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> The reference was to the moralizing; for all you wrote, I still see tension between a stance based on eliminating cravings and a life spent stoking and satisfying for cash cravings.

It seems as though that tension arises in you simply imposing your misunderstandings of what Buddhism seeks to do in eliminating worldly desires, though. Buddhism fundamentally offers the proposition "if you are dissatisfied with life, and if you agree that certain things are responsible for that dissatisfaction, here is what you can do about it." It isn't proselytory. It doesn't require that you impose that view on others, or work to reduce their attachment, whether they want it or not, out of some need to save them from some Western concept like sin.

The fact that you think the right livelihood for a Buddhist ought to be one that in no way involves creating or selling things that people might form worldly attachments to, doesn't mean that Buddhism itself teaches that, or that people doing so are behaving inconsistently with the teachings of the Buddha.

There are Buddhist teachings surrounding what the right livelihood is and is not. Being a salesman doesn't fall under the "inconsistent with the teachings of Buddhism" livelihoods, even though it, by definition, means making others want to buy things from you.
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By making a video like this and then spending time creating the product, could this be used against patent litigation if someone else files against them before they sell?

ie. Can it be used as proof?
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Another rule I think makes sense in the world is a sort of temporally shifted golden rule: try and leave things better than when you found them to do unto future people what you would wish them to do had they gone before you.
That mammals other than humans are capable of emotion and concious thought comes as no surprise to me. Why some humans derive pleasure from inflicting unnecessary cruelty towards other beasts I will never understand.
My considered opinion is that the main reason Bill Gates is spending so much money, is to improve the world just enough to generate more users of Windows, over decades, in developing countries, thereby adding to Microsoft's bottom line, in the very long term, and in doing so, making more money for himself. Think about it: You have to raise living standards for people in untapped markets before they can buy your product, a thing which they now effectively consider an unattainable luxury.
It doesn't really. Getting a commercial work off the Internet once it's been put up is just this side of impossible. You essentially have to play whack-a-mole, and the current process doesn't allow for enough agility to win.
the garbage was to be somebody elses problem

Simply false. The garbage was usually your own problem, the AAA tranch was sold to someone else. This is what took down Lehman, for example. BNC Mortgage (owned by Lehman) made bad loans, Lehman sold off the AAA tranches while holding the riskier tranches for themselves.
I've worked with researchers studying how mindfulness can ameliorate chronic pain. Here are some references- the mind is a powerful thing.

http://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/medpain.pdf
http://www.neuro.cjb.net/content/31/14/5540.short
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I suppose you personally vet every company, and all senior executives that work for them, that you conduct business with?
It's much more likely that their Firefox user-base had extremely low click-throughs on ads, so they turned it off for them, and in turn increased the overall click-through numbers ... which can influence how much they get per click.
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The current version looks better. I would add that the flag adjustment should also factor in honeypots seen. This version will punish flaggers (good or bad) with a large flagging history who've seen no honeypots.

-(1-(f/(t+1))

goes to zero as t goes to infinity--desirable when someone has seen and not flagged honeypots, but not as desirable when someone hasn't (which would be any user with many flags at the time of algorithm implementation).

I went back and read your footnotes. Footnote [1] is indeed a linkbait-y article. To me, it demonstrates a behavior described in another comment here: upvote as a save function. The title looks interesting, and in the middle of a work day, one may not have time for a long article. There's even more incentive to use it as a save as the front page volume cycles more.

Personally, I think that this 'noise' in upvote value can be mitigated by adding a separate save function and perhaps even eliminating an upvote history visible to the user (migrating current upvote history over to save history first so users can still access their clippings).
Here's a post from cosmologist Sean Carrol: "Energy is not conserved."

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/02/22/...

tldr: "Energy isn’t conserved; it changes because spacetime does."
Yeah, I was wondering if this was the same technology that hitta.se has been using for years.
In the first segment, why is the focus on his supposed irresponsibility of posting that joke to Facebook, instead of the braindead legislation that allowed this silliness to end up in court?
Tarp money was mostly paid back. The Fannie/Freddie bailout was not and is unlikely ever to be.

The funds weren't obtained from "new taxes levied on employed, middle class, non-drinkers who have never set foot in Heidi’s bar." There has been no increase in federal income taxes since Obama took office.

The funds were obtained on credit. Most people believe the only way the US can pay down this debt is to raise taxes.

(I disagree, spending can also be cut. But neither major party is unwilling to cut spending - look what happened the last time they claimed they would cut spending: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/08/de... )
I feel the same way about sterile utopia vs. messy blade runner-type worlds.

Interestingly I'm reading Snow Crash right now, which takes place in a world that is arguable similar to the one in Blade Runner, but the anarcho-capitalist aspect of the America depicted just really gives me the creeps.
Well, without them to pick up the slack we would have almost NO mortgages issued in this country, which some of us might think is bad. The alternative would be for rates to rise (some of us might think this is a good thing, which it might be) and to allow housing prices to fall. This has many knock on effects like crippling pension funds and banks and insurance companies etc etc.

I find it horrible that guilty parties profited/are profiting from their mistakes. But its a complicated problem which is why we are going to go through hell to fix it.

FWIW I this does not excuse govt behavior, which leans far far too much in the way of banker cronyism, which might have been the original point of the article. I am just pointing out that its a complicated situation that is a mess to sort out.

Also I never stated that fre/frn never made bad loans and were not players in this whole debacle. I just stated that they were not the main engine of horrific growth and the "cause" of all of these problems.
hmmm, I suppose I've always associated it with some manner of debriefing, i.e. a mission post mortem. But, to avoid confusion I've updated the title.
Another alternative is https://github.com/mape/node-hotcode

Has page reload and doesn't require any project specific settings.

It is open source and works (web app using an iframe + path to watch) without altering development habits.
I felt the same way too. But I still see it as an interesting post that raised valid points. Hank, if you read this, you should try easing off on unnecessary quarrels.
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A while back, MS actually put together a cmpaign to help people make less crappy PP decks. http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint-slidefest/do-and-...
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Exactly! We all know SQL injections can be a common mistake. And the example php code is just that: An example. My focus wasn't the php code, or how to avoid this exploit, most of us already know that. But like you said the point is the interesting usage of SQL in this particular situation.

Glad you liked the post =)
No kidding, especially given that this barely saw any coverage in the media - CNN, Huffington Post, feh. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/04/01/godaddy.peta.prot..., http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...
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Really? People like feeling powerful, that's reason enough.

I'm well aware that it's a rhetoric question, but do try to understand why people do evil. Declaring them insane does not help you stop it.

(Also, there is no indication that anyone derived pleasure from unnecessary cruelty in this article.)
That's completely different from type safety.

It's not completely different from type safety. You're right, they're not the same thing, but GCs prevent a common form of type safety violation. With that said there are other techniques that exist that are orthogonal to GC.

At the same time there are problems, like lack of bounds checking, which can result in type safety issues.

My point isn't that you need a GC per se, but you do need memory safety. GCs happen to be one of the most prevalent ways to achieve it. Someone else in this thread noted that they build a complete runtime that guaratees memory safety and requires their devs to code against that runtime. That's fine too (although I think a lot less common than that poster might lead one to believe). It's almost like the memory safe subset of other popular existing runtimes.
Originators underwrote the mortgages who usually sold them to banks who packaged them into bonds. Later on to streamline this process the banks bought mortgage originators (lehman bought bnc) because their appetite for product was huge.

But originally the loans were passed onto somebody else (and most private label issuance by notional balance was in fact not held by either originator nor the underwriter/ibank). It was a method of breaking out credit risk (the borrower risk was separated from originator risk) and seen as a feature. Really it was the whole point of securitization -- to get bankruptcy remoteness for credit products.

Originate to securatize is now seen as a problem because it does not give the originator an incentive to make good, proper loans (which is already tough to do). We dont know if credit standards and checking would have become so lax without the securtization machine during 1998-2007 but it seems unlikely.
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This is truly mindblowing. But apart from the obviously neat 3D effect, this is the first time I see aerial photos that look beautiful. Those you find on Bing and Google often suffer from ugly colors.
He seems to think it was "free market principles at work" that caused this. It was those dangling carrots in front of poor people and convincing them that letting any Joe Scmoe borrow money for a house was a good thing. Now these same people are out there sympathizing with the people whose lives they destroyed and promising more things, such as putting all their loans under control of the government.

At least the bank can't send a swat team to my house to collect payments.
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Interesting if the OS reacts differently to that particular name, but it's already trivial to spoof anyone's "home" network. If you have no security on your home network, hackers can MITM you easily and automatically with Jasager. http://hakshop.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/...
My comment that I posted on the site:

I don't disagree that having a big name on resume can be helpful. But I do think there are other things that should come into consideration.

I worked at several no name startups right out of college. And yes they failed, but I was also given huge opportunities and responsibilities that I never would have had at a larger firm.

And as a hiring manager I don't let names on resumes be my only driver. Just because you worked at Amazon straight out of college doesn't mean you are amazing. It just means they gave you a chance. And it doesn't mean you've done much, you may have just been stuck fixing bugs on one very small aspect of one system. That isn't very valuable in my eyes.

So I think it's worthwhile noting that there is a risk at startups and the name recognition is definitely useful in a crowded market. But name recognition will only get your foot in the door. You'll need some real experience to go the rest of the way, and I have nothing but my years at failed startup to thank for that.
Thanks to all for the informative replies. The point I attempted to make is that while you can change the mind, you can't change it completely. Buddhists still feel pain, albeit less pain, and tempers can still flare. I suspect Steve would have been even more intolerable without Zen, and his comments reflect the limits he encountered attempting to change himself.
Not having grown up around animals, I'm constantly amazed by the intelligence behind some of the things my dog does. She has given me a much greater appreciation of nonhuman intelligence, and I've grown to one stories like this.
Looks like you need to email them to find out more. The article says it should be up on github soon. I haven't had a reason to play around with OCaml, but this could be something fun to hack on.
Interesting, I really dont agree. I have two roles that I regularly play as a developer, one is 'creating a solution from scratch', and in that situation - as you have said, I dont really need to be aware of these kinds of possibilities, just because I can avoid the problem entirely.
Unfortunately the other role I frequently play is 'performing work on something someone else has built', and in that case I rarely have the ability to throw out everything that is there and start from scratch - which means I have to have an understanding of this kind of thing and know what kinds of changes will provide the greatest 'hit' in terms of security, while balancing those changes against the possibility of breaking existing work.

Besides, I find knowledge useful in a general sense.
Err, there isn't just "the thing" but a dedicated and directed marketing program to make you absolutely covet the product. Everything about capitalism, marketing, and advertising is about making us covet things so we buy them. Sorry, but there's no easy cop-out here. 99.9% of what Jobs did was marketing and its even more important than the product, imho.
Well the only athletics I've ever trained and competed in is muay thai and brazilian jiu jitsu, so I'm afraid the point about fighting eludes me.

I think your statements are pretty bigoted and assuming. I took a look at some of your examples:

"Yesterday, a friendly game between men's national basketball teams from China and Brazil turned into a melee when Zhang Qingpeng was fouled hard by a Brazilian player less than a minute into the game."

"You can see the tiny Aussie guy in red swipe at the ball not once, but twice at 0:36-0:37. The ball is being held up high by the Chinese player (rightfully so), and the short Aussie looks like he's swiping (or could be throwing punches - hard to tell) high near the Chinese player's face, which is not going to be taken so kindly by the Chinese rebounder.

At that point, the Chinese rebounder is intimidating the short Aussie, then the Aussie teammates runs in (from the bottom right of the screen) and push the Chinese rebounder. That's when the Chinese bench clears and the brawl breaks loose."

I really don't see how you come to any conclusion that fighting = racial frustration. A cuban tae kwon do competitor lost his temper, kicked a ref and got banned from the Olympics. Ron Artest jumped into the stands. Team Canada once had a bench brawl with the Soviets in hockey.

Race really has nothing to do with anything in these instances.
I mostly agree with you.

The likely situation is that the US will pay down its debt through a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes. But there is no doubt that the tax hikes will be substantial.

I believe we're in a pretty poisonous political environment, where the dominant strategy for a politician seems to be to convince your constituents that they're being taken advantage of. Most people who benefit from government programs don't realize it (see http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/keep-your-gover...), and most voters have an incredibly skewed view of what, exactly, the government spends money on. When polled, voters oppose cuts to almost every major program.

That the median voter has largely incoherent views on the budget, but is very angry about it, leads us right into our current mess.

To my original point: OP's argument is big on righteous indignation, along with a narrative that allows him to cast himself as a "good guy" and short on actual facts to how to dig our way out of this mess.
I dunno, I'm pretty well-read but I'd never heard of this before this. Never appeared on my radar, I guess.
I got to see this guy in person last week (w Peldi from Balsamiq). He's awesome.
There is a link at the very first line of they message, while at the bottom there is a link to they complete archive.

http://www.janestreet.com/ocaml/async-107.01.tar.gz

http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/13
No, the Latin and English meanings are the same. It isn't 100% clear what the author thought he was saying, though he probably meant a debrief (as guessed by OP).
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I think if you want to join a startup, the best time would be really straight after college. At that point in time you usually will find individuals who are motivated, fresh, and very well driven, which are very important in startups. Big company names in resumes are never bad, but there are many other ways to compensate that in life (side-projects, brilliant hacks, contribution to open source projects). I guess it's just a matter of choice/preference, but it's never wrong to go one over the other. If you want to have a safe/no risk life, go with the large companies.. if you want to take some risk, add more flavors to your life, startup is the way to go. No one is born the same way, so either way is perfectly acceptable. I just feel like the author emphasizes that if you join a startup straight after you graduate then you're doomed for the rest of your life, which absolutely is not true.
One thing i think a lot of futuristic guesses miss but that got pretty well illustrated in the movie Minority Report, is that the future will include a VAST amount of advertising. All this technology wont be invented to make our lives better, it'll be invented to make money.

I think the iPhone would be the best current day example of it. A product of excellence that was created to make money (and boy did it) but has a secondary application of making our lives better.
OK, this is pretty cool :-)

If you don't mind my asking, what's the license on this, if I'd like to use this in one of my projects?
I have no idea. When I start having problems with finding businesses, or if it takes me to closed businesses, I'll worry about it. So far, in over 2 years using the app, I've not had problems.
What's your point?

Buddhism is not Christianity. It does not assert that it is the One True Path, and that it's teachings are the One Size Fits All solution to everybody's problems.

It does not follow that what Buddhism teaches is bad for Buddhists (attachment to objects) is therefore bad for everybody, and that if you market something that someone may allow themselves to form attachments to, you have therefore harmed them. If a Buddhist allows themselves to become attached to their iPod, then Buddhism offers them tools to deal with the suffering that might arise from that; there is no attached 'sin' committed by the marketing team at Apple.

Jobs didn't fail to meet any standard that Buddhism sets out for Buddhists (Buddhism sets very few such standards. You can be angry and discompassionate and attached to worldly things, and be Buddhist. The idea is that Buddhism helps you deal with the problems you have, not that Buddhism requires you to be a perfect being or kicks you to the curb).

You're simply inventing your own arbitrarily high standards based on fundamental misunderstandings of Buddhist concepts.
Yeah, I think I'm mistaken about the definition of Permit—though I know I looked up a similar word that had the definition I gave. Maybe I mixed it with definition with that of License. I'd studied both words out of curiosity and it's been around a year since I did so.

If one wanted to give permission for an activity that is normally criminal (possession of drugs by a medical researcher, say), one would seek immunity.

How would you be granted such immunity? As a license, or as a permit? ;)
The situation is that bad in my town. You need a permit to do anything. Want to charge people for parking on Game Day? Gotta get a permit. It's ridiculous.
Link to them please.
But the company must be making more than 100K by employing that guy. So what does that mean? That a big company is actually a much better wealth creator than most individuals?
"It's certainly true that dynamic, high-level languages save you from having to worry about ownership-semantics"

What languages are you thinking about? In most languages I can think of as being "dynamic, high-level", state is mutable. So, if a method on an object returns a collection, and the caller wants to keep the result around, the programmer will have to somehow know whether the collection that the method returned was freshly allocated or internal to the object, whether it is modifiable, how long the content of the collection is guaranteed to be stay constant (e.g: what happens when I append to a list from a loop that iterates over it?), etc.

Similarly, if one passes an object to say a constructor, one should know whether the constructed object holds a reference to that object, thus sort-of claiming ownership.

It is true, though, that whenever I think about such issues, I am amazed that these things so rarely lead to problems. Apparently, all programmers share a single mental model for the 'natural' ownership policies.
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Interesting - a lot of professional hypnotists (Derren Brown for example), and scientists deny the existence of a hypnotic state.
I'm unfamiliar with the specifics of software licenses. Does this mean that WordPress cannot dictate what license third party themes are under?

I remember reading elsewhere that themes must be GPL but plugins do not. Don't they both use the same WordPress API?
To those downvoting my comment, get off the Internet and go read the books the post is talking about, specifically Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. Then maybe you'll get what Steve actually believed.
My problem with the video is that it's the kind of depiction you get when there is nobody able or willing to say "this is impossible to do". Every display seems capable to project 3D images in the air, some of them translucent, others opaque. At the same time, there are screens hung on walls (or on fridge doors). There is also a translucent touchscreen that seems to project different images on each side. Technically, it's about as plausible as http://pomegranatephone.com/

I love, however, the use of type.