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People find culture fascinating and any show which can present new cultures and institutions in an easily digestible fashion will be popular.

With the "easily digestible" part in in mind I would have to disagree that there is room for a show about software security, The IT crowd is about as close as you are going to get. Obviously I would love for a West Wing or The Wire-esque show in this area but we know how popular they turned out to be.
If RSS was still relevant, this would be awesome.
So sad that it is so hard to get a ticket to get there. (see comments here: http://events.ccc.de/2011/10/31/28c3-tickets/) (or: http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%2328c3%20ticket)
Yeah, why do I have to pay for things like a car and what not? They all come from publicly accessible goods. Bunch of scammers.
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To be fair, understanding regular currency isn't exactly trivial. Most people seem to get by without understanding the finer points of banking, quantitative easing, M1, M2, etc.. And one might consider the ability of governments to manipulate their currencies for political reasons to be a security flaw.
"""What Google is trying to do with Google+ is take hold of the information market that resides within social media and use this information in combination with adwords. Google wants to integrate Google+ into all of it's products, starting with Youtube and give all the Google products a uniform experience."""

Which part of the article gives you the impression that the author doesn't understand that? He specifically calls this integration, and his problem is that it is done badly.

"""I'm flabbergasted that you have a problem with this since this is the main goal for Apple."""

Wait what? Apple goal is to "take hold of the information market that resides within social media and use this information in combination with adwords."????

Even if you replace adwords with something else, like iAds, this doesn't make sense.

"""(I assume that you have Apple products, since you talk in such lengths and positivism of Siri) Google+ is also not about a social graph, it's about doing social media the right, natural way."""

In what way is Google+ more "natural" than Facebook?

Also, "positivism": you keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

"""You also don't understand how Adwords works when you talk about Siri. A 'click' is a hit to the page, be it a click, enter, wget, or voice search of Siri. So searches in Google with Siri will earn Google money."""

No, they wont. This doesn't even make sense. For one, Siri could bypass Google altogether --the user is using primarily Siri, not Google, so the results could come from anywhere.

Second, even if Google is queried, Siri hides the Google results page and just returns the appropriate result as a spoken list. Do you really believe people would pay if their ads are now shown to the end user?

"""Also iOS uses Google Maps as it's map application so Siri uses Google Maps, you just don't see it."""

I'd guess the author is well aware of this. Are you aware that Apple has bough a mapping company and is looking to integrate its own maps in a future iOS release?
From a lawyers perspective, this may even be admirable. part of the ethos of the industry is the ability to defend and prosecute both sides of an argument.
this is a completely apolitical issue

This just couldn't me more false. Krugman's whole career is built around big government manipulating the money supply.

and he knows his economics

Lots of people who also "know their economics" disagree with Krugman. Economics, as a field, hasn't risen to the level of a science yet.
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Careful with the switch to a whole grain bread - many of them are just as crappy and/or loaded with sugar and corn syrup. You generally need to look in the natural foods section to find a good wheat/whole grain bread. Look at the ingredients on the ones you find with the other white breads - the second or third ingredient will be corn syrup.
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The goal of Design for Developers is to teach interface design as a set of rules: there are some good default values for a lot of design decisions that you should remember, there is a “scientific” way of approaching things like alignment, even though many designers will tell you it’s something you should “feel”.
Why the :/ ? DDG isn't taking away anyone _else's_ affiliation, right? This isn't really any different than leaving the referer-id in there, except that it shoehorns "referer" into the "affiliate" api that Amazon et al are geared to pay money for. (Right?)
Yup agree. That's a side project so I took an extreme lean approach. But I'll definitely work on IE over the next days.
In fact, first three lines could be written in one, although a longer one

logProb = 0
for featureValue in featureVector:
logProb += math.log(self.featureCounts[(label, self.featureNameList[featureVector.index(featureValue)], featureValue)]/self.labelCounts[label])

is better written with a comprehension:

logProb = sum(math.log(self.featureCounts[(label, self.featureNameList[featureVector.index(featureValue)], featureValue)]/self.labelCounts[label]) for featureValue in featureVector)

and split into 2 lines.

In general the code is far from being Pythonic: fv[len(fv)-1] instead of fv[-1], with should be used instead of open/close, variable names are too long etc.
It is crucial in my opinion how you define the goals of your project.
I see what you're saying so maybe we should clarify things because there are essentially two types of self help out there from what I see.

The first kind is the in-your-face, "this book will change your life and teach you to be happy", it comes with a charming spokesman too, type of self help. This kind is often cheesy, not scientific, and is often more likely to be eventually seen as a disingenuous money making scam later on.

The second type is self-help that isn't marketed as self help. It's essentially a book on how to master a subject or art form. A book on Buddhism and Buddhist practices would qualify. Books on how to meditate fall into this too. They're teaching how to do something and they may talk about the positive effects they have but they're not the kind of things that we normally think of as lame self help.

Now that I'm thinking along these lines I think theres a third type. This type falls in between. You can spot it by its firm basis in scientific research. It's the kind of thing backed by science and it explains the subject by telling you about the research but at the same time also telling you how to specifically apply the research to help you improve some aspect of your life. The book "Feeling Good" co,es to mind in this category. The author studied the subject of depression and then takes the findings and applies them to helping people with depression. It's a book widely held to be actually useful the majority of the time. It's not a "hey, I'll teach you to be happy" book nor is it just a narrative explaining experiments and the results.

I think what I'm talking about speaks directly to your point about people that lump the books into one genre. So when we talk about self help most immediately think of the cheesy kind. If we broadened out definition of self help to include types 2 and 3 that I mentioned then maybe people wouldn't feel such disdain for the genre and be more apt to read more helpful books. It's a shame that often times the wrong people get into writing self help and spoil the genre for everyone.
> In … the vast majority of cultures, … drinking is not associated with these undesirable behaviours … Alcohol is just a morally neutral, normal, integral part of ordinary, everyday life – about on a par with, say, coffee or tea.

It's not a "cultural" thing or however you want to call it. My father is one of the nicest persons you'll ever meet when he's sober, but when he gets really drunk he becomes aggressive and violent as hell. And I can assure you that he's not doing it because he thinks he's "cool" to be aggressive when drunk, my parents live in the middle of nowhere, social norms are the last thing my dad would care about.
Willingness to sue the gov doesn't say much about your ability to take on a challenge. In fact, your inclination to litigate may well have scared VCs who'd rather you get traction with your product even if it means operating in a gray area and litigate when forced.

I'm sure if payPal tried to meet every rule and take on what they deemed as unfair laws in their early days they'd never be able to focus much on their product.
Hey, I am not a programmer (yet), but I do know exactly how you feel (in terms of feelings of failure, contemplating suicide etc.) I like to help people so send me an email (in my account) with a throwaway email address if you would like. I think I can help you out.
You're conflating social construct with social norm.

You can make claims about why you express mutual respect, that doesn't make it the only reason why someone might do so.
I'm curious to hear opinions of the "up or out" philosophy at startups. I can conceive of both pros and cons (mostly cons) but a forced philosophy sounds flawed.
This is exactly my experience. Although I can get into the same sort of state by simply being tired and being ready to go to bed. Just wanting to get something done before going to bed removes a lot of what-ifs in my decision making process.
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You can push. I do. It just goes up to the server into my personal "clone" of the actual project. The Ci server can then pick it up, run it's thing and I can see output from that and then decide whether or not I want to file a merge-request into mainline.
I'm not much of a fan of Krugman's blogging (which is fairly partisan), but it's pretty inaccurate to summarize his academic work as "built around big government manipulating the money supply". Yes, he's some variety of neo-Keynesian, but so are conservatives like Gregory Mankiw; Krugman's a vaguely center-left one, solidly in the mainstream (and considerably to the "right" of the modern-monetary-theory group). By "partisan" do you just mean that, like most economists, he isn't a follower of Austrian economics?
I stopped drinking caffeine because it was having a huge negative effect on my brain and thought processes, it made me highly irritable and a very unlikeable person.
Not to sound like I'm boasting, but most of my commits are far too atomic to warrant more than a first line. If I need to write several paragraphs about the changes I'm making, it's definitely too large a commit.
Should be running (a bit) better now, though likely still on the slow side.

Turns out a query I'd written back when there were 20k votes in the system didn't perform so well now that there are 200k votes in the system. Go figure.
I have a greta use for this, although it's _very_ niche. My spare time hobby is stage lighting for rock bands. I've been working on a new lighting controller and looking for exactly this sort of thing.

The problem with almost all current lighting controllers is that the user interface for configurng the system is horrendous. The exodesk, with its large display area and multi-point touch would be perfect for a much more intuitive configuration system.

If only I had the money...
If you were Google, Apple or MS, would it be better to create one's own blockchain and promote that instead? Gcash, iMoney or Credits respectively.
Thanks for your reply. I can see my wording is confusing: I know the actual stories are kept, but I was referring to the "saved stories" under your profile. I have rephrased the question, hoping it's now clear.
Consulting firms such as McKinsey are undoubtedly filled with brilliant people. But because specific expertise in an area is worth more than general intelligence/accomplishments when it comes to specific, actionable recommendations, this cynical criticism (as used in the FT comments section) comes to mind:

>..."Consultants are people who charge you a fortune for interviewing you about your organization and then writing a report repeating what you've just told them and what you already knew!"

Realistically speaking, though, this is actually a very useful thing: providing political cover so that an executive can institute an unpopular but needed change. However, this is more indicative of a weakness in an organization's (perhaps unavoidable in all large companies) culture than it is the effectiveness of consultants.

It reminds me of Richard Feynmann's role in the post-Challenger disaster investigation. He's famously known for explaining the O-ring deficiencies during a televised press conference. But he admits in his memoir that the O-ring revelation was passed to him (through another intermediary), from an anonymous source -- most likely from an astronaut who worried about his/her job -- who had said that the O-ring problem was known to NASA's engineers but the bureaucratic managers had chosen to ignore it.

If all it took was a $1,000,000 fee to get in some consulting engineers (or hell, just Dick Feynmann) to spotlight this fixable -- if inconvenient problem -- so that the Challenger wouldn't blow up, I'm sure we'd all agree that would be money well worth spent.

I know people who go to fortune tellers even though they wouldn't put money on their predictions. But most fortune tellers at least can act as the friendly voice who tells their client want he/she needs to hear, whether it has absolute truth or not.

Has anyone here ever been the beneficiary of a concrete effect from a consultant's work, such as a tangible new idea that resulted in better profits/efficiencies, beyond what is merely CYA?
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Eh, site's held up to hacker news 4 or 5 times in the past. Never been a problem before.

It's been around for two years slowly bitrotting (I really should do some maintenance on it). Just gradually been getting slower and this time it hit the threshold where it was too slow to stay up. It happens.
Technically in most Latin languages the generic gender is masculine. So it is, in fact, awkward when she is used for the same purpose. Sure it can be used to make a statement "between the lines", but that is what makes it so distracting.

Gender inequality in engineering isn't going to be solved by replacing 'he' with 'she'.
tl;dr DON'T EAT SUGAR

The biggest difference I've noticed in my general level of health was when I cut out all refined sugars from my diet. It was a difficult thing to do, but was well worth it.

When I say all forms of refined sugar, I mean all forms. Sugar, corn syrup, brown rice syrup, etc, etc. There are a lot of names for sugar, and lately a lot of "health food" items have been sneaking in sugar by calling it something else.

Read all labels carefully. Avoid anything that is not sweetened exclusively by fruit. Once you do this, you'll find that 80% of food at the grocery store (yes, even health food stores) is out of the question. You'll be forced to eat things like fresh fruits and vegetables, and only the best breads.

It's easiest to make this switch in the summer when there is a lot of access to fruit. I first tried in the winter and only lasted a week. I tried again that summer and have been 100% sugar-free for 3+ years. The only thing I changed about my diet was the simple rule of no refined sugar, and my weight dropped 30 pounds over the course of the next year, and I stopped getting drowsy during the day.

If there is any single change in diet I recommend, it's cutting out all refined sugars. It's not easy but it's worth it.
he's got more issues than just morality here, as the DC rules of professional conduct for lawyers apply to him..

in part, he may be barred (or may at least need consent) from any litigation where his new clients interests are adverse to his former clients interests.

For instance...
" a lawyer shall not represent a client with respect to a matter if:
(1) That matter involves a specific party or parties and a position to be taken by that client in that matter is adverse to a position taken or to be taken by another client in the same matter even though that client is unrepresented or represented by a different lawyer;
(2) Such representation will be or is likely to be adversely affected by representation of another client;"

See: http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/ethics/legal_ethics/rules_o...
> Wait what? Apple goal is to "take hold of the information market that resides within social media and use this information in combination with adwords."????

He was talking about this "give all the Google products a uniform experience". Apple gives all their products a uniform experience as well.
I didn't even think about suing California until months after meetings with VCs, so your implications are false.

PayPal had to scramble at the last minute to deal with licensing issues right before its IPO, because it had ignored them up until then. This is well-documented.

I have no idea who you are. I do know that you are critical of my abiding by the law, and critical of my challenging it. You don't think that building an incredibly complex technology from scratch and suing a government demonstrates an "ability to take on a challenge." (Which leads me to ask, what does?)

I guess you can't please everyone.
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The author of the article you're quoting:

"Kate Fox is a social anthropologist and director of the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC)"

The SIRC is a well known PR front group for Britain's alcohol industry. I'd like to see the actual studies she's referencing so I can say more than just "this is thinly veiled propaganda."

e: talkingquickly's rebuttal is more substantial
I think RSS is still relevant, there's a reason why all those news sites have RSS. People use RSS heavilly (see Pulse newsreader,etc... and all the other mobile news apps)
we all know what supply and demand are, and i understand the basics of crypto currency.

The question is, can forks of Bitcoin provide that utility in a significantly better way

Thats not really the question is it? It's not about better utility. It's about where you can unload the currency and for what/how much. It's not about usefulness it's ultimately about money. Real money. Bitcoins are only valuable in a world where there use is necessary. I wish I could bold that on HN, NECESSARY. Without the necessity any normal consumer would use a more convenient, less volatile system.

Lets shift for a sec. Think about the silk road marketplace. What they should really do is come out with a bitcoin clone of their own, get a bunch of early adopters behind it and then switch the website over to only accept their crypto currency. The'd rake in the cash and have a pile of it on hand from getting in early. They'd be selling the currency and the products you buy with it. The worlds best drug dealers. In fact theres no telling whether the bitcoin early adopters are involved in this very practice at silk road. It's not about beating bitcoin in usefullness, it's about real money.

Also, most currencies favor early adopters, even (especially) gold and silver. I don't think that's really anything new

Gold and silver don't compare. They're not currency, they're commodities that have actual use and value outside the realm of wealth exchange, and they didn't favor early adopters(thousands of years ago). That comparison holds little to no value and frankly I'm growing rather tired of people pretending like it does.
An ancient way of doing that was to have living quarters near or on top of cattle stables. That way, the body heat of your cows would heat your living quarters in winter.

A quick Google shows that there are modern ways of doing this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/144...

There also have been proposals to use the excess heat and manure of pigs to grow mushrooms.
Rocket programming? Really?

Regardless, one persons useless website is often another person's invaluable tool. Not to say there isn't a lot of waste out there, but I doubt everyone getting hard to work on "rocket programming" will solve that problem. We'd just have a lot of crappy "rocket programs".
This is already built into Bitcoin. Bitcoin's security can be upgraded if this were considered an imminent threat.
I suppose it goes without saying that marijuana is quite a bit better for coding than alcohol?
It really bothers me when people post their opinions as facts -- citations needed.
But... "natural lightning" is direct current. Tesla coils generate alternating current. What about making a big Marx generator?
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Piracy is definitely the draw for this. Enough to make it practical? Maybe - it depends on how many good alternatives to piracy exist.
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So, instead of looking into the matter emperically, you argue that so and so said it and you believe in those people and therefore anyone with opposite opinion must be wrong, regardless of what they say?

Trolls do what trolls do.

ps. I agree with Krugman that Bitcoin is more likely to be treated as commodity and, as a result, causes the hoarding problem. But whether the hoarding could kill Bitcoin due to lack of activity in the bitcoin economy remains an uncertainty. Especially now that the exchange rate is down.
This isn't exactly the same thing, but I launched a search engine for programmers (that is, it doesn't ignore special characters) a few weeks ago: http://symbolhound.com/

It doesn't search code repositories, but rather tutorials and question/answer sites like stackoverflow. Right now stackoverflow dominates the results but that should change as we index more sites.