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The most common "bad case" scenario in North America is lyme disease. It's easy to treat if caught early, but is disabling in the late stages (possible outcomes include psychosis).

I don't think it is common for it to get bad, but catching it at all is relatively common if you spend much time in nature around the northeast corridor.
what a crock of shit. THC levels are not rising.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/marijuana5.htm

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/cannabis-facts-information...

also watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1039647/

> Smoking cannabis is a double whammy, because tobacco

What? You can smoke cannabis without tobacco.
I like how you segue from 'government is based upon lies' to demanding I furnish you with an example of a government that has never, ever told a lie.As a matter of fact, I consider the US government quite truthful overall; it certainly lies some of the time, but thanks to things like FOIA laws it is one of the most transparent governing bodies on the planet.

However, you don't seem interested in my relativist/quantitative approach, based on your fondness for sweeping generalizations and requests for negative proof.
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> I saw at least a quarter of every working day wasted in routine status meetings, in which two or three of the ten or twelve people present spent an hour making a couple of decisions while the rest of us tried not to look too bored..

That sounds horrible. Did you mention your concerns to the people who owned those meetings, in a way that made it clear you were trying to help improve them?

I've had success several times with this in BigCo, with various satisfactory outcomes:

1. "You're right, this meeting is BS! But it has to happen for various reasons X Y Z -- since you don't care about this area you don't need to come, we'll grab you if we need you."

2. "You're right, and other people feel tuned out as well, so let's try cutting it to 10 minutes / mailing out an agenda beforehand / starting exactly on time."

3. "You're right, this is an inefficient way to gather state so we're going to just swing by each person 1-on-1."

4. "You're right, this team is too big so we're splitting in 2/3 smaller groups"
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Seventeen thousand dollars? For one patent?

(AUD $17k = USD $15.7k according to Google.)

My car cost $6,500 USD. What are you buying for the price of $15,700? Just protection against competitors using your idea?
2 years after nuclear disaster, Japan spawns freaky fruits and veggies
I think the original post did that sufficiently.
Making the markers visible in the infrared spectrum is genius.
Which leads to the Peter Principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle

I see someone's already generalised it to the observation that systems grow until they are failing systems.
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One reason why one goes to college is to learn how to learn social acclimation around people wealthier than you are, because this is a useful skill in convincing them to give you things that you want. A company, and the decisionmakers thereof, is almost by definition richer than you are, and broadly representative of an entire class of entities whose behaviors are totally opaque to you if you've never worked in one (+). That would be unfortunate, because those entities have budgets and are willing to spend them on you if you know how to work with them.

+ People who have never worked in a megacorp often think that their literal internal decisionmaking model is "MAXIMIZE THE EVIL.", which is both wrong and will not allow you to successfully predict their behavior.
Your adversary is extremely simple. You haven't mentioned in your post if you are open to or able to do any custom coding.

I would suggest writing/getting an app written that runs in fullscreen and looks exactly like an OSX login screen. Bonus points if it can disable multi-tasking shortcuts such as the 3 finger swipe up. The app can be hardcoded to only accept one password - yours. Since the app is running with OSX logged on you can use your usual tools to enter the password.

It goes without saying that this won't fool anyone determined - you can just reboot the laptop to make the app go away. However it should be enough to stop casual passers-by.
how do you even get .4 into table mode?

how much has your priorities changed from things like, being a always having the docs available and new editor features like table mode, now that you have to deal with all these customers?

what are your thoughts on doing software projects on kickstarter after doing one?
The first program I ever wrote: HOTAIRBALLOON on the Commodore 64
I don't think you ever earn being a douchebag.
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In a similar vein, emotiv [1] sell an EEG headset, which is purported to offer mind control. I've no clue whether these things actually work or what they are useful for. I'm only aware of this device because I used to work with one of the principals in the company.

[1] http://www.emotiv.com/
Feel what you like, I don't care.

There are plenty of examples, both in nature and in the human body, of "use it or lose it" and "use it up and it's gone".
I agree. I think that PG hoped this would be like the Erlang days but didn't realize that this wasn't a fad, but an entire group of people with an obsession.
Wow, so you're saying the UMP game in Starcraft 'Break the Condom' was actually fairly accurate.
I reckon you're looking at $1000 including software but excluding the laptop, basically; say $100-150 for decent headphones, $200-250 for monitors, $100 for a workable MIDI controller, $150 for an audio interface (something from M-Audio or Focusrite, say). That leaves around $350-400 for software, a cheap mic, stands, cables etc.

(And you'll probably want at least one more controller, whether a Launchpad-style thing, a fader box, or Akai pads.)
These kind of insightful/thougful comments are one of the reasons I (still) love hackernews.
What if there was a mode that folks could set their accounts to, where they couldn't cash out and could only pass it on to other users? People could go into that mode when they were in a job that frowned upon gifts, and it could be displayed prominently so that allow donors were aware :)

Perhaps the system could even convert dollars to some sort of non-monetary "token", which they could pass along to someone who could cash it out, and then there's further reason that it wouldn't be considered a gift?
Actualy it should help you keep fresh and healthy sperm[1]

[http://ivf.net/ivf/daily-sex-helps-to-reduce-sperm-dna-damag...]
If you're offended by the word douche to describe a jerk, then we occupy different cultures.

Similarly, if someone thinks being called a "jerk" is an insult devoid of constructive criticism, then they're likely either intentionally obdurate or they lack the self-awareness to identify their failings.

I'm perfectly aware of my ability to be a douche. I just choose who to be a jerk to. Strangers on the internet: possibly; colleagues I work with: not so much.
All of these are lightyears behind Mark of the Unicorn Digital Performer for midi work.

Logic btw is horrible for external midi or was at least up till version 9. I've lost count the times it mess's up with my virus ti.
Influence is worth more than git tips in the OSS marketplace. I can make more in an hour from an employer then I can in an entire year on gittip.

I'd rather have "star" or "follower" - those are things that can be meaningful in my career.

That said, I wonder if this model makes sense in countries where these dollar amounts have a more meaningful impact on your life.
It's not about them not working on OSS if they don't get money for it.

It's about them being able to work on OSS 30+ hours a week instead of 8 hrs a week if you (and many others) give 'em a few bucks a week.
I honestly do not know how regex JITs are tuned, but in JS JITs, even tens of thousands of iterations may not suffice.

Just to be sure, I would concatenate some more stuff ;) so the test runs for say 10 seconds.
Sure, but it would be nice if those companies (especially the ones who play off morality as their tagline) did everything just under what's illegal to inform the public of what's happening.
It looks as though Statutory Invention Registrations were eliminated by "America Invents Act." http://www.aiarulemaking.com/rulemaking-topics/group-3/repea...
Using 13.04 now, and I tried reasonably hard to keep away from unity. Eventually I gave up when I couldn't deal with the small annoyances like screen tearing in XFCE and the buggy feeling of plastering Gnome3 over ubuntu. Im running Unity on 13.04 now and it feels stable and polished.

However, I dare say I could actually do away with the unity menu and replace it entirely with synapse and although I am used to it, a global menu is a stupid paradigm.
I have a few hundred emails in GMail labeled "Success Stories" — but I have no idea what the total net benefit of my books have been... as that figure goes up each day as my readers bill more time :-)
Yep, email's in profile.
Of course someone has already written a paper on implementing OO on top of Haskell: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.106...
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If you don't connect a bank account then this is effectively what happens. Also, it's currently public on your profile whether you've attached a bank account.
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In my experience, technical skills and management skills are orthogonal. Many technical people, however, are pushed into management because there's no comparable career path strictly in technology. Organizations then pay twice: the opportunity cost of losing a good technician; and the much, much more damaging cost of a bad manager.
What exactly does the public access TV station do for the community? How does something like that fit into the modern world where the price of a TV studio (or handheld HD) is not prohibitive, and the content can be distributed via the internet?

Does the franchise protect the company recouping the cost of the physical plan or is it more of a monopoly on providing video service locally? Both cable and phone have their own extent systems and are not competing for physical access to some right of way, or what ever mechanism or reason the multichannel operators have long used to justify this system.

I haven't closely followed the so-called "national franchise" debate that took place a few years ago, other than that it was defeated.

The phone companies are talking about abandoning the POTS system on an accelerated schedule, but at the same time Verizon failed to invest in FIOS expansion, leaving the replacement for POTS low speed, long-distance ADSL service.

The cable companies have very belatedly been working on introducing an IP-based system based on a home gateway, similar to what AT&T's Uverse system uses.

I found it very interesting when the head of Cox Communications commented at a recent talk (in March I think) that he visited the valley 5 years ago, and then proceeds to talk up Palm.

I can understand why a local community would embrace and accept this solution to their fiscal problems, but we should debate whether the franchise system is holding us back technologically on regional and national level.
Once the book is done, it's done. But marketing is a long term effort. I've recorded dozens of podcasts and interviews, included call-to-actions in my newsletters, written guest posts, etc. But I'm consistently able to bring in a fairly good income off these two books alone, that when compounded with my SaaS revenue and workshop revenue keep the lights lit.
It would be interesting, bu migh not relevant in regard of fertility.
Sperm count decreases, but sperm health increases and the consensus is that daily ejaculation sould be OK

source: http://ivf.net/ivf/daily-sex-helps-to-reduce-sperm-dna-damag...
You're actually creating more obstacles to using your code if you release it under a license that hasn't been vetted by any lawyers. Many companies have their lawyers approve of a given license before adopting code under it, and because of this friction, often it's simpler to just have a company-wide policy to only allow use of code under X, Y or Z licenses and none others. Please just use MIT or BSD.
FiveStars (YC W11) is hiring full stack engineers. Full-time. H1Bs welcome
Responsibilities:

Here at FiveStars, we take pride in that we're not your typical web company. Our product faces both business owners and users, which places unique demands on our engineering team. Our web developers have built an API that interfaces with our desktop application, an analytics and tool-based dashboard for business owners and managers, and a consumer facing web application. The breadth of challenges we face is unparalleled -- whether that be handling and analyzing immensely large and interesting datasets or developing user experiences for millions of individuals. You'll be responsible for the following:

- Plan, architect, develop, release and iterate on web features

- Work across the entire web stack, from frontend to backend to database

Learn quickly and adapt to the rapidly changing web environment

- Maintain, administer and improve system, network, and deployment infrastructure

- Love to pair program and don't mind reviewing code (maybe even enjoy it)

Requirements:

- 3+ years of experience developing and releasing web applications

- Expert knowledge using MVC frameworks in rapid-iteration environments

- Extensive experience with open source database technologies in production environments

- Familiarity with MongoDB/Redis

- Direct experience scaling application code and databases for millions of users

- Making pages with HTML/CSS isn't a problem

Preferred:

- Expertise in Django and Python

- Developed scalable RESTful APIs for production use

- Knowledgeable about web security and authentication protocols like OAuth

- Experience with managing asynchronous job queues and workers

- Experience setting up, configuring, and managing replication on Postgres/MongoDB/Redis

Email dev(dot)jobs(at)fivestars(dot)com.
I don't care for nuclear alarmism, and if you grow enough veggies some of them are going to come out strange, but that is a pretty disturbing set of pictures and suggests some systematic study of the fallout effects is warranted.
Do you know of a standard or general description of what this is called? Is it simply part of the 802.11(*) standards or something else?
What an excellent tribute; I hope we have the technology to do this within our lifetimes.
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Seventeen thousand, yes.

For two patents, technically.

Well, even more technically: for two patent applications and a WIPO assessment that my technology is sufficiently novel and inventive to be patentable in most treaty countries.

> Just protection against competitors using your idea?

Yes and no. Certainly not protection of a business model, and not protection of a feature. It's a technology which underpins several potential business models, but while it is a better technology, it is not a necessary technology. A competitor -- and some exist already -- can bodge along without it, but they will inevitably have a PR disaster that my technology effectively prevents.

The real purpose of the patent is to increase attractiveness to investors and to encourage potential startup competitors to look at other markets. And if it all goes to total crap, I can still put the patent on my résumé. Or not, depending on what kind of company I'm applying to.

You'll forgive me if I don't discuss the subject matter of the patent. My competitors could easily burn up more of my cash by raising constant, spurious objections. Another part of the patent game.
Surely any file format with metadata can contain malware if there is a bug in the program reading it...
You are absolutely correct.

There are a number of possible interpretations as to what thety are doing and some interpretation of what we have seen and read regarding the NSA data collection probably exists that would probably make most of us pretty happy.

The problems are:
(a) we dont know what they are actually doing and
(b) we cannot trust them not to lie to us about what they are doing, one way or another.

The other problem is that the NSA has made it clear that in its opinion collecting metadata on a call is fine at any time, for anyone/everyone.

Metadata on a cell phone clearly includes time and location of cellphone/receiver checkins.

It is absolutely reasonable to assume that, if they want, the NSA can track the location of any person carrying a cellphone; or - given that they are storing this data - reach into the past and know exactly where you were, and when.

that is a remarkable power, IMO.

Hook that data up to a computer display and holy cow, that is a powerful tool.

Frankly, it would be awesome. if it wasn't for the fact that you, specifically and personally, appear on that display.
Snowden: Dangerously naive or a liar
Enginetron looks like the better approach compared to Neon Control Panel http://neonpanel.com/ which is a ground up rewrite of a control panel for nginx.

Incidentally, what the general value of these control panels? Isn't it just a shiny ui on top of command line tools? Why is it that cpanel thrives while open source ones wither? Is it because there's some ongoing support issues?
Offtopic: Why does google groups require you to login to view images?
My understanding is that we have been able to take direct radio interferometery distance measurements of Mars since the Viking and other landers were there.
"With today's technology, would it be possible to launch an unmanned mission to retrieve Voyager I?"
http://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
I wonder if it could just be that porn is more accessible... AKA release one payload, take some time to recover fully?
> As a programmer, I cannot think of one software patent that I've seen granted which did not appear obvious.

I think this is availability bias. Non-obvious patents don't receive wide publicity for the same reason that "Grandma walks home safely from shops for thousandth time" doesn't receive wide publicity.
The point is that Gittip is in its infancy. I agree that most OSS developers aren't going to make a ton of money. I never viewed Gittip as a way to get paid as much as I view it as a way to support.

Chad's goals for Gittip are much larger than paying people to write code. But all big ideas start somewhere. I'm an eternal pessimist and I can say that Chad is on to something really big with Gittip. Not sure anyone knows exactly what it is yet though.
Normally I'd just let a post like this go, but that word "need" really rubs me the wrong way. No, I don't need to work for a big company, ever. I haven't yet, and don't ever plan to do so. Go away.

I learn an awful lot? Because I can't learn things otherwise? Come on.

I get to work with lots of clever people? No problem doing that now.

Large community? Ditto.

Perks? Uh... how does that translate to "need"?

You learn the art of politics. Great! What you're saying is, I need to work for a big company so I can learn something that's only useful when working for a big company. What?

You have time to reflect? Why assume that all small companies are balls-to-the-wall, 100-hour-week, venture-funded, Valley startups? Oh right, because this post comes from a fantasy world where the only two kinds of companies are gigantic Googles and tiny places filled to the brim with foosball tables, not actually the Earth where I live.

You get a baseline? What is this I don't even.
Can we get a hint about the new project that is in early planning stages?
For some people that is more important.A recent study about factors in choosing work showed that an overwhelming majority of people care most about the work environment above all else.
This is not a bug in php that is being exploited. The server has already been compromised. The code look harmless enough for most people to ignore it, this is the point here.

It's a clever obfuscation
I work in this area, and I would be inclined to agree with you. The most likely cause of this result is methodological variance. Even if that can be formally excluded (which is unlikely), the next most likely reason (alluded to in the article) is that dementia is one aspect of ageing, and that if people are healthier for longer then the effects of ageing are less pronounced in the younger elderly. Thus it would have no impact on the eventual likelihood of dementia for an individual, just that it might occur later than it otherwise would.
Really? Nothing in that blurb tells me that he's exceptional. Just a nice guy who writes good code.
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I don’t know much about Apple computers but on a Windows PC I wouldn’t use startup password to avoid friction when starting the PC.
For login in a website, I would use an application like Keepass. For my private data, I would create a virtual encrypted disk with Truecrypt.
If you leave your PC alone or take a nap, just close Keepass and Truecrypt and your data are secured.
And to enter the password when you start Keepass and Truecrypt, I would create a few pages text file on my desktop and just copy/paste a combination of 2 or 3 words so I wouldn’t need to speak my password loud.
The fact that this question keeps coming up and it doesn't get changed indicates that it isn't a problem he cares about.
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To be fair, Instagram was one of the only other companies that interested me.

Main upside of Dropbox was the role I get to play + its in SF and my commute didn't really change (<20m)
Speaking from a non-IT standpoint (mech engineer, rail industry), BigCo offers a number of cool benefits that I'd not get working for SmallCo (that may or may not hold analogous to the IT sector in some cases):

- Economies of scale #1: when you're purchasing 10,000 instances of something, people listen and new techniques of doing things become available.

- Economies of scale #2: Design changes when milking an extra $100 out of the design or manufacturing process means saving $1m at 10,000 instances. You get exposure to new design/manufacturing techniques as a result.

- Project diversity: I could find 20 projects in this office of 150 engineers, all significantly different. They range across design, asset management, PM work, maintenance/reliability, acquisition, etc. Each applies to a number of different targets - fixed plant, mobile assets, facilities, etc. If I grow bored of something I can reasonably rotate to something new and different within 6 months. More long-term, there's opportunities in multiple countries if I so wish to pursue them.

- Institutional knowledge: I can walk in to our drawing room and still find drawings dated from 1870. Some of the greybeards here seem almost as old, and come with a huge amount of knowledge (both specific and simply general 'tricks of the trade') that isn't recorded anywhere.

There's also downsides:

- Work sometimes feels like it's a game of thrones. The fiefdoms can grow tiring.

- Stuff happens slowly. BigCos carry inertia that can be cumbersome. Counterpoint: inertia can produce some amazing results if you get everyone paddling in the same direction

- Career advancement usually requires jumping ship to different companies. Said greybeards are in it for the long haul and unless a new position opens up, you're generally stuck below the glass ceiling.