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Total aside, bug this article caused me to gawk once again at the technical progress in the US during the mid-20th:

State of the Art, 1945: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F8F_Bearcat_%28flying%29.j...

State of the Art, 1965: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird.j...

State of the Art, 1971: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_CSM_lunar_orbit.jpg

After that, I think we hit a technological wall, you can almost see the asymptote after the mid 70's. Though I think Space X is poised to knock some things over again if they succeed in their "cheap but reliable" approach, which basically amounts to attacking the problem as if it were a commercial airline engine as opposed to a rocket engine, and subjecting it to those standards of rigor. But that's a different kind of progress.

More on topic, this article completely fails to support it's hyperbolic "costs thousands of lives" subtitle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet#Medical_rese...
Yep, I can confirm. I had one then.
I've been liking the new location /srv, where you stick things that are custom to that machine. No more trying to guess where the previous admin thought files should go (/usr/share? /usr/local? /usr/foo?).

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_beginner_books/...
Sand.

Interestingly, I was recently on a diet that (along with some basic points system that reflected glycemic index/load goals) utilized some innocuous looking pills... which had, as a main ingredient, silica.

These pills worked... when I ate them regularly, I ate less without effort. On reflection this makes sense... perhaps our overly-cleansed (and refined) diet lacks a very basic ingredient that our digestive tract had evolved to utilize (not unlike birds' gizzards) and is now lacking?
Slight correction: sucrose (table sugar) and fructose are not metabolically equivalent.

There's an enzyme in your duodenum which cleaves the sucrose molecule into one fructose and one glucose molecule semi-instantly. In both cases, your body ends up with a bunch of fructose. However, if you're eating table sugar, only half of the resulting calories are from fructose; the rest are from glucose.
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How to get # of Twitter followers?
I am trying to get the number of twitter followers from a given user. I need something similar to this:

I use this to get FB shares:
http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://...
I use this to get # of tweets:
http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://...
I was just at a PPA conference (Imaging USA in New Orleans), and every session started with a PPA rep saying "No photography. All slides are protected by copyright." I don't even know where to begin.
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> Twitter is censoring users at the behest of their governments. They don't have to.

They do have to. That is a special feature of governments: they can compel compliance.

Sure: Twitter could just leave Germany. But does that end the censorship? No. It's still there; the only difference is that Twitter is gone. Good for Twitter's moral superiority, bad for everything else.

And let's not kid ourselves about how important Twitter, Facebook, and Google are. German restrictions on Nazi-related speech have been around long before the Internet and Twitter. They are not likely to end because of these companies.

Companies like these are only important to the extent that they empower individual people. To the extent they've assisted social change, like in Arab states, they've done it by being in-country and available to citizens. Not by pulling out in protest.

Laws are changed by people, not by tools. If the people have tools, but don't use them to change the law, that's the people's fault--not the tool.
Anyone who has gone through early CS education has seen every metaphor and diagram for pointers. I'm sure each professor and TA has thought the same thing: if only I could find the perfect metaphor, they'd get it.
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It's interesting because one of the lines is "Hope I live another twenty-fo" implying that he's 24 years old; however the song was released when Ice Cube was only 23.
For their weight, vegetables don't contain a lot of digestible carbohydrates compared to the carb dense staples that are used world wide.
Ignore that part if it helps you focus on the point.
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I got a different homepage: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/533753/Screen%20Shot%202012-01-27%20...

It's possible they are experimenting with the 37signals design to see if it has legs, then will release a more original incarnation?
24 hours not 24 years.
We joined angellist, and we are not on that list, so I would assume its startups with X number of intros.
Issue with their CNAME aliasing?
I've done this for a few folks on here.

I'm can provide a detailed feedback report or just chat and share my ideas.

I'm my user name on Gmail.com
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I get the version you see when I use Chrome, I get the other version 100% of the time in Safari.
The date of this interesting submission (haven't I seen this on HN before?) is Jul 14, 2006. What has happened since then? What follow-up research has there been on the methods of first-time undergraduate introduction to programming courses? (If I remember correctly, someone on HN has pointed to follow-up papers by the same author in some earlier HN thread, but what I would especially like to see is attempts at replication by other researchers

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

and attempts by other researchers to look at the problem from other points of view.)

There are quite a few undergraduate disciplines in which it is assumed that most first-year undergraduates will not continue studying the discipline. In some disciplines that is considered a bug, but in some that is considered a feature. It's too bad that many undergraduates registering for a first-year course don't know that their professors don't expect most learners in the class to succeed. What would college enrollments in different subjects look like if there were more disclosure of that pessimistic attitude?

(Basis of knowledge: I have one son who is an adult now, the child of two nonprogrammer parents who is now a computer science major, who first learned programming through a CTD course in programming taught by T. J. Leone

http://tjleone.com/

(who now offers a different course, based on different materials) and the EPGY distance learning course in C programming

http://epgy.stanford.edu/courses/cs/

and some more or less haphazard local classes in programming arranged by our homeschooling support group, which includes parents who are programmers by occupation. He was advanced in mathematics before he began his programming studies.)
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What age and sex does Google think you are?
I don't understand the point in getting frustrated with someone calling themselves something you don't agree with - it'll always happen, and it's trivial to ignore. The cocky and obnoxious amongst your friends (or the people you follow online) will always pretend they're something they're not, especially when it comes to job titles.

To boot, I've met quite a few self-proclaimed "UX developers" who fill a very useful niche - they're people with training and experience in the UX field who have also taught themselves enough development to handle HTML, CSS, and basic DOM-manipulation JS duties without adding a burden to the rest of the development team.

Job titles are only a very loose guideline - if you're hiring, interview people to find out what they mean by their "title." If you're getting hired, interview your interviewers to find out what they want out of your title. Otherwise, just ignore it. It's so vague that it's never useful.
Your bottom line is true but not actionable, which makes it a poor bottom line. If you want to eat more calories than you expend, you should reduce your carbohydrate intake.

The useful bottom line is the bottom line of the infographic.
Fijal, I'm not sure you even understand my perspective. None of your comments in response have given me confidence that you do. I have no disagreement with you about how far "PyPy could go". Obviously, we could re-create the entire Python ecosystem including the scientific stack under its run-time. I just question your understanding of how expensive and time-consuming that would be. My official position is that I think it's possible to get the benefits of PyPy (i.e. fast Python loops) in different ways that don't also toss out years of extension modules in the process and whose answer to current users about the features they rely on in CPython not working under PyPy is "just port it" or "just use ctypes".
Yeah I personally would love to see some basic data breakdowns per site, service, region, etc.
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Here's the argument that shows that the educators are doing something wrong. I'll break it down into numbered points:

1. If you spend three weeks on only the topic of assignment, any idiot (who has been admitted to university) can master that one concept to the level required to answer this stupid simple question correctly.

2. The fact that the students failed to exhibit mastery of even this one simple point at end the of three weeks means the class moved past this very fundamental concept too quickly.

3. It follows that this study doesn't really address the question of how students would do at programming if this fundamental mental model were taught.

Point 1 is the weakest, as it is justified only by common sense, but I'd put money on it.
Running a marathon is impressive, yes. But if I'm in the business of delivering food (to stretch an already thin analogy ;), there's no point in training for a marathon. The constraints of my business make driving around in a car a better choice.

And unless I'm a professional chef, I'd rather not spend time on cooking dinners when I could do something to improve my business.

The point of building something (in a commercial environment) is not to impress, but to ship something.
I don't think there's been much change in this area, it's been "eat in moderation, eat a balanced diet and exercise" for as long as I can remember.
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That's how safe harbor works. As a carrier, you do no judgement or filtering or you lose the status. The user can say "they're wrong", get reinstated and it's then on the copyright holder to bring suit against the user and need a legal order to remove the content again.
It made 14x as much for the US economy (including inspiring American children, excluding inspiring other children/nations). Can that sort of success ever be considered a waste over a long enough timeframe?
Wish I was! Actually heard about it on twitter via @littlecalculist.
1-page: http://esj.com/Articles/2012/01/23/Introduction-to-Scala.asp...
That's only partially true, and would still be useless if it were totally true. When people say "sugar", they're referring to sucrose, which is half fructose. Even glucose on its own will spike your blood sugar, which will make it harder to burn fat.
That's odd. I can read the entire WSJ article, and I'm not a subscriber either. However, if I click links to other articles about half the time I only get the first paragraph.
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Chilling Effects has a FAQ under each takedown notice :

>Question: Why does a user-generated content site get DMCA takedown notices for links users have posted?

>Answer: Many copyright claimants are making complaints under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Section 512(d), a safe-harbor for providers of "information location tools." These safe harbors give providers immunity from liability for users' possible copyright infringement -- if they "expeditiously" remove material when they get complaints. Whether or not the provider would have been liable for infringement by users' materials it links to, the provider can avoid the possibility of a lawsuit for money damages by following the DMCA's takedown procedure when it gets a complaint. The person whose information was removed can file a counter-notification if he or she believes the complaint was erroneous.

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This brings new levels of irony to the "DO NOT EAT" silica packages in various packaged foods.
I think Python's a great language to start with, maybe. What turned me on to PHP and web programming is that I could do things easily and get visual results back. Flask is a better way to build server side apps than raw PHP, but it hides a lot and a significant part of the Python language needs to be understood to understand a lot of it.

I spent a year learning about website design shortly after turning 14 and during that time eventually came across PHP. For about another year until 10th grade started, I kept doing simple PHP sites. I had looked at Python once and felt kind of offended by it, and I didn't understand OOP. "Why do I have to do mystr.split(' ') instead of explode(' ', $mystr)?" "Why don't variables have sigils?" "What's this import crap?" "Why do I have to have indentation?" (I commonly didn't indent my PHP code during this time.) I also used Windows. I still hate cmd.exe.

I took the AP CS course in 10th grade, and Java forced me to at least partially understand OOP and why it may be useful or cool. (We also did everything on a Mandrake Linux computer.) I looked at Python again about midway through the year and started loving it (I was in the habit of indenting with one space at that point since the teacher required at least some indentation so Python's forced indentation didn't bug me anymore). After several months in Python I began to understand that real OOP went far beyond what Java supported. Now that I'm 21 Python is still my favorite language, but I do really like Clojure.

So I still think Python is a perfect beginner's language, but I'm not entirely convinced that Python as Python is enough to spark an interest to go do your own thing. The first thing I reached for when I learned Python well enough to do anything was video game programming. Making interactive applications that aren't limited to the terminal held my interest a lot more back then.

(My CS teacher also resolved many difficulties with the = sign by always reading code like "a = b" as "a gets b". Some people have trouble enough with homonyms in language, seeing the '=' mean something completely different to what they've been used to for 10 years can be startling.)
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We've known fat isn't fattening for years.

Its nonsense.
And yet that $1.9B is only a fraction of Google's cash reserves. And Apple's is nearly $100B. Corporations are hoarding cash at record levels. As of last January, the top 17 US corporate cash reserves amounted to nearly half a trillion dollars. It's not unreasonable to speculate that corporate hoarding is contributing to our flat economy, when you consider how that cash would be multiplied if it were turned loose. Companies are holding onto cash because they're afraid of slow growth because of high unemployment, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when they don't invest in new business and hire more people.

It also casts doubt on claims that raising corporate taxes will hurt the economy. If companies aren't spending any of the cash they already have, how will giving them more to stuff under the mattress help?
Alas, sbin is not always true to its name.

Though static-linking was originally used for a different purpose, today statically linked binaries make my life easier, and it has nothing to do with space constraints.

Paths are a pain in the neck. It feels like 90% of the work we have to do at the prompt is typing/automcompleting paths, or symlinking or setting env variables to deal with paths.

We certainly need a way to differentiate "system" stuff from "user" stuff. And on BSD, one can do this with the mtree spec files. mtree is one of my favourite utilities. One that is of course absent in Linux.

Linux could never have an mtree because its userland development has been too haphazard. Moreover, different "distros" are always pushing for idiosyncratic changes. The goalposts move much more frequently than with BSD.

Moving goalposts are also a pain in the neck.
Sad to see its Gmail only. It looks promising, and I definitly would see me using it.
Your statement that NumPy is "nowhere near the speed of C" is false and misleading. For some people "NumPy" is actually just a front-end to the vendor-optimized libraries that actually do the work (and your C-coded loops are going to be much slower than those). For most operations (with large-enough vectors) NumPy is only 2x slower than a specific crafted C-loop.

Yes, there are generic operations in NumPy that you can speed -up with specific code in C (or any-other compiled language). In addition, there is much low-hanging fruit to optimize in NumPy as well (which we at Continuum are working on as I write this).

Fijal, I know you are enthusiastic about PyPy and you should be --- it's a cool system. But, please don't spread mis-information. There are a lot of people who don't understand enough about the details of what you are talking about, and you are just going to alienate them once they realize that you don't have all your facts about NumPy clear.

For people who only make occasional use of NumPy, PyPy and it's version of numpy will likely be fine. But, those people should be well-aware that they are intentionally remaining outside the larger Python/NumPy ecosystem (Matplotlib, SciPy, scikits, etc.) and it will be a long-haul to build the features in PyPy to enable that ecosystem to migrate (and that assumes the individual projects decide that it's even worthwhile to do so).
If instead of a ring it taught you a new French word, then that would be something, but this would drive me insane.

Awesome landing page though!
I'll bet you that with Facebook, there's no Groupon-like 50%-restatement. To be more concrete, between first and final S-1, I'll say no more than a 5% restatement of revenues in the downward direction. Facebook is not in the same panicked 'damn the torpedos' rush as Groupon was.
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Yes, but what is "moderation"? What constitutes a "balanced diet"? They've been moving targets for as long as I can remember.

Meanwhile we've gone through endless cycles of "cholesterol is bad", "cholesterol is good", "only bad cholesterol is bad", "sugar is bad", "fat is bad", "fat is good, but saturated fat is bad", "carbs are bad". Eggs have gone through two complete revolutions of being bad for you and good for you. And now the new pariahs include white bread, white rice, and potatoes. Madness.
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Thanks for the feedback. What do you currently use for mail?
What are the possible answers ? Both values equaling 20 sounds right to me, and I can't come up with anything else that it could mean.
> The fact that Linux starts up differently is because Linux never was UNIX they are two different OSes, pretty much from the ground up.

No, it really has nothing to do with that at all. Linux can boot in pretty much the same way the genetic Unixes do, and in fact did for a long time. initrd and then initramfs came later and took some time to become widely used. Historically, Linux just mounted whatever filesystem the bootloader told it to as /, and executed init, which usually followed either a BSD or System V model, depending on distribution.

Linux evolved. Lots of things evolved. The filesystem layout, unfortunately, has merely become more chaotic.
I read many opposing points of view of what is next major cities.

From my network..I would say in this order:

Austin, Boulder, Boston, San Diego. and yours?
This looks really useful. Great stuff guys!
Sure they can. You just have to devote a lot of effort to do the additional analysis necessary. Most entrepreneurs simply aren't willing.

There are such things as intractable problems, but payments, health care recordkeeping and government are not among them.

I do like the fundamental point of the post, though. There should be more attention paid by startups to serious problems.
Most of us are more concerned about the real world than a "standard" that is routinely ignored.
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Oh this is great.
Even if 100% of their company was available for purchase, Apple doesn't have enough cash on hand to meet their current alleged price.
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I'm confused by your statements. Are you basically saying one can eat more energy than their body burns as long as they reduce carbohydrates?

From my understanding, fats are the most easily stored as body fat of the 3 macronutrients. Carbs and protein offer a great TEF and satiety than fat.
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If this is 'harping', please keep doing it. Mass assignment/attr_accessible is an important and oft-neglected issue, and I appreciate your taking the time to help. I agree that readers could get the wrong idea by thinking they're better-protected than they really are. I've clarified the wording by adding "automatically" as a modifier:

i.e., which attributes can be modified automatically by outside users

The detailed meaning is then deferred to later in the tutorial, when the effects of attr_accessible are illustrated with concrete examples of mass assignment.
Here's the message I've been given, maybe it's changed without my noticing but I think it's remained consistent -

balance means giving each variable in an equation similar weight. Eating only one or two food groups is not optimal for health.

Moderation - not eating more calories than you burn throughout the day.

edit - I agree with you about the ever rotating axis of nutritional evil. It's BS. I think part of the reason we go through it though is people ignoring the basic advice I mentioned earlier that's held for so long. Why eat broccoli when I can eat McDonalds? Exercise is hard. ETC
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Would it be a waste if we were making the coldly rational mission-oriented tradeoffs Zubrin proposes? Or only because treating it as a jobs program and national festival-of-empathy makes manned exploration insanely expensive?

I, personally, am looking forward to a Kickstarter from a credible private team to start work on a space elevator. And I'm only half-joking.
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