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Speaking of lazy, if you know that there's a better question to ask, why not say so to the person instead of dismissing them?

Q. "How do I start a rocket company?"

A. "Start by asking a different question, such as 'What are the economics of interplanetary exploration?'"
No, but I assume it doesn't have to be in the code of conduct, that there should be a staff meeting when a murder occurs, to decide if the local law enforcement should be involved?
I think interpreting these posts in the literal manner that you and the grandparent are doing is a bit misleading. If you read what the OP wrote in the most literal manner, he sounds like a nutjob. You're right - there's no way to say that it's his fault that everything happens. What if a stranger had a bad day for his own reasons, and decided to use that as an excuse to be rude to the OP? Or someone broke into his house and stole something? There's plenty of scenarios where logically it cannot be his fault that something happened. ("Global warming! It's all my fault!")

But that's not what he means, and not really what he's writing about. The way I read this, he's proposing a shift in world view. People are difficult and unpredictable creatures, but, if I were smart enough, I would understand how they work. I could have been smart enough or empathetic enough to realize this stranger had a bad day, and say something nice to him to cheer him up. I could have been smart enough to get a better security system for my house. If I really cared about global warming, I could try to become a U.S. senator (or some other powerful politician) and try to change it.

By saying, "It's my fault", what the OP means is, "If I really cared about this, and was smart/strong/etc enough, I could have worked to fix/prevent this". This isn't about "[controlling] the entire world". It's about believing that you have control over your life, and about realizing that blaming others (whether in an angry or forgiving sense) is entirely useless in terms of practicality. If you blame others for anything, you're saying that there's nothing you could've done, and letting others determine your life.

I understand that in some regards, this is a bit silly. It's not my fault that someone had a bad day, and it's not my fault that I don't know them well enough to make them feel better. It's not my fault they were rude to me. But I'd rather pretend it's my fault and think about ways that I could handle the situation better in the future than just blame it on external forces and allow myself to repeat the same mistakes.
I don't see it as a smear in the slightest. I see it as remembering him for what he stood by and for. My reading of his interviews suggests that he wouldn't have disagreed with my comments, he just would have thought there wasn't anything wrong with his position. I find that somewhat even more despicable, but yes, it's just my personal opinion, but I aim to be persuasive. Hence the confidence in my opinion.

As to my disrespectful timing, pish posh. I hope that my detractors and friends remember me for what I stood for after my death. I despise the rosy shade of forgetfulness that is afforded close friends and public figures after their death. Sure, I don't think I'm going to mail this comment as a postcard to his family members, but I think a website where immigration reform and gender issues come up regularly is a pretty good place to voice this point of view.

edit: spelling fix (am > aim)
"How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."

If you want to feel better about your python roots and ruby is still not there yet here is the link

http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/python/ruby

I like ruby and ruby on rails. is it perfect? no, it is evolving constantly .

Anybody can build and release a gem, if people love it it gets adopted more and more, rubygems, rack, bundler, rvm, all came from the community.

So the gem which caused all trouble for you, somebody wrote for solving his itch, released it thinking somebody may use it as well, will it be used by everybody maybe he did not care about, so wrote just enough code to get his thing done, if another ruby programmer finds it interesting uses it, if he finds bugs posts tickets or better fork on github submit a pull request.

Thats the ruby community I know of.
Question for those with Usenet know how. When downloading raw headers, I have observed a convention where the title is a random string of letters and numbers, and within the post are for example 50 rars and 10 pars. How are consumers 'decoding' the title so they know what they are getting? Does the uploader provide a translation? Or can the 'real title' be recovered programmatically? Many thanks.
That's great to hear -- thanks. :-)
I believe this misses the point. We have significant influence over almost everything that happens to us. For example, when a deal goes sour both parties could most likely have prevented it. Important - this does mean we live in a hopelessly relativistic world, and leaves ample room for clear convictions about who did what wrong.

The point is that even if the other party acted a lot more 'wrong' than I did, it is still surprisingly often true that I could have completely prevented it. Furthermore, I am significantly more responsible for avoiding damage to me than someone else is. Once you realize that, an attitude of 'everything is my fault' naturally follows, and I applaud it.

EDIT: slightly shortened
It's rather telling that you relate to and sympathize more with the perpetrators than the victims of sexual harassment. Something to consider.
Is Google just eating the costs with Google Fiber then? They can't possibly have 100k subscribers already.
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I enjoy a good homeopathy-bash as much as the next guy, but Boole died of an infectious disease. The rain storm he walked through, and the wet blankets he was wrapped in, had nothing to do with the bacterium that killed him. The "cold sensations cause pneumonia" folklore this article relies on is as much magical thinking as the homeopathy it invites us to smugly chortle at.
I kind of answered that elsewhere in this discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4895581
And how is offering guidelines for inappropriate behavior including explicit guidelines for conflict resolution trampling on your rights to free speech at a private event?

I guess harassment falls under free speech. My bad dog.
You can do a bit better than just trusting it by educating yourself and seeking second or third opinions on treatment.

Medicine isn't a special case, it's just part of the human condition that we haven't fully crossed the threshold from acting like apes to acting like truly civilized people. What makes this worse is when people get all proud of how much we have accomplished, without recognizing how far we yet must go.
Independent of the question whether Krauss should be trying to do philosophy, the actual philosophy he was trying to do was positively demolished by David Albert here[1]. Especially the second paragraph is damning.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/a-universe-fr...
I see Google on the list of corporate sponsors. Do any Google services use FreeBSD?
Taking the blame sure beats blaming others (see tragic case of Philip Greenspun's ArsDigita http://rura.org/blog/category/businesscompaniesarsdigita/ )

Having said that, and realizing this is a motivational piece "It's my fault" is a complex statement (combining loaded notions of Self & Fault), and some interpretations allows (you or others) to sweep real issues under the carpet.

When sh*t happens the real thing to do is to admit that there was a failure instead of denying it and have a frank conversation about it with the parties involved instead of blaming others. (Note: sometimes the same person may take both parts of this conversation.) Sometimes it helps to separate Responsibility from Accountability, and assessing "fault" usually is counter-productive in this regard. In contrast, the Truth and Reconciliation movement in South Africa is a prominent example of coming to peace without placing blame. There, they separate concerns which gives room to people to more easily admit their mistakes.
The design looks great.

However, handwritten makes me think that you can "draw" your own message via the mouse rather than typing. I was only allowed to type.
You have every right to speak like a knuckle-dragging troglodyte. The PyCon folks also have every right to say for you to do it somewhere other than their private convention space.
I like the answer that says, they DO exist and they DO know about us. They just haven't had enough time to get here yet
I will miss Sir Patrick Moore, he represented a side of British life that is rarely as celebrated as it should be.

Was he a flawed man? I suspect he was.

Were his politics reprehensible? I think so.

But was he a media icon of his time who contributed to the advancement of science and education? Absolutely.

None of the people I admire have ever been perfect, I'm okay with that.
If he used homeopathy instead of an available recognized medical treatment for the disease then the articles position still holds.
My view is that FreeBSD 8 is far more coherent and complete, and just as stable, as FreeBSD 4. (FreeBSD 9.0 has a few glitches related to UFS SU+J but those are fixed in 9.1.)

As for the upcoming release schedule: The next release after 9.1 should be 8.4, early in 2013. Whether FreeBSD 8.5 ever happens is an open question; we'd like to offer major branches which live for longer than our current 5 years, but we're hobbled by some contrib code which is poorly supported upstream, so my guess is that it won't happen in the 8.x branch.
I wouldn't phrase it as "fault", but if you put it as "I have a part to play in every outcome in which I'm involved", it just seems kind of obvious.
IB isn't a typical example of western educational system, so you are wrong there. For example I would never say that the Italian Maturità or German Abitur is better than the Indian one.

I have done both british A levels and CBSE 12, and I can say that both have their own positives. But encouraging critical thought isn't one of them for either.
That video was intensely great. Personally, when I'm unable (or rather, too lazy) to eat a lot of veggies, I just pop a couple of spirulina and chlorella (algae) tablets, which have all the vitamins except D and B12, if I remember correcly.

Specifically, these ones: http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-greenfoods-formulas-c...
It was already posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893902
>Women in Denmark make about 10% less than men for the same work [1]. Granted, that's better than the US, where it's more like 75¢ on the dollar, but I'd hardly call that equality.

And whole ranges of employees make less than other ranges of employees. There are lots of women in business that make 20 and 100 times what I make, for example.

Equal pay for men and women does not necessarily translate to equality at the workplace (it's based on a non verified premise that men and women's output and negotiating skills are equal). Have you researched if those women that make 10% less than men:

1) put 10% less to their work (e.g because they prefer investing more in their children than in the whole career rat-race)

2) Are less cut-throat salary negotiators? As an employee myself, I know that employees get what they are able to negotiate, not what they deserve and surely not equal pay.

Equality is equal pay for equal work -- regardless of gender race or creed.
> I spent many years trying to learn to argue "correctly" in my martiage -- unemotionally, citing my sources, etc. I can do that. But it matters not how well I do it, I am still dismissed.

You're not being dismissed because your accurate, concise description is being ignored, you're being dismissed because you haven't provided an accurate, concise description.

When I want to argue a controversial point, I link to one of my many articles on diverse topics. Example:

http://arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology

Where's yours? And do you think you have the right to claim unjust treatment if you haven't ever clearly explained your case?

> Finding a meeting ground is challenging, and most people make no attempt to meet me halfway.

No, and I can see why -- if someone tries to meet you halfway, you move the goal posts, then complain about how badly you've been treated.
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It was 1864. There were not even a germ theory that had any power to explain his illness, let alone antibiotics with which to treat him.
Apple's "Made in USA" computer likely to be Mac Pro
Chinese job applicant rejected because "Students who have iPhones don't work"
The usenet servers live on, and all the files (minus a small percentage that are the subject of takedown requests) are still there.

NZBMatrix was just one of dozens of indexing sites.
A major point is that the content sellers do not want you to undercut their cable partners (cannibalize their sales), so they will charge you more than the cable companies. In essence, expect that if they are getting $x from subscriber that is getting 10 of their channels from a cable package, then they will want you to pay at least $x for the same subscriber. It is not in their interest to allow the subscriber to get less channels for less money, so they can simply disallow it.

VoIP service providers are creating and selling their own "goods". Cable companies and "TVoIP" companies are resellers of something that is owned and controlled by others, and it's not a commodity. If a channel owner decides that they don't like TVoIP (or your particular TVoIP) for whatever reason, tough luck. You might convince them with a lot of money - but even Netflix and Hulu are not really enough for that.
Does anyone know a way to get a quick invitation to Ingress?
In my opinion, no. In this day and age, there are far better ways of obtaining preliminary knowledge on a subject besides asking another person to fill you in. There's obviously Google and Wikipedia as starting points, and there are any number of paths those might lead to which would help you form a specific ? - e.g. "what would you have to do to make true a la carte channel options from a cable provider profitable?" That ? shows me that the person asking has done at least preliminary research and, if I have any thoughts, I don't have to start from square one.

Asking the community to spend its time doing preliminary research for you is, to put it bluntly, rude.
There's no inherent reason that pregnancy should result in women spending less time at work than men, and Danish parental leave laws mean that it's possible for a father to spend more time on 100% paid leave than a mother. The risk to employers is a consequence of local laws and social norms, not an absolute.

The relevance? There's this horrible idea that sexism doesn't exist in enlightened liberal societies with aggressive equality laws, and so any attempts to fix harassment should be done by just passing laws. In reality it's a social issue, and just like any social issue it doesn't get fixed through laws alone. Social attitudes need to change, and part of that is making it clear what the acceptable social attitudes at community events are.
No, it doesn't, because it's asking other people to do your research for you. Asking questions without first trying to learn as much as your can yourself is a minor faux pas on the internet (witness all the 'let me google that for you' replies to elementary questions). Of course, this doesn't mean that asking questions is bad (not at all), but it means that there is generally a social contract at work. It's something along the lines of "I'll answer your question because I assume my effort won't be wasted."
Event terms and conditions would become nicer if they didn't list the (already illegal) things that will get you expelled from the event but just said "Any criminal act, and especially the removal by police for these acts, will result in immediate expulsion except in the sole judgement of the event staff".

Even if the event wants to say something about it above and beyond that, it frees them up to say "We all know the law on this, but to encourage our ideal atmosphere (which is X) the voluntary by attendance code of conduct will also be ...." without repeating all the mundane bits of the law.

tl;dr, don't remind me something is illegal, remind me certain attitudes are unwelcome and leave it there.
ah, your typed message will be handwritten by a real human and posted in the mail ;)
Looks like things have changed since the last time I checked. Thank you for pointing this out. Next time I'll check y facts twice before posting.

Still, lxml being basically a binding to libxml2 the performance comparison of the two libs should still hold. I heard it recommended too, in a python talk about scraping like 1 or 2 (at most) years ago.

BeautifulSoup may still be better for parsing broken documents, though I never had problems with lxml while using it on a very large variety of sites.
Nothing wrong with facts. I'd rather get a balanced view of someone than the spin.

Look at what they did to Steve jobs! The guy was an asshole. I dont celebrate the life of assholes.
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I think you just won the tasteless comment on hackernews award.
I have made good faith efforts for many years which ascribed to the rules you are trying to dictate, to no avail. No matter how well I argue the latest supposed reason for dismissing me, it makes no difference. There is another excuse behind that one.	You are only the latest in a very long string of people to dismiss me, then justify that dismissal as somehow my fault. It isn't anything new to me, not at all. It's a very old story in fact.

But thank you for replying.
Scan rate is shit though if you have to use spi/i2c.
What I find most striking is that most European countries have a bigger alcohol problem than America. I might not have guessed that right away. I wonder if it's mainly due to the stronger Christian influence in America.
Excellent. I look forward to reading about that :)
If entering the market is this hard, at what point do cable companies that own fiber in a region become a de facto monopoly?
Andrew/π² - Right on. That's what I meant. Thanks much for explaining it better than I did.
Laws aren't enough to prevent things from happening. The fact that Denmark has equality laws doesn't mean that it's gender-equal, and it certainly doesn't mean that there's no sexual harassment. There are strong social mores against murder. There aren't strong social mores against sexual harassment. Having a code of conduct helps indicate to attendees that whatever their personal beliefs about sexual harassment are, and regardless of what local laws there may be about it, it won't be tolerated.
What is Valve's plan for getting developers to actually develop for Linux? Is the hope that the chance to be compatible with Valve's hardware will encourage enough other developers to get on board?
> There isn't a summary because I get accused of having Munchausen Syndrome ...

And it has occurred to you that you may have Munchausen Syndrome, yes?

> It is quite dangerous to try to tell my story.

Not if you tell the truth. "Truth never damages a cause that is just" -- Gandhi

> It routinely results in public attacks, and moderators typically side with my attackers.

But with no justification or reason at all. Right?

It's obvious that you're playing this out for all it is worth, without providing any real information, portraying yourself as the innocent victim of persecution, but in a way calculated to avoid providing any actual data, or anything that might lead to a resolution.

I wonder if you realize how transparent you are, to an objective observer?
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I missed that question and would be happy to help with the technical aspects of starting a cable company (though I'd like to see content delivery decoupled from the infrastructure). I have 25 years of experience in the industry if he gets that far.

The hard part of the process (and I believe the limiting factor in a new company's success), is arranging the contracts with the content syndicators. Find my e-mail in my profile if you're serious.
Britain and the US also have a long history of meddling with Iran's internal affairs.
From the article:

Part of this effort is the social realization of one of the Zen of Python rules:

Explicit is better than implicit.

What I mean is this: no more unwritten rules or expectations.
My first project with Raspberry Pi: Magpi Radio
There's a point where the co-presenter says they will catch the next solar eclipse after lamenting they missed the recent one.

Looking again, I have to wonder if he (Chris Lintott) knows he (Patrick Moore) was too ill to survive that long.
"Put on a Show With 'Dancing Demon'

This amazing devil actually tap dances to computer accompaniment of "Ain't She Sweet"! You can even create your own musicals and dance routines! Requires audio amplifier.

$9.95"

(p. 20)
There are a lot of demographic factors in play too. The US has a much higher proportion of blacks and Hispanics than any European country. These groups are 51% and 21% more likely than whites to be categorized as obese using the usual methods. The US also has a far higher percentage of people livif in rural and suburban areas. In my own experience, my equillibrium weight when I was living in the suburbs of virginia was notably higher than when I was living in New York or Chicago.

The same is true for educational metrics, by the way. The so-called standardized testing gap between the US and European countries almost disappears when you adjust for demographics.
I still find it hard to believe the people in the top 10 aren't all at the theoretical limit of predictive accuracy with their final order being determined by nuances in the experimental design (things like how the raw data was collected).

Which would be the sort of thing statisticians live with all the time, except that Kaggle then makes it winner take all.
Google Fiber seems to offer a standard cable TV licence, you can subcontract them from resellers if you follow all standard rules and offer the same service as everyone else. Or they might have a cableTV partner that handles that - I don't know their details.

However, if you want anything (I mean, changing a single word in the agreement) nonstandard, then you need offer a decent size deal to make it worth the bother.
> And yet here is Sweden implementing this practice, recognized in Europe as torture, for someone accused of copyright infringement. Certainly not a violent crime.

Just think of all the money, power and influence behind intellectual property. It's a huge tool of wealth concentration. A few companies literally own almost all human culture: literature, music, movies, even science papers. For ever.

They're setting an example. It's like messing with the kings of old (and not that old). You'll end with your head on a spike, for everyone to see.
This such a game-changing experience that will have forever affected the way I intend to interact with massive multiplayer gaming.
Well, there are also some countries that consider the pre-occupation with things such as "sexual harassment" that some Americans have obsessive and indicative of a society that relegates even basic human relations to the courtroom and to arcane prudish codes of conduct.

You took something valid (like being against sexual harassment when it's a bloody actual harassment) and you overblown it out of proportion.

Italians or French, e.g., have no problem with things such as office romance.

For example, the French did not give a flying duck if their President had a known ex-marital affair and even a child (like Miterrand), whereas Americans had this whole BS "moral outrage" when Clinton had an affair. Heck, Italians even voted multiple times into office a Prime Minister that is known to have wild parties with models and prostitutes (Berlusconi).

Not everybody in the world is as uptight as white Americans.
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