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Obama tried and failed to close Guantanamo Bay, losing a great deal of political capital in the process.

Oh, spare me. Barack Obama has explicitly targeted, and killed, American citizens in drone attacks, something even Bush never did. This is public knowledge. I count myself a hawk in matters of Islamic terrorism, but I am also a libertarian and this is beyond the pale. There has to be a bright line in these killings, and American citizens must never be targeted for execution by some politician just because they think they should be dead. This is why we have courts and due process. Suddenly however, all the people who were so deeply, deeply, concerned about waterboarding have been silent about US citizens being eliminated on presidential orders.

As for your claim, evidence? He did no such thing, because he knew that as soon as the prisoners were released most would go right back to killing again (or do you think that they were mostly innocent?), as indeed several who were released already have. Even his Mainstream Media toadies wouldn't be able to cover that up.

Instead we have seen a massive gunrunning operation intended to give weapons to Mexican drug cartels, conducted by Eric Holder, Obama's chief law enforcement officer, that has resulted in the murder of four innocent Americans and who knows how many Mexicans. The legal term for this is "accessory to murder". Holder has perjured himself before Congress on this and Obama and his media has done nothing but support him. What is your stand on that?
We are excited about Cascading Replication because it reduces network data transfer over WAN when we have multiple Read Replicas within and across datacenters.
Zach, he did not end rendition, though he did end some of the most appalling practices formerly involved.

We also have very little way of verifying, beyond leaked information, that the administration has behaved consistently with its policies and if it has, how well (not just with regard to rendition but torture as well).

So I would place it more as a +0.5 or generously, +0.75.

See:

http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/as-rendition-controversy...
http://www.propublica.org/article/the-best-reporting-on-dete...
I don't know if religion is such an important impediment to moral responsibility to animals. I think capitalism is more important namely because of factory farming. Most people don't want to know about it and wouldn't stop eating meat or pay twice as much to avoid it. Factory farming is completely hidden from people in cities, so people don't empathize with it as much.
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mysql only gets mentioned 2 (now 3) times in this thread? oracle seems to be doing a job!
"There is much shameful hunger in the USA."

AGain ? Do you hear dozens of people dying from starvation everyday in the papers?

Starvation has a cause of death is like almost nil in all modern countries. You should be more worried about obesity, diabetes as morbidity-leaders among all categories you mentioned.
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Haha, I knew someone would tell me "but it's easy to set up nginx and PHP!!!"

I really don't agree. "php -S localhost:8888" is much, much easier. Let's leave it at that.
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...folks who want to share that information with you sort of ooze out of the woodwork

Yeah, that was my impression. IOW, you can't find out anything unless you're actually buying. I don't have the budget for any of this stuff; I am just curious so I've looked around the Web and found no hard numbers.
What happened with the big GoDaddy thread?!
If they didn't want to see ads on site X, they just shouldn't go on site X?

How do you feel about people who change the TV channel when a commercial comes on? What about PVRs that automatically skip commercials on playback?
There were economic riots in the West Bank today. Although those were more due to corruption. However the thing people complained about was high prices.
»"it all boils down to...energy"

Actually, in India, it doesn't. The energy intensity of an ideal distribution network in India has a fraction of the friction of the existing system. For the case provided it boils down to efficacy of governance, corruption, and transparency.
But it's beside the point dmix is making and distraction from the central point of this thread. This sort of distraction, subtle changes of topic, is a common way discussions fail. If done deliberately it's also a way to appear to have won an argument.
Ah yes, "porn isn't real".

Neither are romantic comedies, princess stories, and the rest of the relationship-porn genre.
Hey Chris,

Sorry if this was obvious, but did you just sell the product, or did you sell the whole company (or something else)? How do you manage the acquisitions yet still keep GetVocal your own company?

I'd love to chat with you a bit more about this, as I've been in some similar situations and would love some advice.
The conjecture is that the quotient is almost always greater than ONE, not zero...
I would point out that one man's 'riot inciter' is another man's 'community leader'.
Just used namecheap, so much simpler than godaddy, no upsell, reasonable priced anon registration. Beauty.
A: Is that a bad thing?

B: What Malthusian crisis? He's been thoroughly discredited.

C: That's like saying eating will delay death. It will, just keep on delaying it every day.
You should post a link to a mailing list! I'd join.
This reminds me a little bit of S/KEY: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1760
It's kind of cute when news sources do it, as if they're too shy to admit "so, we found this on 4chan the other day..."
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Yes, that's exactly what I already had in mind. To be honest until yesterday I didn't even realize that Mini-ITX could handle the newer sockels and a decent PCIe graphic card. But with knowing that, this is a very good alternative to a console.
Here it is: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4500993

The moderators must have removed it from the front page. In such cases, HackerSlide[0] can prove very useful.

0: http://hackerslide.com/
HN is being taken over slowly by recruiters...
Having "UX fixes for various sites" is too generic and varied in description - it would be a hard sell.

However, I could see it working if you were to drill down to one specific feature, like hiding the login prompt for a selection of sites.
Yes, sqp(abc)^r/c is greater than 0. But what we are saying here is that it is _bounded_.

The formulation in the article is a little confusing/non-intuitive. A perhaps more 'layman' explanation is that for every r > 1, there are only finitely many coprime tuples (a,b,c) such that a+b = c and c > sqp(abc)^r
In other words, in "most" cases, sqp(abc) is greater than c!

This is equivalent to the definition in the article. Why? Well, given a fixed r, there are finitely many tuples that satisfy c > sqp(abc)^r. Since there are finitely many, we can pick a constant K > 0 st c < K*sqp(abc)^r for ALL tuples (a,b,c). Thus:

sqp(abc)^r/c > 1/K > 0, as the article mentions.
That the particular qualifications you're citing are vital.
Could someone explain to me why the majority of startups seems to use GoDaddy? Their user-interface is unintuitive and ugly and there are plenty of other good alternatives. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't use GoDaddy, but why does a mediocre-at-best service have such a high market-share?
The full-page flashing refresh on the Kindle is a software measure to get rid of the afterimage that would otherwise remain on the screen. Here's what it looks like when it's disabled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQJGfU8fEUg
One way to deal with an overzealous mod:

Such a great answer proves that the question was worth asking. – Olivier 2 days ago

@Olivier: while I agree with your comment regarding the answer, I woould like to add that your inference regarding this particular question to me comes close to saying: the great and heroic work of the fire-fighters prove that it was worth setting the house on fire. – quid 2 days ago

On MathOverflow, though, it is possible to edit the original house so that it is no longer inflammatory, while still recording the work of the firefighter. – Terry Tao 2 days ago

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If it is beta, why does the path include "final"?
During the last Superbowl a friend quipped, at an Indian restaurant, regarding Steve Jobs's cancer, borrowing from Feynman: "He could pitch anyone. But no one can pitch nature. You can't pitch nature."
I'd prefer a plugin to block all links to Quora. I will not support a website that uses tactics to get ranked in Google for content they aren't going to show human browsers.
This.

See the previous topic on folks starving in India not because of a lack of food but because of corruption. So I could totally buy into the idea that people will riot and assert their right to be governed in the presence of mass corruption which prevents them from eating. It worked for Mao and it has worked for others. Its easy to incite someone who is hungry and cannot afford food to riot (systemic input). So it becomes a priority for the government to avoid that, lest it lose its authority (systemic response).
Global warming may (in the mid-term) increase food production by moving the grain productive zones further north (to the Russian Steppes) were there is more land area.
Yeah. The website owner makes a conscious decision to fund their website using ads, and if the ads are so offensive that you literally need to block them, why go to the site? What sites are so crucial that you absolutely must use AdBlock?

I also don't pay for cable TV partly for similar reasons - I buy shows I like directly on Amazon, and use Netflix as a filler.

Do you disagree with nickpresta's comment? The less traffic Quora gets, the more likely it is that people will move to a more open platform. The solution isn't to just bypass their design choices.
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Agree with the OP. I also think that competition and negative or positive reinforcement is critical to goal execution. Then once you have goals you can try to have habits, but many times goals work and habits you thought you developed don't stick. If habits worked for everyone, there would be no Weight Watchers. That company survives off of people continuing to think it works, when it only works temporarily for most.
I was workin on a lot prototypes so I decided this was my final one.
FoundationDB founder here. Thanks for this comment. It's pretty hard to talk about this detailed technical stuff in the chaos of a conference. The discussion you link to and our web page both have a bunch of information that I think is high signal/noise for people interested in the tech details.

If anyone is at Disrupt, please come by and see our live demo of a portable cluster of the database dealing with power and network failures. Of course, we'll try our best to answer questions here too.
I think it does take more. It takes provocation or discontent. The point about being able to get away with it was that it can make a lynch mob more vicious than they would have been individually without the cover of anonymity. Whether it really is natural or not is not a well defined question, but I believe that people left to their own devices, when they're not hungry or otherwise deprived, wouldn't display nasty behavior.
I soon stopped reading for the same reason. However, US collapse is highly likely, if only because every time we kick the can down the road on the national debt we accelerate the debt growth. We certainly won't be paying it back, but when we inevitably can't borrow the ever greater amounts needed to keep kicking the can down the road, pain will be felt by most. I don't think we'll go back to the stone age. More likely we'll be a third-world country (with nukes), like Pakistan.
Please use the native scrolling. It was completely unusable on a non-Safari browser on my iPad 2 (even vanilla Safari was so sluggish as to reduce any desire to use it). It looked interesting (and the comments here indicate it is), but the scrolling was so bad, I couldn't check it out.

I really hesitated to pint this out, because I hate negative comments when people throw there stuff out here, but this one is just too critical to your potential success.
It's a bit rambling at points. But I can't say I don't disagree with many points.

I have been living in a third world country for close to four years and in many ways it feels more free living here. I can't put my finger on exactly what it is about this country that makes me feel that way though. Perhaps it was largely just the act of moving. Perhaps it's that this country has less resources to put people away.

I have been looking into the easiest options to get a second passport so that I always have a plan B.

What this article (or whatever you want to call it) doesn't seem to hit on is that the U.S. is made up of fifty different states. Perhaps the federal government just needs to shrink and let the states do their thing.
I's be open to exiting my successful bootstrapped startup, except I have absolutely no idea what an acquirer might pay. I've never broached this with potential investors because I'm afraid my asking price might be catastrophically high or low.

Can you let us know roughly what the deal was worth? Even the number of digits would help.
If there is some kind of connection between prime numbers, wouldn't a lot of the current work in encryption be thrown out?
This statement is as interesting as the following one:

There are probably implications for mathematics.
I'm loathe to write about this topic because it's so easy to be misconstrued if you have a nuanced view. Even the dialog about it can get rather scripted and dull. But I think you probably also have a nuanced view, and I just couldn't let go.

Women's enjoyment is not a real problem with porn, for several reasons. First, they're not the target demographic. Second, it's easy to fool people who want to be fooled and that's exactly the market here—there's not much tangible benefit to better acting. Third, this is just a job. I don't experience constant ecstasy at my occupation even though I clearly have the right one and I do enjoy it a lot. I think expecting someone to perform these kinds of acrobatics with a smile on their face is about the most you can expect. It would be ridiculous to imagine that they're literally orgasming from 8 AM to 5 PM just because they work in porn. They're called actors for a reason.

Second, you get what you search for. Really. Why would the industry care what kind of customer you are? They're not somehow going to make more money on people that like harder stuff; they have nothing to gain from incentivizing it. If they can shoot a woman fake masturbating for an hour and sell that for $20, of course they'd rather do that than have to shoot a bunch of actors all having really acrobatic sex for an hour and sell that for $20. On top of that, the weirder it gets the more expensive the actors are going to be, because fewer of them will have the capability or be willing to do weird things. This is just a job. I would expect acting in the kinds of things fewer people want to act in pays better, and that's overhead.

Third, it's entertainment. It doesn't need to teach. In fact, you can find plenty of material intended for teaching—it's consistently underviewed, because this is an entertainment medium and tutorials aren't great entertainment. Are these people who are fooled into thinking reality will be just like it is portrayed here also under the impression that hacking involves drag-and-drop green cubes, and CSI is all magic computers? Entertainment is entertaining to a large degree because it removes unnecessary details and focuses on the visceral. I would hate to live in a world in which all my entertainment had to be realistic.

Same thing for item 4, unrealistic expectations. This is an accusation you can levy at all forms of entertainment. Expecting your sex life to be like porn is just as stupid as expecting your career to be like the movies or your family to be like 50's TV. Who's that naive?

TL;DR: Porn is a product, porn actors are paid to act, realism oughtn't be mandated in entertainment and that the naive will believe anything is not a problem that can be solved.
I used org-mode before but I didn't put enough effort in learning it. Plain .txt files worked but I started missing linking between 'Notes' or 'Tasks' after a while.

I picked up org-mode again after trying a few online tools (including Google Docs and Trello), only this time spending an entire day reading the docs and a few blog posts on customisation before putting it into use.

The day ended with a "(add-hook 'after-init-hook '(lambda () (org-agenda-list 1)))" at the end of my .emacs file.

It was totally worth it. I am more organised now and as someone who gets distracted easily and may have a slight case of Adult ADHD, it has had a positive effect in my life. Just add Dropbox to the mix and it becomes all the more awesome. As you said, I love it how it just 'fits' in with Emacs when writing code.

Learning org-mode is not a wasted effort. There is just so many things that you can do with it once you know what you want.
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I've tried to set up my calendars to start on Monday, over the years. It makes sense, because the two major segments of my life, the work week and the weekend, are each displayed contiguously.

And yet I get confused. Probably because I've grown up with Sunday to Saturday calendars, and almost no one else does a Monday start calendar in the US.

And while thinking about this post, I wondered, would it make sense to display calendars with both? An eight day display, showing last Sunday, this week, and the coming weekend.
Neither, really. I was attempting to be a bit more nuanced than that (I was already long-winded as all hell).

> Are you saying that politicians are so out of touch with reality that they don't know what they promise is impossible?

No, I think the vast majority of voters more reliably fall into this camp, actually. Politicians are quite aware that they make unfulfillable promises, knowing much of it is (likely) impossible, but they do it because it has become the expectation in American elections that politicians campaign on issues, and they have to choose issues they think will resound strongly enough with the voting public.

> Or are they being intentionally misleading?

Well, to a certain extent--that extent being to the full degree to which they make unfulfillable promises--yeah, if I was being pedantic about it. I don't think they are completely misleading in that I am certain many candidates do believe strongly in certain issues and are genuinely interested in "fighting" politically for those issues.

With congresspersons, I don't think this problem is as acute as it is with presidents. They make promises that are legislative in nature, and can actually deliver (or be criticized for not delivering).

Unfortunately, campaign promises were adopted into the popular election of presidents, and I think are detrimental for voters and the presidents themselves. Presidents operate within relatively (and sometimes heavily, depending on the political climate) circumscribed spheres of influence. Yes, presidents can (and do) suggest an agenda and even outright offer legislation to Congress, and work to spend political capital to the advancement of that agenda. But, ultimately, Congress has the authority, power, and responsibility where lawmaking that affects the People is concerned. But presidents seem (from the opposite aisle) to receive a lot of unwarranted blame for congressional actions--and then the congressional actors go on to spend many more terms in office.

Where I do believe politicians are being intentionally misleading is on the campaign trail, specifically where contenders take on incumbents and criticize them for mostly legislative actions that are beyond their control, instead of for executive actions. If Mr. Romney wants to attack Mr. Obama for the ways in which he is executing the law, or representing the policies of the nation to other heads of state, etc., okay. But when he attacks the President for things that happened in Congress, it is fundamentally misleading. It leaves people confused about the structure and organization of government, effectively perpetuating the same cycle.
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$9 isn't the new black, variable pricing is. Happy to spend (and write off) more to learn some new stuff and support projects like this. I'd love to see a blog post about the pricing in a few weeks / months.
Can you add a table of contents with brief chapter descriptions? It's not clear what the breadth and depth of the content is.
> a manager would rather work with Gabriella

Managers avoid Gabriellas because Gabriellas try to get out of their coding jobs as fast as they can, usually by going for the manager's job, usually with a few freshly sharpened knives in their holster.

> [Gabriella] takes 30 lines to write what should be written in 15 or 20

That's a typo. Should read "takes 30 hours to write what should be written in 15 or 20 minutes".

> Gabriella comes out way ahead. And I've seen it happen many times--programmers who are great employees but not great coders move to the top while the great coders but poor communicators stay on the bottom.

What is the top and what is the bottom? Is getting out of coding as quick as possible your definition of moving to the top? Gabriellas also get to "the top" by passing off Rodrigo's work as their own.
> If there is some kind of connection between prime numbers, wouldn't a lot of the current work in encryption be thrown out?

Unlikely. The recent work doesn't improve our ability to factor large integers, the key to modern cryptography. If someone created a function that instantly produced the prime factors for large integers without the present difficult process, that would change everything, but that's not a likely outcome.

The next real challenge to modern cryptography isn't this work, but quantum computing. If quantum computing came to full flower with no obstacles sometime in the future, that would represent a basic change because it would perform an end run around the present computational difficulties that assure the security and reliability of our present methods.
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Go fix it?
I completely agree, I'm getting a little tired of the whining about the 's'-word. For example, on the blog it shows the letter from Square with a paper background. What are we supposed to do instead of something like that? Blocks of solid color for everything, like you said?
I think the cleverest line in the movie is about what a herd of geese sounds like.
I'm curious what's going on there. Is it investor pressure? Why would they repeat the same tactics as EX that only prompted extreme user negativity?