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I don't mind the skeptics; what drives me crazy is how many people see global warming as some sort liberal/one-world-government conspiracy. While government funding could be distorting the research, oil and coal companies have plenty of reason to incentivize findings as well, so I'd call that a wash. And while scientific opinion is sometimes proven wrong, to say that climate skepticism is dimissed fails to understand the culture of science and the way professional scientists think.

Maybe we'll get lucky, and climate change will be a mere inconvenience. I'd rather not take that chance, especially when there are so many other reasons to diversify from finite carbon energy sources. Meanwhile, I trust the scientific community to do what they do best, and keep digging deeper, whatever the answer may be.
There are laws for data disclosure in public sector. In UK scientists were actually forced to disclose their source data by such law.
I'm not sure. What we do know is that their most profitable enterprise ceases to exist.

Less profit means less money to spend on weapons, bribes and hiring goons. Sounds good to me!
The average age of the US farmer is 58. In Japan it is 68. There is less and less land available for agriculture. Less and less fresh water (agriculture uses 90% of fresh water in the US). The weather gets worse by the year to produce food. On the other hand there are more and more people in the world. So supply is diminishing while demand is high. That's why food is more and more expensive almost every quarter.

All these smart folks at Stanford are wasting their time studying IT, law or finance. Too much competition. Study agriculture, be rich. Farmers are going to drive Maserati's in the future not successful software developers or Wall Street crowd.
Only if it turns you on.
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Hah, that's very true :)
How do you know it's mind-altering ahead of time though?

They're sold as "bath salts" or "incense" for plausible deniability. Actually banning any abusable chemical in any form would have a massive impact on a whole range of industries. Even heavy regulation of precursors and otherwise important chemicals hasn't stopped novel ways of doing without them.

So you're still playing catch-up, even if you make sure your analytic lab gets the sample on day 1, and presents you with firm evidence of both (a) what's actually in the thing, GC/MS/NMR etc, and (b) how & why you think it's "mind-altering". Sample $z acts as a dopamine releasing agent in the homogenized rat neural tissue[1]" is enough to publish a pre-clinical study on it, but I'd at least hope it could be challenged if it came to a court.

And of course, it doesn't have any impact whatsoever on abuse of pharmaceuticals, which is already on track to beat out most other drugs in terms of accidents & fatalities in the (near) future. According to [2], it may even have happened already to the USA.

[1] brain soup.

[2] http://www.pewhealth.org/uploadedFiles/PHG/Content_Level_Pag...

(not read it yet, although there's a press release/summary at https://generalstrikeusa.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/prescripti... )
> But if you're running a business with "x" which has worked efficiently for years and isn't broken, "y" is not necessary.

You are using words like efficiently and phrases like "isn't broken" without quantification. Having only done things one way, and it doing it's job does not mean it's efficient or not broken. Only that you don't know a more efficient way or it hasn't been proven to break yet.

While getting things out the door is important, it's also just as important to not base assumptions without actually quantifying. And you can't do that if you assume the mantra of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

It's a balance that, as a professional, you have to manage.
Anyone else think of "George Feeny" when they saw his last name? :)
The fisherman laughed, and a few years later there was a shortage of fish, and his family suffered having not built up any reserves of money or assets.

The parable of the fisherman is basically the Ant and the Grasshopper told up until some time before winter.

Exaggerated obviously, but then parables always are, that's why they are almost useless.
Or you can use the same browser with multifox. Ctr-alt-M, and you're anonymous / a different person. Very iseful for web development. Chrome has a built in equivalent.
I don't think we're anywhere near the level you guys are on that front, no. Or if we are it's still in the submarine phase and is a huge story waiting to be broken.

Codeine is available over the counter from a pharmacist with no prescription (in limited, usually adulterated quantities), people who need more painkilling tend to get prescribed higher doses of codeine, or if it's more extreme they get morphine but are highly supervised and expected to account for their usage.

I don't think we've ever been as easy about prescribing oxycodone et al. as I get the impression has happened in the US.

--edit-- I am well prepared to be shown to be wrong about this, but nothing I've read has indicated it's such an issue here.

--edit 2-- Also they seem to like to prescribe NSAIDS here, which (AFAICT) don't have much abuse potential.
running rsync every 2 seconds on a medium/large project might be a little intense since it compares each file looking for changes.
11. Did you know that there's this thing called HTTPS?

Blocking pornography can only be haphazardly done at the ISP level, because porn sites like most sites do not encrypt traffic by default. (I'm still not sure why this is, but it makes it much easier to find out if people are browsing porn at work.) When you make this decision, some porn sites will use HTTPS and the ISP won't know what content is being transmitted. Are you planning on creating a database of IP addresses which will be censored? What will you do about the likely false positives, or the generous number of IPv6 addresses now available?
Has anyone installed Piwik for multiple accounts?

My product allows users to create and launch their own website. I'd quite like to be able to quickly provide basic statistics for users (alongside Google analytics if they want it).

We run a multi-tenant application so have thousands of sites running from the same codebase, however, each site owner would need it's own statistics. At the moment, we just let users provide their own Google Analytics, but it would be nice to report to Piwik I think and give them their own preconfigured stats area?
Is this goodbye to Lonely Planet?
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Which makes them no different than their competitors

which is exactly the problem
Cutting spending and keeping my programming job instead of starting a new business has worked out really well for me. Passive investing of my savings earns me $500/month and I don't have to do any work at all. Other options for those outside of SV is landlording. In some mid-west cities you can earn over $10,000/year/house after all taxes and expenses (including saving for long term expenses like roofs).

Not exactly traditional small businesses, but honestly, both options have much higher probability of success (or at least not losing all of your money like restaurants)
Can banks and corporates talk the same security language?
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This sounds like a nitpick, but it's not:

The article is about a programmer in China. This one guy might be (probably is) particularly good at making & selling street treats.
That will be interesting.
> That's the difference between a musician and a DJ

Are you insinuating a DJ is not a musician?
AES is implemented in hardware now. RSA is cheap to compute; SHA1 is not even a factor. If you want forward secrecy, DON'T use DHE, use ECDHE; plain DHE is expensive.

To be fair nearly all PHP forum software is crap.
It's just an ad, not fact.
So I asked, “Would it be cheaper to rent a camera and plane or helicopter, and fly over the farmers field, hand process the data and see if that’s the information farmers would pay for?"

After the 2nd paragraph, I assumed a question like this was going to be asked, but my "frugalness" assumed it was going to be:

"Wouldn't it be cheaper to get a DSLR, and spend 8 hours walking through a field and taking pictures?"
I think it's a great convention for Haskell to use. Learn You a Haskell uses it to wonderful effect. Haskell is hard to learn (at least at first). Even for people with a functional programming background. The cartoons makes it look like a children's book, which has a psychology effect of making the material seem easier.
A difference is that people denied tenure at Harvard have gotten senior (tenured) jobs elsewhere.

My subjective sense is that there are only a few schools where denial of tenure isn't the end of the line for research professorial dreams.

OP's notion of the 7-year postdoc is an interesting one.
Would they have EARNED as much in a country without a government-provided legal system and financial system and infrastructure? Like, say, Somalia?
You're probably mistaken.

The reason why this probably isn't true is that it would be a regulator's/anti-trust-buster's dream come true. Imagine it: Google ranks you lower if you don't use other Google products. Don't use GA? Ranked lower. Don't pay for ads? Maybe your organic results drop a bit. . .

Google has to be very careful about its organic search results. Giving extra weight to sites that use things like Google Analytics would be the "confirmation" that regulators would need. As such, it seems like Google wouldn't risk its core business over something like this.

I totally understand the logic: if I use Google Analytics, Google knows that my site is getting traffic and it makes a certain sense to take that into consideration. However, I think the opposite side of that (if sites don't give Google whatever Google wants, they're going to be ranked lower) is a can of worms that Google doesn't want to be seen dipping into.
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Well you can use a filter and manually add sites to that. I did use OpenDNS a long time ago and it was pretty easy to filter the most common stuff.
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I propose for all to list needs and business ideas, and vote. This can be used both ways: to say 'I need this', or to ask 'How many people need this?'
I dont know why - I think its a bug - the posting also does not appear at the groups job tab.

You can use the URL from my HN profile.
No, at least not IMO: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=2...
Fogus makes the same point in Functional JavaScript (I highly recommend it).
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Yes, you can create additional users within Piwik and grant them access to specific websites.
I'd consider it good-faith reverse engineering for the purposes of interoperability.

I'd ignore it. If they want to go hard-ball they'll threaten to sue/actually sue. Until then keep silent.
I agree that protecting victims is a noble goal, but I still don't think it is a criminal matter. If anything, victims should be able to sue people for distributing such materials, but even that brings up a troubling slippery slope.

The problem is that you end up censoring material because it offends someone. Never mind that in this case the offense is truly terrible and unquestionably legitimate, the principle is still the same. And if we censor something because one person is offended, how can we really say "no" to the next, gravely offended person who comes along? Where will it end?
And movies give a skewed sense of how the real world works. And advertisements tell you you're ugly and need to buy products to become prettier. These things affect children too, probably way more than porn. Should we ban those too or at least be able to opt out of those?
Quite right on MDPV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylenedioxypyrovalerone

The Miami incident was unrelated, but a casual googling will give you plenty of bath salts horror stories.

In the town where I grew up, bath salts became a large problem. At one point, a man on a two day binge broke into a local monastery, got into bed with one of the priests, and held him at knife point until morning. Just a month ago, the federal government busted a producer in a nearby house holding seven kilos of the stuff.

From work with community outreach and through relatives in law enforcement, I can tell you that one minor shift in the drug market radically altered the enforcement landscape. It was getting very bad for a while before the drugs were banned.

I don't know whether our experience was unique or rare as a community. I suspect our experience was simply an accelerated version of what would have happened elsewhere. For some reason, we had little enforcement, wide distribution, and a burgeoning market in the stuff. We were among the first areas in the country to pass a municipal ordinance to ban the substances, and request help from the Federal government.

I suspect that, as an area with harsh drug laws and strict enforcement of marijuana and cocaine, the balloon effect drove up interest in the designer chemicals. But that's just a hunch.
This use of the term "redundant" is either ignorant or irresponsible. It implies that the author either doesn't understand the meaning of the word redundant or doesn't understand the public health implications of substance abuse.

By definition, redundant describes something that is not necessary, that can be removed without loss. That is definitively not the case in fighting substances abuse. We need to worry about the abuse of drugs in the same way we need to worry about the abuse of alcohol and tobacco. Would someone call "redundant" the fight against teenage alcoholism? Would someone say that we should stop paying attention the epidemics of obesity? Worrying about these issues is not redundant and worrying about drugs also isn't so.

There are things society must forbid (e.g. murder), there are things that it must discourage (e.g. driving without safety belts) and others that it shouldn't bother. I can accept that we move dangerous drugs use from the first to the second category. It is irresponsible to move it to the 3rd.

The proper term should be ineffective, not redundant.
I'm not saying you'll be dead in 5 years time if you spend more than 12 hours a day sitting on a chair programming. But it adds up if you're doing that your whole lifetime and neglect healthy food and physical activity. Of course it differs from person to person but I think you see my point.

Regarding stress free comment... I guess it depends on the person in question. Besides, when you finish for the day, you really finish for the day and that's the most important thing. Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Smart people will put health before entrepreneurship, especially if it prolongs their life and not just in the sense how many years will they have to life.
I think this is what the latest iteration of UK law attempted to do, or at least something in this sort of direction. IIRC earlier this year they made any substance which is known to be a CB1 or CB2 receptor agonist a regulated substance.

I think. My understanding of the legal changes may be lacking here.
Is it possible that some app installed in my iPhone secretly transmits all my real world conversations while i am talking to people around me? Yes quite possible. Now think about it - What if Apple, Google or NSA had installed a secret code in our phones to spy on us? Scary isn't it?
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It's not like the collection of vast amounts of information on everyone everywhere had a positive impact on the US citizens security either...

The shining example that pops up is the Boston marathon bombing. If the NSA, with its vast dragnet couldn't catch two amateurs, does anyone really think it would catch someone who actually knows how to pull of a bombing?
Keep in mind that those receptors do have a non-recreational purpose in your body. Your body produces chemicals that bind to those receptors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocannabinoid_system
i think many people need to be reminded that whenever we talk of "consensus" we talk of politics and not science. that's nothing to do with the specific topic at all, so no need to troll.

my criticism of the OP is that this IS a political discussion not a scientific one, anyway, so his comment is moot.
>> but isn't exploration and figuring things out a huge part of creating software

Absolutely, but each developer will make that judgement and require.js shouldn't be victims of those who give up at the first hurdle.

>> There are require.js examples apps on github , Q and As on Stackoverflow, and open source code that's available for digging deep

That's good to hear. I will at some point give it another shot and it's good to know there are examples and support out there. It was a couple of years ago when I did look into it, I remember getting confused and the on site documentation didn't really steer me in the right direction. The documentation doesn't appear to have changed much in that time. It can be hard work and time consuming having to dig deep to solve a problem.

>> Do they now have to upload the know how of these tools to the users brains in a Matrix like fashion?

The OSC are not obliged to provide a better user experience in getting new users to adopt their software. Of course not. But if they want to have as many developers appreciating their hard work, then you know, it doesn't hurt.

>> It only took me ~2 Days to get the gist of require.

2 days to learn how to use it is something I cannot afford for a workflow improvement over a show-stopper problem. If it was something I could do in a hour to get an understanding and start porting my application with the knowledge that I'm not going to be stuck for 2 days, then that would be a different situation.
I've used it in the past to do something a bit similar. I had a sort of "master account" that was installed on all domains and then a second individual one per domain. Piwik worked really nicely and gave the end user the ability to see a sort of "combined stats" as well as per-domain stats. We couldn't get GA to work in this way (I think that has since changed).

This was about two years ago now and I've followed the development on and off and it's certainly come on leaps and bounds. It's definitely worth some investigation for your use-case.
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It's completely impossible to develop for Twilio, Facebook, and many other public APIs without putting your work on the public internet. If you want to develop for a public API in a native GUI text editor, tunneling through your firewall is the only way to do it.
This is what vagrant was built for, so that you can run a full development environment locally and then push changes to staging/production server using git (and hooks, if you want to automate the process), when you have something working and want to show it off.

Using this technique you're stuck, because only one person can develop on the same project without interfering with each other. Also, git-hooks are not /that/ hard to use, you should really look into it, as it solves two problems: You have version control and you have easy deployment.
Should we ban those too or at least be able to opt out of those?

Sigh. Stop being hyperbolic. I said in my post that I am not advocating blocking them, but having a conversation about the effects they have.

So, to answer you, yes- I think we should talk to our teenagers about advertising and movies too. Thing is, we already often do that, but sexual stuff tends to be discussed a lot less.
>> By definition, redundant describes something that is not necessary, that can be removed without loss.

It's possible the author thinks (as I do) that it could be removed without loss, and in fact could gain us a lot because it is counterproductive and causes more harm than it prevents.
So pointing out that an ill-conceived law can be abused damages discourse? That thinking probably helped give us the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act...
Mission creep always seems to happen. For example:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7341179.stm
There is the "I know it when I see it" standard for pornography, which is equally dubious. If it was drafted as "knowingly consuming an unapproved substance for the purpose of intoxication", I could see that slipping through. But again, I'm not sure the support is there, but it would be another win for state power.

The real shame is, many of those synthetic drugs are actually more dangerous than the real thing.
They have already added the 'active choice' option:

Tell us which you would like:

* Unfiltered Internet access - no filtering of any content within the A&A network - you are responsible for any filtering in your own network

* Censored Internet access - restricted access to unpublished government mandated filter list - still cannot guarantee kids don't access porn

With the latter choice informing the user:

Sorry, for a censored internet you will have to pick a different ISP. Our services are all unfiltered.

http://revk.www.me.uk/2013/07/active-choice.html

https://order.aa.net.uk/h1order.cgi
While nothing you wrote (aside from the first half of #9) is wrong, per se, I'm not sure it really has much place in this particular discussion.
Saying this is about offended sensibilities constitutes a gross and cheap misrepresentation of my argument, but it's also interesting that you're pro censorship when the government does it for dubious reasons, and at the same time you cry foul when someone complains about your methods on a private forum. Again, this is not necessarily about the opinions you're expressing, it's about your "commenting" style. Filtering such content out is not censorship, it's quality control.
I'd call a court order "action taken by the Government". It might not be action taken by the legislature, but it is still government mandated filtering using systems originally intended for child pornography.
I think you can emulate events with custom variables
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I was in another country recently and Google decided that because I've used laptop on an airport that two of my accounts must have been hacked.

I have Thunderbird running on another computer and Claws tried to download my mail while on airport.

So thanks Google, I guess I will have to stop using those accounts, because I don't like sharing my phone number ;(
Well, as saying goes: if you want different result, try something new.

Also, if you click the Chinese link in the article you'll find a video.
This attitude is why Michael Crichton wrote the essay "Aliens Cause Global Warming"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/09/aliens-cause-global-wa...
It is perhaps possible, but currently neither quick, reliable nor cheap. You'd need to check that: (a) it's not immediately toxic, (b) there's no immediate metabolisation that renders it inactive, (c) it can enter the bloodstream, (d) it can penetrate the blood-brain barrier, and (e) it can either substitute for a particular neurotransmitter, act as a releasing agent, act as a reuptake inhibitor, or several other proposed and known methods of actually causing 'mind-altering' effects.

This is essentially the 'drug-discovery pipeline' that big pharma spends hundreds of millions on when developing new medications.
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