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"If you plot their metabolic rate against their mass on a log-log graph, you get an absolutely straight line"

Anything in a log-log plot is a straight line!

"Currently [cities] are growing exponentially. Every week from now until 2050, one million new people are being added to our cities."

That's linear, not exponential.
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A big breath at 6000 feets is perfect to come back fresh & ready for work.
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Your argument falls apart when you posit "worse at math" as an essentialist trait caused by genetics, without so much as a link to a single study showing this. Saying "Women are just more social on average" does not prove that it is genetic.

You can probably name at least one woman amazing at math, or one woman amazing at programming. The fact that you can name even one counterexample refutes the proposition that all women are predisposed against mathematical thinking genetically.
Yup, that thing is way too big and expensive for what it is. I get the same functionality (NAS, media server, torrent machine, small DB server, small web server, FTP, git, SSH, remote desktop, caching proxy, print server, UPS monitor) from an $100 Atom mITX system with 2GB RAM that draws 50 Watts. I get 5TB of storage, available at 85-90MB/s through Gigabit. Why would I need more?

Also a benefit of the low power draw, a 700VA UPS can keep that thing running for about two hours.
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Can you give us an idea of the scale of the problem? Is handling flagged accounts something that could plausibly be improved by creating a "large enough", dedicated team? Or do legal and/or practical constraints (e.g. too many cases to look at) prevent that?
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I don't buy that argument - why aren't many of the other short comments in this page getting the same treatment when they're not adding to the discussion either?
That would be nice however I'll be offline 99% of the time!
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I you're gnawed by curiosity or dissatisfaction, you should definitely try this. The alternative is dismal -- perhaps it's prudence, but to you it'd always be cowardice.
Ha, my friend showed me roughly the exact same thing a week or so ago. He got started after talk about regex speed in browsers and went crazy building a sweet proof of concept.
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Something tells me the White House are making good use of Professor Tufte.
I hope this is true. The revamped MBA is very attractive, but the 13" screen kills it for me. I'm ready to say goodbye to my optical drive.
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"because DNA's objective is to survive and spread"

When did DNA get a will of its own? =)
Dungeon Keeper 1 is still my all time favourite game. I just wish for Peter to one day return to the series...
Bob Schieffer had a similar story where he was trying to get a job and went in to CBS's headquarters looking for someone high up to talk to. When he said his name was Bob the secretary responded that he was early but to go ahead and go in. He did an interview (more like good ol boys talk apparently), got the gig at CBS and ran out of there not knowing what just happened. Supposedly he found out years later that he had walked in before a Bob Shaffer (spelling similar, I may be wrong on it).

Source: He gave the commencement speech at RIT and told this story.
The newly released affidavit was offered in support of a search warrant for the home of an Arlington, Texas couple and their son, who were among the July 19 targets, and have not been charged. The house was the source of 3,678 packets in about two-and-a-half hours starting December 8.

Man, they executed a federal raid with FBI agents over something that amounted to a few thousand "slowlaris"ed GET requests over a few hours?

How much does something like that cost? What, 2-4 agents, 4-8 hours, seizure, paperwork, court filings, etc. Tens of thousands of dollars, right?

I want a tax refund.
If he weren't all about over promise and under deliver these days... looks at the Fable series

Sometimes I'm amazed the dev team lets him talk to the outside world anymore :P
I'd guess subscription management would be next.
"They found my coupons for Bed Bath & Beyond and used the discount, along with my Mastercard, to shop online."

Are you kidding me? Seriously.
To hear such humility from the man responsible for so many of the games I loved is really inspiring.
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And which would that be ? Just curious.
Before switching to Apple laptops, I had several Thinkpads - and would have to say their solidity, reliability and no-frills approach were major factors. I'd probably go Thinkpad again if I needed a non-mac machine.

Another factor represented here is they're popular in the corporate world - I know Adobe is standardized on them for the Windows side and I /think/ Google is too.
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My home was burglarized once and among all the serious stuff that they took they also took: tortillas, salsa, ground beef, and cheddar cheese. I still can't believe that.
It's hard to tell what exactly I'm supposed to learn from the graph. Normally, graphs like this would include a time axis, but this one does not. This makes it non-obvious that the Obama debt is over a shorter period than the Bush debt. If you normalize for time in office and discount the military spending (arguing that any president would have done similar after 9/11), then both administration's debts seem very equal.

Is there any benefit to dropping the time axis without providing an alternative?
After I saw this story, I posted it to Facebook and my friend whose a journalist at Arizona's local news station picked it up and did a full blown story.
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Wow, the numbers actually seem pretty conservative to me. This put Bush's stimulus at 200B. The Washington Post and NYT put it much higher (773b) [1].

I'm curious how the public will receive this.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/obamas-a...
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I think the pertinent question here is: what do you think 'WSGI was intended to do.'? From the responses here, it seems your answer to that question is a distinct subset of what WSGI actually intends to do. Which is why Pump offers only a subset of the abilities of, for instance, Werkzeug.
She trusted them and left for the weekend?
I think you have missed my point.

I absolutely agree there is a degree to which suckiness is in the eye of the beholder, but there are still measures of suckiness that are unreasonable and useless. Going back to my debugger example, the standard of suckiness proposed is provably impossible to satisfy (it is equivalent to solving the Halting Problem). That's not just an "eye of the beholder" difference.

The next step is realizing that unless you've thought about how you might fix the suckiness and made a good-faith effort to understand the constraints the cook is operating under you don't know where on the reasonableness scale your definition of suckiness falls.

You can say the dessert sucks because it doesn't have fresh mangoes, but if mango season was months ago should the cook take you seriously?
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That struck me as odd too -- is this a normal use case for airbnb?
> discount the military spending (arguing that any president would have done similar after 9/11)

I'm pretty sure a very large part of the military spending was because of the war in Iraq, which had nothing at all to do with 9/11.
Indeed, but if you're self-employed, then you should either say you're coming from (your own) Foo Corp. in Australia to have business meetings with Bar Corp (in US); or follow GP's advice and say you're on vacation.
No seriously. Excellent stunt for getting out of a crazy credit card bill from Bed, Bath and Beyond. Didn't we see this movie before? What was it.. Fight Club?
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I seem to remember Qt Creator does add const and & symbols, not sure though, and cannot check at the moment.
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I cannot believe he did not meet them in person first. And left valuable things behind.

edit: or she..
This happens sometimes with couchsurfing as well. People are generally good and trusting.
How could you, in principle, even tell that it was the bnb'ers who did it? What's to say that they didn't accidentally leave the door unlocked when they left, and someone else broke in?
I am non-representatively paranoid, and have always been afraid of this kind of thing when having guests not personally known to me, visitors to "open house" office events, etc. I think there is little actual risk with almost anyone as a guest (most people ARE good, or at least non-malicious, or at least lazy), but this is why the AirBnB reputation system is so key to their value (and why they'll have a strong network effect).

Maybe the effect of this will be to make people want personal connections (via fb graph or whatever) to their AirBnB guests, or at least requiring minimum numbers of positive reviews from known sources (to prevent the sockpuppet/shill issue).

I wonder if your renter's or homeowners insurance might cover this kind of thing. If it doesn't generally, it'd be awesome if AirBnB could work with a third party insurer (per jurisdiction) to offer optional insurance to hosts (and guests) against this kind of thing.
It seems disingenuous to exclude partial responsibility for the occupations in Irag and Afghanistan from Obama policies given that we are still there.
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There's a ton of verbiage about X dollars of this and Y program of that which have contributed to the debt and deficit. Most of it doesn't serve to enlighten, I'm convinced that it's largely meant to confuse.

The Obama administration have just presented a very clear picture of what the components of the debt are.

Obama policies have been directed at contingencies and emergencies, not wars of choice and vast pay-offs to political benefactors. I'll grant Bush TARP.

On a per-year basis (giving Obama 1.5 years and Bush 8), the per year deficit is worse under Obama's policies, but the discretionary element is less. Bush got us into this mess, Obama's trying like hell to get us out (and last time I checked, the other team wasn't exactly cooperating enthusiastically).

We've also got the structural and internal (SSI) components of debt clearly spelled out.

Again: this is far better than I've seen from many other sources.

There's no time axis as this isn't particularly a time-based graph, it's a statement of current accounts, and an accounting of where those components came from.
I hate that the author broke out the short skirt rape thing. I don't think someone that leaves their house to strangers while they go out of town for a week is quite as innocent as a rape victim that was targeted for lack of modesty.
How is this:

"... emphasize that the customer service team at airbnb.com has been wonderful..."

reconcilable with this:

"...My next call was to airbnb.com - I tried their "urgent" line, their email address, their general customer support line. I heard nothing - no response whatsoever - until the following day, 14 sleepless hours later, and only after a desperate call to an airbnb.com freelancer I happen to know helped my case get some attention..."

Does that mean you'd have to know someone who works at AirBnB before you can get customer service? I've heard similar stories about Google, too.
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You were hoping for a list of companies where psykotic has friends who have shared their confidential salaries with him/her, usually small web businesses with a max of 5 or so programmers, so you can ring up and demand your $200k job?

That's not how the real world works.
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To be fair, Obama took office in the middle of a recession and had to immediately release a massive stimulus package (recovery act).
Yep, when I was burgled, alongside a MacBook, watch and my freakin' backups, which were on a separate drive on a nearby bookcase, they also took some bath soap and a bottle of dessert wine that my gf and I brought back from France specially. I hope they choked on the wine.

That said, I also had they keys to brand new Audi on the kitchen counter (I used to be a car journalist and it was a press test car) and they completely missed them. So, I got off lightly, in some respects, even if the loss of backups is still something that pisses me off today.

I've learned my mistake about backup drives now and do it over wifi to a drive in secret location witheld.
I totally agree with you, but that doesn't change my point about the time axis.
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It is unfortunate that stories like that could really harm AirBnB's reputation. I am sure that there are plenty of vacation rental stories of people trashing and burglarizing properties, but the difference is that this was not a vacation rental. I hope that thieves do not make a trend of preying on AirBnB hosts to gain access to their private residences.
I think they will call it an MBP and completely phase out built-in optical drives on Macs. After all, Apple was the first major OEM to phase out floppy drives (when floppies were still very common). Now that the Mac App Store has been launched, the timing is perfect.

However, it would be really nice if the new Thunderbolt displays had built-in Blu-ray/DVD/CD-RW drives. That would make it possible to use an optical drive at home (where I, in any case, would most likely need one) without having yet another peripheral to clutter things up. Since the purpose of Thunderbolt is to create One Connector to Rule Them All, we shouldn't have to connect a separate optical drive when the new Cinema Display is essentially a docking station and monitor in one.
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Not bad but the guy in the black shirt didn't dance and now I hate it.
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I read that as attributing costs to policies, rather than administrations, but good point. Obama voted for TARP, so he should split that cost with Bush.
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There's no time axis as this isn't particularly a time-based graph

The graph pretends to be a time-based graph, though, by highlighting the differences between the Bush and Obama administrations. It's not like it would take any more work or space to lay the information out horizontally. I'm sure I've seen it done before, but this is the closest I can find: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Federal_Debt_as_Percent...
Hey, you can always broadcast a dance!

PS. I'm not the guy in the black shirt :-P
After someone has copies of your passport, birth certificate, social security card, etc, what do you even do? Isn't your identity compromised forever?
This is not the first story like this I have heard about AirBnB. They have just done a good job keeping them hush hush and talking people out of going to the cops. Obviously stories like this are horrible for their reputation and AirBnB have a big incentive to try and take care of issues on their own.
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Innocent? Careless != guilty.
Generally I play games maybe 2-3 hours a week max due to the double whammy of having a family and working at a startup :) This means for the average game it might keep me busy for a few months at a time. DF on the other hand...
If nothing else, it takes a while for wet towels to get mildew.
The first time my home was robbed (while I was sleeping upstairs), the perpetrators did a whole bunch of bizarre things, like taking a jar of pickles out of the fridge and leaving them on the front porch and taking the laundry detergent from our laundry room and pouring it out in the back yard.

In an unrelated story, I happened to be moving out of that apartment the same day. And the very next day my new apartment also got robbed.
Have you any links for this? Those sound like pretty big accusations to be making without citations.
Agreed. Stuff like this shouldn't be on the front-page unless it comes from an impartial source.
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The Debian patent FAQ is pretty good for this: http://www.debian.org/reports/patent-faq
I agree. Very interesting that when you summarized it as "some students are trying to game the system by learning the subject in advance" I thought it was hyperbole. But reading the article, that is actually what they say. "Game the system." Your analogy about reading is perfect. "It is so unfair that Harrison Bergeron came to school knowing how to read!"
You can read the Microsoft counter-suit and get a complete factual history of this case. You can read about how Kelora systems was just created a few months ago and was just assigned the patent (presumably so they could appeal the case under a different entity and continue to try and extract settlements while the real case is being decided - speculation on my part based off of the MS countersuit).
If you read the history (as detailed in the MS counter-suit), you'll see that the patent was recently invalidated and is now being appealed. I am extremely surprised that a legitimate law firm like Manatt would actually take this case and engage in such tactics. Strange times, indeed.
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I can definitely sympathise. MacBook and backup drives containing all my photos and music taken from a bookshelf. I foolishly thought it would never happen. Needless to say I now have offsite backups but it's a horrid lesson to learn. DONT take it for granted - a service like backblaze might be the best $5 you ever spend.

Oh, and they took a bottle of vodka that was 3/4 empty. These scumbags do weird things.
I always found AirBnB's model based on a surprising amount of trust - I for one would never be comfortable just handing over they keys to my place to a total stranger.

Even if they didn't ransack my place completely, as happened to the unfortunate author - I would be concerned about unintentional damage to my property that I might not discover till too late. Renting out something as private as my primary place of residence just seems like a generally bad idea, especially when I am not around to constantly check in on it. Even if I got to meet them, and they seemed like nice people whats to stop them from leaving without paying if they accidentally broke my TV ?

As the service expands, and becomes more craigslist-y (in terms of audience) I can only see problems like this getting worse, and apart from implementing some kind of guest / host rating system (like ecommerce portals do with sellers) I see no clear solution to the problem.
How about

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and

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So I can monitor IP changes of my machines while I'm away?
AirBnB can be used without issues if you own a property and you're willing to operate it like a hotel: you're present on the premises to check in the guests, you have a room or a reception-like place from where you can monitor the situation, and you're able to inspect the place when they leave.

Operating a property remotely via AirBnB implies all sorts of risks, which makes me think that it might be an unsustainable model, because a black swan event might ruin the property to such extent that it offsets the income made in all the other cases.

AirBnB handles property promotion and property booking on the Internet -- that's fine -- but when it advertised itself it included in the message ways to do property administration (as in rent-your-home-while-away). While this is not connected intricately with their core business, it is the model that some owners assumed by default, without realizing the risks involved or the fact that you are still exposed to one-in-one-hundred unpleasant events.

If they manage to warn about this upfront similar to the way Craiglist does, without losing their brand and their community support, then owners will become aware of those issues and take the necessary protection (by i.e. requesting guarantees/deposits/passports or by using their social network to validate the guests). If they don't, I'm afraid a couple of bad PR articles will be enough to destroy their reputation.

P.S.: I haven't heard of hotels managed remotely; there are some hotels where you check in automatically and you get the keys via some sort of robot system but in the morning there is someone handling the checkout, the cleaning etc. In addition they have your credit card on file, your passport, probably your cam photo when you picked up the keys and the most you can destroy is a hotel room (still a great deal of value but somehow limited and the hotel probably has insurance for it). But automation didn't pick up at scale in the hotel industry. In the current state, it thrives partially because the reception provides the safety-checks and balances needed to prevent and offset these black swan events. I'm not sure the remote administration model is scalable or even manage-able due to this.
IIRC, I thought that Google was buying up all of the Dark Fiber. I've heard various theories on what will happen with it:

1) Use it to link all their data centers together forming a sort of 'global Google intranet.'

2) Use it as the backbone for their community internet initiatives.

It's also possible to combine those two.
you make a good point. if you are paying $150,000, you should at least talk to a laywer to make sure you are getting the "license" they claim to be offering.
You really have 1 viable option at this point - talk to a very good patent attorney.