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I have a spent a lot of time going "wine tasting" and derived a lot of enjoyment from it. Here are some of my observations:

* The sense of taste is very influenced by experience. If something makes you sick (bad chicken), you can develop a lasting aversion to that taste. Conversely, if something makes you feel good over and over again (alcohol), over time you will start to like it, even if, that thing doesn't taste very good initially.

* The fact that the taste of wine, beer, booze ... is not simply a "good" taste like sugar or protein, makes it more "complex" and interesting. Candy = yum, but as you get older, it's kind of gross. Alcohol, on the other hand, stays interesting. This theory is not very scientific, but I think it has a grain of truth.

* Wine in the USA carries a heavy burden ... of Americans' feelings of cultural inferiority (in general, but originally towards Europe). "Wine tasting" even more so seems like an effete, silly, snobby thing to do. It's in the same neighborhood as the USA's love-hate relationship with France. It got put into our cultural code at our founding, and we still have it. "They think they're so cool and sophisticated. What a load of bull! And yet, it seems like there's something there that we don't understand." Argh, we can't seem to get over it.

* Anyways, my advice: just have fun and don't take the experts seriously, certainly don't feel inadequate. It is bullshit, it is an art -- in some domains, who can tell the difference?

If there's one thing that "wine tasting" can help you to do, it's just to PAY ATTENTION to what you are tasting, and talk about it. We shove so much crap into our face that we don't even really taste, and it's sad because "tasting" can be a source of great pleasure.

Also, it can be fun to think of Wine Country as an especially epic bar crawl that you go on when you're old and starting in the morning. This is when drinking gets serious.
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So what's your point exactly? You could argue that that comment is insensitive, maybe even caustic... you could argue that the person who posted it is a bit of an ass probably. But how does any of that support the idea that /r/atheism is a "hate group"?
Yes, the politics there are biased, but the voting system still ultimately rewards facts -- the top comment for some BS liberal-bias-confirming story is often a debunking. So at least the vote system has that going for it.
Also the reaction expected from anyone who understands that the state will do anything to protect its hegemony, regardless of whether its actions will actually be effective or not (as many citizens in many countries know all too well what they get away with on a daily basis despite or in ignorance of written laws). With predictable actors, it's hard not make it work to one's advantage.
Not sure if they're all "startups" but: Groupon, Starter League, 37signals, Food Genius, Fee Fighters, Spot Hero. All based in Chicago. Certainly not the Valley, but no need to be dismissive out of hand.
I may be ignorant here - but how does exactly bullying on the Internet work? I can understand the harm of being recognized from the Internet video, but you don't have to reveal your identity on chat-rooms, forums, etc.

I imagine on a Facebook and the like, people might request a friendship and then quickly use the platform for abuse and this can render it un-usable.

But outside of that - a person is under no pressure of revealing his identity in most situations; in fact most of the internet experience is read-only and a person can choose what to view.

Is there something I'm missing? Is it ignorant to imagine that the internet would be a place for refuge for any social outcast, even internet celebrities?
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In other news, the State Department has absolutely no idea how the internet works.
Why should the law make sense? It's a bunch of arbitrary rules put in place via largely reactionary pressure.

If you don't refactor code occasionally you end up with weird corner cases that don't make any sense. The laws of our nation haven't been refactored in any substantial way, ever. It's patches all the way down to the Constitution.
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Here's an interesting question.

The situation: Say you're in the process of a starting a venture and you meet a great person who you think would be quite helpful as a manager. He's in the same position as you: a young budding entrepreneur who believes in your idea. He's aware of the fact that startups don't have much capital to work with at the beginning and will accept an equity deal.

Now for the question: What is a fair percentage to offer? Enough that will make him want to join and have a good vested interest, but not so much that you aren't giving away too much - an offer that is fair for both sides, the founder and the newfound manager. For arguments sake, assume the valuation of the company is around $1,000,000.00.

What do you guys think? I can imagine a bunch of us have found ourselves in this situation and will find ourselves again stuck with this. I'd love to hear thoughts and rational.

Discuss away!
Indeed. Nice call.

For posterity sake, I'll drop a hint[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5679685
do you think 3d printers will not significantly reduce the complexity of creating a firearm for the average citizen?
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Eh, I know plenty of 30-somethings who would be excited about robot godzilla movies.

Once something gets as big as reddit it's probably difficult to call it a "community" in any real sense. It's a community in the same way that usenet (in it's entirety) is a community.

Front page stuff is going to naturally be things that appeals to the largest cross section of people, you see this on HN too to an extent. A blog post talking about a novel application of an obscure algorithm languishes at the bottom with 10 comments whilst "popular blogger bashes Windows 8" gets to the top with ~300 comments.

I like to think of subreddits more as an easier alternative to installing phpBB than as a part of the whole.
Your conflating two unrelated things here - being objective (or real) and being dismissive.
> studies that correlate verbiage price

There are certain terms that do just mean "it tastes expensive," yes (and reviewers that are paid by the word frequently whip out the wine-taster's thesaurus to spew them all over the page to fill their quota.) But the kinds of details I'm talking about aren't those--looking for, say, a "hint of nutmeg" in a wine won't put you into a higher echelon of prices. It'll just give you wines that taste more like nutmeg.

> it makes a case that reviewers generally can't identify more than six or so flavors in a wine

I don't see what's wrong with that. Six is already a lot of details to pick out. By that point, you're getting down past the standards of the label and into things like "orange zest", which really do let you discriminate a wine with a flavor you might want to try from one that turns you off.

> they often can't even tell red from white

This isn't as shocking a pronouncement as it's made out to be. Here's the quote:

> They called it "jammy," for example, and noted the flavors imparted by its "crushed red fruit."

This implies that they clearly could tell it wasn't your average red--those are the kinds of things you would say about a red (usually as a veiled insult) when it doesn't have any tannin or oak in it, which tends to imply that it's basically a white made with red grapes (that is, made with white-wine processes, that don't seek to capture tannins.)

Whites and reds, although they seem like (and are treated like) separate things, are really just a spectrum; there's no dividing point where a white becomes a red, flavor-wise; there are whites that taste like reds, and reds that taste like whites. The category is just about the color, nothing else.
hate group? I don't think you know what that term means. Maybe you should go check out the southern poverty law center that defines hate groups in the u.s. and meditate on your comment.
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Hey, thanks for sharing that!

So Cal Newport is effectively saying that humans are inherently competitive, and they'll feel passionate about something once they start kicking ass at it.

That certainly helps, and I think it would hold true for people who start off with something they already kind of like. But then there are all those stories of kids whose parents forced them to ice skate or take piano lessons until it completely squelched any passion the kid had for the activity. So, I'm not sure I completely agree with CN.
I first thought that there is still the same problem but then I saw that the web socket worker is using 9006. Our company network is blocking unusual ports. Any chance to move that to 80, 443 or 8080?

http://ec2-23-20-184-45.compute-1.amazonaws.com:9006/api/web....
>showing solidarity for the more criminal subreddits.

Like?
Isn't that sort of the opposite as the parent, in terms of machine readability?
Actually Shared Matting is far more applicable than KNN Matting. It's designed for real time use and has a post processing step which will help you deal with fine detail like hair.

http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~eslgastal/SharedMatting/
While I agree that it's nice to have native (assuming it's actually native) ports, HL2 and most of the other Source engine games have reportedly run great via Wine for a while now: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application...
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Hey all,

Recently, a friend and myself have been working on what will be (hopefully!) a decently vast project. We have experience in the field (Python, C#, and browser code) but it just becomes too much for two people to handle, and a lot of our friends don't seem up to the task!

Are there any good resources for these types of things online, or are people like us mostly stuck to friends and family? Of course, there isn't any money involved at this stage.

I'm sure there are others in the same boat, and others that have moved on from similar situations.

Thank you!
Or my business-oriented suitemate who endorsed everything I listed in the hope that I would do the same for him. Because apparently that's something that the kids in Business School brag about to each other? (he says it is)
1391 seeds, 109 peers at time of writing
While I'm not super excited about people printing 3D guns, it seems like it's probably still cheaper to buy an illegal gun than it is to buy a 3D printer with the material to print a functioning firearm (last I checked 3D printers were still ~$500+; and even legal guns can be as cheap as ~$100)... I'm not sure that this publicized letter helps the situation any. There is the interesting topic of "gun legislation" as well... once any individual can manufacture Thing X, how do you (or do you?) legislate control of it?

It would be great if the first major, widespread, TPB-distributed 3D printed-thing was something less controversial, but such is life. There are people in jail for "hacking" and a huge variety of other issues, while one can apparently print guns without any legal ramifications. I am not saying that one is better or worse than the other - just drawing attention to how poor our legislative process is when it comes to handling _any_ technological advances whatsoever.
Is there any reason NSLog doesn't filter input to escape these format args?
Perhaps it would also have been useful if they had addressed the pre-1972 recording issue that came up recently. I.e., they don't appear to be covered by the DMCA safe-harbor provision, leading to unintended liability. See: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/court-denies-groo...
It's interesting how some nerdy phrases/memes have made their way into the mainstream.

I was watching the UK Apprentice the other day and during the "boardroom" scene they were showing a group of stylish , upwardly mobile, adult business women arguing about whether or not something was an "epic fail".

The term "epic fail" is a reference to an obscure neogeo game called blazing star which I doubt any of these women would ever have played.
Oh, those are qualities I understand all too well, so I guess we are fellow travelers. Months of curiousity satisfied.
I think if I were in a similar situation, it would be hard not to look at comments. Even though nothing is forcing you to read them, it's pretty difficult to fight the temptation of seeing what other people think about you.
Could you please elaborate on that ?
Is there something wrong with laying out the pros and cons and letting you draw your own conclusion?
"The $5 wildcard came out top."

Hope everyone who liked it stocked up. But is this a data point against "wine tasting" (supporting that wine tasting is bullshit) or just saying that price isn't necessarily an indicator of preference? I like some cheap and cheerful restaurants more than celebrity chef restaurants in big brand hotel lobbies.

"I also had a "slop bucket", into which all the dregs from the bottles went. The slop bucket was served up and came middle, of the pack, next to the $30 bottle."

You don't mention what sort of people were at the party, but perhaps they just like an even blend?

"Interestingly, some people began to revise their opinions, saying how the expensive wine was good, but they "weren't quite sure", so down rated it."

I think a lot of that comes down to human nature and you would find equivalent comments and tests with all sorts of product categories including other beverages, quality of fabric/fashion, speaker systems, etc.
I would wager that right now, in the US, there are more people that know how to use CNC machines and have access to one than people who know how to use 3d printers and have access to one. Consider that damn near every mid-sized shop these days has a CNC machine, while 3d printers are still very much a hobbyist's toy (your regular Joe can always pop down to the local hackerspace to get access to one, but I doubt many hackerspaces would be amused at regular Joe printing out his own Liberator. I would expect to see more leeway given to people who work in shops with CNC machines though, mostly due to the lower visibility).

With any luck 3d printers will become more ubiquitous in the next few years, and this will all clearly be no longer the case.
Half-baked, untested production patches at that.
That is a shitty reason. 200 billion invested in clean energy or reversing green house gasses would go way further. For Earth to get bad enough that Mars was a viable planet would be fucking insanity.
Pretty sure it was just a figure of speech...
The color palette of the images in the blog post was adjusted to highlight areas of precipitation at the expense of intensity discrimination. Dark Sky itself uses a wider range, but it's still a similar blue to purple to salmon to yellow color table.

The reason we went with that over the standard green-to-red color table is because I personally find the standard colors to be jarring and more confusing to the casual user because of the increased contrast between intensity bands (at least, it certainly was to me back when I was a casual weather app user!)

The tradeoff is that there isn't as fine an intensity discrimination at lower intensities. In theory I can see how that can be a problem, but I haven't noticed it in practice.
It is not that they don't understand how the internet works, but legally you cannot export blueprints about weapons without an export license. The State Department is absolutely correct. Blueprints of weapons cannot be exported. Everyone in the firearm/defense industry knows this.

The ITAR rules are even worse for some types of equipment. For example it is a felony to allow a foreigners (non-citizens or non-green card holders) to look through high-end (Gen III) night vision equipment. Guns shops all over the country unwittingly violate this rule every day. Technical discussions of night vision equipment on a forums accessible from foreigners is also illegal.

Edit: Also worth pointing out that those model files are also being hosted on GitHub [0]

[0] https://github.com/maduce/defcad-repo
Would a US citizen seeding this file to a foreign peer potentially violate export rules and be at risk of major legal trouble if the US gov went down that road?
This is the beginning of a much longer roller coaster. It opens the door to a public demand for more surveillance, and debate over what kinds of data are allowed to exist.
While not entirely winning me over, your argument at least attempts to explain the problems brought forth in the article.

Considering how most other defenders have reverted to simple knee-jerk "it's obviously not bullshit, I go tasting all the time" reactions, possibly without even reading the linked article, I salute (and update) you.

Edit: refined text to clarify meaning. s/not exactly winning/not entirely winning/
good job,

I just realised the theme is under GNU General Public License, does this means I have to share my modifications to the theme?, what if i want to build on it and sell it?

thanks
I loved Half-Life 2. I loved Counter-Strike 1.5 (and 1.6 too). I loved Portal. Valve has done a good job of making games. But I reeeeally wish some other developers would step up to the plate and port as well. I'm thinking Borderlands, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and others. Those two already have Mac ports so I doubt it's unfeasible to move things over. Wine typically works well enough --assuming you're willing to either fiddle with it for hours or else pay for an out-of-the-box solution like Crossover-- but nothing beats native :)

Edit: Been playing the Portal Beta. The horizontal tearing without vertical sync is annoying. Mainly because, with vertical sync, there is substantial input lag. But hey, it's called "beta" for a reason.
Circlejerk is probably a better term.
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We don't care about intent, we care about conveyed meaning and tone. You're going to be judged on that, not what lives in your noggin. Nobody cares what you think, only what you do and how you make other people feel.

I'll let the content of your original comment (which you tactically opted not to include) stand on its own:

>Oh my god this is awful. I'm sure I should be impressed but this is just awful.

That is not constructive feedback, negative or otherwise. It's just negativity. That's literally all there was.

I'm not interested in a debate or what you think. Your behavior was indefensible and that you think you can cover for it with sophistry serves only to embarrass you.

Correct the behavior or move on. You're not going to convince anybody of anything.
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Also, correct me if I'm wrong (and I very well could be), but the most egregious noise -- the giant Bagel Blobs -- aren't insect reflections, but rather night-time temperature inversions. Can dual-pol correlation help identify those?
The question might be more about marginal cost. What would it cost a militia to outfit themselves with a thousand illegal guns, versus the material and power to print a thousand guns? If printing is cheaper, how much more likely does this make the creation of militias?
I could be mistaken, but I do believe the answer to 'successful as in' refers to the definition of the word successful
I've been trying to use the demo for the last... 30 minutes or so, but after I upload the image the "Initializing" progress bar in the "Booting" window always freezes around 90%.
You need to add this as a photoshop plugin STAT and sell it on your website.
Well, that only says that a single study showed that "flavor-trained professionals cannot reliably identify more than three or four components in a mixture". Surely you or people you know can reliably identify several more when not part of a mixture - or even identify one mixture as rose and smoke, while another could be rose and berry.

camperman's point that "there really an incredible variety of flavors and textures in red wine alone" probably isn't very controversial to anyone that's actually tasted more than a few bottles.
Improvised guns are a problem in China also, but it is also one of those crimes with an often applied death penalty.

I don't see 3D printing changing the situation very much, as the capability already exists and is harshly regulated.
Seconding the "still alive" sentiment. A great friend of mine growing up was able to dodge the more abusive aspects of the parenting style. His parents would occasionally back off. Why? Because he was born after his two older cousins, one of whom committed suicide in college and the other who broke down permanently and has been institutionalized off-and-on ever since.
No.

3d printers that people can afford can only produce garbage guns. 3d printers that professionals use (i.e., that cost tends of thousands of dollars) can produce slightly less crappy guns. In either case, you end up with a product that is substantially lower quality that mass-manufactured equivalents and costs substantially more.

What kind of idiot would pay more money for a lower quality product that could easily blow up in your hand severely injuring you? I mean, it is not like there's a shortage of mass-manufactured firearms.
Well, the State Department can go <bold>fuck</bold> themselves.
Your friends who use it:

https://www.facebook.com/search/178205172320915/app-users/me...
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/05/09/link-exposes-users-of...

only people who installed it before January.
Subjectivity doesn't mean it's bullshit, we might just be measuring the wrong thing. Genetics + a oral chemistry test might be a far better predictor of what wines you'll enjoy than an expert's opinion.
...was expecting to hear of brand new ATM Scheme implementation :)
These ports are a little bit more native than linking to winelib - there are still some translation layers in place, but you do run an ELF file.
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Why would anyone respond to a request from the State Department to remove plans for a 3-D gun? What jurisdictional claim and standing does SD have here? I see none.

And this is an old technology firearm created with a new technology printing device. Plans for firearms are all over the internet. What makes this one fall under SD rule?
What does it mean to know someone?
Do you even use Reddit? You show an astonishing lack of understanding how it works for someone speaking in an authoritative voice. You're doing it wrong. Reddit is both worse in some regards and better in others than you understand it to be.
No. There are plenty of Non-US Persons (people without greencards or citizenship) in the U.S. and IP is not adequate identification anyway.
Well, that's as far as you're concerned and you're entitled to your unsubstantiated opinion. From what I've seen, the mods do an excellent job of upholding the rules. The mods for the major subs (ie. the "face" of reddit) all get rid of personal info very quickly to the point that I've never seen it.

Mods put in a lot of work, without which reddit would be worse off.
What exactly makes you think Google doesn't have this feature?
ah..good. Looks like not many people in that list know about that setting :-)
Can someone explain to me how they were able to withdraw so much money with only a few prepaid accounts? I'm assuming that the even though the prepaid accounts had a small balance, ATM machines let them withdraw as much as they wanted??
> legally you cannot export blueprints about weapons without an export license.

Wow. That seems incredibly stupid. How did this manage to survive first amendment challenges? Or has it not been tested?
You simply pick a market and start writing about how you would solve their problems. You may also start doing small open source projects that help them, too. The focus is to get them to know you. This takes less time, effort ,and money. You use LinkedIn to connect with people in that industry, and web forums.
Hope you find it useful :)
That's one comment that you've cherry picked. If that's all it takes to make a site/section a hate group, then YouTube is a hate group.