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I don't see how the mechanism of the car being fixed is terribly important. Either you fix it, a mechanic fixes it, or it stays broken. Either your body fixes your body, a doctor fixes your body, or it stays broken. Arguments against doctors and mechanics, even if they were legitimate (and they are not) are not arguments in favour of magic.

I don't pretend to know anything about your situation, but in the cases of cancer we nuke the body because the evidence shows that doing that is better than a placebo. Chemotherapy is not an argument against modern medicine. It is actually a great argument for it.

Even if it were an argument against modern medicine, that would not make it an argument in favour of alternative 'medicine'.

You can slander doctors all day, but "doctors suck" does not logically imply "alternative medicine isn't bullshit"
Derek, you need to move on and let the past be there, in the past. All the stuff you are writing about is about the same thing that happened years ago and we all know about it. It's time to move on, we want to know what's next.
On the flip side, just googling around for how to get python modules (eggs?) installed was a maddening experience. About 6 different ways to do it, and the documentation was a bit unclear on all of them.

I just install Ruby from rvm (or rbenv), git clone an app and type 'bundle install' and then its all working.
Automated web testing tools, such as Watir and Selenium, are also pretty good options. I'm especially surprised Watir hasn't been mentioned yet in the comments.
You are missing the forest for the trees here. Philosophy as a field is not about any of the individual ideas explored by any school of thought or individual philosopher. Philosophy is about constructing systems of thought and exploring them. Science, as a methodology, is but one of these systems it produced that happend to end up being very useful. But comparing the 2 is comparing apples and oranges. Like comparing all of philosophy to utilitarianism or the like.
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You can do non-standard billing to your customers, but don't expect to do non-standard billing to the channel providers.

If your subscriber watched 5 minutes of our football game last month, we'll invoice you full price for that subscriber for that month, thank you very much. Fairness doesn't matter - you can have different pricing terms if can you convince content owners that this will result in more $ per subscriber than before.

More subscribers is not an argument - they'll assume that each your subscriber is cannibalized off some other provider, so you'll have to extract as much or more from each subscriber.
Don't know about quick. It took me about two weeks to get an invite. Just submitted my email address.
And diagnosing someone with Munchausen after a few minutes of internet argument -- that's scientific? Since when?

Again, what evidence do you want? You won't answer that. You are too busy engaging in ad hominems.
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You say 'fun and meaningful'. I hear 'unnecessary waste of paper'.

You're capitalizing on something that is actually harmful at the scope of the planet and race.
There is no problem but people are not to be trusted so we need a Rule.

What could go wrong?
What is 'the current state of the art'? Note that I am a total dilettante in the area of machine learning/NLP.

And why couldn't the top k HN users (patio11 et al) be given the option to classify comments {dismissive; troll; shallow-cheering; ...;} and this human classification could be the training set of a supervised learning system that could use NLP algorithms to derive useful metrics. Simplistic example: dismissive word ('sucks'; 'never work', 'impossible') density correlating to something that has been flagged as dismissive. Or is this an impossibility? Again, I do not have the hands on knowledge to be able to call this one.
I used to feel and act exactly like Derek: let's just pretend everything is my fault because that's how I will learn to be better regardless of whether other people could have been better too.

What I've started noticing, though, is that after doing this for a couple of years, when it's become automatic, it gets difficult to differentiate between "for the sake of learning, let's assume this is my fault" and "this is actually my fault". And at that point, it's hard not to get depressed in the face of adversity... after all, it's all your fault.

I've started blaming other people more – mind you, from a baseline of never doing so – and it has done wonders for my well-being and self-esteem.

So, yeah, it's a good trick, but do your very best to keep in mind it's only a trick.

Also, it's interesting to compare Sivers' heuristic with that of Martin Seligman ("Learned Optimism") who recommends that while you shouldn't necessarily avoid taking blame, you should try to compartmentalize it as much as possible and never assume your failings are due to some fundamental flaw in your character.
There's no privacy statement on the Xmas page, you might want to add one. There is a link to one on the main website. [1]

The statement mentions the product containing ads and sharing information with ad networks. Nowhere else do I see anything about that on your web site.

You also want to use the addresses later on, not just to send one free card. Customers should know that.

"We use information held about you in the following ways: […] to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes"

And if I don't give out the address for the person I'd like you to send a card to, you'll make him sign up too:

"We will mail your card as soon as your friend updates their address information at Bfore."

So, thanks for the offer but I'll pass.

[1] http://www.bfore.me/privacy
You shouldn't hit any issues with gems and linux -- most production Ruby systems use linux.
I'd rather support maximum pc than kotaku to be honest.
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Why can't the fault lie in several places? This just shifts one easy answer to another easy answer. Proper root cause analysis is better than 'everything is my fault'.
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It's true that double underscore methods are sometimes underused and that using them can often make for a better experience, but it's also easy to be overly clever, or to "misuse" them by using them to add semantics to an object that is already a bit mis-designed.

The first example in the post (using __repr__) is probably the least controversial. There are places in the official docs that explicitly recommend defining __repr__ for every object you create. This is mostly something that I do do (though there are exceptions of course), but one thing you do want to be careful with is to make sure that what appears in your repr is relevant, terse, and helpful. That means that I will and do sacrifice a repr that is eval'able (which I find to be useless) for a repr that is short and sweet. So for the example in the article, it may or may not make sense to put `self.objects` in there. For a "Container" class, it probably does, but don't extend that to "let's put all our data in the repr for everything".

__iter__ is nice, and is one of the most oddly underused methods, but rather than using it there, I think the better thing is to not have the object encapsulate a search, but to have the object encapsulate a YoutubeAPIClient or whatever, and have `search` be a method that returns an iterable. This is also kinda touchy-feely though since I guess there might be examples of __iter__ where I'd feel more comfortable with something like this (a results object).

The next one with __sub__ I don't like too much, because I don't like encouraging slow operations with syntax sugar (besides the typechecking).

Anyways, I guess I'm nitpicking on examples, mostly. Double underscore methods are generally underused I've found, and if you have doubts on whether you're overreaching, you can always add a method with the same behavior you're using them for in case anyone doesn't like how it reads.
Reddit's API doesn't give you access to child comments past a certain number, so that could have been it.
If he is running under Pow, there's no reason to be running 'script/server' or 'rails server'. That's what Pow does for you.

As with nearly all Rack application servers I know of, you can simply restart the application by creating/updating 'tmp/restart.txt' from your Rails root. Unix's `touch` command does this nicely. With Pow specifically, you can also create '~/.pow/restart.txt' (or '~/Library/Application Support/Pow/Hosts/restart.txt', since it's the same location) and that will force Pow to reload itself.
You are certainly right, every case can fall under those points.

However in this case there is an obvious flight risk, he has already fled the country once to avoid a prison sentence.

As for evidence destruction, I guess it can be argued that since the evidence is electronic and he hardly needs to be there in person to the destroy it he can instruct someone to do it for him.

I don't agree with solitary confinement in general but Torrentfreak has a way of spinning the story like he is some poor innocent lamb while he in reality is accused of a rather serious crime.
> People with Munchausen claim to be ill and manufacture fake symptoms when they are not.

People with Munchausen fake medical difficulties. You're displaying all the classic symptoms. The distinction between suffering from an imaginary ailment, or slowly recovering from an imaginary ailment, makes no difference.

> You are the one focusing on dismissing me, personally, and have apparently not bothered to even check the website.

I read your comments there, and they're as uninformative as your comments here. Color me surprised.

> What "real information" do you want?

If you weren't a Munchausen sufferer, you would already know the answer to that question, and you would have already answered it -- either here or on the other forum at which you vent your dissatisfaction with reality.
I think the reason people dismiss your posts is because your posts are always acrimoniously bitter, and usually off-topic and centered around your (unfortunate) medical history.

If people continually dismiss your stories and call you a liar...why keep sharing them? Why do you feel the need to spread the bitter resentment to every thread you comment in?

This thread is a good example: why did you need to say "I also know it is nearly impossible to talk to people about that. My views and experiences are dismissed wholesale before I even open my mouth."? It added nothing to your argument, except for dragging your medical condition into the conversation (which has since taken over this thread).

However, at the end of the day, I don't know you at all and do not presume to judge your situation. This is the internet, so don't take anything other people say too seriously. I'd like to wish you well to you and your family =)
Yeah, look at the JavaScript LOC! Who wrote the rosetta code for those, Brendan Eich?!

This hints at another way to optimize for this metric; make the language as expressive as possible. Less characters should translate into less typos. Paul Graham strikes again! (http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html)

As to your point about redundancy, I think the researchers are in agreement with you on that one if you consider unit tests to be a sort of redundancy, expressing the same concept in two different ways. They bring this up repeatedly in their report.

Obligatory Perl jab: It surprised me that any of the Perl solutions used more than one line. :-P
Well, but it is significant. Can we back up a minute here? On the small scale, is it true that your body will generally repair a small scratch with zero "treatment" but your car will not? Can we agree on that point, before talking about doctors or mechanics?
That's encouraging -- maybe they'll even be able to exceed their goal!

> Who still uses it?

Read the rest of the comments in this thread :)
I find it very hard to believe that anyone, let alone the presumably technologically proficient people at Canonical, would actually think that sponsored search results are useful. When was the last time anyone clicked a sponsored Google result?
This might be good advice for business relationships, but it is terrible advice for your personal life.

Take a look at the happiest couple you know. They aren't happy because they are perfect for each other and always have the same opinion, but rather because they are forgiving of each other's faults.
While I do believe his confinement is somewhat unethical ...
I am still quite intrigued that technical people somehow support the likes of KimDotCom or this guy.

I've never used megaupload or piratebay for anything other than ripping off companies of content they own and have right to hold a monopoly over. Every person I know does the same thing.

While I greatly appreciate and have benefitted from some of what they do I think the justice system is doing the right thing in giving these guys hell. I agree that it is inevitable that the monopolies will need to change their model but I see no problem w/ suing and fining the living hell out of people that try to bring them down illegally. A strong justice system that upholds the law is above and beyond the most important thing -- despite the inevitable inefficiencies it often introduces to a rapidly changing society.
The "safe harbor" includes more requirements than responding to take-down requests. In particular, the service provider must "not have actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing", and "in the absence of such actual knowledge, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent".

In other words, though you don't have an active duty to police your site, if you do become aware, and don't take action, you're not protected. Similarly, if you set up something with the sole purpose of distributing copyrighted material, and try to hide behind a "gosh, we never knew that kind of thing was going on until you told us", you're probably not going to get a court to believe you.
I don't think either of those would perform as well as just a stripped down epoll shim, which is basically just stripped down nginx.
The risk in non-restrictive custody of destroying evidence or tampering with an investigation is something that applies to all prisoners.

The flight risk in non-restrictive custody is zero, there are plenty of inescapable non-solitary cells in prisons.

While these risks outside of prison may be justifications for non-restrictive custody, they are not justifications for restrictive custody, i.e. solitary confinement, which is a form of torture.
I teach high school math and science, and I throw in as much programming-related content as I can, such as teaching intro to python units whenever I get the chance. None of my students fit the model of a traditional young programmer. No one in my small town is a professional programmer, so none of my students ever see or hear of anyone doing high-level technical work. But many of them love programming once they get a feel for it.

The culture of pycon is entirely welcoming to my students. I won't be able to take students this year, because the travel costs from southeast Alaska are pretty steep. But I have shared with my students the specific ways that the python community supports different groups of non-traditional programmers: pycon policies, pyladies, the Boston Python Workshop initiatives, etc.

Knowing there are specific efforts to support non-traditional programmers makes my students much more open to considering a career in a technical field. The work that Jesse and others are doing is having a significant impact on a large number of people. It's an iceberg, as well; whatever visible impact you see, there are 10 times as many people benefiting from this work.
I don't see this as a shortcut for preliminary research. I saw it as an attempt to generate discussion about disrupting a sector with high barriers to entry.
Now the GPS dataset is something I had not considered. A good point! Thanks.
Thank you - an an Alaska (Wasilla/Palmer) expat, the work you're doing sounds great. And thank you for the support. let me know what else we can do.
Now that I think about it, basically they should be optional.

One reason their use could be mandatory is that in a crash the occupants might fly out of the car and kill other people if they're not using seatbelts. But I'm not sure how relevant point that would be given that the people are allowed to drive a two-tonne killing machine with very little training in the first place.

However, if we do not consider bystanders, I don't see a problem making use of seatbelts optional. It doesn't hurt to mandate that all cars must be equipped with seatbelts for the benefit of availability for everyone who wants to use seatbelts—which is most people.

Seatbelts do save lives but, again, it's not a criminal offense to commit suicide and fail. So, to think, actually, I find it quite disturbing that they are not optional. I hadn't thought about it before. It's an inevitable slippery slope in that you can't really draw the line anywhere as long as you feel obliged to protect everyone.

Could citizens be forced to eat a certain diet to make them not die of obesity, diabetes and cardiac/circulation problems too early? It's certainly ok to inform the citizens of healthier diets, so that everyone can make their own choices with the best information available. But I argue that in the end everyone is sovereign when it comes to their own life and body.
Some parts are also irrelevant:

"to provide aggregate statistical information about site visitors and users to recruiters (such as the number of CVs on the database, or the number of visitors to the site) and for other lawful purposes. We provide this information to customers, advertisers, suppliers and other reputable third parties on the basis that it will not include any information that enables them to identify individuals."

Which appears to have been lifted from Total Jobs http://www.totaljobs.com/privacy-policy
Hi Samuel,

This is a great point. We aren't looking to invade your privacy. Apologies if this isn't totally clear.

We aren't looking to use the addresses for anything more than the seamless transmission of cards and gifts between friends and family members.

We are a new start up and are always looking for ways to improve - So we really appreciate, feedback.

Thanks for the feedback.
I personally take a proactive view of my environment, but Derek's post is lacking moderation.

From the description of Battered Person Syndrome [1]:

- The abused thinks that the violence was his or her fault.
- The abused has an inability to place the responsibility
for the violence elsewhere.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battered_person_syndrome
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Man, now I really want an invite code. Definite marketing ploy by google
Well while Clang is open source and permissively licenced it's not exactly as it's a code donation aimed at FreeBSD. Apple needed a compiler frontend/backend as they were stuck with a very old GCC 4.2.1 due to them not accepting GPLv3, thus they hired Chris Lattner of LLVM fame and started working on Clang (which turned out great, now we have two excellent open source toolchains competing which benefits all end users).

Likely FreeBSD is very thankful for the existance of a first-class non-GPL compiler frontend/backend toolchain like Clang/LLVM as it is in line with their licence philosophy, but that won't help if they can't generate enough funds to keep the project going.

Having Apple contributing some money back (it's not as if they are strapped for cash) to the project from where they lifted a good chunk of code would not seem out of place.

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I wouldn't call his mother an unbiased source either to be honest but you have very valid points otherwise.

Solidarity confinement is not something I wish upon anyone but it is not like he is in total separation from everyone, he has had access to both "fan" mail and visits from his mother and lawyers.

Torture is indeed not therapy and should of course not be used. As for the less serious crime, If memory serves there are different types of prisons in Sweden and there is a great degree of separation between minor and very serious crime but don't quote me on that - I am not entirely up to date on the penal system in my home country.

That said, He obviously is a flight risk and that must be taken into account when discussing the issue.
You can still forgive anyone, including yourself (sometimes the hardest). I think the point of the exercise though is to concentrate on what you can do to fix it or prevent it from happening next time, not on wrongs done to you by others - real or imaginary, where you can not fix it and only thing you can do is feel bad about other people.

Let's get the $9000 example. If you were cheated out of $9000, you can stop at "this guy was a con artist" and just feel bad. Or you can say "I have to do these and these checks next time somebody asks me for $9000" - and then next con artist maybe won't get that lucky with you. Because you can't change how next guy behaves, but you can change how you behave.
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I "suspended disbelief" for most of the science fiction elements, and found myself enjoying the political drama unfold.

I suppose I'm saying even if the science lacked luster, the "geo-political" (perhaps even "Machiavellian") story-line was compelling and required little "suspension of disbelief."
> First, I am not a single data point.

You most certainly are. Cystic Fibrosis is not a communicable disease caused by germs, it is a genetically linked ailment.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001167/

A quote: "Cystic fibrosis is a disease passed down through families that causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs, digestive tract, and other areas of the body. It is one of the most common chronic lung diseases in children and young adults. It is a life-threatening disorder."

> My oldest son has the same diagnosis, my youngest son is a carrier and by living with me they were both exposed to the same germs.

They weren't exposed to the same "germs", they were both exposed to you. This is Munchausen by Proxy.

> ... doctor's routinely dismiss people with CF and write them off.

False, absolutely false. You were dismissed, not because you have CF, but because you're mentally ill.

> ... let me suggest you have no idea what you are talking about.

Which of us tried to claim that CF is transmitted by germs?
They weren't always acrimoniously bitter. They have become bitter, due largely to being dismissed and attacked. And that is what has taken over this discussion -- multiple people dismissing and attacking me while I defend myself. There has been no real discussion of my medical situation. And to call my recovery "unfortunate" is merely another form of attacking and dismissing me. All of which you are free to stop doing if it bothers you so much that I feel I have a right to defend myself when so treated.
Thanks. I don't suppose you can talk about how you (kaggle) eliminate leakage in practice?

I would imagine something based on repeated application of random forest?
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