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One of the many problems in considering yourself morally obliged is that any finite present obligation is a step onto a conveyor belt that leads to (countably) infinite obligation. If you're being logical, that is, as opposed to drawing random lines in the sand.

Obligation to those alive now leads to obligation to their future well-being. That in turn leads to obligation to those not yet alive. That in turn leads to obligation to all future sentience: you are obliged to ensure their existence as best you can, and that is is good. The weight of their existence, trillions of entities even in just the next millenium, is of such value compared to your miserable life that you can do nothing but beggar yourself to achieve the merest sliver of an outcome that would aid them.

If you are obliged to anyone then you are also obliged to the (countably) infinite future, by the very same arguments. When you draw lines and say "no more" then it becomes the case that you are only pretending to be obliged - you do this for yourself, a way to satisfy your own irrational desires to some threshold. You don't really care about anyone else, it's all about your own needs.

I'm given to think that moral discussions, like mathematics and physics, you pay attention to the infinities because that is how you know where the limits of your process/theory/axioms/system of thought lie.
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How do you mean? I hope I haven't offended you.
The guy made a model that he (and the nytimes) think is reasonable. The model takes inputs and spits out a probability. As the inputs change slightly so does the output. He's well within his right to publish these changes. What's the problem? That you just can't accept the validity of day-to-day basis-point changes in 'chances of something happening' when the inputs might be dirty? Can't you just say 'oh, that's nice' and take it as a directional signal without allowing it to irritate you?

I'll take a thoughtful statistical analysis any day over the words of a single television journalist giving me second-hand information from a 'source within the campaign' especially when any campaign insider has an absurdly strong incentive to manufacture public perception in his candidates favor.
Aged programmers are getting better at development work simply because of survivor bias. A lot of people who couldn't cut it over the years have dropped out. Anyone who can still do it effectively at old age will learn new programming with ease since they have switched gears so many times over the years.
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

A local startup raised over $300k after stealing my work and trying to pass it off as their own but they had no idea how to execute on it after they raised. They're now grasping at how to find product-market fit and they've pivoted thrice because they can't pull-off what they ripped-off. We've found companies in Europe that came up with the same idea because the verticals we work in are more evolved there. Seeing others conjuring similar ideas validates that we're on the right track in a new market ripe with opportunity.
Any news about Midori? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)
Red states love Pinterest, blue states love Macs

-- Poor states <want> stuff, rich states <own> Stuff
This is kind of funny since I taught myself a lot of go by porting a bunch of the coreutils. It still amazes me how much there is to learn from unix. Many many times I find myself going back to some programs src (cron, find, etc.) when I need the design/algorithm/feature in my own programs.
States have an incentive to use a winner take all policy to maximize their influence in the outcome.
You're finding issues where none need exist. My country has mandatory appearance, but not mandatory voting. If you are undecided you can leave your ballot empty, but you have to come to the voting booth regardless.

But even with mandatory voting you could argue that it is a fairer representation even if it forces people who don't care to choose a side. Democracy is about trying to capture what te people want, and "the people" means everyone, not just those who care. Idiots have equal voice to nobel prize winners, that's the democratic way.

FPTP is the real problem though. You could keep optional voting but just switch to pretty much any other vote tallying system and get better leaders. FPTP is mathematically guaranteed to bring out the worst in politicians.
Why? What's the danger in starting small?

The biggest risk is that you stay small, and given "small" in the context here also means "quick", how big a problem is that?
A part from the fact it's Seagate, they provide the product as-is and they make the choice of what's inside it. Therefore they are responsible for it.

Secondly, I do have backups. I didn't have a last-minute backup. The kind of backup you do right before shutting down and changing a hard drive. What makes you think I can't do it myself? I've build my own PCs since I was a kid... :-)
And that is an interesting point; and it is specifically the point the G*P was making, which was obscured by saying, "Oh, but there are still multiple eyes here."
Rodrigo, I thought you should know that when browsing your site on an iPhone 4, the header overlapped the index. That wasn't a great description, so here is a screenshot: http://db.tt/7grTPHsL

You also cannot zoom in, which made it very hard to read.
Excellent job!

Keep your drive, motivation, and by all means keep launching your software! You will go much farther than most people.

I also started teaching myself programming at 14. 16 years later, I cannot imagine doing anything else.
The irony is that 538 can only exist because of gut-based journalism. The polls it aggregates aren't cheap to conduct. Newspapers and television commission them so that they can be the first to run a story alerting the public to some shocking new result, even (or especially) if it's an outlier. If the public stops paying attention to traditional horse-race poll journalism, these outlets won't have any motivation to continue polling.
PC guy here. Have used Fedora for years as my daily OS and the only reason i have a Windows VM on my linux machine is actually because i love iTunes so much. I don't have an iDevice, either.

I've used a vast array of media players for Linux and Windows and nothing i can find matches the features iTunes has for organizing my music library.

However, it's difficult to understand why Apple doesn't update iTunes on Windows more frequently. I'm pretty sure the last iTunes update on Windows fixed well over twenty-five security vulnerabilities in open source libraries that were known for upwards of six months to everyone.

While that STILL doesn't match the negligence of companies like Oracle and Adobe, it's still negligence. Unacceptable negligence which is putting users at risk.
Yeah, Apple never was the pinnacle of support, and that wasn't any different when Jobs was at the helm. I did a short stint as a hotline supporter, so for a change I actually know what I'm talking about… The products on average were quite good and the process was friendly enough, which in addition to the RDF got Apple some good marks regarding customer support, but the big competitors (HP, Dell, IBM) usually had better warranty handling, especially for desktop products (pickup etc.). And Apple had a hard time with the increased warranty periods enforced by European countries (which is still part of their excuse why their products are that much more expensive over there).

It's not like Steve personally delivered your fixed product with a ribbon 'round it back in the days.
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Odd they singled out Pinterest in the headline since the percentage of any of the population on it is less than 1%. They could have just gone with "Red states love PCs and IE".
One thing you might be missing is that his predictions are verifiable at the state level - a result where he predicted the overall winner but only got 30 of 50 states right versus getting 49 out of 50 states right are pretty different.

This really isn't true, because something like 35-40 of the states aren't even remotely up for grabs and anyone intelligent could predict them after 15 mins of looking at recent polls and previous election results. So he's trying to pick winners for 10-15 states where the race is closer, but for probably half of those, it's really not that close and you'd have a pretty good chance of getting them right if you just eyeballed it. So now we're talking about 5-7 really tight swing states, and you're basically saying that predicting 44/50 states is very different than predicting 49/50. Not so sure that it is, especially given that it was a 50/50 choice for each of those states, and he did it for one election. Also, lots of pundits and bloggers made predictions in 2008; you'd expect someone to be mostly right. Fooled by Randomness and all that.

For what it's worth, I think Silver probably is right and Obama will win (though I'd prefer he didn't), but his methods do lean towards being relatively unverifiable on a short timeline.
He really should have been backing up his own data anyway. And if you really have important data on your computer, why would you send it off to strangers to back up anyway? I'd format the drive and zero it out before returning it.
What triggered the popularity of lambda functions?
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This is very, very good advice. Many of my most successful projects also started small-ish - including my first feature film, my 500k visitors/month website and my current project starring some Pretty Famous Actors.

Having said that, in the case of film I tend to have more of a problem keeping the damn project small long enough to release something - hence why my average time-between-releases is about 3 years. This seems to be something of an endemic problem in the pretty-pictures-moving-on-a-screen industry, as James Cameron and Joss Whedon, for example, demonstrate.

I wonder - does anyone have any good ideas for how to create an MVF (Minimum Viable Film)? Would be interested to have a discussion on this.
> if governments want to reduce the risk of banks this is obviously what they need to do: create long-term consequences for reckless risk-taking.

And they know that. But the governments work for the banks, not for the people, and thus have NO incentive to do anything about the reckless risk taking, until things become bad enough that it might lead to an uprising.
>Second: Western Digital hard drive failures are not directly Apple's fault. Apple package the product but it's only indirectly their fault -- Western Digital screwed up here

You make it sound as if he bought a WD drive on Newegg. Doesn't Apple charge a hefty premium on hard disks, especially if you chose an upgrade? One would be right to expect a higher level of support than a similar cheap purchase on Newegg for the same price.
I always implement "cat" as a first toy application when learning a new langauge - it's a great introduction tool as it deals with dealing with files, dealing with streams (stdin) and so on.
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>The appropriate amount of precision to conclude with, given all of the fuzzy inputs, is something like 'well, we can't tell who's going to win - it's close, although this one candidate's chances look slightly better'. It's not 'Candidate A's chances improved from 74.6% yesterday to 76.5% today'.

Your post shows a horrible misunderstanding of how this all works. When you have sketchy data, you don't just disregard it -- it's still telling you something and the role of statistics here is to extract, from amidst all the noise, that information.

Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's not worth the attempt.

>His results are also completely unverifiable.

Kind of. But how his methodology performs over all, over a wide range of elections, is verifiable. Wikipeida mentions this:

>The accuracy of his November 2008 presidential election predictions—he correctly predicted the winner of 49 of the 50 states—won Silver further attention and commendation. The only state he missed was Indiana, which went for Barack Obama by 1%. He also correctly predicted the winner of all 35 Senate races that year.

Whether his models perform like this consistently is a very real way that the methodology can be verified.
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Thank you! I was about to write just this.

Their support has always been average at best. Whether Steve was alive or not. Romanticising the time when Steve was around doesn't help shit.
(Disclaimer: I'm an EE who has done non-for-hire house wiring, not an electrician. It is up to you to decide for yourself if my opinion concurs with anything else you've read, common sense, the laws of physics, etc. I presume you've obtained a generator at this time because you are indeed out of power and looking to get up and running quick, not for an ideal or best-prepared situation)

I personally wouldn't worry about a grounding rod if I was just running a few extension cords from the generator to power a handful of necessary things. The important thing is for all of the devices to be grounded back to the generator. This means 3 conductor cords for 3 prong devices, 4 conductor cords for 4 prong stove/dryer. 2 conductor non-polarized cords should be fine for modern 2-prong "double insulated" devices. In NO circumstance do you want to be using a 3-prong to 2-prong "cheater" adapters or anything similar.

Once you start talking about transfer switches and wiring it into your house, the picture completely changes. Unless you have experience doing house wiring, are up for dealing with live non-current-protected wires, and are open to learning something new while meticulously checking yourself, you really do want to talk to an electrician
That is one heck of a web page.
You are right, it would go into the first generation and will be collected pretty quickly unless it is more than 85KB which many strings that you want to compress are. If you go into that string length you get into the Large Object Heap and that is a disaster.
Unsafe work should not be scary. If you check out the code of GetByteCount for UTF8 encoding (as an example) you will see that Microsoft did the same thing.
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I was IP banned for editing a post too many times too quickly in succession. I guess that made me look like a spambot. The ban dropped automatically after a week.

You could also try emailing pg.
A little while back the Australian government officially recommended Australian business don't use the cloud for this very reason.

How long will it be before every country goes to extreme lengths to avoid the American legal jungle?
I have two 27" iMacs under this recall and I live in Brooklyn. I simply called Apple and told them it would not be possible to transport these iMacs to a store in Manhattan for servicing as I do not own a car (which I don't). They sent a service person to my house to do the drive swap. The tech was a 3rd party contractor and highly knowledgeable. We had a good discussion about the engineering in the iMacs as well as the current state of tech.

In short, I called Apple and politely walked through the issues and they did not hesitate to help me out, even after noting that I lived geographically close to many Apple stores (Grand Central, 5th Ave, etc), but also acknowledged the difficulties in actually getting to them.
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurman
Ask HN: inexpensive hosting for static pages?
I have a few (static HTML) websites that collectively get ~200 pageviews a month. I'm currently paying $7.50/month on Namecheap to host them, which is totally unnecessary.

Can you recommend a cheaper, or free, hosting service?
I agree with this and have done it in the past myself. Its a great learning exercise for new languages. The problems are easily defined and its apparent when you've successfully completed. Once you've done with the easier ones try implementing grep and then diff.
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I do, but you still need to back up the last days or so right before replacing the drive. That is also why I didn't want to buy a HDD - I already have a back up solution.
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I'm an old people, and I didn't really know what it does. Links to those sites? Why would I go "here" to go "there?" And hovering to show the link destination is turned off (why?), so I didn't click on anything. Because I'm old, and paranoid.
I don't know which model of iMac you have, but on the recent ones, replacing the HD requires removing the glass pane on the front, which is a very tricky operation. The pane is very thin and very large, which means if the force is applied unevenly, it can crack. Apple techs have a stiff aluminum frame with suction cups that they attach to the glass, then they use that to pull the glass off.
I know this is a little late for your case but you can migrate snapshots from 1 region to another. We spend sunday moving from US-East 1 to US-West 1 and took 2 hours to setup our entire infrastructure consisting of 20 servers & about 180 GB database

There are several options

1. Manually - http://alestic.com/2010/10/ec2-ami-copy

2. Automatically via Scripts
a) migrate-ebs-image.pl - http://search.cpan.org/~lds/VM-EC2/bin/migrate-ebs-image.pl
b) CloudyScript Migrate SnapShot - https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/4
c) CloudyScript Migrate AMI - https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/5

3. Commercial Services
a) http://ylastic.com/
b) RightScale

* ylastic is really cheap at $25 / month
* I used the perl script migrate-ebs-image.pl, super simple to install and use.
* CloudyScripts has open sourced their Ruby gem so you can build on top of it. They also have a free web form you can just use (but may not be secure enough). But you can launch their AMI in your own instance which should be secure

Hope that helps for next time!
No. Slavery isn't an obligation, it is a blight. Doesn't matter if its to one man, a nation, nor the sum collective of human existence.

Society can sanction you if you violate its rules, so ensuring the society in which you find yourself is a just society is an obligation to your own continued existence.
This is a brilliant idea, and may I suggest that one takes it slightly further than just implementing the core functionality, and aiming for a complete clone (optional parameters and all) with a few enhancements.

Indeed, for a further ego boost, why not also benchmark the performance of your versions against the performance of the native utilities? You never know, your new clone might end up being the new 'less' to the old 'more'!
Super interesting. A few of those r-squareds are really high.

It'd be interesting to see if there's any products for which state-level usage predicts voting for Obama but individual-level usage does the opposite (as is true with wealth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy)

(Link to infographic is broken for me.)
S3, Github pages or many services which use dropbox for static websites and blogs, like scriptogr.am
I was there 6 months back where you are today when it comes to running. It takes a lot of mental strength to nurture good habits but when you do so it becomes a way of living, your second nature. For first few months I had to consistently pushy myself but now it is a part of routine just like taking bath.
yes! dotcloud is 4.32$ for static and they have a really great UI.

Otherwise, Github Pages does it for the great price of free!
Yes you should enjoy what you do. Yes you should do what you're good at. And yes you should do something for the greater good. These days, with the rise of impact entrepreneurship, there are an abundance of opportunities to solve interesting technical challenges, make a ton of money, and do a heap of good for those less fortunate all at once. In my opinion there is no excuse not to.
Not to knock the Dropbox solution but a very convenient format for this situation is: Markdown formatted Gist. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about: https://gist.github.com/1900350
Note I am not the person you just replied to, but the fact that you would wait two weeks for a phone call made me think that you wouldn't replace a hard drive yourself.

I have a feeling you don't appropriately value your time. I got the recall notice. You know what I did? I made sure the backups were working and sent the recall notice to the trash.

A comparable 1TB hard drive is $100. If you value your own time appropriately, it is not worth your time to proactively replace it. I appreciated the heads up as it was a chance to double check my backups.

I never consider a hard drive "safe." The fact that I got a recall notice for a two year old hard drive was shocking to me.

All that said, my last "genius" experience was abysmal, as well, but I can give high praise to the business sales team at my local store.
So, the corrected notice is up. You have to scroll down to see it.

Resize your browser window to any size at all, and you still have to scroll down to see it. And no matter what size you choose, the big product icons at the "bottom" will neatly align with the
bottom of the window, to make it as non-obvious as possible that there's more below the fold. Scroll down slightly, and the first thing you see is a fairly standard looking page footer - which for many people will make them stop scrolling.

Looking at the page more closely, I found that it references http://images.apple.com/metrics/scripts/s_code_h.js, which contains a function getPercentPageViewed which measures exactly how many people will scroll down. I did not dig fully through the code obfuscation, but I am reasonably sure that this information is included in the s_ppv field of the session cookie which is sent to Apple on later requests. A look at the Wayback machine indicates that this tracking code is not new.

Therefore, if my interpretation is correct, Apple had and still has the exact fraction of people who would fail to scroll down and see the notice. And it possibly can measure what effect seeing the notice has on going on to buy. They may or may not have realized they had this information.

Samsung should ask Apple what fraction of users scroll down to see the notice. Additionally, they should ask Apple whetherthis issue arose in any internal discussions surrounding the notice. Apple is still acting in bad faith.
Another recommendation for Redshift Rendezvous. It REALLY is science fiction, and not just fiction (most things classified "sci-fi" these days are pure fantasy; where's the science in e.g. Star Wars?).

It's a good story, (acceptably) good science (for a story book), and if I recall correctly from 20 years ago, very well written.
For instance dotcloud supports Websockets :D
I'll do that if this thread doesn't resolve it (and after one week has passed, I really don't want't to bother people over this kind of things).
Yikes, customer service is everything. Hope you've received What's due to you.
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The article seems down to me (503), but here's one that (judging from the headline alone) is about the same topic: "People Who Can't Do Math Are So Mad At Nate Silver"

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/people-who-c...

e: The article is now up for me, and it definitely covers the same topic.