street names (although I am told the electric company and only the electric company had a map with street names). When 911 service hit the area, we got actual addresses, but they really weren't useful for shipping things. The local UPS guy knew where everyone was and where they worked so he could do his deliveries. His replacement required some training time.
The Future according to Josh Harris. But wait, who's Josh Harris?
That philosophy, however, completely goes against the entire concept of Google+ "circles": to let you present yourself differently to one circle than you do to another.
Sure ikiwiki has a web interface, but if you do not want to use it you do not have to. In fact it makes setting it up that much easier.

As far as "embracing git" goes I am not sure what you think ikiwiki does not embrace:

$ ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup
$ git clone $BLOGREPO foo
$ cd foo
$ emacs index.mdwn
$ git add index.mdwn
$ git commit -m "this blog fully embraces git"

Gitit is another option especially appealing if you like pandoc and/or haskell.
As someone with a BS in Molecular Biology, I have to say that there is nothing glamorous about that degree.
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Thank you. Feedback noted.

I kinda like the pink :-)
OK, and what if I want to find someone I met ten years ago, and I have no idea what their real name is because no one ever uses it? A ton of my friends in high school and college went by nicknames the entire time anyone ever interacted with them. I had a good friend in college whom /everyone/ called "C.C." (as in, "see see"): her name was "Corrine", but I don't really know how to spell it and I'm one of the few people who ever actually bothered to learn it.
I've seen and heard about this a lot in US gaming companies too. The culture is something like "we're so passionate about games that we have to do super-crunch time to get things finished by the deadline." But I think the reality is that a lot game companies tend to just be run extremely poorly. People who are more competent managers and want to make money are in other industries, people who "just want to make games", are making games, and I think at least on the management side, that dilutes the talent pool a lot.

It could be my personal limited experience, but I've seen several really badly run game companies, and none that seemed to be run well at all.
You can't find him by only his nickname. You have to add other things like where he lived, what is his college etc (if he wants to share that info with the world). Nickname/identity is not that important for you as it is for google/facebook.
Identity is not the same as "name on your birth certificate". Skud's identity is Skud, not Kirrily Roberts.

I'm all for having stable identities on social networking services, but that has nothing to do with legal names vs pseudonyms.
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This is the behavior I expect. I don't think I'm alone in this.
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