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Being legally allowed to weave between lanes doesn't seem right.

Yeah, I'm not really sure why it's legal, but I've also never ridden a motorcycle. A quick glance at Wikipedia suggests that it's legal in most of Europe and Japan though, although not in most places in the US.

Anyway, FWIW, I commute by bike and ride in the center of the lane when there is no bike lane for the exact reason that you describe. However, I don't really get what you are saying about "not belonging". Cars and bikes are both legally allowed on the same roads. Just because this inconveniences some drivers doesn't mean that bikes are "culturally unacceptable". In other words, the opinion of said drivers (legally, and I'd argue culturally) is no more important than that of the bikers who think that it's a totally acceptable thing for them to be there so long as they follow traffic laws.
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If you want to become a superb cyclist, three months of riding around Shanghai is an excellent training course.
I saw this one when I first started visiting HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924909
After Amazon, how many clouds do we need?
Pedestrians also become hyper aware and responsive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_MphtzCOEc
A better way:
varname = (x for x in l if predicate_with_single_truth_value(x)).next()
I personally find the word "brogrammer" applicable to about 95% of Ruby programmers.
Apple builds bulletproof, toughly built stuff when they need to - for example the "pulling out the prongs" example in the discussion root article, or devices like the original "toilet seat" iBook models.

Apple doesn't do it for everything for mainly aesthetic and packaging reasons - iOS 30 pin cables are much smaller than they used to be before the iPhone came out, to fit in even smaller packaging.

I'm sure there would be complaints about the "big, ugly cable" if Apple beefed up their cables ends, especially if the only benefit would be to the 20-30% of the population that is hard on their gear, and even in that case the enhanced durability would only increase the cable's lifespan slightly.
Can you provide a source for this?

As far as I know (from an interview with Geoffrey Robertson, Assange's lawyer, but also known as a respected senior lawyer and public figure in both the UK and Australia) this is incorrect. It is possible to be elected when overseas, however there seems to be a grey area as to what would happen to his seat if he was unable to return to the country to occupy it in parliament.
Functions (methods) are first class objects also in Ruby: methods are instances of the class Method, while Procs are a lightweight alternative. Default arguments in Ruby are not mutable in any kind of function object, be it a lambda proc, a regular proc, or a method.

You can use a mutable default argument as an ersatz static variable, e.g. for memoization.
Do you know whether the author plans to release it under an open license? A few years ago he promised to do that after the 1.0 release, but it seems unlikely at this point.
Doodle or Die is all HTML5.

Doodles are stored as JSONP:
http://doodles.s3.amazonaws.com/d2/5iSFn-ME/8qp73zuBe.js

This json renders in canvas as the page loads like these amazing drawings:
http://doodleordie.com/profile/underwearhero

We want to make a native mobile app because we've heard that HTML5 is slow enough to frustrating. I tried a Lua-based framework and it was fun to use but the resulting drawing too was too slow to be usable because every line had to be created as a new object, instead of Canvas-like pixel manipulation.
cool, this might be good for slideshows, especially on IT topics.
I used Ubuntu font in my latest slideshow, and it looked quite well
I agree with the notion above. Please make some posting on your progress over these three month - i.e. what tutorials you took and how you reached that level of expertise in design and coding in such a short time. Very impressive work!
To elaborate, this is because of D's Uniform Function Call Syntax (http://www.drdobbs.com/blogs/cpp/232700394) - any function that takes an object as first argument can be called as though it were a method of that object; "map" and "filter" are actually functions in the std.algorithm module. It's a pretty neat trick and although in principle it could make things harder to reason about I haven't had any problems with it so far.
Why Linux Does Not Suck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfLqLK7VdQY&feature=relmf...
the grey areas will be clarified with either attorney general opinion or new legislation before the election, you can bet on that.
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Sorry- I probably should have phrased it more carefully. I did not mean to disparage Google, but the OP's reason for choosing Google.

It sounds like Google is a great place for you this summer, based on your research interests. However, if one's basis for being there is because it "is a strong signaling mechanism" then I stand by my original statement.
Thanks for this nice link. It's a robust phenomenon that kicks in pretty well even in modestly large dimensions. One name for this is concentration of measure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_measure

See figure 6 in the paper linked in the above comment for a nice illustration of how this works.
Tarsnap offers better security, and functions as more of a backup and less of a synchronization service. It's not really a head-on competitor to Dropbox, and doesn't especially favor non-technical users the way Dropbox does.
Oh my! A Prius driver complaining about other road users :-)

I have a problem with Prius drivers, they always seem more interested in improving their gas mileage personal best than driving a reasonable speed on the freeway.
> Morgan didn't want that wireless junk

Good for him: It's physically impossible.
Unless he had crazy high rates on those loans even the most conservative investments would have put him in a better position over time. There is no real reason to be frantic about paying debts, especially if you have a Harvard degree and a six figure job.

Also, I doubt this article is going to help anyone. The majority of people stressing about their 6 figure loans are not in his situation.
Dunno if VMs are the ideal reference case.
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Even before "cloud" or online storage was too hot or even showed up yet, I was thinking of doing this.

Time was Google providing "unlimited" gmail storage and fuse gmail-fs was just released. I looked for another fuse fs like a hotmail-fs but did not push hard on it. I could not find and let my idea die.

It was hard to do and time consuming, but marginal gain would be small. Also I'm a f lazy system administrator. I hate coding :)
Another example: an old Macbook with a dead battery is extremely prone to being accidentally powered off by knocking the magnetic connector.
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That's true, but relaxation time has value too.

You could make the case (for argument's sake) that someone who works 8h/day for $30/h and sleeps 8h/day has an an awake time value of $15/h.

While this is definitely a frivolous and arbitrary calculation, it can be a useful metric for a busy person to figure out what his/her time is worth in terms of prioritizing activities. For example, waiting 30 minutes in line to save $3 in gas vs waiting 2 minutes and not getting the $3 savings.

Those 28 minutes could have been spent doing something else, such as quality time with the kids (priceless?), etc.
I'm all for Assange's senate bid, but given he doesn't seem to have declared/decided which state/territory he will be running for the Senate in, I'm curious as to how these data can be considered accurate/representative of any actual electoral outcome.
Is this true? It's good resume filler, but you won't "meet" many people through it; your mentor, although probably a member of a big corp (most OS stuff has corp sponsors), is just one person.

So the networking opportunities are limited, a lot of the work is the "easier" (less-critical) stuff for projects (although on the other hand - maybe the more interesting projects).

It will definitely look good on your CV, but any better than getting a good internship elsewhere?
I believe this is universal -- it also happens in Vancouver, BC.

Cyclists complain about motorists, motorists complain about cyclists. A certain percentage of each group are jerks who don't play nicely.
tldr version (quoting the OP):

I am exhausted from seven years of almost nonstop work, and I need a break.
For the sake of science and humanity, we need more of these kinds of "crazy" researches. With ethics and academia rules and funding craziness we are holding our-selfs back.

We should be using on-animal harvested human organs for transplants, or we should be using stem-cells for regeneration, wound curing and so many other things in the wild.

Science should be more agile. Like the story of "one sloc change takes 3 days" science nowadays takes too too long.
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People call it "calling in rich".
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/07/vc_clich_of_the_3.html
that is what happens during the roadshow, which led to the price going up in the last few days and more shares being issues because of demand

funny that Google tried the auction, ended up getting wall st against them and colluding to lower the price. Facebook co-opts all the big name banks as underwriters and gets a near-perfect opening price.
Impressive stuff!
Thanks for sharing, I was searching for something like this. Usually I bookmark links which I like to re-read later on delicious. How often this list is updated ?
Stories like this often don't get traction because it doesn't play into the news narrative. Doom sells.

EDIT: Why is that? Why does doom sell?
But while your Macbook's battery is not dead (which I would hopefully presume is for most of the time you're using it), the magnetic connector is quite useful to have. It's got both great form and function. At least, until you come to the unfortunate side effect you've mentioned.
My first attempt at code calligraphy.
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My rabbit chews a lot of cables. He chewed iPhone charger - I almost cried. He chewed other cables too - I've bought them just round the corner at thrift shop dirt cheap.

I've seen at least 2 iPhones breaking beyond repair just by falling.

My SGSII flew around 4 or 5 times, not a scratch. It does look and feel cheap though. So do Lenovo ribcage plastics as opposed to aluminium shells.
Interesting point. Hard to discuss too, because as always with women-related issues the heat is pretty high.

However, let's play devil's advocate and extend it to the man's case too. If I put myself in the role of a VC I would think twice about hiring anybody who's going to have children soon. Children, from what I gathered, are emotionally and physically draining for both parents. If you add up the challenges of having a startup, which is like another child well that's a good damn reason to refuse investing.

The problem is that pregnancy and a child coming soon can be physically seen on a woman, but we can't ask a VC to be blind on that.
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... patent on “generating meeting requests” facepalm
I am exhausted from seven years of almost nonstop work, and I need a break.
Here are couple options.
1) Check schedule at HackerDojo, they have hackathons every weekend afternoons.
2) Search for meetups in your area.

http://www.meetup.com/Hackternoon/events/62716612/?a=me2.1_g...
I understand the capacity point, but for geocoding a geohash would suffice. Place the geohash under the name so mobile apps can read it or people can type it in (easier than a qrcode)

Eiffel Tower
#QWERTY986543

Even wikipedia could sell vanity tags to the city council like:

Eiffel Tower
#W/EIFFELTOWER

Or something like that
A large number of those present-day Googlers are ex-startup-founders.

I've always found it somewhat silly to identify people by their employer. I was a random startup employee at two companies. I was a founder at one. I am currently a Googler. I wrote some open-source software in the interim (which reminds me, I need to go stick a license file in one of those projects because another present-day Googler wants to use it for an internal project). Which category would I fall under in your false dichotomy?

Anyone remotely interesting will have a variety of experiences in their career; some will be at startups, and some will be at large established companies.
Am I missing something here? The reason they use this non-standard 30 pin connector rather than a standard USB connector is because their connector /does a lot more/.

Looking at a pin-out table, it seems it also does (or can do) video (composite / s-video), audio, and has pin(s) for adapters.

USB doesn't do that. I have an Android phone, which is perfectly nice, but it's just not as capable as the iPhone - it doesn't have these capabilities, because it just has USB.
I'm not trying to imply that the inconvenience makes them unacceptable. That they are culturally unacceptable is a fact - stated by the OP as : "cars simply do not give a single shit about bikes". I'm simply trying to provide an explanation for why that may be.

I suppose people downvote because they dislike my explanations. I think it is reasonable to think that many motorists don't feel that cyclists belong on the same road space. As a cyclist, I wouldn't feel that I belong on the same road space as cars. That's why I haven't ridden a bike since moving to a city where the sidewalks are busy.
when are you guys going to get how used you are.
nice work zooko et al :)

my understanding is that tahoe-lafs is meant to be used as a live filesystem. how does the redundancy configuration affect latency? i would guess a cloned volume ("RAID 1") would be faster than a distributed volume (e.g. "RAID 5" or "RAID 6").
It's particularly significant that this is twins we're talking about, not just a "typical" pregnancy.

Let me tell you from personal experience that twins, two babies in parallel, are FAR more than twice the work of two sequential babies.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Well, the point of putting "strong signaling mechanisms" on your resume is to open up other interesting opportunities in the future. Yes, it's stupid that you have to do this, and it would be awesome if everybody just had perfect information about who all the good employees are and which would be the perfect fit for your organization. But people don't, not even at good companies. And in the absence of that, it behooves you to do things that will shift people's perception of you in your favor, so that you have options and aren't prevented from doing what you really want to do.
It's not designed to be useful

By useful he means mucking up your program in totally unexpected ways.

He's being nice about it being a silly decision to have it behave that way. The entire post reads more like a list of unexpected things that will bite you in the ass.
Yes but no. In two month, when the function has grown, the next coder may not notice the issue and start mutating the default in the function body. Then you have a hidden killer bug.

Pass all code under pylint scrutiny, comply to its complains or adjust its rules, do it early. That is the recommendation I wish all devs could read.
> I've never heard someone ask the same of a founder-CEO-dad, worrying about a slightly different dirty little thought: "An expectant father/CEO will fail his company."

Well, of course I don't have any way of experiencing both and comparing them, but isn't a pregnancy much more difficult for the pregnant female? No matter how many times the dad runs out to buy watermelon at 4 in the morning, he doesn't have a living thing growing in his uterus.

I don't agree with the statement, "a pregnant ceo will fail her company". I might agree with the statement, "all else being equal, the person with less to overcome is more likely to succeed". And likeliness of success is pretty much what VCs do.
Th government is on the nose at the moment. So is the opposition! A dead fish has a good chance of being elected right now, if they aren't a member of the major Liberal or Labor parties...
Anyone genuinely interested in these facts could check Wikipedia, Google Scholar, or a Google Books textbook and find copious citations.

To be perfectly honest, I find your behaviour more interesting than the actual topic.

Why do people who have clearly not exhaustively studied a particular field put forth their own ignorance as an argument in their favor?

"I'm an evangelical Christian who has never gone to university and I've never seen any evidence of evolution. My ignorance is a strong argument against evolution! I am going to use my ignorance as a bludgeon in this debate and make everyone else do all the work of digging up citations, which I won't read anyway."

Am I wrong in thinking this is a uniquely American form of entitled debating style? "Everyone has the right to spread their ignorant opinion" or something?
That would only work if dhouston wasn't also following and commenting on the thread :).
"This distinction is subtle. And the terminology is annoying."

No, the distinction is not subtle or annoying. An analogy would be brewing your own beer. There are several ways to do this. Buy everything and brew it yourself at home (EC2), or start a brew at a brew shop and let them watch it for you (Azure, AppHarbor, Heroku, AppEngine).
The problem is instead that to make the asset class decide we're worth their investment, we can't have families or pretty much anything else beyond providing them returns to support their lifestyle.

Good grief. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates ripped all of you guys off soooo bad and it's like none of you get it. 80k at 80 hours a week is less than someone makes in a supermarket. Suckers, all of you.
Wait did you just say that TextMate wasn't based on vim?
I see cops every now and then, and I know how they are feared and hated in the US (it's true in EU as well but not nearly as much).
And I was surprised because indeed, they don't ticket anybody. I don't know if ticketing people every time they pass on red, etc would work, but maybe. I know that if I do that in Germany for example and a cop is around I'm going to pay for it every single time.
so does Scala

stuff.filter(_ % 2 == 0).map(_ / 2)

and C#, demonstrating that this isn't some obscure feature that only language geeks care about:

Stuff.Where(x => x % 2 == 0).Select(x => x / 2)

My point isn't that this sort of syntax is new and novel, it's just that in Python it's annoyingly inconsistent. There are reasons where you would want to use type-class style modules to structure your code in a certain way, but I do not think python's map() filter() reduce() and len() qualify as these cases
I am sure the engineers at Google are all very intelligent. I never meant to imply otherwise.

Back in 2004 or so, Google had a virtual monopoly on all the top engineering and CS talent coming out of school. At that time, Apple wasn't as sexy as it is now, Facebook didn't exist, and everything else (Microsoft, Yahoo, etc) just seemed sort of lame and corporate. Every top computer scientist wanted to work at Google.

My point was that those days are long gone. Google lost a lot of good talent to Facebook and startups. It no longer has the luxury of cherry picking the best of the best. Getting a job offer from Google is no longer nearly as prestigious as it once was.
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Your reply is not directly to me but you're probably right. I used Europe as well as a generalization but there are some exceptions and I didn't bike in every single EU country (for instance, I've never done that in urban areas/traffic in Spain).

In general the more south you go the more horrible the driving in EU (yeah another generalization but this one seems pretty good).

I've been honk'd heavily in Italy (Naples) once because I was waiting for the traffic light to go green. I thought it must be I missed something but nope.. they just were "never stopping at this one and its bad practice to do so", one guy said.
The collaborative creation of a new Fedora book during FUDCon KL
True - the closest analog I'd see is Nick Xenophon who won a senate seat in 2007 as an independent, with 15% of the primary vote.

If Assange did get 25% of the primary, then he'd be a shoe-in, probably at the expense of a Green.

However, the article is a bit woolly. "25% would vote for" does not necessarily mean the primary vote.
Sure it is! And in Python 3 there's the ,_*= operator, similar to lisp's car:

varname ,_*= [1, 2, 3] # varname == 1
I believe the Lenovo is just a terrible hardware producer. I got a T410S when I started at my new company. It was brand new. 3 months later the screen had a 1" thick white line on the monitor. I treated the thing like royalty. A few months later the plastic casing started to crack despite the lack of obvious impacts. 6 months later, a fan error prevented it from booting. I bought a mac book air at the same time, and it's still looks/works like the day I bought it!
What point do you draw the line? Say a woman entrepreneur got married a year ago and it's getting to be 'about that time'. The inlaws are asking when they're going to hear the patter of tiny feet? Or what if you hear a couple saying 'they're trying for a child'?

Do you want to hire someone at this age? What's the difference, they've got the same goals, one is pregnant, one isn't yet.

It rapidly turns into sexism. So she's going to have to take a while off. She'll have some hormone stuff to deal with. What do you know about that couple? Maybe Dad's going to be the one changing the diapers and getting up at 3. What right do you have to judge?

The whole point is that life goes on and constantly discriminating against women because of this is just wrong.

The point is that she thinks she can handle it, she thinks her team can handle the slack, she's putting her ass on the line. Fair enough, go for it.
I find it interesting that people are willing to take a mortgage out on a house (he did this as everyone does) and fully understand that it is totally reasonable to have to take 30 years to pay that off, or pay for a car over 3 to 5 years, but for some reason of all things, a Harvard education which they owe $90,000 on, is a burden that needs to be retired as quickly as possible.

There is nothing inherently wrong about paying over time for something you will use over time.

Added: Save the obvious publicity bonus (noted by the WSJ and in the WSJ of all places) he could have done this more easily over the course of 2 to 5 years with normal cutbacks even assuming no salary increases.
His LinkedIN profile page now displays: "CEO of Nothing at all". LOL
The Samsung charger compares favorably to Apple's at about 1/3 the price. It seems any "name brand" company is going to at least comply with UL rules. The no-name brands are completely unsafe, and Apple's charger may provide better touchscreen performance (for $20 more). Apple's prongs are also more overengineered than Samsung's. (Wait, not overengineered... who doesn't superglue their iPhone charger to the wall?)
I'm guessing the original author didn't read the BI article because the VC DID fund her.
It's pretty easy for a minor party (well, 'one of the', not 'a') to pick up the last senate seat in a state, given the way they're allocated. It all depends on which way the preferences flow.
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