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The rational economic agent is fictional, of course.

The problem with leaping to grand conclusions on that basis is that you must first establish that whatever putative replacement you want to propose is actually better than what people are already doing in the aggregate, and not merely theoretically better. Given that you have the same raw material to work with as the economy as a whole (irrational agents), this is a great deal harder than people are willing to admit. For instance, the very popular "regulate it" answer generally completely ignores the high likelihood that the irrational regulators will simply rigidly lock in some irrational answer; "regulators" or "government" are simply assumed or asserted to be somehow rational, even though it consists of the same irrational agents as anything else. (Bearing in mind that we are generally talking about sorts of irrationality that are difficult or impossible to eliminate with "education", education itself coming from other irrational agents, and with incentive structures in place to embrace irrationality if it suits an agenda.)

I'm a libertarian primarily because I believe letting people choose, then experience the consequences, then communicate with each other in a free society about those consequences, is the fastest way for both the individual and the society to learn about what works and does not. Anything else extends the feedback loop, impeding its functionality, and in many cases, such as the regulated irrationality, actively destroys it entirely.

I'm not a libertarian "despite" the irrationality of the public, I'm a libertarian because of it. If people could be counted on to be perfectly rational and logical, that's when the whole "regulate everything" would be logical and correct; we could assume the regulators were cold and rational in their choices and therefore it's rational to offload judgment to them, because we'd come to the same decisions they would anyhow. But that's not the world we live in.

Getting back to the original topic, I currently consider it highly likely that nutrition is precisely one of those cases, and if it does turn out that nutrition has been grossly wrong, the damage done by it is literally one of the top five crimes against humanity in the 20th century in terms of death and destruction. And to emphasize, yes, I mean fully literally; millions upon millions upon millions of cases of preventable "metabolic syndrome", a passionless name for a horrific, life-altering and life-destroying disease, even before it kills you decades before your time. I'm still waiting to see how it all plays out but someday this is likely to be considered one of the greatest failings of irrational agents being allowed to regulate individuals in the history of mankind. In the meantime, I strongly commend to everyone to read up on all sides of these issues and come to their own conclusions; your life depends on it.
Many slums around the world continually trash their own environment. Whether it's because of inefficient and public facing sewage systems, or because people defecate or throw trash in public spaces. There are basic things that people need to live healthy lives. I never said that they should become more Western, or that they should live in a city.
Water isn't toxic, yet drinking too much water can cause your blood to become so diluted that you can die (water intoxication/hyponatremia). And yet water is essential for life.

Consuming sugar (in some form, not necessarily sucrose) is also essential for life. It's what your brain runs on. So to call it toxic is quite a stretch.

I'm not criticizing the research. I haven't read the paper and I probably won't - it's not my field. But I am criticizing the overly broad generalities in the NYT article.
The problem with C, for most application domains, is not that it requires pointer knowledge, but that it requires constant attention to this knowledge.

Combined with the fact that there's no warning when you've stepped outside the bounds of an array, I think makes it an extremely dangerous language to use for large scale programming.

Years back, a friend was maintaining a system collecting and processing scientific data, in C. Several papers have been published on this data over the course of many years. I remember the sinking feeling we both got - mixed with real fear - when he told me he had discovered an error where an array's bounds had been miscalculated. I don't even want to think about the possible ramifications of that...

For some application domains low level control is necessary of course, or for others the performance gain may make the tradeoff worth the cost.
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Low-contrast typography is not powerful enough.
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There's not much truth to this article. The anecdote is almost not possibly true, as our attendings never have a clue what type of scores we get on our exams. The meat of the article is also not generally true, and a comment from a residency program director supports this [1].

Failing med students fail. They have to retake clerkships, and that will prevent them from getting into competitive residencies. Like most schools throughout nearly every level of the US educational system, failure doesn't mean you'll get kicked out, so yes, they will generally be able to become doctors eventually.

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There is this German saying: "Happiness equals results minus expectations". And I have to agree, expectations are easy to miss, especially when you don't learn to lower them. I used to constantly get late to basically anywhere because I just did not factor in the time to shower, reading emails between putting on clothes, etc. And boy did this stress me out. When I started to pay more attention to my life in general (focus on the current moment and such), such stressors just disappeared because I learned to not get into such situations.
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Many (if not all) public companies have two sets of books. One they use to show investors and shareholders, and another used to make managerial accounting decisions.

Sure their investor/shareholder books may seem deceptive, but it's legal and everything is there for us to see and analyze. I have done this type of analysis in MBA level accounting case studies. It's really fun when you see the whole class conclude one thing, but then later find out everyone's wrong due to misinterpreting a few assumptions.
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31764 above with filename stripped

I am too lazy to strip out the filename so there is a few bytes penalty, so it's more like 31764

So in this case it's

31688
vs
31764

76 bytes

I guess the real question is what is the decode penalty time if any?
Yeah, I hear this a lot. And I'm sure that for most people the pendulum should swing more in that direction. But like everything you have to strike a balance. ZERO expectation really? To just take one example, what if you're a boss? I know I would be happier if I didn't expect anything out of my subordinates and they probably would to, but I'm guessing the shareholders might not be down with my new zen attitude.
You posted 33 minutes ago. Give them a chance to reply and resolve your issue
This brings up a good point. The two companies I've worked for have used a ton of open source software and have contributed nothing back. It kind of disgusts me. Am I wrong to feel that way?
Interesting, but despite some searching I couldn't find a price for this service. Has anyone tried it?
And TC is better? All these blogs do is repeat press releases/each other and link to more of their own articles. Mods shouldn't be deciding which tech blog is best especially when there was nothing wrong with the information in TNW.
no, what happened to paypal was post 26/11 revelation that the splinter cells had used paypal to transfer money.

RBI is just another central bank.

Stripe is way different than Paypal. And yes, paypal is still running, the loss of business is due to the fact that they still haven't worked out the tax technicalities, and their UI has become complex.

EDIT: Just want to add, that right now is the right time to invest in India, because of the market conditions in general, organised retail is picking up, credit/debit card usage is increasing again, mobile payments has been introduced, taxation policy would become unified starting April 1 under GST& other singular taxes, and the economic potential of India.

India is 3rd on Purchasing Power Parity, yet it is only the barely top 10 in terms of GDP, and it all points to a under-saturated market. Really! Entering India, can make stripe into a multi-billion dollar company, if done right
ad hominem. http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Extensive discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5221093

Other, similar submissions:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Apyt...

It is important, it deserves attention, I'm just pointing out that discussions have already taken place here on HN, and it might be worth reading them to avoid repeating things unnecessarily, and to see the clarifications made previously.
Don't forget the Atlas V that goes with it! The launch base, tracking stations, engineering and ground crews. Gets a bit expensive pretty fast.
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I agree completely about the quality of these sites. I'm not saying TC (and definitely not AOL) are better. They are just better this time.

Shitty journalism should not be rewarded, so I find it hard to sympathize against the mods decision.
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Perhaps the title should be 'A simple animation to show novices how the internet works'. It's a great place to start that explanation.
It still smears a little sometimes (finger swiping off some lint, etc), but hardly when you are writing.
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Okay, I revoked the accusation. I'm afraid my instinct is to mistrust people by default. We'll soon see if my instincts are wrong.
And the further you get into that stuff, the more you figure out that under everything is legal, contractual, and in many cases, purely personal relationships that keep the thing running.

Some folks say that's 'Layer 8' on the OSI model, I think it's more appropriately Layer 0...
Gmail's important inbox requires training to be useful. It also has a very high false positive rate (lots marked as important that really isn't).

We use a combination of algorithms to make a smarter automated split, but can still learn if the user recategorizes an email.

It's not buzzwords - it's science!
>Do you know the story about the bum who killed himself after seeing someone getting rich and famous from the song HE was playing in the streets? (my way)

Please, tell the story.
Put it in your toolbox. You can apply functional concepts in basically any high-level language.
This is what Invincia offers. The browser runs in a VM with a "watcher" that compares its activity to typical browsing activity. If it sees something unusual it kills the whole VM and loads a fresh one.

The problem with this sort of approach is that it is slow on most office machines. A lot of companies are still running XP desktops with 1GB RAM.
This post in the forum thread may be on to something:

"I also have a unique dropbox email address, it was compromised on 2/6, but I tracked it down to a friends system that was hacked. I had shared a dropbox folder with them, they got the email from my dropbox address. Virus on their system collected my dropbox email from their system."
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If you're writing just to capture your
own thoughts, and the only intended
reader is you

Isn't that what we're talking about here? I don't write notes to put on display. I write notes to help in my personal understanding. The very act of writing some things down helps to crystallize them in my own mind. I rarely go back and look over what I've written. However, in the rare case that I do I've devised an indexing system that allows me to find a given note on a given topic fairly quickly. The whole process of writing, indexing and occasional look up is a process meant (and effective for me) in gaining understanding. I work best with handwritten notes, you do not. There is no glorification happening here.
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>Don't use it as contraception,

Once you have decided that you do not under any circumstances want children, the only better way to prevent it is abstinence.

Some people do not ever want kids.
Consuming any amount of any form of pure sugar will spike your blood glucose. If it's a small enough amount, the spike will be small enough that it won't do you harm, but the human body evolved to handle gradual rises in blood glucose, like complex carbohydrates cause, not spikes. Comparing that to water is a stretch.
Your comment basically just says "I think copyright should exist", but it doesn't really provide any arguments for your opinion.

My own opinion is that copyright decreases total utility/well-being of society, and I disagree with the claim that copyright is required to create works of art/media. For more detailed argument why copyright is not needed I recommend the book Against Intellectual Monopoly.
This line of logic could be used as a justification for doing anything. "Meth is bad for you? So is going outside, cos pollution or something."
Eggs. The weapon of the silent majority.
Same goes for Georgia (4.5m). Not even Paypal... So far only Skrill (Moneybookers).
I agree. Local forks are often valuable. And a project can't be expected to accommodate everyone's vision for how the software should be used.

The pain comes in when the upstream project decides to refactor the code in a way which forces you to completely rewrite your patches.
Should I continue this Bitcoin tutorial?
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The plot thickens....

It seems to make more sense to post the TC article and let them "battle it out" with votes. With no justification what's been done here certainly does seem odd and, frankly, smacks of some kind of ulterior motive...
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Can evil data scientists fool us all with the world’s best spam?
I actually think that is where the path we should go, Hybrid of both tech. Serving the initial view with HTML and the rest via client side JS.
Let me get this straight.

- Tens of thousands of paying customers

- No backups

- Working in a production database

- Having the permissions to empty that table

- Even having read access to that table with customer info...

You are hardly responsible. Yeah you fucked up badly, but everyone makes mistakes. This was a big impact one and it sucks, but the effect it had was in now way your fault. The worst-case scenario should have been two hours of downtime and 1-day-old data being put back in the table, and even that could have been prevented easily with decent management.
For one thing, it sounds like Pounds only at this point. Further, it likely requires UK addresses and bank accounts.
That's what Apple call them now, like it or not.
Coming from zero experience in programming, there wasn't a better place to begin learning. Where better to begin learning than in a room full of top-notch programmers and experts who are 100% willing to help you out?
Remote Vs Office debate is so misguided
This could be used to create the greatest Avatar the Last Airbender game ever.
There's very little difference between a DSL and an API. You already know dozens of APIs. Why not DSLs?
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Well, yes, it comes with absolutely no guarantees. That said, many Debian developers use it, and breakages have been rare at least for the last few years, since I started using it.
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I've done a couple hackathons and while I did lose a good amount of sleep and loaded up on caffeine I found them to be fun and thoroughly enjoyable.

Too be honest I didn't find them any different than the times I have picked up a new game or book and stayed up all night playing/reading or spent time with friends playing marathons tournaments.

Hackathons are no better or worse than a majority of the other things we do, they just happen to be sponsored events where you don't spend all your own money on junk food.
> well, you've been fired from the company you worked for for 5 years, but hey, at least you have fresh drinking water

I'm not sure whether it's my brain, or 'me' that's saying it, but this is pretty much what I tell myself every time something 'bad' happens to me. Works like a charm.