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I have a Brother Laser that did the same thing... however, it has a setting in it's web admin called "Replace Toner" with the options of Continue or Stop. All I had to do was select "Continue" and it kept printing until the toner was actually gone. No cartridge modification required!
I feel the same way. In fact, I'm sure most of Ron Paul's supports feel the same way. I find his foreign policy views deplorable and offensive.

You know what? I will still be voting for him.

I'm tired. I'm so tired of the lying. Gingrich, Romney, Obama, Bush, etc. will say anything to get elected. Once elected, they all behave the same way.

I'd rather have an honest man I disagree with in the White House, than a man who says one thing, but does another.
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"sanity" being "what you agree with" is generally a truism in any context.

HN is in a unique position to offer high quality discussion on topics that have become extremely important to hackers, much more important than some nostalgic ideas on what HN is 'supposed' to be. This is no time to stick our heads in the sand. We have a powerful platform and a powerful community here and it would be very foolish to waste them given the seriousness of what we face.
Ken and Dylan's solution is brilliant, and readable, but has a lot of magic. Don't be surprised if you read (and run!) their solution end-to-end, understanding each piece, but still don't believe that the whole thing works!

(Note, the solution is in 4 parts, but Part 4 is not in the table of contents.)

First, understand that it relies on Haskell's built-in (implicit/invisible) theorem-prover, lazines, and purity to work. It is not possible to directly translate their code into (much uglier) code in C/Python/Java and expect is to work.

Second, while they tersely explain all the math they use, like "automatic (formal) differentiation", "seminearring", it really helps if you are already familiar with these concepts from a college "modern algebra" class, in order to maintain the intuition in your head to follow the exposition.

Third, a lot of the magic of Haskell isn't explicitly explained in their blog post, such as:

0. Where is the, um, "execution" ("main" function)?
When not using the IO monad or other explicitly sequential operations, Haskell programs do not have any instructions (loops or command statement), only declarations and definitions/assigments. The only "instruction" in the program is the command to print the value of a function on the console. Haskell's built-in call-by-need need-resolution engine then does all the work of deciding which functions need to be called in which order to compute and print the one top-level function.

1. why differentiation works to solve this problem (Part 2). (The reason is not hard to see if you play with the functions, but is hard to see just by reading: The concrete examples of string lists are all in section 1, but differentiation is defined in section 2, and they don't show any examples of differentiation applied to concrete lists of strings.)

2. Why summing over vast trees is efficient. (Part 2 and Part 3)
Each node in the tree contains a reference to (basically) a small function, describing how to combine its branches. That function is collapsed to a value the first time it's value is needed (Haskell's lazy call-by-need semantics).

Note that the tree is extremely redundant! It contains something like (but not quite) log (n) distinct nodes in a tree of n total nodes representing n integeres. The use of indirection, which is implicit in Haskell (like Java!), means that by computing the a sum over part of the tree, we get many other computations for free, even though the code superficially appears to copying values.

Haskell's purity (and therefore, equivalence between functions and their results), means that each function call (including arguments is only ever evaluated more than once, without any explicit visible coding of that evaluation+memoization (not like Java).

3. Why sorting is efficient. The reason is basically the same as why summing is efficient (above).
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One little piece of advice: your priority is giving work to your reports. Avoid at all costs that they're idle. To achieve that, you must plan to be idle yourself half of the time, so you can attend them when they need it (they will.)

The other half of the time is to explain your bosses what your team is doing, so if you're thinking of programming yourself, think again.

Edit: for both halves you absolutely need to know at all times what everybody's doing, how they progress, what obstacles they're finding.
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Go with stripe. They are the only one I have seen with no monthly fees. Great product too.
My assumption was that the TZ database noted when changes in time zones happened so there was always an accurate one-to-one mapping between a Unix time and a time in each time zone. Adding 2012's time zone information wouldn't override 2010's. Is this incorrect?
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"It took me two and a half years to realize that Ruby classes in the models folder don't have to inherit from ActiveRecord::Base. That is a problem."

Wow! Maybe you're the problem...

"ActionController relies on instance variables to pass information from the controller to the view. Have you ever seen a 200 line long controller method? I have."

Well I haven't, I've actually seen it in Django. Nothing forces you to write 200 lines controller methods.

"The whole idea of logic in templates leads to all kinds of problems."

Again, nothing forces to write a lot of logic in the views, you could write the minimum necessary.
Rather a spam person and by that the intent is spamming and the site a spam site.
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> Given this, the choice of iOS as your OS seems kind of unfortunate. Why choose an OS where the hardware makes a point of being a black box and where the support for, say, an old version ten years from now seems rather doubtful.

KType is almost entirely PhoneGap (HTML5/CSS3/CoffeeScript) except for the prediction and TTS libraries. I could probably make an Android version in a week and plan on doing so in the near future. The reason I chose iPad is the ubiquity and stability. The best part about using tablets with PhoneGap is that the hardware/OS completely gets out of the way of the user. KType is the only interface that the end-user sees and interacts with. And as long as KType does not change drastically, users will not be inconvenienced.
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Wouldn't Ireland, Luxembourg or Cyprus be preferable?
ought to gzip the string before it goes to base64 while you're at it
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That's not a really plausible story.

Some of the quotes were not only written in a newsletter with Ron Paul's name on it, but were actually signed "Ron Paul," and written in the first person talking about why he voted a certain way. And he's refused to name these mysterious ghostwriters who wrote it.

And when these came up in the 1990s... he didn't claim they weren't him or even disavow them! He just said that they were taken out of context, not that he wasn't responsible for them.

I really don't give a huge crap about what it says about Ron Paul's deepest darkest prejudices--I'm a policy man, myself--but to simply try to shrug it off and say "I disavow these things" while also saying things like the Civil Rights Act should be repealed? Call me unsurprised if people are upset about it.

The Reverend Wright deal is a weak comparison. Something analogous would be if, in Dreams from My Father, Obama had said "I wish a Mao would rise in the United States to give the capitalist running dogs what they deserve." And given what he's given shit for... do you seriously not believe he'd get shit for that? It'd be an instant disqualification, even if the quote were taken out of context or even written by a ghostwriter.
Not to mention that tickets were $6 in 2002 and are now $11 where I live.
I agree with most of what you say, but I think your idea of the word 'horrific' is something like running out of milk halfway through filling your bowl of Cheerios.

The media collaborating with the military-industrial-complex to drum up a war on phony pretenses that resulted in the slaughter of more than 100,000 Iraqis is horrific.

Strip searching citizens before they can get from point A to point B is horrific.

The media (both Team Left and Team Right) blatantly conspiring the blackout of a popular politician is horrific.

93 out of 100 senators rubber stamping the indefinite detention and torture of American citizens and declaring the Internet a battlefield is horrific.

A president that would do anything in his power to prevent these things from happening would be Heroic, not Horrific.
I'm always a bit hazy on why people bootstrap languages by writing compilers. I've always imagined it would be easier to write an AST-walking interpreter, write the compiler in the source language, and then interpret the compiler taking its source as input, to produce the first binary.

I guess I've never actually bootstrapped a compiler, but I've always found the interpreters I've written to be easier to reason about than the compilers I've written.
Nice catch! We're planning to change it very soon. We were operating with Mobatar S.r.l. and are now in the process to close it down since we already transfereed all the assets to Cibando Ltd.

What we did now is have the HQ in UK and open a branch in Italy. It was the best solution if we wanted to easily raise new funds or exit.
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Author accurately describes the cycle I go through in trying to keep up with technology changes. If I want to make an iPhone app well first let me pick up a book on design so I can make it visually pleasing. ohh wow this psychology stuff is interesting I think Ill read some of that. man wasnt I supposed to be programming? better pick up a book on how to get stuff done." I think the author is on to something when he suggests immediately applying what you are learning to a real world project. I can read a book on HTML and think I know what is going on until I close the book and try it out. Same with Chemistry or this or that. The best way to learn a new skill is to apply it immediately.
And a great guy!
The DNS control panel was really my big reason for sticking with GoDaddy for a long time.

I gave namecheap's DNS control panel a shot. It's acceptable, but nowhere near as nice to use as GoDaddy's

Someone was suggesting 1and1 to me and I cringed at the thought of using theirs. 1and1 has about the worst UI I've ever seen.

If anyone can suggest a domain registrar with an excellent DNS control panel, I'd love to take a look at it.
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Long War Journal
http://www.longwarjournal.org/

Small Wars Journal
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/recent

World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/

Inter-Press Service
http://ipsnews.net/

Think tanks:
The Hudson Institute leans to the right.
http://www.hudson.org/

The Washington Institute centers on Middle East affairs.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateI01.php

The US Army has its own think tank.
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/

The Knight Center concentrates on Western Hemisphere affairs and threats to journalistic freedom.
http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/en/blog

Blogs:
Fausta is a capitalist perspective on Latin American affairs, mostly a link aggregator.
http://faustasblog.com/

Jihad Watch mixes world war news with anti-Muslim agitation, but it's one of the only sources for finding detailed news reports on these events. I will recommend reading it, but I do not recommend believing it.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/

There are a large number of blogs dedicated to correcting the mainstream media's factual errors in reporting the Arab-Israeli conflict.
http://r-mew.blogspot.com/
http://blog.camera.org/
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/
http://honestreporting.com/backspin-blog/

If you have an interest in Israel, the Elder of Ziyon is one of the better bloggers on that subject, with a pro-Israel bias.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/
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I've experienced congestion at my parents house. They live in a rural area and have a connection over a WiMax wireless link. I did a little poking around and the bottleneck is not the wireless link but some link further upstream (e.g. maybe between the ISP and the wireless tower).

I suspect what is happening is that the uptake of video services like YouTube and Netflix has resulted in link capacity being exceeded. The result is not pretty. The link acts like it is dead for about a minute at a time. It periodically starts working for a few seconds, maybe up to a minute, but then dies again. I suspect this is the oscillation effect at work.
And that mentality goes all the way too the top. Remember Steve's flippant response of "You're holding the phone wrong"?
"The differences between Django's idea of 'views' and Rails' idea of 'views' are interesting here."

Yep. Actually, Django's MVC implementation is commonly called MTV (afaik it's not an official term) because the 'views' are in fact controllers.
"I came away thinking his talking points are great but get him off those and there's very little there."

This does little to differentiate him from any other politician.
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Right now, it's illegal to ban abortion in any state.

Ron Paul wants to make it legal for states to ban abortions, as Ron Paul is personally pro-life.

This isn't something that is driven by some deeply-held libertarian principles. Many (most?) libertarians are pro-choice.
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manager-tools has a nice website of podcasts about some basics of management. I find these guys to be really sharp. Here is a link to their basics page: http://manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics

one on ones, coaching, feedback and delegation. They make a great logical case delegation.
I came away thinking his talking points are great but get him off those and there's very little there.

That describes nearly every single politician. Bill Clinton comes to mind as an exception, and no doubt there are a few others, but not among the anointed GOP candidates.

This lack of depth and intellectual rigor does nothing to dissuade major news outlets from sticking a mic in front of nearly anyone or discussing them as serious contenders.

Reporters have decided that Paul is never going to get the nomination so they don't bother.

Anyway I'd love to see that Paul interview if anyone has a link. I'm curious about "bamboozled by questions on the gold standard" and "hardly coherent".
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They certainly aren't indestructible:

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

It's not that you can't drop it without breaking, but it'll break often enough that it's a really bad idea.
> for startups probably not worth the ROI.

I definitely agree. That said, I think people seem to forget something.

Amazon says: "your instance may go down and if it does we may just terminate it, reclaiming your ephemeral disk. All data not on EBS will be lost."

Every other host (at least implicitly) says: "your instance/machine may go down, we will attempt to recover your data. The ability and speed depends largely on why the machine went down and whether we run RAID/etc on the machine."

I've waited weeks for a disk repair from very well known/regarded non-Amazon hosts. Redundancy is needed everywhere, not just on Amazon. Bare metal still dies, controllers flake out, networks go down.
Notes aren't just for reference. The act of taking notes (even if you never directly reference them again in the future) improves recall and understanding of the material for most people.
Though it may seem silly, it is not always about cost and performance. In many cases, EC2 allows you much more flexibility than a traditional dedicated server. One example, for EBS-based servers it is possible to clone the entire server with just one API call. This allows you to test upgrades, performance enhancements, etc. without disturbing the production server configuration. And you will be doing so in an exact replica of the machine, minimizing the bugs or issues introduced when an staging or test system had changes applied. Another one: it is simple to resize your server as needed. You can start with a micro instance when developing and then scale to bigger instance types as needed after you on production. With a dedicated server, it is much complex to migrate your setup. We take advantage of those and other features at BitNami Cloud Hosting (http://bitnami.org/cloud) and have had a lot of success so far.

Finally, hosting on Amazon is not only about EC2, it is about the whole ecosystem. You can take advantage of many other services, such as their offerings for MySQL (RDS), memcached (elastic cache), CDN (CloudFront), monitoring (CloudWatch), etc.. Like any other technologies, they have their shortcomings, but can save a significant amount of time and effort vs. doing it yourself and they are way ahead of anybody else in the space (specially traditional hosting companies)

As a side note, EC2 costs can be significantly reduced with reserved instances if you are willing to commit to 1 or 3 year terms.
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Thanks, Mark. But I don't see anything on your site about how to transfer a domain. Also, I need email forwarding, as well as the usual DNS stuff.

Good luck your new service! Congrat's on the press.
None of my business, but I am very curious about Neo4j's business model, customers, revenue, etc.

Neo4J was handing out single free 1 server licenses earlier this year to startups and I was very pleased to get one: unlimited use on a single server is likely to meet all of my needs for the for-seeable future. The new GPL licensing for the community edition also makes it possible to write a GPLed service that the rest of your application depends on. Their full stack (federation using multiple servers, etc.) is AGPLed and has a commercial license.

It seems like a fine line to walk for a company like Neo4j: they want to make it inexpensive enough (or free) for many developers to use their products but, they also need to make money to keep the lights on.
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme

In a single link for a file, it can contain multiple hashes for multiple means of retrieval.
Absolutely agreed.

There's a saying, "shit rolls downhill." I'd argue that a surprising amount of your job will be to keep that from happening to your people. Providing top-cover is one of the most important ways you can serve your team. Keep the crap off of them so they can concentrate on doing there jobs.
Squeak and Pharo used to have a really great (for some value of "great", anyway) Vim emulator you could use in place of the default editor, but the hacks to enable it ran so deep that it doesn't run well anymore. The good news is that Pharo's GUI is increasingly clean and less crufty, which ought to make reintroducing a similar package feasible for the first time in years, if anyone were up to it.
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If you believe that marriages should be altogether abolished, but before they are abolished you refuse to support efforts to make the discriminatory status quo more equitable... then, yes, you're against gay rights.
Depends.

If you were the CEO, and your small house faced a busy street, and had the business name plastered all over it, and you made a habit of inviting customers, coworkers, clients, business partners, etc. - perhaps! (Again, in a mock trial sort of situation, not in one where I'd actually potentially make you homeless.)

But also IANAL, so I'm sure there must be a precedent for this sort of thing, both online and real-state wise.
why is it a problem anyway?
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When I first landed this kind of role, I was given a copy of "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams ". In some circles it is considered a bit of a bible for this topic.

It's kind of an old book, but then the principles have remained the same. It also means this book isn't then laced with specific methodologies of the day or what not.

Downside is its a tad expensive on paperback, but reasonable on Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-S...
So what you are saying is that "those who can't do, teach?" No offence but I think people are right to be somewhat skeptical of consultants with little practical experience and no proven track record. Not to say there isn't value there sometimes, but there is a lot of smoke and mirrors and snake oil too. People are smart to be skeptical of so-called "teachers".
Who decided to cancel Friday? Surely there would have been greater agreement for cancelling Monday.
I wonder which "high-level" features does Pascal have which C lacks.
When I looked into Pascal, literally everything useful there came from C. All things originating in Pascal seemed useless.
While the article is a useful comparison of straight EC2 vs dedicated servers, it doesn't touch on the cloud PaaS options such as Heroku that eliminate so many complications of installing and tuning and maintaining your frameworks. IMO comparing "cloud vs dedicated" without reference to PaaS options is akin to comparing "combustion engines to bicycles" without mentioning motorcycles.
Pentadactyl is much more feature rich than Vimium and gives a more Vim-like experience than Vimium does. (thanks to Firefox's flexibility)
Seconded. I've used that model and its predecessor for about 10yrs. Because my forearm and wrist remain stationary, I found I don't get any RSI like pains and I don't rub my wrist off the edge of the desk which was irritating the metal plates in my arm.
Probably the most interesting question from the comments:
"How important is the time gap of interstellar travel?"

The information we gather today about the state of the universe is terribly "out of date" considering we are looking into the past. If we found a pale blue dot, it could be gone by the time we could manage to get there. Alternatively, there may be one in the making that we don't recognize but would be habitable by the time we made it there. We should solve the FTL travel problem first. :)
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I'm looking to implement a monitoring solution for an AWS hosted application. I don't want to re-invent the wheel, and would like to focus my efforts on tools that are built to:

* Reconfigure easily based on elastic applications

* Flexible plugins and monitoring profiles which can easily be extended

Anyone have success / horror stories to share?
Why the downvote? It's not my fault that America exported its middle class, its manufacturing, and its future. If you ask the average American, they'd say "why are we spending so money on NASA, when we've got problems on earth?" Then they'd run off to Walmart to buy all that cheap crap from China. At least China is doing to cool stuff with the money. A space program, thousands of miles of high-speed rail, etc.