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Agreed. What they inherit from koans appears to be merely the violence that the koans take for granted.
My favorite example of this is the story of Gutei's Finger:

It is said that Master Gutei would always raise a finger wisely when
teaching about Zen. Now in his monastery there were young boys studying
to be Zen masters themselves, and one boy, when he was asked questions
by his teachers, began also to raise his finger when answering Zen
questions. The teachers told Gutei about this and Gutei summoned him to
a rare audience with the master! Gutei asked him a simple question which
the boy could answer confidently, and the boy raised his finger as he
responded.

Gutei immediately grabbed the finger and in one motion cut it off with a
concealed knife. The boy screamed and ran to the far side of the room.
Gutei called him to stop and return, and the boy recovered his composure
and plodded back in front of the master. Gutei raised his own finger
before the boy, and in that moment the boy was enlightened.

Indeed, on his deathbed Gutei's last words were: "My teacher Tenryu
taught me the Zen in my finger, and though I used it my whole life, I
couldn't use it up."

I think the first thing anybody notices about this story is just the violence. When I told it to my brother he asked, "the lesson is, do not f--k with the Master?" But there is a deep set of Zen ideas -- lifting fingers which you do not have, and not getting attached to idiosyncrasy. Perhaps the boy even thought, "I should cut off the Master's finger," as he attained enlightenment.
Try breaking up your render method into smaller chunks, and only re-rendering content that needs replacing. You can even leave the el if it exists already, and just update text or form fields.
A similar use case: I noticed the sunlight on the wall of my apartment's courtyard was a bright orange so searched twitter for "Berlin sunset" and right away found a gorgeous image someone had just made 5 minutes ago.
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Ok, fair enough, do you have any argument on what "flask does better" than pyramid? Because as far as i can tell, pyramid does more and better out-of-the-box - like extensible permission system.

I would really love to know what IS better in flask, especially since Pyramid oficially supports Py3 and PyPy, and that also seems to be a big thing to me.
The article reminded me of a brilliant passage from one of Schopenhauer's essays ("On the Vanity of Existence", Section 5):

Life presents itself first and foremost as a task: the task of maintaining itself, de gagner sa vie. If this task is accomplished, what has been gained is a burden, and there then appears a second task: that of doing something with it so as to ward off boredom, which hovers over every secure life like a bird of prey. Thus the first task is to gain something and the second to become unconscious of what has been gained, which is otherwise a burden. (..) For if life, in the desire for which our essence and existence consists, possessed in itself a positive value and real content, there would be no such thing as boredom: mere existence would fulfil and satisfy us.
Here: https://github.com/tkf/emacs-ipython-notebook/wiki/Screensho...
I just noticed it is removed by spam accounts.
freenet is probably the most reasonable alternative since the content is distributed amongst clients, and therefore there is no central point that can be "shut down" by governments. The downside, of course, is that almost no one will see your content on freenet (or a smaller darknet) and whether that still counts as "publishing" in the same sense as getting a publicly-available server connected to the internet. If you are doing something like WikiLeaks where you're really relying on normal news outlets to do the real legwork for you, this may be feasible, but if you aren't doing that for whatever reason, it practically would be the same as saving a text file to your hard drive -- i.e., no one, or almost no one, will ever read it.
That's an old wives tale that is getting older by the day. People like to roll that excuse out not to move to Python 3 and it may have been true in the past but there are now enough libraries available to get most stuff done in Python3. It is true that the laggards are starting to look like the are living in the past. Python3 was released 3.5 years ago and is getting a real head of steam. Projects that don't move over will eventually get replaced entirely by projects that have either moved to, or been created onl for, Python3. This old "the libraries aren't available for Python3" story is a legacy story too and just sounds like an excuse.
Ditto on Android. Plume is so much better than the official client. This kind of things make you wonder about missed opportunities for Google+, where you can't have a proper alternative client…
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I've never tried, but VIM already got nice looking IPython binding (https://github.com/ivanov/vim-ipython). I think it doesn't support notebook editing though.
Well actually I think the ultimate goal is people having to work less. Getting women to work sounds like a solution from your problem description. But the real problem seems to be welfare of the elderly. If another solution (like social insurance) could be found, perhaps women wouldn't need to work. Perhaps even society would restructure itself.

Only 60 years ago it was common in the western world that women had to stay at home to take care of the family and household chores. I don't think it was only feminism that changed that, but also technology. For example washing machines probably saved a lot of time (even a bachelor can wash their own clothes these days). Not sure how widespread access to such technology is in India?
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Really interesting, thanks.
Absolutely. Even on my work machine (2.2GhZ, 4GB RAM) it loads within a second.
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Not the final download time to the end user.

OK. Still a useful measure, but a less dramatic one.

The issue with the end user number is deciding on what to report.

I would think that time to show a slightly changed page after a "refresh" or "reload" would be appropriate. What are the other choices?

For pages that are frequently accessed the deltas are often so small that they fit inside a single TCP packet, and because the connection between the two parts of Railgun is kept active problems with TCP connection time and slow start are eliminated.

Just reread this part, and not sure I understand it. Yes, there are no extra packets between the proxies, but in the base case there is only a single proxy and hence no extra connection time to consider. I'd think even a very fast proxy would introduce more latency than a hop on a backbone router. Or are you indeed pushing the per-user delta to the data center in anticipation of the request?
I don't understand this point. If you have arguments x and y that you want to apply to this function, I don't see the problem in "using them directly".

Function application in Haskell is first class. If you have

f :: x -> y -> z
f x y = undefined

then use it like

(f 0)

you have a new function:

f 0 :: y -> z

then if you apply again,

(f 0) 1

and this final expression, equivalent to f 0 1, gives you something of type 'z'
Funny that you mention Belgium - I am in Blankenberge right now (on business) - it's a nice little town, but it's nothing special.

No offense to the locals, but I can't wait to get out of here - the weather is pretty bad, most residents are old, everyone is slooow (even in the rain :-), shops close at 6pm, banks close at 3pm and Everything's closed all day on Sunday, HSPA 3G here means 1 Mbit on a good day (usually ~500-700 kbit - oh, and you pay $20 for 1 GB), 4 Mbit DSL actually means 1.5 Mbit, and you pay $700 for a teeny-tiny 1 bedroom apartment (then again, it is a resort city). I nicknamed it Lazy Town :-).

The only saving grace is the port nearby (~6km in Zeebrugge) - there's a bustling shipping and logistics industry here, and there's plenty of work and opportunities.

Overall, for a first-timer in Belgium, I'd recommend going to Brussels or Antwerp - bigger cities, more active, although still very laid back compared to even Paris...
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In most of the world I got treated as well as a particularly high status local by being a white educated American male.

(in some cases, sure, a huge security risk too, but they basically assume the white foreigner can solve their problems for them -- at least in Asia, Middle East, etc., which are lacking in white people.)

In the middle east this could cause some serious problems where people from Iraq/Afghanistan assumed any idiot from the US who happened to be white actually knew what he was talking about on any issue. They'd go with a totally uneducated or domain-ignorant white guy giving advice he made up on the spot, over a non-white (local or South Asian) credentialed or highly experienced expert.

In China (and some other places, Thailand, etc.) this leads to hiring white guys to act as public faces for organizations. It's also one of the things international management consulting firms have to rely on in some markets. It's really stupid.
I agree : it would be a better model to put ads in twitter feeds. Twitter needs his polymorphics clients : I wouldn't like to use anything else than tweetbot on iOS.

As an alternative option I would share ad revenues with platforms, that could boost the creation of twitter tools by providing them a revenue model. I probably wouldn't provide an ad less option but I'd discuss with google, linkedin, case by case, etc...
>when things can be determined, objectively, to be hateful or vile, why allow them?

And what is the objective criteria used to determine hatefulness and vileness? I am interested in how such a thing can be formulated in a definitively objective way.

I think by "objective" you probably mean "almost universally agreed", not actually "objective", because I don't think that any truly objective measurements of hatefulness and vileness are known.
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Yeah, I'm sure some other microframeworks do it too.
IMO homelessness doesn't really set you free, as you still need to provide for your body's needs (basic safety, food, protection from weather, hygiene, medicine). I can imagine it being a constant source of stress.
Hm, I just realized that I don't like to log in somewhere with my Google account. Too much vital stuff depends on it, and if a site forwards me to a Google login prompt there is always the danger of phishing. Couldn't you provide a classic sign up form? Granted, I may be the last person on earth to use those...

Also, why not sign in with Twitter (though I'd really prefer an independent sign up form)?
It would be nice to Make tutorials to mention the simplest possible Makefile ... none at all.

1. Create something.c

2. make something

Look, no Makefile!
While radiation is a serious problem at relativistic velocities, you're a bit too pessimistic:

The most immediate problem is the interstellar gas, which becomes hard radiation at relativistic velocities. However, ~2cm of aluminium shielding are enough to reach 0.3c, and with 1m of water, you can reach 0.5c.

For higher velocities, magnetic shielding coupled with a metallic electron stripper is probably a more pragmatic solution.
Copying Apple is not really 'innovation'. Too many go the short route and copy Apple down to the pixel level. Sometimes the hardware looks completely the same.

Kind of refreshing to see that Microsoft can come up with some slightly different UI. Google does a lot of stuff differently than Apple does.

It's simply not that Apple currently makes the best user interfaces and the best software integration. There is a lot of room to innovate.
wow, it has been 10 years and no fix!
Facebook and Microsoft don't pay fines. Facebook's and Microsoft's shareholders pay the fines.
Hmm, I think being busy is great - progress is survival, after all, and there's no progress without a lot of work.

But of course, if you're busy just for the sake of being busy, you'll feel worn out and tired all the time. There are people who enjoy being busy with anything, though, and being busy working on something you're passionate about is probably the best feeling in the world :-).
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You can have both: there's a Backbone/knockout lib called Knockback, which supposedly brings the best of both worlds, although it seems a little intrusive.
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At first I wasn't sure what to use this for, but as soon as I saw a bot's homepage (http://lojze.weavrs.info/#/view/grid/) it dawned on me that this is the best way to get cool recommendations for stuff online.

At least I think you could be able to tune a bot so it suggests exactly the things you'd like to read.
Yes in German the plural is used for royalty. I'll try to adapt to "they" but I have to fight a strong sense of wrongness that I have acquired somehow.
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So how does this work if you want to count the number of visitors, delivering customer specific versions of the site etc...? Does the bbc example even work because I can imagine that there multiple versions of the site depending on which IP is accessing BBC
Memes are fine, as long as they're amusing.

The community has altered the posting guidelines. Pray we don't alter them any further.
Yep. .NET also has a nice set of string comparison classes for dictionary lookups to avoid exactly this kind of thing.
Texturing & Modeling: A Procedural Approach is worth looking at if you want to find out more

http://books.google.com/books/about/Texturing_Modeling.html?...
You can also add new functionality from the Prosthetic Store.
http://prosthetics.weavrs.com/

or roll your own http://developer.weavrs.com/
It also mentions that "asynchronous UIs" (ie, optimistic save: server callbacks don't block, if something bad happens you'll solve it in a callback) need some sort of operational transformation (think google wave), but I think this only applies if you are writing real-time multi-user apps (chats, google docs, etherpad, etc) which is the overwhelming minority of mobile apps.
Rubbish. Some of Apple's latest updates seem to be copied from Android itself.

Apple isn't leading the pack any more. Used an Android screen keyboard? Way better than the Mac. Notifications? Way better than the Mac.
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It takes some effort to make the laundering believable, especially if you use an exchange to get your bitcoins (which most do).

I think that online laundry services have the potential to be much more effective than an individual operator in most cases, but then you have to decide if you trust btc mixers/launderers and most of them charge a significant fee.
What was the advantage of case insensitive class and function names? Sounds to me like someone that was implementing very early on without great reasons and them kept for backwards comparability. In all my programming in PHP I have never thought to take advantage of this.
3. What about Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson (http://www.amazon.com/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-From/dp/15944853...)?
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Indeed, the Emacs buffer is amazing, it supports not only text, but graphics, which means anything, perhaps even 3D someday!
An open source web app/tool for adult film actresses/actors to easily make their own monthly subscription based websites with an api that people can use as a basis for a smart phone app that does the same thing.

Pain Points:
1)Adult Actors/Actresses get maybe 1% of the long term returns on the content they appear in.

2)Making their own site, setting up a way to let clients pay, and figuring out how to get streaming videos to work, are all way too hard for the average performer and lead to them being stuck accepting the 1% mentioned above.

Note: I would use it for my site, as I am also an adult film actress (a transgender one) and this is something I plan to build for myself and my peers at some point in the future, and it would be great to just contribute to the open source project rather than starting from scratch.
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The identical hardware argument in particular doesn't really convince me. It seems to me that all phone manufacturers are slowly heading towards minimalism. Given that, I it seems all phones, and including Apple's, are heading towards the same place. It is true that apple is out on front, often because they have better hardware people. However, I am not sure where else I would want hardware to go. Perhaps I am insufficiently imaginative.
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Take something you have coded in PHP and see how easy it is to re-factor in both languages.

There are no downsides to knowing all of these web frameworks, eventually you will find yourself in a position where company X only wants Ruby, or company Y only writes python.
I love the shiny on this one:
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If there are so many people depending on PHP and all the code written in PHP in all of Turkey, why doesnt someone in Turkey fix the problem?

Or anywhere for that matter?

There is no "they" in this equation. There is no person who should be held more accountable than you or I for fixing this problem.

The choices are simple:

1) Fix the problem

2) Find a work around

3) Don't use PHP

What's that? There is a lot of open source software that you wanted to use for free that's written in PHP that does just what you need except for this tiny little trivial thing that should be easy to fix? Well too bad!

Trade off the cost of fixing it against the cost of rewriting the big, free, open source package that's written in PHP you wanted to use, in the programming language of your choice, and stop complaining.
Please stop telling PHP is a crap. News on the topic are damn to high. Think that PHP coders are beginning to migrate to stuff like python and that most of them don't want to learn programming, they still want to monkey write program and that through trial and errors it works. I am on a one of the #python-xx irc channel, it is an horror.

PHP is cool, it is useful, it is a magnet for bad developers. This way they don't pollute our ecosystems.
Going back to an iPhone after entering text with Swype on an Android device is like a bad joke.

Anybody that thinks Android hasn't brought anything new to the table hasn't really used an Android phone.
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That's for an unspecified person, though. You can't use it to talk about one person specifically.
Yes sure. But keep in mind that just trying to compete on price may not be enough.
Ask HN: Meeting Apple Marketing person for first time tomorrow - any advice?
I'm building a Mac app targeting the educational iBooks market. We're still in private beta, but several people from Apple have signed up to our launch email list already.

Today, I was contacted by a Business Development Manager at Apple's Marketing team. He requested a phone meeting with him tomorrow, to learn more about what we're building and how we envision it being used in schools.

Any advice on what I should and should not say / ask?
You can connect to REPLs over ssh using `ipython console`. Even without EIN, you can use this command (plus several options for ssh connection) for python-mode's interactive shell. With EIN I think it's a little bit easier (if you are using python.el), as it helps you to setup these options.
It's a general pronoun that happens to be gender-neutral. Not the same meaning as 'he'/'she' or even the almost-correct 'they'.
I fully agree with you. While all of this is possible in theory, there are so many things that could go wrong, and one single mission would cost trillions.

Only if there is some extraordinary law(s) of physics that would open up entirely new methods of travel (and so many other things) would any of this be possible.

I still would like to spend a big chunk of my tax dollars on NASA, etc, but the idea that there is intelligent life out there, and it is likely that we are going to contact it, seems like nonsense to me.

I'd love it if we did, but I just don't think it's going to happen. And that's ok. Some people really seem to have an emotional horse in this game, I'm not sure why.
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I don't think this is correct. The servers you connect will see an IP address only. This could only be converted into a MAC if the IP was resolvable locally via ARP (i.e., you're on the same LAN).

The danger of retaining your real MAC should be obvious; it's a unique identifier specific to your machine that will at least significantly narrow the scope of the machine/owner your adversaries are looking for if it doesn't give the investigators a direct link back to you (e.g., manufacturer records MAC addresses next to serial numbers, adversary gains access to manufacturer's data and sees "MAC X / Serial No Y sold to consumer Z online").

Depending on the configuration of the router on the open access points, it may be possible to retrieve a list of all connected MACs over the whole lifetime of the router. Then they simply have to correlate, "OK, which machines had a lease when the access from this machine was made?", and then investigate the 5 matches that come up.

This is not very safe, clearly.