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I've noticed the luxuriousness of modern higher ed, and I imagine the culture shock after graduation for virtually all grads must be interesting.

My favorite waitress used to eat at a facility like that, after graduation now she's stuck working at a similar facility. A bit too personal to ask, but I imagine its kinda a shock to the system for about 99% of the students.
It's far from perfect, but I thought someone here might get a kick out of this.

It's written in CoffeeScript, and uses Raphael.js to draw parts of the Gonville font.

Audio playback is done via Flash, so it may give an error in your browser. I looked into using MIDI.js for playback, but that gave worse results in some browsers.

I've done a few experiments into git-style music collaboration. I'm not convinced that enough people will actually pay for private collaboration, so I've put that on hold, for now.

Side Note: I'm currently looking for remote work. Contact details are in my profile.
First, you have redefined both words. We could quibble semantic details ad nauseum, but since your written English is pretty good, I suspect your overall English is good enough that you know exactly what you're doing. Even if it wasn't, the "especially by an army" bit should have been a huge hint about the spirit of the word "invade".

Second, if you want to argue the legal points of whether the surveillance is warranted, you don't need to come up with vague, hand-wavy terrorist threat scenarios. You could just state your legal argument and let some expert out there destroy it ;)

Third, an excuse of "I know this is crap, but" is not a valid excuse. It's like saying to someone, "No offense, but you're a total idiot." Just because you said "no offense", it doesn't mean they shouldn't or can't take offense. Likewise, explicitly stating that you were "pulling the numbers out of your arse" doesn't make your scenario any less ridiculous or a better fit to support your argument in any way.

As for the nitpicking about scenario A, you're welcome to argue against it as much as you want. Again, the onus to do that is on you, so knock yourself out.

Fourth, @foobarqux hit the nail on the head with his comment about restraint. One thing is to argue that "repelling an invasion" is "warranted" by the government, another is to try to classify PRISM and other such surveillance programs as "repelling an invasion" and yet another is arguing about whether the extent of those programs is "warranted" or not. I don't know the Constitution by heart and to the letter, but I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of stuff in it that, taken to extremes, will contradict other stuff in it.

And fifth, if "being blockheaded" means not allowing bullshit arguments to pass as valid just because there's strong emotion behind them -- or because their author is throwing a temper tantrum -- then I hope my cranium gets as cubical as it can.
Back in the days, where livereloading wasn't even thought, I was just using META REFRESH every 5-10 seconds to accomplish the same job and I was quite happy.
fact is, that he won't travel next week, even if he could.
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I use noscript as well as adblock plus.
One of the things I love about the node community is the way it embraces the philosophy of Unix. To that end, I'll be interested to see how much adoption this gets - certainly looks useful, but it's doing a lot of things.

Case in point: 'forever' itself is essentially a convenience program built on top of the 'forever-monitor' API (oversimplifying somewhat, but you get my point). And while 'forever' may not use JSON config files, 'forever-monitor' does (I only mention that because of the comparison table in the article... FWIW none of 'forever' is written in coffeescript).

No disrespect to the devo.ps team - good work on releasing PM2!
1) So shoulder your kids with massive debt or hope the educational system has changed enough that college degrees aren't required for everything and things are affordable. Nice.

2) Assuming a low cost of living state, and you live frugally for just yourself, I totally agree. I don't think that anyone would say raising a family on that much is easy in any part of the country. (I'm not saying its impossible, just not easy, probably to the point where you would say screw it and go back to work.)
Yes, the schools are trying to make college teaching into a hobby rather than a profession.
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Yes, I was going to say the same thing. If you found this article interesting, you'll likely find Moldbug's perspective very interesting too.
If you're constantly returning and saving modified immutable data structures you're doing it wrong. Clojure has mutable data, you use them when you need them, and don't use them when you don't.
It might be incredibly hard if you do not know C.
It's also almost exactly like coffee and beer in that it tastes terrible the first time you try it, but as you learn to enjoy it, it becomes almost a necessity.
Nice work!.

This is a very good addition - I'm using forever extensively in production over many services for the last year and a half.

While it's great, it has a few corner cases which looks like you guys also bumped into and solved.

Can't wait to give this a go.
One of the next possible steps for Square is definitely to enter the online food ordering space. They have the perfect way to do so, iPhone/iPad app & they take care of payment processing / disbursement. The amount of work they would need to put in is negligible now that they have this ;)
What is shocking is that in disciplines like CS, profs are expected to pull in grants that cover their salaries. So effectively, the tuition students pay isn't even paying for the salaries of the professorial staff. Also, the University charges an overhead percentage on grants received. Of course, different universities do it their own way. But the money side of academia is dark and dark indeed.
Making Hay of the NSA: My Response to the Data-Mining Argument
you're equating bitcoin ownership to tax evasion? you can't pay taxes in bitcoins. the only novelty that would come out of such a situation (person allegedly dodged taxes, stored the 'ill gotten gains' as bitcoins) was that a judge and/or government declares your bitcoin wallet as an asset and requires you to forfeit it. now that would be a show to watch...
Nuclear key the option. If X votes then X number of moderators have to agree before its closed.
We have been moving to the pro sports salary model, not just in pro sports, but obviously already happened in .edu and is more or less along that path everywhere else.

I'm sure there's startup opportunities and risks in this cultural and economic system change.
For anyone interested in the getUserMedia API, I recommend Photobooth.js http://wolframhempel.github.io/photobooth-js/

Here's the bluescreen GIF-maker I made with it: http://mapmeld.github.io/bluescreen-gif/
I don't like the scanners. But if you think America is the worst, I wonder if you have traveled through Schiphol. Or Israel. Getting the verbal third degree is also quite invasive and uncomfortable.
Awesome tool. This is something I was struggling with node.. I had so many processes starting with "node /...." that it was a real pain to track what was doing what, which one to restart, which ones are zombies, etc etc. I won't lie, this is actually one of the reason I was still hacking the backend with python/django.. the virtualenv, gunicorn and supervisor just made it awesome. I'll definitely give PM2 a try though.

To other node.js users: How do you cope with this problem? I know friends who by-pass all this by using heroku (or similar platform), is that what you do? What about managing multiple node projects on a single linode instance?
This is a little misleading. When adjusted for inflation, the average amount that students pay has increased only moderately. And on average students at public universities only pay about 18% of the money that's spent per student. There's no question it's a little bit harder now than it used to be, but it's not like its twice as expensive, let alone 10x as some people would claim.
two star systems are more common than a single star system in the universe.
Great point. I wonder how long it will be before we can publicly acknowledge the foolishness of these government subsidies. Efforts to improve college affordability created skyrocketing costs. Same story with housing affordability - an epic and damaging bubble. We can acknowledge wasteful subsidies for farmers, when we see food rotting in fields instead of being exported or consumed. And yet, the presence of millions of highly indebted, unemployed or underemployed college graduates and there's nothing to see here, please move along.
I wander how this will work together with:
http://nodefly.com
Changing Amazon referencial links... Seriously? and this guy is asking for donation putting forward his wife and his life.
GAs are a good bit above brute forcing. Brute forcing this would be enumerating ever possible car and testing them all.
Sexism is about power and the abuse of gender to assert said power.

The definition I found is: "Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.". Institutionalized sexism would be necessary in order to be able to assert power via gender, but I don't think this necessarily makes them the same thing?

2. [...] He makes a "joke" which reduces the stature of the person to whom he is speaking and elevates his sense of dominance.

I would have thought it would reduce his own stature ("dirty old man" is not a good thing). Which is something that nervous speakers do seem to do for some reason.
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Reducing memory consumption in a Java application via String.intern()
I completely agree with you that human knowledge, whether individual or collective, is severely limited compared to all there is to know in the Universe. Part of this has to do with the fact that we as a species has only been observing the Universe scientifically for ~500 years. But it probably also has to do with the physiological limitations of homo sapiens. I don't disagree with any of that.

But what does that have to do with the sentences you quoted from me? Is it even relevant? Human knowledge is limited, so what?

1. Human knowledge is limited.
2. ???
3. Ergo, progress is an illusory concept.

You haven't supplied a single proposition that could fill the space of #2.

Meanwhile, the fact that our mental capacities are limited has not prevented us from "rising above certain petty disputes arising out of ... ego, vanity, and self-preservation" at least from time to time, even if it's only .0001% of the time. The idea that progress always happens is a ridiculous proposition, but the idea that progress is always stunted by other factors is just as laughable. Also, even if we did agree that progress never happens in reality, there is still a very large logical gap between that and the (even more preposterous) proposition that the concept of progress itself is an illusion.

If you say "True progress rarely if ever happens", fine, we can talk about that.

If you say "Your definition of progress is wrong", fine, we can talk about that.

If you say "Progress is not one thing but many different things depending on the context", fine, we can talk about that. Cultural relativism is nothing new, there's plenty of good philosophy on that topic, and you're at least a century late to the game if you think waving the flag of cultural relativism will change anything.

But if you say "The concept of progress is an illusion" (or some variation of it), that's just one of those strings of profound-looking words that college freshmen put down in their PHIL 101 essays. If there is any useful content in such catchphrases, I have yet to see any. So I suppose it's just a figure of speech.

> Your argument has the appearance of something that's badly contrived (or derived).

Arguments don't have the "appearance" of being badly contrived, and even if they do in some sense, it doesn't matter. Either they are badly contrived, or they are not. If they are indeed badly contrived, it should be possible to say why without committing the fallacy of ignoratio elenchi.
If you use any normal dictionary of words you will end up with the word "rape".
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That's a bit harsh, the guy was very receptive to technical arguments. Particularly regarding IPv6 and the NBN. He just became Internet Enemy #1 because of filter proposals.
It sort of reminds me of Dukes of Hazard. It seemed that they would always go off a jump in the car chase scenes.
Anyone up for living for cheap in Turkey and working on our own projects?
For some time I've been wanting to move to Alanya, Turkey (by the Mediterranean Sea) for some months because it's a good combination of being a beautiful place and being very cheap ($1,100 a month will get you a three-star hotel stay and three restaurant meals a day).

My plan is to work on my own programming projects. But I could use some company. I'm not looking for co-founders, just other developers to talk shop with and work on cafes with.

As far as visas go, Turkey is pretty friendly (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Turkey). E.g., if you're in the EU you can stay for 3 months without a visa, and then you have the option to get a visa to stay for another 6 months.

Oh, and the weather is great all year in Alanya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanya#Climate.

I'm planning to move there in September or October. If you're interested in joining me, shoot me a message.
The accounting for college athletics is weird. Do you only count tickets/TV/bowl $$ in? Or do you try and include alumni donations directly or indirectly linked/influenced by sports? How do you know whether or not the alumnus/a would have donated if not for the team? Do you count sports individually or as a whole? - under title IX you can't just cut the women's programs outright. You can manipulate these variable to claim almost anything you want about profitability in either direction.
I'm very curious: How much did this all cost (I mean, without considering the time donated by volunteers)?
I often find this problem with python, although usually it is the parsing code; the code that loads all the data up, that actually uses the high-water-mark of RAM.

For example, I had a 100MB JSON file that I tried to use the stdlib json library to load. It quickly used >8GB (my machine's RAM) and started paging, dragging everything to a halt. This is partly because the stdlib JSON parser is written in python.

Now, if you switch to a small, clever implementation called cjson[1], it can load the whole thing without bumping 3-400MB in RAM, and the high watermark is the data at the end. Much better!

So, in summary, be careful that the important part of your code is the one that uses all the RAM - and that it's not some "hello world" quality stdlib code that's killing you. If it is, and there isn't a cjson for the job, I've found wrapping C/C++ libraries with Cython[2] a simple way to solve the problem without too much hassle (generally only a couple of days work at a time if you're tight, and only wrap the functions you actually need to use yourself.)

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-cjson - although there's a 1.5.1 out there somewhere with a fix for a bug that loses precision on floats...which is the only one I use personally. It's so hard to find that I keep a copy of the source in my Dropbox for when I need it!

[2] http://cython.org/ - although of course actually using cython means you can't take advantage of pypy, IronPython, and other "faster" implementations because you're tied to the cpython C interface forever.
The author is really arguing two things. (1) There is no such thing as moral progress, because human nature is fixed.(2) People are not naturally inclined to be free.

His first claim is demonstrably false. If you look at historical, statistical evidence you can rapidly demolish his position. Start with Stephen Pinker's Ted talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...

His second claim is probably true, but irrelevant. Humans do seem to naturally love hierarchies. And in the grand sweep of time and place, freedom is still a tiny blip.

But So. Fucking. What. Humans are naturally inclines to die of infectious diseases, too.

The author admits that science does progress. And more importantly, the capital structure of society progresses along with it, symbiotically. That puts the lie to the rest of his argument, because ideas from science have demonstrably altered human behavior, and science is already on the cusp of altering human nature directly at the molecular level.
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reminds me of this:
techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
You need to read up on how capitalism actually works. It doesn't matter if the thing was written in 30 seconds. The price comes from the perceived value of it.
Thank god! One really shouldn't be the Minister for broadband if you don't send and read your own email...

BTW he was also the guy who wanted to:

* censor Australia's internet with a filter
* limit the freedom of the press
Unlike most people, I have a protected Twitter account (my tweets are not public). In order to "opt out", I have to authorize their app to be able to read all my tweets! Insane.

I guess I'll just continue to hope they're not building a "shadow profile" on me based on my friends' public tweets (and pretending said profile doesn't exist... I don't appear to have one, anyway).
I wish that app shared the state with some central server and you could always start with the "best evolved" state.

It would also be nice if the designs could be more complex, and not just a random star-shaped polygon + two wheels.
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Subject to it meeting the criteria, no.
If Google Can't Make Its RSS Reader Work, Why Are Others So Interested?
Microsoft should control Windows like Apple controls OSX except when I don't want them to! If something is wrong with Windows, it's Microsoft's fault for not controlling third party vendors! When Microsoft controls third party vendors, they're being anti-competitive!
A universal, federated payment protocol
For some perspective, my degree at a public state university in the US cost about $20,000 per year. That was almost 10 years ago. There are plenty of universities in the $40-50k per year range.
It's generally a requirement for most corporate profiles to use a alphanumeric pin.

It's also pretty much considered the most annoying thing about those corporate profiles.
I went to university in Canada in the early 90s. My tuition per year peaked at $2500/yr. I could make about $6000 over the summer, which would pay for my tuition and a big chunk of my dorm fees ($6000/yr). Nowadays, I don't know how anyone can afford to go to university, or even if it's worth it anymore. I believe there's a lot of value in higher education, but not if it means having $100k+ in debt.
In 2009, Ed Snowden said leakers “should be shot.” Then he became one
You could introduce speciation by only allowing relatively similar genomes to successfully breed. My guess is that such an operator would be quite expensive, and its benefits would need to be weight against that.

A typical work-around for scenarios like this would be to have the various parameters change as the simulation carries on; e.g. later on it might make more sense to increase the number of elites as a way of limiting crossover.
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>Does anyone know why the cost of the universities have skyrocketed?

Administrators always claim their biggest expense is faculty, I remain skeptical.

>Do they offer a better staff/student relation,

No, worse.

>better equipment,

No, and equipment is almost always paid for with grant money.

>better buildings,

My own Ivory Tower is a cold-war era brick dungeon with not a single damn window. The A/C system, which used to be great, was designed for 2.5cent/kW/h electricity, and still uses quite a lot of power even though they have disabled the dehumidifier functionality. Buildings are usually bought with local bonds, grants, or endowments.

do they pay their staff better...?

Staff, maybe, faculty? no.

>if I understand the article correctly the (inflation adjusted) amount of money the government provides also has not decreased.

Negatory, at least in Texas, the state has been slashing funds each year for at least the last 4 years. (Texas A&M, UT, were exempt, I think)

The explosion in costs isn't merely on the tuition side. Being on a college campus is to be a captive consumer. Lots of McDonald's, Burger King, Coke/Pepsi, the bookstore is a BN franchise and they get practically exclusive access to students' money. Fin-Aid makes it easy to spend money at the campus bookstore and much harder to use Fin-Aid money outside that ecosystem.
I could totally get on board with what you're saying if it weren't for the fact that some of the most prominent figures of modern feminism were massive sexists. I've attached some quotes below from some prominent radical feminists, and these women certainly aren't on the fringe of feminist thought.

Andrea Dworkin:
"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig."
"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice."

Robin Morgan:
"I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."

Marilyn French:
"All men are rapists and that’s all they are"

Catherine McKinnon:
"In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent."

[edit/note] I can't post a full rebuttal of what you've written right now as I'm at work, but if you're still on this once I've gone home I'll be happy to debate this point with you.
Sure, but this is all transparent to the user. Apple heavily pushed iCloud backups and doesn't mention that it throws any data security out of the water. You hear iMessages are secure and then you accept the "use iCloud backup" question that appears right after you get your device. Except now your messages aren't secure.

Apple did a great thing by making iMessage secure by default. They should do a similarly great thing by making iCloud backups secure or by making it very obvious to the user that they are not secure (and what that means for your other "secure" data).
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They have introduced two-factor for password resets since then, which everyone should enable.