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I do not mean to imply that you came to this site to spew racist hatred. I have lurked quite some time and have read your previous comments, which offer an alternative view of history. I only wish to see proof (provided by you) of this alternative history. If you can provide me with actual evidence, I will gladly take some of my time to analyze it and even ask someone I know who speaks hebrew to translate.

One thing I want to bring to your attention, which specifically bothered me, is that an oppressed minority living in an oppressive land who has members that try to resist is not proof in itself of a hypocrisy of the entire minority, nor is it some kind of evidence that the oppression was just.

My European family was murdered in Poland. I was raised in an area surrounded by racists and bigots. I was beaten up as a child for no other reason than my race (at the age of 5). My neighbor and friend growing up (of German decent) would tell me how Jews were intrinsically thieves, though I was different, and how Hitler was a genius.

I do have personal reasons to be critical of your words. Your reasoning, however, is not valid. Right wing Jews can openly talk about anything they like. People tend to bend history when they get the short end of the stick. It is a coping mechanism. Please don't judge an entire people based on flimsy evidence. I like B trees too.
@ is the shorthand for this.
Have you looked at the WhoIsHiring[1] threads? If you use some Google-Fu, you can find some "Who is Hiring Interns" threads that are posted occasionally by various users.

If you have any code you can show off, you should definitely throw it on GitHub.

Best of luck!

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
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It just requires cleaning the dock every 2 - 4 weeks in order for it to "stick". It's a nice accessory to sit on your desk though.
the SQLAlchemy connection pool (which is what this is using) calls connection.rollback() when the connection is checked back in. as far as "leaking" transactional state it's not different from "autocommit", which is what Postgresql connections normally do (and what psycopg2 will do if you set `connection.autocommit=True`).
For OSX I have my vim files synced via Dropbox.
But when you want to use vim on Windows or Linux you have to reconfigure quite a bit.

I love fiddling around with editor settings as much as the next guy. But when you have a specific task at hand and just want to quickly use vim then realising its not already set up. Copying configs and googling around to make them work in the current environment can become a very unwanted time sink.
In the Glim scam, the target wants to get money he doesn't earn (neither by honest work nor by actually finding the supposed lost item) and profit by concealing information that is not supposed to be concealed (i.e. the contact info of the supposed one-eyed man). If he acted honestly, he'd say "oh, lucky you, you're getting a grand, here's the phone number!" and his loss would be $0.
Also I would move the description of the plugin to be under the title but above the photo. It took me a few seconds to find where the description was.
http://pitchpigeon.com/blog/peterpings-rebrands-as-pitchpige...
Thanks for this very well crafted response (could actually feel my frustration subside as I read through your post). This is precisely the kind of sanity that is sorely lacking in today's pop-discourse.

Regarding obstacles to economic growth, a key factor was mostly omitted in the OP's analysis, regulatory capture. The result of large organizations failing to innovate and, instead, turning to regulators for legal protections from competition (e.g. startups). Lawrence Lessig has become an outspoken critic in favor of reforming lobbying rules[#]. In fact, I believe he mentioned that he came to embrace this cause after having several issues he cared about (i.e. net neutrality, copyright, etc.) defeated at the hands of monied interests.

[#] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic,_Lost
I'd love to see something like this if you could give some insight into how you approached this. Parts of the app change constantly, so for me -- the boostrap-esque tooltip walkthroughs have always seemed most logical
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Yep. And you can put multiple DNS entries on a single cert - check out my certificate on codano.com: it has "codano.com, "* .codano.com, "angrywizard.com" and "* .angrywizard.com", all on the same cert. The cert was free after paying $120 for personal/corporate verification.

Note that they will confirm that you are the owner of domains you try to request certs for.
I still prefer Bernsteins daemon-tools. I first used them when I had to deploy qmail and now I use them to manage Python webapplications. The default logging option is a bit weird, but the simplicity is a real winner for me.

I don't like Upstart, I don't agree that it's "admirably simple to use", it needlessly complex. For what I do, I don't need or want to care about runlevels, I always want respawning and I don't like the syntax of the configuration.

systemd seems like a really complex solution to a very simple problem, but I never used it.

Supervisord while being well documented and popular again seems to complicate what I want to do. Again I dislike the configuration, I fail to see why a shell script isn't better.

Runit I never used, because why would I replace daemon-tools with, what was when I first read about it, just a daemon-tools clone, made by people who didn't like Bernsteins licensing. I guess it's what I would most likely go for, if daemon-tools where not available.

The rest I never heard of.
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I'm not clear on what liability Apple would have for allowing a minor to develop for their platform. Heck, how old were the Steves when they created the platform?
"which evaluates its left child, _and_ when it is true returns the value of its right child"

I like the way you put that. I always stumble for a moment when asked to explain why using "and" and "&&" interchangeably is not a good idea because it can lead to subtle bugs in your program. Maybe a mnemonic would help to remember this more easily.

left && right is true or false, but
left and right is right when true

or something along those lines.
I wasn't 100% honest. My dad signed up, just using my name.
They are, but leaving the description at "parts of the game logic" could be taken to mean the servers are being used to offload compute-intensive tasks. Centralization for the sake of performance is understandable, but not allowing offline saves sounds more like centralization for the sake of centralization.
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>Being able to communicate to large numbers of people while remaining anonymous was something that was just not that practical before the internet.

Come on now. That's only because for the average person being able to communicate to large numbers of people at all was something that was just not that practical before the internet. And to the extent you could communicate, it wasn't that hard to do it anonymously: Sit down in a public phone booth to make your phone calls. Write a letter to the editor under a pseudonym or write letters to as many people as you like and drop them into a public mailbox. Post a message on a bulletin board at the local library while nobody is watching. Provide a recording for broadcast to a journalist with a reputation for protecting sources.

The novelty is being able to trace the source of a communication through the corporate intermediary that carries it and back to the actual speaker. And even that is a lot of hand wavy hocus pocus that makes poor assumptions about the relationship between paying for an internet connection and being the one responsible for what gets sent through it.
I did. And I still don't see why you'd have both.

It seems like a landmine for someone learning the language and a place for bugs to creep in to code.

Pick one and go with it. The extra expressiveness or whatever a ruby person would call it, that comes from the alternate forms just doesn't seem worth it.
There are tons of things that would kill HIV - strong acid, fire, lasers, but it doesn't mean it's good for the rest of the body.
They started working together in high school. Great point!
I was wondering this too, and deliberately tried to break something using the clojure 1.5 reader with read-eval false. (Makes a change from building things all day!).

Result:

user=> (binding [*read-eval* false] (read-string "``````````x"))
OutOfMemoryError Java heap space clojure.lang.RT.cons (RT.java:570)
"Technology magnifies differences in innate ability"

I hope you are not confusing innate ability with realized ability. I am sure you are a talented, skilled individual, but if you were born in a horribly disadvantaged situation I doubt you would have amounted to as much. I am a fairly successful, and rather bright person myself, but I do delude myself into thinking that my own success are solely the result of "innate ability" magnified by technology. A more complete and accurate statement would have been that "Technology magnifies differences in realized ability."

This type of thinking is dangerous because in a perceived Meritocracy, the poor deserve to be poor and the rich rich.
I know some professional engineers who wear pocket protectors. Not students, though.
I wouldn't use god. It's had issues crashing or misbehaving in the past. I've found monit very stable if a little awkward to configure correctly.

Today I would use systemd with monit for additional monitoring. systemd ensures that the same environment is used regardless of how it is invoked, and the units are extremely simple. Monit can ensure a running server is behaving (memory limits, CPU limits, testing HTTP) and rely on systemctl for restarting processes.
There's no clear delineation here. Upstart and Systemd are init.d replacements, both of which can make sure that programs are up and running, and incorporate some basic process monitoring. Runit is similar, and can replace init.d, but will happily run as just another process. God can't replace init.d, but it can easily handle the daemonize-and-keep-running functionality that's at the core of what we want from all this stuff. In addition, God can do some health checking, for things like memory and CPU consumption. IIRC Monit doesn't actually start other programs under itself, but it can be configured to watch running programs, and kick them if necessary.

If you have a clean and useful taxonomy for this stuff, I'd be interested in hearing it.
Dreamhost, as a shared hosting provider, has within the last month rolled out the option of PHP 5.4 on all their servers.

I wish all hosting providers would make newer versions available, then maybe open source projects would move with the times, and start bringing everyone up to date.
"That would bring an enormous sense of fulfillment, quite apart from the Nobel Prize"

The part you are objecting to was definitely not part of the quote, it was added/paraphrased by the author, for the audience's sake.

From the wording, it seems clear that the author said something like "You could win a Nobel prize for something like that", and the professor retorted with "enormous fulfillment"
So, this is not a service that sends email... but I sometimes use a Google Doc survey in that circumstance. There might be a way to get google doc to email you with the response every time someone submits one?
I think we have different world views.

You seem to think that all criminals will be caught eventually, that the truth will prevail (in a timely fashion), that information wants to be free, that people are smart and that they care, and that they will revolt if they see injustice. Perhaps you even think that governments and publicly traded corporations are benign in nature.

I believe none of that (anymore).

I've organized and participated in dozens of protest rallies (for instance: I joined 1 million protesters at a rally in Florence [1]), joined boycotts and picket lines, was a member of a labor union, served in the city council, organized political campaigns, wrote for activist magazines.

I still try to spread the message of equality, solidarity, human rights, and pacifism, education, health, and safe foods. The sad truth is that most people just don't care too much. And it's not just that they don't care about others or society at large, they don't even care too much about their own basic rights.

How else to explain that we still have the same broken financial system that caused our current economic crisis (6 years running!). Why we still have the PATRIOT act, the TSA, Guantanamo, the War on Drugs, various wiretapping laws, etc. Why there's no mass outrage when a corporations lies and cheats, when they leak your personal information, or when it refuses to pay its taxes.

I'm saddened by all of this, and I see it getting worse, not better. People are signing their liberties away, bit by bit.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Social_Forum#First_ESF
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I was talking about the feed, not the closeup gallery view.
Sheer sample size is relevant if people were distributed randomly. This is obviously not the case - people have a lot of choice as to people they meet, encounters they participate in, etc. and smart people probably have even more choice since if they didn't want to meet somebody - say, for some reason, they'd hate to meet students eager to meet smart people - they would easily find a way out of it, being smart. So your encounters or lack of those with them are not random and sample size does not matter that much.
>In this way it mimics the way we build sentences, that's smart. That's intuitive. That's Ruby.

The problem is that "just like English" does not always translate to "intuitive for a programming language". Programmers don't have a problem with learning a new set of rules that don't work the same as their native language, because programming isn't (and shouldn't be) like writing a letter to your computer.

The simple rule is "if it's a binary operator, it has higher precedence than assignment". That rule works for almost every binary operator in almost every language. Show me an exception (like the comma operator in C), and I'll show you an operator that confuses the hell out of most programmers.
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I have faith in the cracking community. :D

That said, I don't think this is as "simple" as something like an Origins "online presence" crack. I just don't think there's enough data about what the "online" part does (specifically the processing done remotely) to actually produce a fully-working crack at this time.

Not my wheelhouse though, so maybe there's hope!
I don't imagine a pleasant experience when I think of a ninja delivering my laundry. Great concept, though.
This explanation is an excellent way to teach and vs &&.
Thanks, I appreciate the heads up. I prefer the Vundle style approach personally but options are always great :)
seems like I'll have to reply to every post on this thread but sqlalchemy's pool does this, either optimistically or pessimistically, see http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_8/core/pooling.html#deal... (in particular pool_recycle).
> It reads raw input and tries to evaluate it

Not quite. It reads raw input and tries to build a syntax tree from it. Unfortunately reader macros in clojure allow all sorts of objects to form part of said syntax tree and arbitrary-ish code to run at parse time to instantiate them. But the main job of the reader isn't to evaluate code.
>barely work for WoW

flat out lie. there are multiple well run servers that often outperform the legit ones.

this is also true for all games with server emulation or otherwise private servers, they work well and often exactly the same as their legit counterparts.

If you speak from 'experience', then I would suggest you didn't try hard enough to find a decent server.

either way, don't exaggerate and lie to make a point. make the fucking point and leave it at that.
Correlation with reality? If I wanted to speak the news I would become an anchorman. Most people here is discussing how things _should_ be and how that could become a reality.

And say what you want, Im pretty sure white female rape-victims is not a valid meet up.
> Nonsense -- perfect nonsense that the history of science repeatedly falsifies.

You are completely incorrect in this and everything else you said above. Well, it is true that science is empirical, but it seem that you have profound misconceptions about what "empirical" means. One of the things that it means is that every additional confirming piece of observed evidence for a theory gives extra weight to the probability that the theory is correct, especially when the theory makes correct predictions against previously unobserved phenomena, which GR has done many times.

You also apparently don't understand that theories are not typically purported to be facts per se, but rather they are models. Models that have greater or lesser accuracy. Models are not expected to be perfectly accurate, which is why they are models and not facts. Though in fundamental physics, we do expect a level of accuracy far above what we would expect in almost any other science.

The ether model was proven to be so inaccurate as to no longer be useful. The limitations of Newtonian mechanics were shown by Relativity, but nonetheless, the model is still a hugely important and useful model, and using it correctly is the epitome of good science, despite the fact that we know that in some sense it is "false".

Re your examples, all the examples you give of theories that were eventually proven incorrect are arguments against a strawman, because no one here or anywhere has claimed that any amount of empirical evidence will grant a theory a 100% probability of correctness.

No one has asserted that GR is unfalsifiable, or that it has a 100% probability of being correct. None of this means that we can't have an extremely high confidence level in GR, considering all the empirical gauntlets that it has successfully passed. And when we finally have a successful TOE, GR is almost certainly not going to be scrapped. It will still be the extremely useful and productive model that it has always been. We will just have to be aware of the model's caveats, just as we must with Newtonian Mechanics, which is also one of the most successful scientific models ever constructed.

Additionally, all this is neither here nor there for the original point, which was about your claim that FTL is logically impossible. That is just not the case. FTL is completely within the realm of possibility. It just has serious and problematic consequences that should make us look askance when people claim to have figured out how to make FTL drives or communication channels. They are almost certainly mistaken, but not for the reasons that you claim.
Honest question: What is the benefit of running a native application inside a browser window instead of standalone?
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during the W. Bush deficits

Jeez, man... "Bush Bush Bush Bush". I didn't vote for the guy. I didn't support his war on Iraq or his failure to veto just about anything except for stem cell research... but get over it. He's been gone for years. The guy most in control now is like a human wrecking ball. He's spent far more than Bush did. He's spent more than any person in the history of the world. Let's focus on the current problems and stop using the previous politician as an excuse for continued irresponsible behavior of the current one.

So are you suggesting we should cut Medicare?

I'm saying we match expenditures to revenues, including interest on the debt and considering long term unfunded liabilities so we don't go bankrupt (or the money printing equivalent).

If Social Security needs to be a little means tested and the age raised, so be it. If Medicare needs to be means tested, age raised, or what have you... then so be it. I'd think that all these measures could be minimized if we closed the hundreds of redundant government programs, didn't compensate government employees almost twice the private sector ones, made public sector unions illegal, cut defense (although it's one of the few Constitutional responsibilities of the Feds), etc.

Instead of continuing to punt all this stuff further along, we need to put measures in place to prevent financial collapse. If for no other reason, we have NO RIGHT to burden future generations with exorbitant debt.
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Mine is that cramming as many buzz words into a description makes your product sound impressive. If I hear about someone talk about their "HD mobile social game positioned for the baby boomer demographic" (Yes that actually happened) I automatically think you have no idea what you're doing and are just a trend jumper.
Hmm you're absolutely right. I guess I'm projecting, I just read that as using `and` and `or` in places that seemed logical to him, but the paragraph is quite clear in that he just replaced all instances of the symbols with the words.

Since that is the case, I fully agree with you and shouldn't have been so snarky. I apologize :(
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That's pretty much exactly what I try to do. I grab the sources for the package and upgrade the underlying php version. I usually have to grab the PHP sources from a newer version of Ubuntu and modify it until it builds.
I see it fairly often in Rails controllers, e.g.

render :action => "some_action" and return
The third solution, django-db-pool, doesn't look like it's using SA (at quick glance). Even has a postgis driver.
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It's very out of place considering where you're asking. This is a news site for people interested in tech and startups. At least half the people here work at companies making all their money online. We have regular stories and discussions about the dozens of ways to monetize a website or application.

It's almost like you walked into a car show in 2013 and announced "I heard someone's invented a mechanical replacement for the horse and buggy!".
What's wrong with

$fh = open() || die("File did not open")

? The only difference is that the results of `die` are assigned to `$fh`, but I don't think `die` even returns. It still short-circuits.
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It might not just be you working. Sure, use things that you understand. The problem comes when you aren't even aware you don't understand due to subtleties you may have not encountered yet. Then you do some debugging, do some googling, and bam, now it's "obvious to anyone with half a brain, everyone should just RTFM"
"We have a spending problem."

Scandinavian countries spend way more and can balance the budget (though there's the eurocrisis, but it was possible before the depression). The problem with budget deficit in USA is lack of taxation. Tax revenue per GDP is very low.

United States: 26.9%
Sweden: 47.9%
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu... )

Just increase taxing and there's no deficit.
How does that possibly fit with your claim that it is against the stated purpose of Kickstarter? Kickstarter gets to define what their purpose is, and their actions are as clear as their words. You'd have stronger ground complaining about Kickstater than this project.
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Woah, the hackernews effect is quite impressive. The github project more than doubled in stars (now at 280) over the past 6 hours since posting this.
But for some reason, perhaps a legacy of the Puritan ethos that hard work will produce deserved prosperity, Americans have always felt like their net worth is a measure of their worth as individuals.

Problems related to real and perceived inequality is not a uniquely American trait: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
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