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I don't think that policy is so great. People don't have children just because they can, we need to educate people about children and population growth. My aunt and uncle have an adopted daughter from China, she was abandoned as a result of the one child policy: the policy didn't stop her from being born, but it stopped her from having her biological family.
Don't forget educating women, which tends to result in fewer children per household.

I am concerned, though, that the temporary lull in overpopulation will be broken by belief systems that encourage large families; by definition, those with a genetic or memetic instinct to have many children will out-populate those without that instinct. (I have a soft spot for the Mormons, but they come to mind here.)
liked this? want more? you might want to also read my kinect reverse-engineering how-to article at http://learn.adafruit.com/hacking-the-kinect
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Spotify has never had good UX. If I search for "Hold Still" by Yo Gabba Gabba, the next song it plays is the next song named "Hold Still" in the search results by a totally different artist in a different genre, which makes sense why? It should play the next song on the album I selected.

One of many examples. They've succeeded because of their rights acquisition efforts, not because their software makes sense.
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Well, I don't see any problem in plugging one's event in a blog post. If you don't like the idea of paid event, why bother following him in twitter and commenting on hacker news?

Where does he advertise about his contribution to the Indian startup ecosystem?
It is entrepreneurs like us who say he does.

>He takes money for providing an office space in return

You want office space for free?

>How does that contribute as doing 'much' to the Indian Startup Ecosystem? There are plenty of office spaces over here...

He also runs accelerator which invests in startup. They have invested in 2 startups so far. He hosts free events like Chennai OCC, Chennai geeks at the startup centre. Also the space is free if you want to host any free event.

I graduated from college and worked from startup centre under Vijay for six months. I come from a small town and knew little about startups. It was Vijay who taught me lot about building a product and distributing it to users. The education i had at the startup centre was invaluable. You know how much he charged for the office space for the period of six months? ZERO(because he wanted me to succeed and i was a recent college grad)

Please understand what someone does before trying to bash them in public
Have you read Pearl and Kahneman?

I do not think you have comprehended Luke's perspective. Your rebuttal is largely demonstrating the behaviors he is, aptly in my opinion, criticizing.

Your overly romantic definition of philosophical inquiry would relegate it to a metaphysics of the unknown at best, mysticism in the cloak of learned language at worst.

I cannot conceive of how you interpret any of what Luke is saying as being even covertly anti-intellectual. You appear to be projecting your own world view and social groupings onto this topic, and presupposing some conflicts between them.

This continuum of deeply inscrutable pure truth pursued by inquiry at one end opposed to surface practical technical solutions developed by practitioners at the other is an artificial perspective. There is no opposition between these things. Often both are advanced in the same moment, and by the same work.

Descartes himself is an excellent example: he was intensely focused on devising exact formal methods. His philosophical results are now largely a historical marker on a road to nowhere. His formalisms are still used by every human practitioner of math from elementary school students on up.

I strongly encourage anyone who finds this discussion interesting to read the mentioned books by Pearl and Kahneman. They have transformed my thinking more than anything else I have learned in my entire life up to this point. These aren't mere technical tools, or interesting empirical results in some corner of practice.

I don't know of a short introduction to Kahneman's work, but the epilog to Pearl's book[1] is a short read and touches on the philosophical side of his thinking.

Kahneman is an easy and very enjoyable read, but do not underestimate the value of learning your mental model of your own cognition has no clothes.

Pearl's basic concepts are accessible, but finishing the book will require some effort for most, as will considering the implications rigorously. It's worth it however, because he provides a compete theory of knowledge that is both philosophically rigorous and algorithmically exact. His Turing Award lecture[2] should give you some sense of how staggeringly broad the implications of his formalism are.

[1]: http://www.nyu.edu/classes/shrout/SEM06/pearl.pdf

[2]: http://amturing.acm.org/vp/pearl_2658896.cfm
>Isn't the current period the most peaceful in known history?

[Citation needed].

Define current period and define peaceful? We haven't had a global conflict in 60-odd years (and yay for that), but we had two global conflicts in the last hundred years. We almost had a third (US vs PRC)and forth one (US vs CCCP) but it appears that nuclear war let cooler heads prevail. In the past two hundred years there is almost no place of human habitation that has been untouched by war.

In fairness most of the civilized world has, with a few rare exceptions, always been in a state of perpetual war.

For bonus points how many wars is did the US fight during the year 2012?
Does anyone know for sure that cookies or browser uniqueness were exploited to identify the visitor? I've used LeadLander, and as far as I can tell LeadLander and Relead both use reverse DNS to find what company the visitor is from. They track what pages the visitor goes to, and time spent (Google Analytics style). Plus "helpful" information like the company's location, and publicly available info about who works there.

That sort of information doesn't feel creepy to me, it's basically what you could do manually with info from the server logs and lots of searching (DNS, Google, LinkedIn).

If they are using information from another website where the user is logged-in to get the contact information it might be illegal, as it is likely that the first website's privacy policy doesn't say they are giving away that information. If company X uses LeadLander, and LeadLander gathers a user's email address from them, then gives that address to company Y when the same person visits, company X might be breaking the law because they are giving away personal information without stating it in their privacy policy. And privacy policies are required by California law.
The shuttering of IG suddenly makes sense.
"Asexual" isn't the term you're looking for -- asexuality has no more to do with what gender you identify as than heterosexuality, bisexuality, etc. do. The concepts might be related for some people, but they aren't inherently so.
You quote things you don't understand. n goroutines (where n is big) get multiplexed to m threads (small m, typically numbers of cores). Goroutines are cheap: each goroutine starts at a size of 4k, and creating them is a really cheap operation. Please show me a Java thread implementation with the same properties. Good luck with that.
>And both those boards have some deeply NSFW content.
Rarely, /g/ is supposed to be SFW.
>there are plenty of people who really know what they're talking about
This is why I recommend it; a while back some guys were discussing how to build the low level functions of an OS.
There are add-ons and extensions available. To give an example I have an old firefox setup here with these add-ons: RefContol (forge referrer), UserAgentSwitcher (user agent manipulation), NoScript (block all scripting and therefore many tracking scripts), AdBlock (not sure is this helps to be honest), CookieMonster (easy cookie management), RequestPolicy (blocks request from your browser, helps with cross site scripting attacks; note this add-ons makes for a painful user experience unfortunately). Of course Java and Flash are disabled but if you don't want to disable them there are add-ons like BetterPrivacy for Flash that deal with them too. Note this setup is somewhat outdated and I have not kept up with recent developments. Finally all of this is useless if you don't also proxy your IP.
This is my experience exactly. I was a long-time, very fast Vim user, but I wanted to play around with Proof General, an Emacs mode for using proof assistants like Coq[0]. Emacs slowly cannibalized my Vim usage from there: I started using it for Clojure, and was amazed that M-. would hop me into Clojure source. Then I started using it for Erlang, and then I started taking all my notes in org-mode. It wasn't until I was already pretty comfortable in Emacs that I learned about the C-h commands.

For pure text surgery, I'm still significantly faster in Vim. But the fact that Emacs is so explorable/discoverable is just so fun!

[0] http://proofgeneral.inf.ed.ac.uk/
I've never played this game? What's the deal with those eggs?
> Who remembers when those people extracted the debug codes from the ROM that let you actually get the eggs, on the n64 version?

I'm so glad somebody else remembers that.

It was years after the game came out, and was perhaps just a side-note in the videogames magazines, meaning that nobody believed my childhood self when I claimed to finally obtain the eggs.

FYI a spiritual successor to B-K appears to be in very early stages of development. https://twitter.com/MingyJongo
Or you can just rewrite the game from source code :)

https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal

https://bitbucket.org/iimarckus/pokered

(Red is fairly close to being the same as Yellow. But there are definitely differences.)
Funny how we talk about Go and Java and you suddenly come up with Scala and Erlang.
mmm. The original NeXT keyboard had one of the most physically pleasing feels to it ever, along with a beautiful sound.

Just a shame it didn't have pgup/dn, home/end keys for fast maneuvering. Otherwise, so very tempting.
All I could find was this: http://shitryandahlsays.tumblr.com/

I don't see the problem with him saying what he thinks; heck I agree with most of his points.
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This is great...I have a full NeXT Turbo Slab (Color!!), and I was wondering if this had been done.
The NeXT Keyboard is on-par with Model M's in my opinion.
“Anonymous” tracking now includes knowing your name, email address...
What overpopulation crisis? Current UN projections have population peaking not to much higher than now. China's population is expected to peak in 2026 then start shrinking. Most of Europe is facing a depopulation crisis.
For Google, I don't truly have a choice because there is no serious competitor for both the quality and the privacy, so I just ticked a.).

For Ubuntu, a.) and b.). Shuttleworth's childish attitude is shocking.
Dumped games doesnt need cracking in order to run on emulators, it was only required for use with n64 backup units.
@rpledge: This game was a gem.
I am memorizing Barron's word list which contains around 3500 words. My experience is it is not realistically possible to use mnemonics when volume of memorization is as much as 3500 terms which you have to do in as short as three months.
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I'm particularly looking for feedback about this idea of scheduling cover photos. What do you think? The url is www.pagecovery.com
It even has a Facebook like and unlike button. Amazing!
I suspect that even if this court ordered block became common and happened frequently enough to make moving sites around a pain, that the easy and cheap VPN economy would grow considerably.

I mean, even now a cheap VPS can be purchased for ~$10/month with 1+TB/month bandwidth. With a VPN connection properly configured one could easily bypass these restrictions.

No matter how you approach it, the rights holders are going to lose this battle eventually.
What sort of harassment?
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"Here's the thing with "provably true" that I find worrisome: the process of proving something as rigorously as scientific research demands it is so slow, so painstaking, that if we relied entirely on science to inform our knowledge, we'd lose out on literal millennia of human experience."

"Philosophy is a much, much broader technique; in fact, it specializes in finding ways to look at even broader questions in exquisite detail. That makes it a very impractical tool if you're trying to, say, build a space ship. But it makes it a far more useful tool if you're trying to understand things as complex and abstract and subtle as, say, questions of how we acquire knowledge, or what it means to think."

To be blunt: you need to read Pearl (and Kahneman), because it is clear you are not familiar with the ideas you are arguing against.
More UO nostalgia:

I started playing UO when I was about 13. My parents paid the monthly fees for a few months, but I couldn't convince them to keep paying for it. ("Do your homework, Sean!") Frustrated, my friends and I found the free, independent, emulator-run servers and started playing on them. Finding the nuances between the free servers (called "shards"), we settled on one in particular and stayed there for the next few years.

I got bored with playing pretty quickly -- I was never really good at games that required skill or huge amounts of time investment. I started talking with the shard staff, gained their trust, and "graduated" into being a moderator for the server when I was 14 by doing some minor policing (resolving disputes, busting people leveling up with macro programs like UOAssist, etc). I could warp anywhere and got to choose special colours of clothing and had this awesome counselor robe. Looking back, according to [1], I best fit a "socialiser" player.

Then I got bored of simply moderating. There were a backlog of feature requests to the lone shard developer, who was busy trying to, y'know, have a family and work his day job. At the behest of the Italian couple who ran the server, I began developing for the shard when I was 15 (having not programmed before). I did lots of simple things like create weapons and funny items with special abilities [2], my favourite being a bag of skipping stones. Then I started doing more complicated things like recreate Triple Triad from FFVIII [3], and useful things like remake the guild system.

These UO people were my friends, we hung out on IRC every day, and even did a couple of international Secret Santa gift exchanges.

I got bored again around 16 or 17 and forgot about UO, but it had a lasting impact on me:

At 18, I began studying computer science. I realized that the code I wrote to sort a list back in the UO days (not knowing any better) was actually the standard sorting algorithm, bubblesort.

(actually relevant to the link -->) At 19, I started to learn about economics and related it back in a very real way to my days playing UO. I was tempted to go back and try to design a method of distributing wealth that reduced inflation.

And by 20 I realized I was a very good programmer. (I'm now 26.) I still attribute UO at the Italians I've never met in person for that.

[1] http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm

[2] http://neverlands-library.com/index.php?id=4lvl - can't believe I found this / someone documented this

[3] http://neverlands-library.com/index.php?id=cards
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Are they bringing back health care, pensions, and a 40 hour work week with them?
Memes aren't strictly inheritable in the same way that genes are.

For example, it is completely plausible to advance the argument that children in large families decide to have fewer offspring due to their own childhood experiences. I'm not saying that this is definitively the case or that I have any evidence for it, but it is just as plausible as the conjecture that a propensity for a large number of offspring is perfectly inheritable.
Where to begin with this?

This is naive scientific triumphalism of the first order, utterly illiterate with regards to the philosophical foundations of science, the rigorous and multi-layered debates over the status of scientific statements that have been ongoing for centuries to the present day: from Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes (with deep roots in Lucretius, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas, Epicurus, Heraclitus) through Spinoza, Leibniz and Newton himself, on into such titans as Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Bergson, Heidegger, Russell, Whitehead, Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and Quine.

And yet! And yet! It was all so simple, gads and forsooth!!

I give you the final word, gentle reader, it was all for naught, these men with their devotion to rigor and clarity of thought, their conversations spanning centuries, their volumes of pointless abstraction, Hegel with his historicism and Kant with his categories, cynical Kuhn and his paradigms, pragmatic Popper with his Worlds 1 and 2, Whitehead with his ingressions pseudo-Aristotelian speculations and Bergson teasing out duration and intuition.

Throw out your Rutledge Encyclopedia: and behold the simplicity they all failed to grasp:

A scientific idea is "correct" if it can be successfully compared to reality.

How hard is that indeed!! Not hard at all. Simplicity itself, devastating in its directness and comprehensive competence, lovely in its completeness. Centuries of debate quelled in a single utterance. Well done.
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Flagged. I understand the curiosity, but as was the case with Mark Pilgrim and __why, it's not right to pry into the private lives of these people.

Obviously, Ryan Dahl no longer maintains a public internet presence--his reasons are his own.
[DIY] Newbie tips for home construction, takers?
If you're interested in seeing what happens when you really want to hack the game though glitching/RAM abuse via cheat codes, check out this Let's Play of Pokemon Blue.

http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Blue/Update%2001/
I just ask for extra.

After the rice, I ask for more rice. After the beans, I ask for more beans. After the cheese, I ask for more cheese. Those ingredients are pretty cheap, they don't charge extra for them.

I get a bowl and ask for two tortillas. I make two 2/3-sized burritos from the over-loaded bowl and have two meals for the price of one.

I've found timing is important, though. They tend to be more stingy when they're during a meal rush and more generous when it's a slow period. Between 9 and 10 PM is the best time, in my experience.
Traffic still sucks everywhere. Therefore, population crisis.

When I can get to work at 7am in the same time it takes me to drive home from the same location at 8pm, I will begin to believe that we are facing a "depopulation crisis". ;-)
Really?! I haven't noticed it.
These techniques seem to be getting a lot of attention lately, but they've been written about extensively for a long time now. You don't hear much of these older books, but they're well worth looking at if you're interested in this topic:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Memory-Book-Classic-Improving/dp/0...

http://www.amazon.com/Use-Your-Perfect-Memory-Techniques/dp/...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Memory-Book-Remember-Anything/dp/1...

There are many others as well.
Quickie googled citation:

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143285836/war-and-violence-on-...

It doesn't much matter what you choose as "current period", because war and violence has been on the decline for quite a long time.

It's pretty annoying to try to have a factual discussion and get replies that are nothing but handwaving and anecdotes. Listing off the violent conflicts in the past century without offering any comparison to wars further in the past is completely useless to this discussion.
Now that you have decided to build a home, the next stage is to plan for construction. The aims of cost planning are to:

Ensure that you are provided with value for money.
Make you, as the home-builder, and designers aware of the cost consequences of their proposals.
Provide advice to designers that enables them to arrive at practical and balanced designs within budget.
Integrate costs with time and quality.
To keep expenditure minimal
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION….

In real estate as in business, the choice of location has a tremendous impact on cost and opportunities. It is therefore important to select a location which will favor you as home builder.

For example the cost per meter squared of building a home in Nairobi can be Kshs. 43,000 but constructing a similar unit in Nakuru can be KShs. 40,000. That Kshs. 3000 difference counts for a significant relief on your wallets.

Generally, building costs tend can to vary between locations due to one or more of the following factors:

materials/products available or commonly used;
ground conditions normally encountered;
material/product prices due to distance from place of manufacture or distribution;
distance from labor source;
local regulations;
labor productivity (e.g. due to adverse climatic conditions);
builder’s risk and market conditions;
labor rates – In Kenya,the rates for labor especially for individual home builders, is determined by personal negotiations with the the key contractor.
Another factor closely related to location is the characteristics of the land/plot

LAND CHARACTERISTICS

These are the geographical influences on land, including topography, climate, soil conditions, area, availability, cost and liability to earthquakes and flooding. In the past.

Soil or geological conditions
These may have a bearing on the pattern of land use, the density and costs of development. Foundation type and complexity for any particular building are determined by the subsoil conditions. Unstable soil conditions can and the climatic conditions can also play their part in influencing development.

2. Topography

This can also influence building costs. Whilst elevation and views (particularly as development moves up a hill) are generally considered desirable, it comes at a premium. Generally, the cost of building on steep slopes is greater than that of building on level sites.

As home builder, it is important that you choose a suitable location before commencing planning any further.

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Uhm. It was? I remember running an N64 emulator on a 300mhz PII back in the 90's. A bunch of us were standing around and our jaws dropped when zelda ran for the first time.
UltraHLE (N64 emulator on PCs) came out in 1999 [1]
Banjo-Tooie - came out in 2000 [2]
And yes, there had already been Internet at that time too.

N64 game cracks were desirable even without emulation though. There had been "universal" carts (e.g. Doctor V64) that would enable running a game image on a retail console.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraHLE
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo_Tooie
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A direct attack on a creative soul is quite daunting. I'm talking about stuff like http://shitryandahlsays.tumblr.com/

"Creative people are on the whole fragile beings, and letting each other down gently and quietly was the unwritten rule."
- http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-p...