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Yeah I'm still wondering if I should gzip to whole thing (I'm already base64 encoding anyway).

However the duplication overhead would only be really paying off with a large number of objects.

By the redis reference, I suppose you refer to a uniquely created key each time a user request a possible combination. Something like /short-url/abcd, where abcd would be a key matching {:project-id "505a125e44ae42e05a750c97"... ?

That's what I was thinking when talking about a shortening url scheme. It requires more work, but the final URL would indeed be more sexy.

Thank you for the input, I appreciate it!
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Honestly, I don't know. I think a lot of it has to do with the fragrance. Wearing clothing washed with a different detergent feels odd, at least to me. Also, one of the main odors that defines a "household scent" is the detergent used in that household. Maybe these factors help drive brand loyalty?
Until the law is changed, can't a rental owner solve this problem and avoid fines by requiring buyers to purchase one extra rental day in which the owner stays in the unit? i.e. if you want to stay for five days, the owner rents it out for 6 days, giving you one day free and the owner has to be there that one day. AFAICT there is a loophole so long as the owner is present for just one day of the stay. It only states that the owner must be present, not that the owner must be present for the entire duration of the stay.
This might seems odd... but I just never thought of it.
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I was probably stuck in a weird mindset.
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These things are not mobile by a longshot. They are transmitting to a geosynchronous satellite 22k miles up. The dish is a little bulkier than a satellite TV dish but needs a lot more precision when aiming. Then it is locked down tight.

I used StarBand about 10 years ago in its early days and it was boggling that the thing worked at all. It still amazes me.
Also, I think that ~3 months of stagnation, low engagement, lots of "testing this out" sets, I should have a pretty good sense that I'm not going about this in a way that is interesting to others. (But as long as it is to me, then I'm happy.)
Maybe just a simple "View Public?" checkbox on the page itself would do. I agree - I have to check incognito if I want to see what I've actually done the most work on that everyone sees.
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There was some company that posted here a while ago and was looking for a CTO. They wanted to pay that CTO something like $50K.

Why cant we comment on job postings here? Some of the postings, even for YC back companies, sound utterly atrocious! We should be able to point that out to the little start-ups.
Following that logic, shouldn't Google put a blackout when it detects AdBlock is installed on your browser? A friendly reminder, for those of us who forgot who's really in control here. j/k, you're in control, right? ;)

I think the french FAI's filtering is “wrong”, not because it is opt-out, but because it seems to target one company. They're not getting good PR with the move anyway, so it should become opt-in soon-ish... My 2 cents.
The more mainstream Bitcoin becomes, the greater the likelihood that it will be shut down. As an alternate currency, it's a direct threat to the dollar. That threat is miniscule at present, but as Bitcoin gains traction, through services like Bitpay that reduce friction, it will be targeted for elimination by the economic powers that be.
hey Matt, could you give me an email where I can contact you directly, would like ask you some things personally.
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If you scroll to the bottom, you will see this bit:

"Mark Manson is an entrepreneur, writer and perpetual world traveler. He writes about unconventional living and self development at his blog Postmasculine.com."
I prefer links away from 'apps' like this site to open in a new window or tab. I'd like the app to preserve its state, not replace itself.
I love the idea of Github as a resume, and this is easily one of the best features that push it in that direction. It allows for a quick glance at what an author contributes the most to, which can be a quick way of identifying the most successful projects they work on.

It really fixes the problem that organizations always had of visibility. My commits to an org repo usually weren't visible on profile except in the feed and as a link to the organization. This is a big improvement.
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Sounds dangerous - I don't think my employer would be okay with me exposing how frequently I contribute to our repositories, not due to any crazy paranoia but simply because they haven't thought about the potential outcomes or abuses yet.

To add this feature, GitHub would probably additionally have to add the ability to disable it on an organizational basis, and and that point a simple-sounding feature is transformed to a pointy-haired-boss "organizational matrix" level of potentially conflicting settings.
I don't worry about that too much.

Consider a community of people with little technology that live away from any major trade routes, and thus don't see ships or planes. They would be oblivious to all the internet, TV, radio and postal traffic going on around them despite its huge volume. Now, I can't think of any such islands that are totally out of contact in 2013, but there are still uncontacted tribes in the Amazon basic (that we know about) and probably a few in other places (that we don't know about).

Since interstellar travel would require something like a warp drive to be any way practical, and we have yet to crack that problem, it seems quite likely to me that we're also incapable of observing traffic of that kind going on in our (galactic) vicinity. I don't see any particular reason that more advanced civilizations would go out of their way to reveal themselves to us; indeed, it bothers me that most alien invasion movies/novels tend to skip over the question of what is so special about Earth that aliens should cross vast distances to plunder our resources in particular when it would be so much easier to just grab a passing asteroid or comet.
I have no idea how to reconcile this scenario.

Can you explain it in more detail?

If alice is buying $100 worth of Tide, how much $drugs does she get for her $Tide?

How much $cash does Bob get for his $Tide when he sells it back to the store?

How much $Profit does the store get from the $Tide bought from Bob?
How does this differ from how http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu works? It also allows one to walk the citation graph from paper to paper.
Meteor 0.5.3 is out
This framework fascinates me day by day. Now I'm going to make new project. I'm Python developer and wondering to use Meteor now.
I guess they wanted to be clean from lowly puns?
Fine. But what advantage do you have over similar humans?
This framework fascinates me day by day. Now I'm going to make new project. I'm Python developer and wondering to use Meteor now.
I agree, though it's borderline "ship fast and break things" mentality. It's the difference between shipping a product with a great solution to a problem or waiting to ship because you want to make the entire thing configurable from the ground up.

It's much better to ship an early product with not much customization in a prototype/alpha/beta phase and get immediate feedback on what's truly important before arbitrarily deciding for yourself what's needed.
Here's an idea: always pipe ls throug a pager! If it's less than a page, it would just print the results (you have to set some flags on less that I don't remember). If it's more, then press d or /term-to-search :)
Yep. But then the question is how will they shut it down?

The powers that be hate bittorrent, but it's still alive and prospering.

The powers that be hate drugs, but the war on drugs has been an abysmal failure.

Bitcoin will prove to be very difficult for the powers that be to shut down. That is why it has so many fervent early adopters.
Plus melatonin and modafinil.

Haven't pilots have used this stuff for years?

Presumably going to Mars is particularly bad, but actually going to freaking Mars probably helps a little with the depression.
Ha, if you look at a GitHub profile with a current streak of 0 days, the date range is "Rock - Hard Place" :)
1. Steal laptop.

2. Call victim and claim your kid bought stolen laptop for $50 and 'fessed up.

3. Claim you'd give it back for said $50

4. Profit $50.

4a. Appear innocent.
Comments on the job postings would quickly turn into lengthy discussions that would overshadow the job description.
I'm eager to see how the flat-design trend bakes out. Some designers are going overboard with it at the expense of usability, but maybe it's because I'm used to the world of abundance affordance.
Those that do answer, please mention what country and/or State youre in as things different depending on your locale.
Freelancers union for instance does not offer health insurance in california.
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>overrun with dipshit social media concerns that won't last 10 years

actually, the most innovative companies today are in the social media space, on account of them being able to attract the most talented developers. ofcourse, what they do today on the outside may not be that innovative, but what goes on inside a facebook, twitter, google, linkedin, is certainly light years ahead of what goes on inside investment banks & bread-and-butter techshops ( my past employers ). you are assuming social media outfits will be forever doing social media, which is 100% wrong. social media is lucrative & network effects are huge => large money inflow => R&D into non-social-media products. Very similar to what Ma Bell did by overcharging everybody on phone calls & routing all the cash to Bell Labs R&D. There are entire new languages & systems for handling big data that were invented within social media companies. Just because the dataset for those is social content does not mean that's all they can handle. Social media companies, atleast the big 4, are definitely primed for handling cheap large scale computation on a massive scale, the exact problem that you think will dominate in 2030.
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I love this. I was not crazy about some of the changes Github had been making lately, but this is great! Way easier to see what someone has done at a quick glance vs having to scroll through a long list of repos.

The only thing I would suggest is like @tav said. They should change "Popular repositories" to "Featured repositories" and give users the option to edit the list. It could offer sort options (show 5 most recently active, show 5 most popular, show 5 most recently created) and also give an option to manually select which 5 to showcase and put them in a specific order.

In my case popularity works fine, but considering this is a way to showcase yourself offering some additional control is not the end of the world in my opinion.
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.. and, they still ignore detail in their content.
Regarding the existence of life...

Seems all that's really required to kickstart life and evolution is any self-replicating structure.

Chemicals are well suited for creating complex structures, but it doesn't rule out self-replicating forms embedded in other kinds of matter held together with other kinds of force.
Yahoo isn't dead, they've been profitable. And their stock is up lately. https://www.google.com/finance?q=yahoo
The absolute worst thing I've ever done for myself was to go to college. I had a 50% scholarship towards one of THE top electrical engineering schools in the country (not MIT, but you'd be in the right state if you were guessing), and I toughed it out for four years. Due to financial aid f&ckery, I made the choice to drop out with around half a year of credits to go to complete my BA. I had my own consulting business at the time, and I made a pretty decent run of it for about a year at which point I realized I was a MUCH better 'technology person' than 'business person'. I made the jump to full-time sysadmin for other companies at that time, and haven't looked back since. NONE of the skills I use today (either in my 'day job' as a nix sysadmin or 'real job' as a musician/bandleader) came from my college experience. I had over $100k worth of debt (slightly less now, almost 10years later) and no degree. If I had to do it all over again, I would've skipped college entirely, gone straight into the 'failed' consulting business, and taken the extra four years of earnings instead of the staggering amount of debt. I have never once felt limited due to my lack of degree. The fact that I don't have one is easily eclipsed by what I've achieved professionally, and companies have had no problem bringing me on at top dollar (according to the various sysadmin salary surveys I read) to do my thing.

I'm not saying my path is for everyone, and as always Your Mileage May Vary. However, your path seems reasonably similar to mine, and if I had a time machine I'd go back and slap my younger self around until he decided to forgo college entirely :-) In my experience, it wasn't worth it - from the 'you NEEEEEED a degree to get a good job!' perspective AND the 'crushing amounts of debt' perspective.
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I believe you are describing a citation graph. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_graph

If so, then perhaps the Microsoft Academic Search page would be useful to you, or perhaps PubMed and the various tools which help visualize PubMed data.
Just to be clear I am pretty sure this is not meant completely seriously (John the Baptist is listed as Jesus' "academic advisor"!)

What I found myself fascinated by was the first 50 names on the path who were all on the "philosophy tree", (presumably religious guys). Were those all real people and is there historical evidence for the implied mentor relationships? If so, it's great that have a genuine 2000 year old path, no matter how tenuous the connections :-)
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I recall the Daily article mentioned making the rounds last spring.

It jumped out at me because I had previously noticed conspicuous anti-theft tags on jugs of Tide in a downtown CVS, for what that's worth.
Myth, unfortunately (for it does make a good story). There were many different clans in a certain mountainous region of Japan that we retroactively classify as "ninja". Many of them were, in fact, samurai. Other individuals from that region didn't have claim to familial titles that would make them samurai, but offered their services in combat and were often rewarded with land grants in return, making them samurai.

You see, "samurai" was just a word for the gentrified upper class at the time. It wasn't until later, after unification that a caste system came into existence and "samurai" became associated with special clothing, top knots, and the right to wear (but not use) swords.

[Source: I was a Japanese language & history major at one time, and studied a number of years in the Bujinkan.]

EDIT: Okay, partial myth. Peasants who armed themselves fought for hire does describe the humble origins of some schools. It was the "peasants hustled by the samurai" part I was responding to as a myth.
After experiencing the wall of well-intentioned garbage that is php.net I no longer like comments in docs. Those examples and clarifications of edge cases should be in the documentation itself.
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I have been curious, since I moved to the LES in NYC a year and a half ago, why the Duane Reade near me had security dongles with metal cables attached to the handles of Tide and other premium detergent and on nothing else in the store. Now I know.

[edit] this comment's reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5024191 suggests that my local Duane Reade may have simply fallen victim to paranoia induced by a viral and perhaps inaccurate news article. I'm inclined to investigate further.

[edit again] the end of the article mentions another Duane Reade in NYC that had someone steal a great deal of Tide detergent. I now wonder if there is, in fact, a black market for tide, or if this thief fell victim to viral misinformation, causing Duane Reade (equipped with the same misinformation) to also over-respond.
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Awesome story!!
What an amazing guy.
Yeah but back then laptops would have been in the $1000-2000 range generally. Even without a PSU I would imagine you'd get at least $100-200 from a pawnbroker.

IMO if youre robbing or stealing then you're generally pretty desperate or have an addiction of some sort.
I had a very bad experience with Derby (apps autogenerated with stable or HEAD version always crashed), so I decided to try Meteor.

I was doubtful at first. After generating a simple app that automatically included Bootstrap, Backbone, jQuery, Underscore, MongoDB, user registration and Facebook sign-in, I started to become very happy with it. I was also able to add basic user security (edit only your own database items) very easily. Deployment worked just like they said it would (create a tarball and just run it on your server with Node.js).

So, even if Meteor is a bit limited (only a few packages available) and still needs to mature, it feels right. It seems to provide exactly the right things for building web apps, in a way that "just works".

I still plan to try Derby once it's fixed but I expect it will be more about hacking and tweaking than things just working.
The article states they used a dark navy blue dye. See the sidebar "Five nearly-true ninja myths":

"Ninja clothing was made to be light and hard to see in the dark - but jet-black would cause the form to stand out in moonlight, so a dark navy blue dye was usually used"
He's similar to a set of other humans with whom it will resonate. Presumably they are curator/collector archetype.

"I built it for me" was exact same decision path that I used for delicious.

I have wanted for a long time to revamp delicious's predecessor with ways to nicely present groups of things. So I guess I'm in the same set.

I think it'll do well.
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I'm not sure if that's the point. What they're doing is lowering expressed risk.

In a standard drug+robbery cycle (I'm guessing here):

Alice robs a Walmart/7-11/etc with armed force or intent to use armed force.

Alice gains $500.

Alice goes to Bob and pays the $500 to him for drugs.

Not only is Alice in danger (she can be prosecuted for armed theft), but the cash can be traced back to Bob putting him in danger. This also links Alice to Bob's drug dealing activities which stacks additional charges on Alice.

In a Tide-enhanced drug+robbery cycle:

Alice goes to the Walmart/7-11/Etc and walks out with 10 tubs of detergent (coordinating shift changes to make her escape). If caught, she can only be prosecuted for shoplifting which is at best a mark on the record.

Alice sells the tubs of Tide to Bob and grabs her drugs.

If caught with the tubs of Tide, Bob can deny any connection. In addition, as Cynthia, Darcy, Elizabeth, ... all shoplift Tide from the same store, that store's inventory of Tide detergent will be depleted. As it takes time for P&G to ship the Tide out, the store will have to rely on local-area suppliers of Tide which in turn will have bought the Tide from Bob at a markup.

As long as Bob is not caught with the drugs on him, he'll not face any charges (for possessing marked cash for example) as a bottle of Tide is deniable. Similarly, Alice will only face charges for shoplifting which carries a far more lenient sentence compared with grand theft.
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+1 Coinbase, although I wished they offered next day ACH withdrawals to bank accounts for a small premium ($0.25 is is what Balanced Payments charges).
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They would serve the same purpose as the CIA and MI6 if employed by the Japanese government. Corporate espionage would be another good use.
Amazingly, I think this is actually almost feasible, at least with regard to the "fencing" of the stolen product. If you only attempted to swindle $50 out of someone with this, it would very likely have a very high success rate.

Unfortunately, the economics don't work out w/respect to the risks/overhead involved in the theft of said product.
Yeah, how do you walk off with 20 bottles of detergent anyway, let alone 100? Ignoring the questionable issue of clerk attentiveness, how do you physically hold that many bottles at once? And what are these drugdealers doing, driving around with tractor trailer trucks to hold all their "money"?

This article doesn't pass the sniff test for me.
How long will it take for MRAM to be used instead of DRAM?
So after Everspin has successfully produced MRAM on a standard 90 nm process, I'm starting to wonder how long it will take for it to decline enough in price for it to be a viable replacement for/addition to DRAM. I found this[1] chart on the price of flash storage, and according to this chart a 100-fold decrease in price took place in about 5 years. According to this guy from Everspin[2] the current cost of their MRAM is 100 times higher than DRAM.

Do you think it's realistic that it will happen this fast - or faster - with MRAM?

I'm pretty excited about MRAM. I mean, think about how awesome it is to not worry about a machine losing its RAM content after being turned off. It's especially useful in mobile devices, since they don't need to refresh RAM content in standby mode.

[1] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bTMlHXSMEJHhgkUksSCTu1uupNMVZkgl-5C2vOg-8dsX5oX2Tc2WdPeozlUdWKmQpMZ7xX5sBbw8FDn_kZq42NtzO-E7Gwjj065JRXC3ZH-cCsjmOt8
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qjp9cC9dao0#t=421s
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On search context- very good point. We're putting together a couple graphical summaries to try for profiles, as well as exposing keywords on search results soon. I think you're absolutely right about result trustworthiness and backing up why something is relevant in a meaningful way.

I'd love to include results from philosophy and related fields, but we just don't have data sources for them yet. Right now, I think we need to do a better job hammering in that the data we've indexed is in the computer and information science arena. We don't have the resources of all the other players in the field, so I think a niche strategy is important. Are there any particularly great repositories for bibliographic or full-text data in philosophy?

On Judea Pearl- you're right, we messed up! Do consider, though, that he's claimed his Google Scholar Citations profile. We've done all of our profile inference automatically. Sometimes that leads to a bunch of author pages that need to be merged, like in Pearl's case- we have all his papers, but didn't know they were written by the same real-world person, so they're fragmented (http://scholr.ly/results/?q=judea+pearl&x=0&y=0&...). Other times, we have more complete profiles than Google, because many academics don't claim their Google Scholar Citations profiles.

It's an ongoing concern, so we'll be spending a bunch of time on this problem (called entity disambiguation in the lit) as well as upgrading venues, publishers, etc to clickable first-class citizens before our next major release.

Thanks so much for your feedback- hopefully I'll be able to post again soon with improvements.