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"If evolution didn't build in a powerful urge to make our gender behavior match our reproductive sex, then it made a huge error and missed a very easy and effective optimization."

That's not how evolution works! Evolution works at the level of genes, and not individuals. It's easy to construct a model where a 10% gay population ends up being overall better for a population. Consider this made-up hypothesis: gay people are better at caregiving than non-gay people, so a population with gay people ends up with healthier adults who are able to have more, and healthier, children. For this scenario, gayness won't be "optimized" away because that leads to worse reproductive success for the population of genes involved. Nor is the presence of gay individuals "damage", because the result is an evolutionarily better population than one without gay individuals.

As another example, why does Down's syndrome exist? By your logic, shouldn't evolution have optimized that case away? That it hasn't means that changing how the 21st chromosome works is much harder than the impact of having a 1:733 failure rate. Why do you assume that any genetic component to being gay would be easy to change, without having negative consequences elsewhere in the population?

So your error is the belief that evolution emphasizes the reproductive success of individuals, when it deals instead with the reproductive success of genes. Some individuals don't need to reproduce so long as the overall gene population reproduces itself.

BTW, 100 years ago, pink was a boy's color, and young boys wore dresses too. Quoting from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-St... "yet social convention of 1884, when FDR was photographed at age 2 1/2, dictated that boys wore dresses until age 6 or 7, also the time of their first haircut. Franklin’s outfit was considered gender-neutral."
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Knew it was coming. Still gutted. Totally agree, there was much I objected to ... but this was someone who enjoyed conversation and debate and always had something thought-provoking to say.

Farewell, Chris.
Only got to watch it today. That were some of the most well-spent $5 I remember!
According to the articke they didn't speak to each other to resolve the problems. Asking them to refrain from talking would be silly, but an explicit instruction to communicate might help.
You took a free online class and learned lots of useful information. What more did you expect?
Checklists (or scripts) also work well in education:

http://www.jefflindsay.com/EducData.shtml

http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/honestft.htm

http://www.projectpro.com/ICR/Research/DI/Summary.htm
Actually, the 2004 interview on the Daily show starts with "How are you? / It's a bit early to say, too early to tell". He doesn't get asked how he is in the 2005 interview.
the co-pilot did fly the plane, incorrectly, for 4 min & 23 seconds. he was pulling back on the stick to climb because he didn't have all of his instruments (due to the icing of the sensor) or understand why the plane was not climbing. the reason the plane crashed was because he flew the plane wrong, not lack of flying the plane.
If course it is missing a giant part of what happened. Do you think the Iranians would tell about all aspects of it to a newspaper?
I agree. I don't mind tongue-in-cheek rudeness or expletives in how-tos in documentions, but this thing just struck me as unpleasant and hostile. I'm not sure the format is well suited to the goal, either, and some of the didactic methods seem bizarre.

I'm sure better tutorials have been available for years. E.g. http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php
Still a horrible security design if that is the case.

Simply jamming something should not by-pass an authentication mechanism.
There are jobs like EMT or piloting aircraft where rote knowledge and practiced skills are necessary to save lives. The methods are effective in many tasks and careers. Touch typing is a good example. How long did it take you to learn to type your odourous knee-jerk reaction?
I have to accept not having the latest default JDK on my OSX dev machine... and now my server as well?

"Run anywhere (we want you to)"?
You maybe didn't read my post entirely or maybe I wasn't clear. I'm saying that the courses are great and I'm suggesting them to change the way they are paraphrasing the statement of accomplishment or even better to create profile pages.
They do have load balancing (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadba...).
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Bela Bollobas, Tim Gowers, Ron Graham, John H Conway, Elwyn Berlekamp, Richard Guy, Reinhard Diestel, Alan Baker.

The problem is that you only hear about the truly eccentric. Ordinary people who are also extraordinary mathematicians never get romanticised, so you won't have heard of them. I've just picked a few there from my own personal acquaintance.
The Professional Pilots Rumor Networks has a bunch of excellent discussions about AF447 (and other incidents). It's nice to get the perspective of people who fly for a living:

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/466259-af447-final-crew-c...
you should migrate to official java distributed by Oracle.

I know, it's stupid. I suppose we can thank Oracle, the non-tech-but-lawyer company for this. Sigh
I have all the MTP libs. There are bug reports out there regarding the fact that Banshee can't detect the phone. I also manually set up mounting the device through FUSE, but without the developer tools activated it won't mount.

Something weird is going on here, and it's likely a problem with MTP handling in Ubuntu. I've never had this trouble with other MTP devices.
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Not very long ago there was a GPS jamming exercise in the UK done on a military range

I am on The List for notification of these exercises, and they are happening with increasing frequency. Someone has decided that a GPS denial scenario is looking probable and is preparing accordingly.
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Wow, this guy tried really hard to find something to complain about. He has a problem with what was typed at the very bottom of an email he was sent after the course was completed? This is just further proof that people with blogs will find ANYTHING to complain about.

Stanford is offering high-quality coursework and learning tools for ABSOLUTELY FREE, taught by some really great professors, on really interesting and useful topics, again for FREE: better complain about it!
I would rather say that revoking the packaging license is laughable and sad at the same time
From the comment:

> then you should use one of the many alternative structures available. Some of them were explicitly designed to store integers in an efficient manner.

From the article:

> But if you do want to save memory you could consider using an SplFixedArray for large, static arrays. ... It basically does the same thing, but if you run it, you’ll notice that it uses “only” 5600640 bytes. That’s 56 bytes per element ...

EDIT: formatting.
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A couple of observations.
While I am now a very gritty person, looking back over my life I was not always so in practice, although the potential was there. The inflection point was an idea whose import completely enslaved me. I have no more choice to work on it than I have over whether or not to feed my children. So sometimes at least it can be about surrender of ego.
The presence (absence) of other gritty people around me has been of no significance whatsoever.
Somebody has a low threshold for "amazing". The image resolution is pretty low, I'd be more impressed if you could do 60fps on a HD image.
An appreciation by denying that the guy was saying all the time? Some strange kind of appreciation.
"...He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies."
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Maybe not the first, but I remember typing the line

## REM TYPE "IS A FLASHY PERSON" IN INVERSE VIDEO

from a listing in the little manual that came with my Atari 800XL, before I new what REM meant.
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Because he sees it as celestial North Korea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nIRJVmZ4K8
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One obvious improvement would be to replace the warning "Stall!" with "Stall! Stall protection disengaged!" when flying in alternative mode. Even better might be "Stall! Push stick forward!" when a stall is detected and the pilot is simultaneously pulling back on the stick.
No, your blog post was quite clear, and I believe the parent poster understood it. In my opinion, you were whining about a very tiny and insignificant thing.
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The post sounds like a rant when it really should be a glowing review (if it truly was a "Great Movie") and some recommendations for improvement. Get over it. There are many better things in life to focus your energy on.
I found the Popular mechanics article linked to in the OP well written and far more interesting. One of my family is a retired pilot so I'm gonna show him that article. The sad thing is, if they had gotten the captain into the cockpit a couple of minutes sooner, this may never have happened.
My guess is that it never originated from the actual place, but was spread nonetheless by some people. The point is probably to show that finding the ip is not a reliable indicator. As opposed to the three strike, which is relying almost entirely on identifying someone from his ip, on such places.
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Details of the nuclear bomb testing program and speculation about the space launch from Pascal-B can be found here:

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Plumbob.html
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> Debating must be done on the ground of good faith, right?
> Bad faith in a discussion is the sure mark of someone who
> is not willing to intellectually exchange rational
> arguments.

What? So are you going to debate arguments, or "marks"?
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My suggestion is: create a profile page where the student scores and some stats appear. Check the Khan Academy website, check TopCoder profiles.*

Come on, this is some constructive criticism.
Then they would have a legacy system that they would need to maintain. They should simply learn and move on. Gotta have the disclaimer about not being an official Stanford course.

Someone in the AI class was whining because he thought a quiz question was unfair, and quizzes count for nothing.

Bottom line: You get to learn online from one of the best universities in the world and it's free. Enjoy gaining the knowledge and try to overlook the missing "gamification."
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Yes, a toy that teaches bad things is evil.

Bad things including: "You are a boy, you must be tough and strong" or "You are a girl you must be pretty and not good at maths"
I'm a bit scared and skeptical. The page looks extremely amateurish (Even in the source code, div class="one", div class="two", class="three", wtf?!)

Also, nothing about Jashkenas. Did the authors thought about asking Jash what he thought about it?

From the chapter excerpt, it shows how to include view into views.. which is already clearly explained in the todo example from the main backbone page. I mean, I've used backbone a few time, but don't consider myself an advanced or expert with backbone.js, and I've learned nothing from these excerpt chapters.

It seems more like an amateurish marketing splash page looking to test interested readers.

But then.. maybe the authors are really backbone.js experts and just not designers, and didn't one to spend money or ask a friend to design it for them (but why doing that if you're trying to sell something?!). And maybe I've just read an excerpt that I knew all about. And maybe Jash said something in the intro of the book?
Hitchens never seemed to understand that "North Korea" isn't the Christian conception of heaven.

To wish for him to be surrounded for all eternity by those he loves most, in the presence of the source of all love, truth and beauty... I think that's something we'd all like to experience along with him.

Edit: Unclear phrasing
Your 64bit multicore probably has a 32bit compatability mode, which should be able to execute 386 binaries.

If the native approach does not work, most people use a virtual machine. Does it matter, if the virtual machine is called JVM or VirtualBox?
Don't take this the wrong way,

don't be such a baby,

Stanford is a huge institution, of course there is going to be a certain amount of ass covering

your better off with a statement of acomplishment filled with ass covering legal crap, than with no statement of accomplishment,

it'll be interesting to compare that with what comes out of the ai class, considering that its run through some start up, the ai class indicated that there would be a ranking, I don't see any ranking on that statement of accomplishment
Maybe the title is a little sensationalist. I'm sorry about that. I just wanted to give some recommendations for improvement. I love the courses, the professors are great and I'm going to take more courses next year.
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I tried to express a view differing from the global appraisal in the comments. If it sounds defensive and whiny, maybe it is a problem with the way I expressed it, but it was not meant to be.

I don't like "for the dummies" books either, I think this relatively new way to write books teaching something is no good for anyone. Showing a supposedly humorous disrespect for the reader seems to be acceptable in some cultures. It is not in mine. A very strong bullshitting of the reader is ok in some literary works, as it is part of the facture of the book (I am thinking LF Celine), but it is not ok in utilitarian literature.

But, you'd tell me, it is a first-world problem, I can live with this new trend (it will be replaced soon enough), as long as I am allowed to express out-fashioned point of views in places like HN.
This is such a short-minded and troll post, surprised it didn't get deleted.
Just closed more funding? My condolences.
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Python has lists and dicts, and lists don't get the per-item overhead of GC-ed keys. PyPy does better than CPython and implements specialised, low-overhead storage for some dicts, lists and sets of uniform type (in 1.6, nightly builds, and a branch respectively).

http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-compact-lists-with...
I saw this recently, and I really do applaud Sanders for still fighting the good fight, but a constitutional amendment has got to be one of the hardest things for our government to do. I just don't see everyone getting behind an independent liberal over an issue that most people seem to not care about anymore. <sigh> We'll see though, trying to remain hopeful.
Yeah, I too am pretty sure that CPython does not inline integers in the pointers. And from a quick glance at the source code I saw nothing such.

Inlining integers in pointers by shifting up and adding 1 is a quite common trick though and I have seen it in more programming language implementations than MRI. I think at least some Prolog implementation and older versions of Spidermonkey (newer versions use a similar trick with doubles).
Like everyone is hitting me as hard as they can let me say this: The title is very sensationalist. I'm sorry about that. I just wanted to give some recommendations for improvement. I love the courses, the professors are super great and I'm going to take more courses next year.
The cost of starting a software company and the cost of starting a "successful" software company could vary greatly. I am not having a dig at these guys, I have no idea their level of success.

The main thing that struck me was $20 on advertising. One of the biggest problems startups have is traction, some money to spend on advertising goes a long way to help with this. I am sure you can create a startup very cheap these days, but how much do your chances of success increase by having an extra $10,000 or $20,000, that would be much more interesting.

I suspect there are many startups that ran out of capital and couldn't get off the ground because of it, even though their idea and execution was good.

I personally think you need to make sure you have enough capital to get started if you are going to have a real shot at success.
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And what if I am a paying Google Apps Customer. Video through youtube is included in what I pay for. Should UMG have the right to control that as well?
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Grim as that was, it's worth noting it's referring to issues with SQL Server 6.5 and 7 over 10 years ago. As the current release is v10.5 (2008R2) and we're scheduled to next year see v11 (2012) I would suspect the relevant problem tickets have been resolved...
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I don't mind expressing disrespect for religions, I am an agnostic myself, I even think this title was a good catch. But you don't seem to address my point, which is that Hitchens denies the implications and sexual connotation of calling his book "The Missionary Position", which is bad faith. He could have skip the point, or just said he was sorry Simon Leys didn't like it, but saying it is nowhere obscene is plain insincere.
It actually comes from Itzik Ben Gan's presentation, "Bug or Feature." He covers an array of SQL Server behaviors and asks the audience to guess whether it's a bug or feature, and then explains the answer.
Strongly stated, but I agree. When I first started buying Legos for my eldest a few years ago, I was initially turned off by all the special pieces they include in kits nowadays. I thought they'd be a deterrent to building his own creations. In practice, it hasn't been a problem at all. He's always excited to build the model on the box, but it's never together more than an hour or two before he's torn it down to create his own things. Which is awesome, since I think that's where most of the fun and a lot of the value of Legos comes from.
My questions is, what changed about Nerf? I'm not all that old, but most Nerf guns today just seem to be more powerful and more stylized versions of what they were making when I was a kid.
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For me its the mix of juvenile college kids and (as Steve Yegge pointed out) the Simpson's "Comic Book Guy" type meta-commenters that drive me nuts. 4/5 times I hit the "load more comments" link I feel a deep sense of regret. =P
From reading the reports, what you say doesn't make sense. As far as I understand, it's not possible to stall the plane in normal law. They crashed the plane because it was stalled for over 4 minutes. This implies that the plane did not go back to normal law.

Given that the plane was fully functional after the initial glitch (all inputs and all computers OK), this means they had to either force it back to normal law either via a kind of switch (the flight mode button), or pilot it into a configuration where normal law applies (essentially, recover from the stall manually). They obviously failed the latter.

An obvious question resulting from this (also asked in another thread here) is: can the autopilot recover the plane when it already is in alternate law?
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And, as patio11 suggests, in deploying code.

From his Mixergy interview (4/30/10) [1]:

``I have a physical checklist for when I’m doing a deployment. It’s, off the top of my head maybe six commands long; one, two, three, four, five, six. I check them off; dink, dink, dink, dink, dink. And then after I do that, I have the other checklist to verify that it actually took, you know the things that I did that had the expected effect. I missed doing that once because I was exhausted at the day job and, sure enough, that was my biggest down time in four years. So I’m trying to be better at it in the future.''

[1] http://mixergy.com/patrick-mckenzie-interview/
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you would be a fool to think that the old dynasties like Rockefellers have lost any influnce or wealth in the last century,

but internet certainly threatens their traditional grip ,

so much so that Nelson Rockefeller stated openly that world would be a better place without the internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9xzXUQLuY

he stated that 2 years ago , so that it was known that hearings like SOPA are on their way ..
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It seems to me that this is very much the same phenomenon as people posting to reddit or ask.metafilter questions or comments that would make much more sense to pose to a particular company's customer service. People think "hey, here's a place I can write stuff", and don't really have a mental model that differentiates between targets. It's a matter of degree, not qualitative difference, between thinking you should ask Reddit why your Verizon bill is being calculated wrong and thinking of "the internet" as a completely amorphous featureless blob that you can type to anywhere and it'll be just as good as anywhere else.