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I know it boggles your mind. I too shared the mindset susceptible to "I can't". Amazing how being dead for a few hours can change your perspective on such things.

It must be done. Do it. Eradicate "I can't" from your vocabulary. Cut out all superfluous activity & costs. Unless you're in fact passing out onto the floor, you have the energy and time to do it. Yes, every day. I'm so far past tired and overwhelmed that they're just not excuses any more - it all still needs doing, and the alternative is being where I've been and I'm not keen on going back there.
You need a new TV to live?

You're making the mistake of defining "life" as only the things you need to for physiological/material functioning. But there's more to life than metabolism!

A human life also includes art, music, fine cuisine, fresh cut flowers, travel, and an almost endless number of other things, depending on whose particular life you're talking about.

Think of someone that loves movies. He definitely needs a new TV to live, and he's got a right to it as long as he's earned it.
Not that this bill is necessarily a bad thing, but Republicans know no end to their hypocrisy. They'll introduce all sorts of unnecessary micro-regulation to create a "free" market. This is the same guy who supported the bills deregulating the financial industry, which lead to the derivatives crisis.

I guess Senators suffer from the same problems as software engineers - they only see the problems in their living room.
Not that strange, actually. Reserving zero allows using it as an 'undefined' enumeration value that plays well with basic Boolean tests, e.g. 'if not animal: ...' and such.

Now all I want in Python is a real switch statement...
This is just one of many cashout crews at the bottom of the crime pyramid that got caught. The masterminds are prob in Russia/Ukraine and wont be extradited so long as they arent stupid enough to go to a country on vacation that has extradition treaty with the US or they will find themselves getting kidnapped by feds to stand trial in the US, for a middle east bank heist because USA polices the world and your taxpayers cover the millions it will cost in flights and court fees/investigation
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Awesome, thanks for the feedback - it's all really useful (and it's all hitting the to-do list)
Can you find the paper online by searching for it?
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Yes, yes, yes, I know. Cash right?
I can't imagine a $500 or even a $2000 printer can print a solid enough gun that could be reused over and over. A couple of shots, maybe.
That is very true, but there's something to be said for experiencing music live rather than at home with a nice set of headphones.

Also, I was fairly miffed when I went to a concert a while back and had the singer drowned out by five guys singing along really loudly right beside me. (We were quite far back from the stage.) It's great that they're having a good time, but they probably could have had just as good a time going to karaoke or something. Although you would lose the feeling of "being there".
I think part of the problem is that GitHub doesn't do a lot to support the "community" around a project. GitHub started off as just a code repository, and while it's grown, there's still - to me - something missing. Then again, I haven't spent much time messing with GitHub pages. So maybe my thinking on this is somewhat outdated.

Still, something like Google Code "feels" like it is more "project centric" than "source code centric" if you get what I mean. There's specific places to do things like linking in Google Groups or mailing lists, project blog, Twitter account, etc. And the way it's organized just makes it feel like more of a "project home".

Compare:

https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

with

http://code.google.com/p/quoddy/

Anyway, what I'm getting at is, if GitHub did more to foster a cohesive community around projects, I think it would help with the "abandoned project" thing, since there would be more of a sense of "go here and discuss whose repo is going to become the new mainline" etc.
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Hey, not counting Northern Ireland, handguns are banned in enlightened Great Britain and their pistol team and aspirants to it have to practice outside of the country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_sport#Pistol
Looks exactly like namedtuple, why do we need this?
Sounds like rethinkDB would be the answer to our prayers. How close is it to being "ready"?
By your own admission you were totally aimless. I understood from your post that nobody said to you "hey, this is an interesting and worthwhile thing to pursue". The fact that you were attracted to programming and not some useless activity (like mastering sports) seems to me the result of pure dumb luck.
Will anyone defend against this?.
Like a grindr for hackers, huh? ;)

You might try looking for local meetups and meeting people there:
- http://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html
- http://meetup.com
Not really a HN-worthy comment, but I just wanted to point out the humor in his first piece of unsolicited advice to the internet at large: "Try not to give unsolicited advice". :)
I eat lots of Amy's low-sodium organic soup. I dunno, it's quick and easy, and tastes good. Doesn't seem like there are too many canned soup lovers around here.
That's probably not relevant.
Perhaps "aghast" was overblown.

My point was that we're capitalists. Government should only intervene to prevent others from harming me or my property as the base understanding of the word.

Who is the government to tell me the hours I can operate my business, the restrictions I can enforce on my employees, what I can coerce people into buying, or how others can exploit my likeness? They might all seem like sensible restrictions in Europe, but I've known a good many Americans who want to retain that freedom, even if it leaves our life expediencies behind the third world at the end of the day.

Finally, I threw in the authoritarianism regime reference as an example of the extremes that society can find itself in. Germany, as a wealthy, highly educated country has made the decision that they want to live well in many ways at the cost of some "freedoms" that we defend. While we're "free," I must admit that I passed twelve homeless people today on the way to work while I never saw a one my entire stent in Germany.

I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it is a different way of thinking that you must consider before you blast their Bild law.
Typically, it's only into the athletic department, though. At least at the big state schools I've been at, money from athletics/merchandizing/etc goes to athletics and only athletics. Beyond paying for athlete's education, etc, the money isn't going back into education in any direct way.

However, the coach's salary is typically paid out of the athletic revenue stream, not directly from state funds, which makes it a bit of a moot point.

(Note: To the best of my knowledge (which isn't much) this holds for Univ. of TN, Univ. of AL, and Univ. of WI. It's probably different at many other schools.)

Of course, all that having been said, the popular sports entirely fund all of the less popular, but still very meaningful athletic programs. There's also a _lot_ to be said for the secondary effects of having a popular sports team on the overall prestige and income of a university.
Additionally, this gives TPTB an excellent excuse to to crack down on 3D printing in its formative years while masquerading as a safety measure.
Hmm, interesting. I'm not seeing this behavior on mine: http://hoverboard.io/blair
Unless you make a technology decision without understanding what you need to make it work.
Free honey? Beekeeping is actually a lot of work (especially when the hives are spread out like this). Also they say it's up to 85% effective, so that's the maximum not the average.
"Killer" bees are africanized. That is, they are european/african crossbreeds. These are simply african bees. Much safer.
The total time it takes to start the rice cooker, slice a chicken breast (it can even be frozen, just slice it small), and give the chicken a quick fry in my cast iron pan (which I then rinse out and wipe clean, 10 seconds cleanup) is probably less time than you'll spend sitting in the drivethrough of McDonalds.

While you're waiting for the rice to cook, you can spend some time with your kids or watch the expensive cable service every "too poor to cook" person I've ever know has had.
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That is a good point about interfering with other people's enjoyment of the concert. I was generally referring to the audience as a collective unit. The issue becomes more complicated when different groups in the audience want to enjoy the event different.
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I mostly caught the part where the guy I replied to was making ridiculous statements about both antidepressants and how there is somehow a "logic" which dictates that illegal substances can't treat depression.
I understand that 'killer' is a misnomer, in fact i debated the use of the term but in the end chose to use it precisely because a lot of the posters in this thread don't seem to be aware that (most?) common african bee variant is what we generally refer to as the killer bee.

To go from occasionally having an interaction with Elephants, to everyday working your field in close proximity to highly aggressive bees that relatively commonly swarm intruders.. is not a guaranteed win. I don't know enough to evaluate the trade off and I said as much.
When will this ship in python? I don't know a lot about the typical time between a PEP acceptance and a release containing the feature.
I never got the link between sports programs and academic prestige.
Here's an amusing counterargument:

http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~munsteg/arnold.html
Keto is the first weight-loss diet I've ever been on where I'm not constantly hungry. It's also the first diet where I've lost 15lb in the first three weeks, without actually trying that hard. (Clearly some water weight in there, but still.) Fancy coffees every morning and steak every night, if I want.

I don't know that this is an issue of HCLF vs LCHF diets as much as the previous dominance of HCLF diets though. I'm not a biologist/nutritionist at all, but it seems like HCLF and balanced diets work for some people, otherwise we'd all be obese or constantly hungry. But they definitely never worked for me. We already know that people's bodies differ in how well they process different foods (allergies, Celiac, alcohol flush, etc), so I wouldn't find it too surprising if different people had different ideal macro ratios.
You really ought to read about the namesake of this gun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator

If it comes to that, it's merely a tool to get better guns.
Borrow money from a loan shark, scout a new city alone. This is an option if you're motivated enough.
An employee with specialized skills who runs a profit center in an organization makes the most money? Color me surprised.
Not necessarily. Every commit contains something that looks like an email address, but there's nothing guaranteeing that they used a real email address, let alone one they actually check.

I'd suggest that when merging a commit, checking that the email is actually valid by talking to the person concerned is probably a good idea, maybe even when they're submitting the commit through GitHub.
Actually I think they would hope their was download activity from Iran, Cuba, North Korea, etc... their stated goal is getting guns into the hands of oppressed citizens.
I can only take an example from my own life: I'm a licensed motorcycle rider, I use it as my primary form of transportation when it's over 50F rain or shine. Being a motorcycle rider, I can never get a ticket for not wearing a seat belt, or driving with all of my doors open (silly analogy, I know). All of these safety devices don't apply and riding a bike requires substantially more skill and practice than the weekend course required in most US states to receive a license. Arguably it is an incredibly dangerous way to travel compared with driving or riding in a car and it's still legal.

I wonder if the guy/gal of the future who decides they want to reject driver-less cars won't resemble the modern motorcycle rider in this way. I can see those of us who love our motorcycles standing up for (and probably being) supporters of "driver's rights". I made that up, but a similar movement among riders resulted in my state lifting the mandatory helmet law despite outrage from non-riders. I can't imagine the state getting away with banning motorcycles. I don't believe it'll have enough support to ban drivers in a driver-less majority world.

The other issue is one of need for such legislation. The author states that the automobile stands as one of history’s great amplifiers of personal autonomy and liberty. Liberating? For some of us, but probably not most of us. I think more people see it as a tool to get from their home in suburbia to work/kids to baseball practice. Most people see driving as something they have to do rather than want to do and will be happy to get rid of the chore if the price was right. Those of us who do find it liberating will be part of an enthusiast market that has always existed for both cars and motorcycles. We'll be the ones taking the most risk and consequences for taking that risk, while the driver-less passenger will, arguably, be much safer.

EDIT: Grammer/structure. Boo
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>while singing along at concerts certainly has its time and place, actually listening to the artist singing is better.

Depends on the venue and the artist. There are some artists that I like to see live because they're good at creating high-energy environment, and the endorphin release I get from singing along is part of that high-energy environment. Other musical performances I attend based on my appreciation of the music and less the act. Generally speaking, if I don't have a seat, there's a good chance that I'm going to spend most of the set singing.
In my country theres a foreign worker scam that allows Indian companies to fly in the worst IT staff complete with fake resumes and pays them $6/hr for a year to screw up their website with dozens of SSL certs and slow security theatre that pretends to do something but is just a little flash to watch while you wait forever to load their junk software.

major banks here all made at least a trillion in profit last year but couldnt be arsed to pay for legit IT staff. now we all suffer paying tax dollars to track down all these thieves who easily fraud their faces off with the terribad security and poor code quality
Thanks aresant, already replied you privately, but for the public knowledge; you can accomplish this with Intercom but only with emails & in-app notifications.

We're currently studying all these features to build similar ones to accomplish the same from the servers that we own in future. We've already built an app to do exactly the same for Twitter mentions. I'll consider open-sourcing this, once it gets better & more stable.
I looked into this quite a bit. It's a chrome thing. No other browser has this problem. I'm still digging, but haven't found a solution yet.
On the one hand, you have a point, and it's really tempting to give into this sort of ethos, as an approach to diet and nutrition, but at some point it becomes important to acknowledge that a very real and practical biology reigns over your internal organic processes. These processes can be measured and understood at a chemical level.

We don't understand them perfectly, and many people (maybe more than half the world?) don't actually measure out their hunger in grams and milliliters, or understand the fundamental building blocks of metabolism at the chemical level, and get buy just fine, purely trusting their guts.

One size doesn't fit all, and sometimes cravings are correct, but not all the time. Addictive substances and microbes show us that "what you want" isn't always "what you need."

Opiates have been around for centuries, and demonstrate that just because you might feel a hunger for something and find it satisfying doesn't mean it's good for you. You're body's understanding of the world around it can be distorted. Sometimes the things that distort it's intuition are odorless and colorless. Natural food does not come with labels (and even labels can be wrong), and if you're uncertain of the purity of the water you boil your meat in, well, maybe there could be something in it that is sapping and impurifying your precious bodily fluids.

Meanwhile, it might be counter-intuitive that bread mold can ward off infection, but then again we have penicillin which has proven to be a powerful and valuable anti-biotic.

So, feel free to operate on faith and emotion, but going through life with your blinders on, you might be caught off guard by things that you could have avoided if you hadn't chosen to ignore them.
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"If you drink beer, drink the absolute best beer available, even if that means you can afford fewer beers."

A lot of good points in this post, but on this we must respectfully disagree. Yours truly, an almost-36-year-old with Miller High Life by the gallon.
You pay taxes for government, regardless of how democratic it is or isn't, not for democracy.
>Because pans get sold by experienced companies who recognize that the price of an item is decided by its utility and the amount people are prepared to pay for that utility, not anything to do with the cost of manufacture.

The price of an item is decided by supply and demand. The only way you get a retail price which is significantly higher than the manufacturing cost is a lack of competition.

For items like pans this is probably more at the retail level than the manufacturers. I kind of doubt Walmart is buying $1 pans for $45 and selling them for $50.
Wouldn't that necessarily force them to raise prices or cut payments or leave them with less money to lend? I mean, it has to come from somewhere, right?
If this was a strongly-typed language I wouldn't want enums to be nullable, but maybe people would use that in Python.

Incidentally, this makes me wonder if one could implement something similar for flags (powers of two values, overloading | and &). Though sets of enums might be sufficient.
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Because developers without significant database / data store experience are choosing where to put their data because its "easy to use".

Yes, RBDMS and similar approaches are difficult to work with [1] and introduce "impedance mismatch". Yes joins can be slow. Yes scaling can be difficult and or expensive. But, when choosing where to put data without understanding (or accepting) why the above is difficult is only asking history to repeat itself.

[1] "Database guy here". I know databases and SQL. I would not consider choosing what language to implement a web application tier on, because I don't have enough relevant experience. I focus on what I have battle experience in.
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Guns aren't that scary. We are good at identifying and arresting/shooting gunmen, they can rarely kill more than a handful of us. Look forward enough in time and be afraid of the time when it's easy to download and print virulent pathogens or other WMDs.

As technology amplifies individuals power, it will only take one unhinged person to cause massive damage.

I don't think law enforcement/military/intelligence/censorship approaches will work when massive destructive power is in the hands of individuals.

Possible if incomplete solutions I can foresee are in the realm of genetically engineering increased empathy in humanity and eliminating psychopathic/anti-social tendencies from the gene pool. Eugenics is unpalatable and too slow, we will need an intelligent and targeted handover from evolution to engineering our DNA.

One day our civilization may wake up and realize exploiting entire classes and nations is untenable in the face of asymmetrical revenge.

This isn't at hand today, but my mind can't help but follow this trend to its inevitable eventuality. On spaceship earth we are all in this together.

EDIT: My choice of language was poor. Guns are scary, what I should have said is they are not an existential threat.

EDIT 2, this time for clarity and with feeling: When I say we are good at stopping gunmen and they rarely kill more than handful of us, I did not mean in the aggregate. I meant an individual gunmen rarely kills more than a handful of us.

A great example that underlines my point here is the North Hollywood shootout. From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout):

"Both robbers were killed, eleven police officers and seven civilians were injured, and numerous vehicles and other property were damaged or destroyed by the nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition fired by the robbers and police."

No one but the gunmen were killed. Of course the counterpoint to this anecdote are mass shootings like Columbine. These shootings terrorize us emotionally and destroy families, but when thought of statistically they are an extremely minor threat.
These are african bees, what we in america refer to as 'killer' bees. These bees are highly agressive and are much more likely to swarm a perceived threat, and once swarming will not stop stinging the preceived threat for potentially hours.

Elephants which are more than 10 times as big as a person with a much thicker hide are not 'paranoid' of bees. Their fear is well justified.
The problem I'd have with doing this is that it would be difficult to think of a price I would be happy with.

The customer sounds like the type who would use this video to nitpick everything.

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Then if you get tired of dealing with it he can trash your reputation and he has edited video to back it up. Let's face it, if someone has hundreds of hours of footage of your work, they can find problems.

The whole thing sounds like a nightmare that could easily spiral out of control.
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The best reason to avoid carbohydrate-rich foods is exactly the reason they figure so heavily in the diets of many nations. Rice, bread, these things pack a ton of calories. This is not great for a computer programmer who sits on ass all day, converting the carbohydrate calories to weight, but goddamn if rice isn't a cheap way to power yourself when you're on a budget.
Cost: you're setting the standard of "fresh healthy" too high. I've got a can of assorted seeds, enough to sow an acre of all the veggies you need - $40, get busy. Assorted frozen veggies (flash-frozen minutes after picking, so yes they're fresh) are $1/pound; canned works too, and actual fresh is also available if you look with care.

Access: you can arrange transport a couple times a month to someplace selling healthy/cheap/durable food. If you truly are in a "food desert" (a wildly over-applied term), do what you would do if in a real desert: MOVE.

Fuel: canned & dried foods don't need refrigeration. Scrap wood burns. Yes I cook over a scrap fire on occasion. Electricity is cheap for a $4 crock-pot.
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I didn't intentionally reference Discworld so I'm gonna assume I'm just doing it subconsciously now. Yeah, I love Discworld. Hi, fellow Discworld fan!
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