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Mexico's problem is in essense, that outside market pressure makes its inhabitants behave in a way that is at odds with keeping up a state under the rule of law.

As a thought experiment, think what would happen if Mexico made drugs legal. Their government would had to fight against the cartels, and might at some point win.

What you have then is a system where Mexico has much less criminality. They can't export to the US directly of course, but people will just buy drugs legally in the Mexican north and try to smuggle it the the US. The US can decide for themselves if they want to legalize it or not, and if they don't the US criminality is still there, but the Mexican criminality is gone.

Well what would likely happen then is another 1989 Panama. One of the main reasons why the US invaded Panama was its involvement in drug trade. So the US would criticize Mexico publicly, and at some point probably invade it.

It looks to me like current time Mexico is stuck between a rock and a hard place. They must be opposed to drugs because their powerful northern neighbor wants them to, but outside market pressure, from the very same neighbor at the same time destabilizes it.

So it's an issue that should be solved by an outside party - the US. But that party won't tackle the issue because Mexican people can't vote in the US.

Sounds like bad US colonialism to me :-(
At least they don't claim it is anything other than a joke.

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I have a suggestion for website orientation: the subcategory page for any given topic should be simpler. Just list the subcategories for, say, math, and right underneath those subcategories, list the individual video topics. It's kind of a pain searching for a video on a specific subject, and it would help tremendously to be able to see all of the video titles on one page.
"Throw everything against the wall and see what sticks," has been Standard Operating Procedure for the FBI since its inception. Hence, Al Capone being prosecuted for income tax evasion.
I wholeheartedly agree about your second point - I blogged about it recently - http://blogea.bureau14.fr/index.php/2012/11/function-composi...
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Awesome selection I especially like the font!

There is plenty of themes listed here as well http://textmatetheme.com/
Far easier than an evacuated tunnel, though, is a tunnel built on standard-pressure hydrogen/helium. Light gasses have a much higher speed of sound, and their lower density means lower drag. A system of hydrogen-filled maglev tubes that can max out at 2500mph with freight-weight loads over long hauls would be more than a little bit valuable.
So Hamburg is the East Texas of Germany?
The snake example is good, but for me it is more intuitive to think of the z-y plane as having very small volume but infinite surface area as the plane extends infinately in both z and y.
> Legalize all drugs and tax them.

I would not tax them anymore then they are taxed allready.

> But let's cut to the chase, this is not about drugs and health issues. This is about money and jobs for DEA. Essentially, we're pissing away our tax money to pay for DEA agents and their expensive toys, who, in turn, don't provide any real service.

The burocratic overhead is one reason for sure but I do not think its the most importend one.

I think the most importend one is that the politics does not want to admit that the ware wrong for 50 years. How would that look if the democrats came out with legal drug policys? Tell people X for 50 years and then switch to telling them (not X).

The next reason is the ignorance of the people, 50 years of anti-drug propaganda had a effect. This kind of propaganda becomes self-enforcing after a while. Many people actually belive all that crap that is said about drugs.
I found softupdates to be superior to traditional journaled filesystems for boot filesystem - BIOS can't replay the journal, but softupdates provide always consistent fs state on disk, so kernel and modules can be loaded and booted. Only leaks of free blocks need to be fixed with background fsck if filesystem is dirty.
Welcome to Hacker News (I see you just joined). I don't need a free design but I was curious about your own app. Can you share details on what you're working on?
I think the US is fine with a War on Anything, as long as it's done in another country. The actual killing is done in Mexico and Afghanistan, and we're just peachy fine with that.
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This thread is working on a false premise. The article claims that all photosynthesis-based energy production is inherently massively inefficient and thus, a bad idea. This includes everything from corn ethanol to algae.

He claims leaving trees in place and just burning regular oil instead is better for the CO2 fixation, both in the short and long term.
Seams to me that the market it the only way we can slow global warning down. Its companys like Tesla that make a diffrence not some goverment that tries to regulate existing stuff.

The have neither the insentive nor the knowlage to do so.

Electric cars, solar cells are the things that will change the world, not goverment regulation.
"For the comments about the web not being ready for HTML5 yet because it is too young: nonsense"

Although your personal experience may backup this assumption, it simply isn't true when you look at the stats :
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201110...
I expect what will happen, if this becomes a major advantage of Ubuntu over other distros, is that projects will surface to create a sort of emulated Ubuntu sandbox for proprietary software targeted at Ubuntu. It will be sort of like Wine, except that it will work way better.
"You feel like you've seen something that the rest of the world wanted to see." Really?
Thought experiment:

Let's suppose that load time could be halved. Four minute load time means that employees will still spend the same fifteen minutes getting their coffee.

Even an order of magnitude improvement in load time would be over a minute and long enough to justify checking Facebook on one's iPhone. The fifteen minutes is still lost - maybe more because at a minute of load time, people might wait until they have their coffee before starting the application.
The thing is that you can produce energy at one place and then move it around the world cheaply.

This does not work with solar. You can produce it but storing and disributing is much, much harder.
The article doesn't quote much on algae; it just dismisses them. In fact, there is no comparison of the actual economies involved; its just a sunlight-efficiency argument which is interesting but far from conclusive.

Solar cells cost something to build - ignored in the article. Using all sorts of minerals and industrial processes, very hard to trace thru our entire economy to get an 'energy budget' and thus a payback. So its easy to call them more efficient, if you don't actually calculate their cost.

Plants 'build' themselves - essentially nanotechnology for free. They can be built over and over again, or the land can be repurposed for food or grazing or parks or whatever. Solar cell farms are heavy infrastructure investments that have to be manufactured, hauled into place, installed, maintained, replaced.
To play devil's advocate: do you think that drug-related crimes would increase or decrease as a result of legalization?

It's a question I haven't considered before, but one that takes a bit of consideration. I certainly don't see it decreasing. (I support legalization by the way, I side with libertarians on issues regarding the choice of what to do with one's body. However, the libertarian camp also advocates a government who's primary concern is protecting citizen's from violence. Just an aside.)
You might still have the correct values in your DNS cache for the sites. It looks like the .pk registrar was hacked and the DNS for these site changed.

Since you're in Pakistan, you've probably recently resolved some of these names so you'd get the correct version.
If you know that the money you spend on your recreational drug flows to drug cartels and funds murder and torture, then yes, you are a "responsible" user, responsible for murder and torture.

Don't buy the drugs and you starve the cartels. You don't have to wait for legalization to have a direct if small impact on murder and torture. Sure, campaign for legalization, but you can take direct action this minute.
Have you tried to replicate it recently?
My advice, for what it's worth, and based on my experience building and running https://openexchangerates.org, would be to continue to offer it free (in your case, open sourced) but provide the hosted version as a service.

For example: I'd very gladly pay a small monthly fee to use your API for my invoicing system which I'm working on right now. I already have a load of open source tech I rely on, and some things just make more sense to pay for (e.g. using GitHub instead of self-hosting something like GitLab - it's a tiny monthly fee that saves me hours of hassle). I'd much rather use a hosted API that I can integrate in minutes than spend hours potentially faffing about with installing stuff from the repository, and worrying about keeping it up to date, explaining it to outsourcers/team members, etc.

If I do end up using your solution in my biz, I'll gladly donate - make sure you have donate buttons up and prominently displayed!
As an habitant of Juarez, one of the cities that was hit the most with Calderon's war against drugs, this is insulting. We all know it's impossible to end drug trade. That's why most cities had this sort of "understanding" with the cartels. They move some stuff around, they leave the people alone and everything works out (e.g. Though Juarez had a lot of Drug related crimes before the "war on drugs", it was mostly contained, but still we had a lower than average rate for other types of crime like armed robbery and such).

But this wasn't about the wear on drugs, this was about territory: The local government had deals with the local cartel, but the Sinaloa cartel started fighting for more territory, allegedly with the aid of the army/federal police. Suddenly Juarez is impossible to live in, not because of all the narco murders but because federal agents and armies are stopping you every three blocks and suddenly you have a lot of blackmail, threats, etc coming from the guys that are supposedly there to protect. We knew they were not there to end the drug problem, they were there as a part of it, and we know it's impossible to end it, but it's better to have it out of sight, out of mind.

Now he's leaving and of course he had to come up with a conclusion like this. I just hope cities get back to the balance they had from before the war and this drug traffic problem stops spilling to the general population. As long as there is a market there will be someone to fill the need, and being the next door neighbor we're sadly in a good position to have those kinds of people.

Yes Mr. Calderón, it's impossible to end drug trade, you knew it, we knew it, this is not news... And yet you had us suffering in fear and crime for six years just because you wanted to help some buddies and look as if you were actually doing something.
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Since you're just starting out, most of the projects you'll get will be no-name clients who are looking for someone who will work for cheap. The sites you design may not even make it past the design stage and most won't be around in a few months.

Its not something to be worried about, and as long as you get paid it shouldn't affect you. Not being able to Google a client doesn't mean there's anything suspicious about him or her, it simply means that they aren't all that active on the web.

I've been a freelance designer for about five years, and most of the clients I worked with in the beginning had very little footprint on Google. Some of them were simply inactive, while others used other channels that are less common (obscure username on some random forum).
How exactly would you scale this direct absorption? Glass tubes? Under pressure? Oops, now we're at the air-receiver dream. Never gonna happen. Also, can you guarantee that particles don't get entrained in the steam flow? I'm not sure Siemens is gonna warrantee that turbine. Sorry to be a pessimist, but it's gonna take a while longer for tech like this to make sense to me.
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I don't think there really is an alternative because it doesn't matter.

I don't look at ads. I 100% ignore the adwords results on Google or the featured ads. After spending years using the internet it's gotten to the point where I don't even see ads anymore without ad-block unless they are injected video ads.

I use ad-block for the purpose of saving myself time. Having to deal with a 10 or 30 second ad into almost every short video is ridiculous. It's not like everyone watches these ads. Most of the time prior to using ad-block I instantly switched to a different tab.

Ads kill the internet. I've had some sites serve certain annoying ads in the past. If a site plays an ad that plays sounds, guess what? Even if you couldn't control what ad you served I'm never going to visit your site ever again, no matter what.

A real alternative would be to produce something of value. Give me a good product, service or content and I'll consider paying you for it. Spend less time trying to force people into buying stuff they probably don't want.
"is that energy from oil ends up converted into human biomass"

No, that's the whole point!

Humans surely cater to farming using oil, and we would be a lot worse without it.

But in the end food came from two sources: energy from the sunlight and CO2 (matter) from the atmosphere. (Well, then we could say we're eating car emissions).

Unless you're converting oil directly into food (let's say carbohydrates), no, all energy from plants comes from solar energy. You could of course have a giant oil powered lamp that produces light and shine that over the crop.
Check out Tomboy Notes. Its pretty good.
"Competing with food crops" is a curious notion. When did we run out of space for food crops? Not on this planet.

Corn grown in Iowa could feed 2 United States. So we make all sorts of other things out of it, or the govt pays folks (me for instance) to NOT grow corn and keep the price up.

At this point in history, with our current distribution system, biofuels can make money. In the future they will become more efficient, perhaps orders of magnitude more in ways we haven't thought of yet (oil-drop lenses on the leaves; kelp that fills its pods directly with waxy carbohydrate films; seeds that can be eaten OR converted to fuel etc).

The dumb thing would be to stop innovating now, because of FUD about imaginary issues.
Already discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817574
Headline: oil industry experts slam alternative energy.

Alternatives have only just begun being explored. Innovation in this area are very likely to surprise that chemist. E.g. steam from room-temperature water posted on HN today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4824205

Bioengineered plants may work any way we can imagine, not just the way an oil-industry chemist imagines.
I still dont understand they governments, especially the uber capitalist ones like the US, make damn sure with their laws, that the money and power are in the hands of drug dealers and cartels.

Restricting supply ups the price. You cant control demand in anything close to a reasonable way. Frankly people want drugs. Americans know this better than most since they had prohibition.

I have always wondered if some how it suits government to have violent criminals controlling the supply and money. If just the money which goes to the war machine, or something else?
Tangent: Christmas music in a store makes me feel like I'm in the fake underground world in A Boy and His Dog. It's just creepy. They do it because they think, or know through studies, that it increases the probability that I'll buy something.
When I was an undergraduate at Hampshire College my advisor, David Kelly, used a draft version of the linked text in an experiment to teach introductory calculus using nonstandard analysis rather than limits. This was probably in 1978, and I was a teaching assistant for the class. I think the experiment worked pretty well.
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I guess I'm not really surprised that using the mouse is faster for specific tasks like arbitrarily moving the cursor. It's a much more random access kind of device than the keyboard.

What really makes the keyboard shine is the use of shortcuts. Change the task to a sane one, like find and replace, and I guarantee you I can hit that shortcut before you can get your mouse up to the menu bar.
these are some much needed bug fixes (is_readable for example), but personally I'm most exited about 5.5, there are some really nice features coming in it - coroutines :)
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The web is a mess. Where's the news in that?

Code once and run in all platforms is pretty much a myth no matter the framework you use, including the web ecosystem.

I've lost count of how many times I wished we could run in the browser a decent language like python or ruby. Or describe the data of documents in something more meaningful like JSON instead of HTML. And then there's the DOM, CCSS, and all the browser specific nonsense.

Can I just ignore this crap and code my applications already?
The Wii was the same way. It was "hard to get" for two Christmases. How is that at all possible?

People mess up forecasting all the time. I've been a personal witness to several instances of this. It usually results in someone getting fired.

Overproduction can be a terrible burden on any company. It is often better to take the low forecast to reduce risk.
"Who appointed Apple the globe’s moral arbiter?"

We did.
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But the experiment does not show that the mouse is faster than the "keyboard". It shows that the mouse is faster than using the cursor (arrow) keys for a task where doing the latter would obviously by extremely slow. For me, "using the keyboard" means typing ":1,$s/|/e/g". Say there are 100 instances of "|" to replace. Which do you think will be faster?
For #1, I would suggest that your application/API will be the weaker link in the security/privacy chain. While it's possible that you could have Heroku or EC2 admins do "bad things" or have "unruly neighbors", it's far more likely you'll introduce flaws via insecure coding practices or by using insecure libraries. If you rely on solid data encryption (at rest and in transit) practices and make the effort to secure credentials properly, you should be fine in either setup. I'd make the dedicated VPS vs "cloud" setup based upon need for scalability/etc vs security. You should be able to secure a "cloud" config to your needs.

For #2 – since it seems you're in more a 'privacy' realm than a 'compliance' realm, it may be worth the time to peruse the White House's framework – http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/privacy-final.... – from this past Feb (which has links/refs/comparisons-across privacy standards) and then the CSA's Cloud Controls Matrix : https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/ccm/ : or the whole CSA GRC stack : https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/grc-stack/ : which should help you assess which provider/service is right.

The prescriptive controls in PCI can help you design your data access & handling strategy, but you have to remember that PCI is highly focused on protecting a sixteen digit number and you'll need to determine what your critical data components are from a privacy perspective to effectively map against PCI or other control frameworks.
This is all very well for the particular task, but now let's get into serious keyboard usage, where the difference is made.

The real approach to this particular problem (yes, I know it is a specialised problem; knowing when to use the keyboard and when to use the mouse is part of the matter) is to use find-and-replace functionality.

- The find and replace approach using Word for Windows, keyboard: Ctrl+H [Find and replace; shortcut may not be correct, I'm just working from distant memory], |, Tab, e, Alt+A [replace all].

- The find and replace approach using Word for Windows, mouse: find the find icon. I believe it's near the end of the Home tab in the ribbon, now. Click on it. Go to the Find and Replace tab (probably?). Focus on the Find field. Enter "|". Switch to the Replace field. Enter "e". Click the Replace All button. (Probably agree to replacing from the start of the document as well.)

Now tell me that that was faster with the mouse than with the keyboard (assuming that you knew where everything was from the start).

Vim.

- Keyboard: :%s/|/e/g<Enter> (and it's in your muscle memory, anyway, so that the whole thing takes no more than four seconds).

- Mouse, find-and-replace way (assuming you have the toolbar showing - I certainly don't): much the same as Word. It's in a toolbar icon.

(Note that if you have set ``behave mswin`` you can have the dubious convenience of a Word-style select mode with which you could do the replacing the slow way as in the article in just the same manner).

Which method is faster in this specialised case?

Being aware of actual timing issues and knowing when to use one and when to use another is important. I do, very occasionally, use the mouse in Vim. But Vim has such a good keyboard interface (and, you might choose to argue, not a well-tuned mouse interface) that the mouse is needed precious rarely.

And every time I've gone back to make a modification in this comment while writing it, I've used the keyboard. And I know it was faster.
I took a look at Steve Klabnik's a few days ago. Honestly, I couldn't get into it - I'm not sure why, but I felt it was disorganized. I felt there was no way to really jump in from the beginning, get a good ground-level understanding, and then progress to more advanced topics. It felt more like a collection of articles targeting people with various backgrounds and levels.

Maybe I'll be back to it after I've read another resource - it's quite possible Steve's is simply for someone who understands more about these concepts than I do.
New Rackspace Cloud (pretty mainstream, right?) lists FreeBSD 9 as one of the supported OSes: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/servers/techdetails/