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recording macros works.

the :%s/foo/bar/ works

selecting then substituting works.

I've never encountered a situation where . didn't do what I expected.

The man commented about evil. I don't see how your experience with viper is relevant. Evil is damn good (as a long time vim user of 5+ years). I'd recommend you try it again. Plus, vim indentation behavior sucks compared to emacs. Give it a try, you might be surprised.
> Petitions do absolutely nothing.

I certainly don't expect the petition, in itself, to effect political change.

But signing the petition does have benefits. It allows those against the policy to gain an understand of how many other people support their views. With a significant number of signatures, it stops politicians from being able to claim that only crackpots disagree with them on a particular issue.

Please sign the petition if you agree with it. If nothing else, it extends the legitimacy of lobbying groups with similar views, such as the Open Rights Group. Even if the petition doesn't have a direct effect right now, it does help us in the long run.
Freedom from having people try to kill you on a regular basis.

Your argument is that it is unethical for someone to use force to compel someone to do something against there will, right? Well, that works great as long as everyone shares your ethical views. Unfortunately, not everyone does, and there are people in this world who would happily kill you and take all your property if they could. It doesn't even have to be all that many people - if just 0.1% of the population believes "might makes right" and you come in contact with >1000 people, you're probably dead.

The reason we have the state is so that we can realize certain economies of scale in protection. We entrust a monopoly on the use of physical force to the state; in return (in lawful democratic regimes), it agrees to use that force only when just. That way we can trust that we can go about our business without being randomly killed by a dude on the street, because they know that they are in for a world of hurt if they kill someone. There have been times (eg. the Wild Wild West in America, or post-Gorbachev looting & unrest in the Soviet Union) where the state has not had that monopoly on force, and it usually ends up being very difficult to conduct business during those times.
>I personally
believe democracy is not suited
to India at the moment

(I don't know which oppressor you want to hand over the country to.)

People vote along lines of caste and religion. People vote for money and liquor. But people vote. They throw parties out of power when they want to. A benevolent, even if he promises to turn India back into a golden bird, will not want you to vote.

Democracy is often a mess, but is better than the rightless life under a benevolent.
India is in a mess, lets not make it any worse. There are alternatives if you look close. You can educate people, unite instead of divide people. You can contest elections or vote for the voices of sanity. There will be difficulties and we will always be a work in progress, but we will have to try. Democracy is not a panacea, you still have to work to make it better. Giving away all of your rights and responsibilities, hoping some benevolent oppressor will save you is not the way to do it.

Many of my friends have been saying the same thing. Indian messageboards are overflowing with hate. A certain benevolent has been identified as well. One who has proven his credentials. The chanted name has divided a state successfully, and I fear permenantly, across religious lines. The bet is to do the same thing across the country. If you don't feel the poisonous atmosphere, it is because you are wilfully ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the made up.

How long should we continue living as people of a certain religion or caste? How long should we continue hating people who are of a certain religion or caste, knowing that the other person had as little a choice in selecting their religion/caste as we had in selecting ours?

Xenophobia has never been India's big problem, but we know it simmers in most households, in one form or the other. We take pride in what our ancestors did and forsake everything to maintain that pride. We close our eyes trying to fit in, not believing that this life may be the only life we get. That there may be no rebirth or afterlife. That love is its own reward and hate its own punishment.
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how many global conflicts, or even local conflicts between any two major powers, have there been in the past 60 years?

You are trying to redefine the word peace to fit your rhetoric.

I prefer to define peace as an absence of war, in which case we definitely have not seen anything like peace, and certainly not because of US involvement. The US has been involved in, and started, many wars over the last 60 years where millions died, has backed many brutal dictatorships (and continues to back them - see Bahrain), and has pioneered in the last decades new ways to perform targeted assassinations far beyond its borders, including innocent civilians far from any war zone. Hardly a force for peace. There are many good things about US culture but promoting global peace or human rights is not one of them.

Pax Americana is an old comforting lie, as was Pax Britannica, and the Pax Romana before it.
Especially since this appears to be the full funnel, from visit to paying, this is not bad at all.
That's how it should work. Unfortunately, the U.S. healthcare system isn't really a free market. There are many laws and regulations (and insurance company imposed rules) that prevent healthy competition in the marketplace.
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A huge problem in the US is all sorts of really really bad laws. For instance to open a new hospital you have to get permission from other hospitals in the area.
The US healthcare system is nothing close to a free market. Every step along the way is rigged: the schools that grant medical licenses is artificially gated, you require certifications you need political clout to obtain to open a medical facility, you need to have enough money to play ball with insurers so you get paid for operations, you need to comply with thousands of federal regulations surrounding your procedures, you need to get zoning permission from wherever you are trying to set up shop to even build a medical facility (note that local governments are easily bought out by the hospital chain in their area).

There is also an incredible amount of corruption surrounding drug prescription and diagnosis to get people buying way more drugs than they need to.

It isn't anything close to a free market. I could never open a health clinic out of my garage and put out a sign saying free anything related to medicine. By comparison, India has much more volatile healthcare (because they can't police everyone trying to play doctor) but get innovation as a result.
Hewitt posted it himself.
> Medical tourism, though very fine for a lot of folks who want a cheaper alternative, is driving up the cost of medical treatments in India by leaps and bounds.

Any evidence to back this up? Your links and statistics are about how this specific cost is still out of reach of a lot of people. I don't think anyone is debating that.

> This makes surgeries, that were already very expensive and out of the reach of most Indian's even more expensive and out of the reach of even more people.

The article shows how the cost of surgery has dropped over time, and their goal being to drop it further.
Well yes. We had a situation reminding me of your story. ;-)

And no, we are not dour nor depressing. Me (having been highly influenced by formalism and structuralism) just wanted to know, what made stories work the way they do? What are/were the pieces, that allowed so many different people to read so many different things into these stories.

I wanted to understand the ground, the basis of all this. And I believe, that this yielded some quite interesting and counter-intuitive insights into some texts.
I've asked them to clarify if they store them as plain-text, or if they're encrypted (and can be decrypted by CSA when needed) ... if it is plain-text, then I'll be taking my ~£80/month Virgin Media services elsewhere
I wasn't aware of that. Such broadly defined terms are a worry, I would agree. I live in China so I have an idea of how a government might use such tools for its own ends while presenting it in a way that sounds like they're helping the population.

I'm not worried about my children (although I don't have any yet). But I think in many household this will be for the good. As I said, it's not uncommon for children to know more about computing than their parents.

I seem to be alone here in thinking pornography is a bad thing. I find it strange that you would say such a view was "preposterous", though. It certainly isn't unusual, outside of the tech/geek world. I would be quite happy if pornography were illegal. That said, I realise the argument for government intervention in this way is a difficult one to make.
> Wrong. Whether JVM implementations use green threads or system threads is an implementation detail. There are implementations for both cases.

Obviously it is an implementation detail, and for any JVMs that support green threads (none of the major ones do), then it would be a different matter entirely.

> You realize that many JVM implementations started with green threads in the early days and abandoned them not much later? There is a reason for that.

Java was created in the mid-90s before every man and his dog was trying to solve the c10k problem on a $5/month VPS. Hardly surprising.

> Wrong. I repeat, the underlying threading model does not necessarily enforce some style of API.

But it does allow for it, or make it easy. Why do you think Scala has both blocking, and "event based" (loop/react) API's?

> Since when are green threads the “new best thing ever!!!11!!”? Did I miss a memo here?

Quite possibly, you must have been living under a rock if you haven't heard of callback hell in Node.js. Funny because Node was the coolest thing ever a couple of years back, how times change.

> You know what? Wake me up when Go has fixed their broken scheduler. Until then, I just keep watching how the JVM embarrasses Go on pretty much every concurrency and scalability workload.

Java has great MT concurrency. It's light-weight concurrency (NIO) is about as good or bad as any other event-based systems out there. What is lacks (my original comment) is the ability to write event-based code using a synchronous, blocking style (without callbacks).

The only contenders there are Go, Haskell, and possibly some of the scripting language extensions (Python/Gevent, Perl/Coro).

And if by "broken scheduler" you mean it's lack of preemption...then I would say rethink your design, you should be handing long-running jobs to a work queue anyhow.
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As opposed to building this thing, filling it (perfectly) with ultra-high-power resonant soundwaves of the precise characteristics, and flinging in shuttles and hoping nothing goes wrong? I don't know, the evacuated maglev is sort of sounding like the safe, easy option?

The reason evacuated tubes are expensive and difficult is because of the tube, not because of the evacuation. Once you have a great big tube, reducing the air inside isn't going to be that big a deal. You don't even need to get rid of all the air, just maintaining 90% vacuum would be fine, you could whiz down there at 1000kph as easy as kiss my hand.

Anyway, I'm not a physicist, I am just wondering if people have a full understanding of the forces involved flinging stuff around at 1000kph+ in an enclosed space at full air density. It is some serious shit. People are comparing it to aeroplanes, but at sea level it would be 3x the shockwave a plane has to deal with. High speed trains in Europe and Japan already match or exceed the air-displacement issues faced by airlines - and that's one third the proposed speed of this device. I don't know, man. Sure, in ideal circumstances you might be able to engineer some low drag trick. Still sounds like unicycling along the edge of a cliff to me. Near mach 1 in a fully pressurised tunnel? Dear christ.
Awesome, well then I am glad I found you. Could you, if you would be so kind, please point me in the direction of an example or the tools I need to be using? I will then look in to it and the next time someone asks, I can point them straight to Docker.
I think you don't understand the purpose of insurance.
Sadly, I believed you'll be talking to the wrong people there. They'll wrongly assume they're safe as houses and passwords are safe, but in reality you're speaking to the Marketing team who think replacing passwords with is safe.

I'm thinking of emailing them directly and asking the tech team.

And if they're not securely encrypted then I too will be taking my services elsewhere. My calls, bank details etc are logged. I don't want potential hackers knowing my parents number so they can target them and everybody else too.
I was lucky enough to receive the Melbourne Grant a few months back. It allowed me to prototype a product I eventually tried to get up on crowd-funding. Sadly no luck there, but great initiative and meant I could at least give it a go and learn something.
> In the first paragraph, he shows that if you allow proofs by contradiction, you can use them for every theory claimed to be inconsistent to show it indeed is consistent. This is so, because to prove by contradiction means to infer "not A" if from "A" follows "B" and "not B". So, if from "mathematics is inconsistent" follows "theorem A is true" and "theorem A is false", it follows that "mathematics is consistent". He claims that this shows consistency isn't rigorously proved in classical mathematics but is just assumed, since classical mathematics allows proofs by contradiction.

So the first paragraph is about showing that if one allows statements about mathematics (e.g: "Mathematics is consistent") and statements in mathematics (e.g: "proposition A is true", for some statement A which can be expressed entirely "within" mathematics) to freely mix together on the same footing, then things become inconsistent? But this is well-known for over a century; see, e.g: Russell's Paradox [1]. And (if I understand it correctly), one doesn't need Proof by Contradiction for this inconsistency to occur---it suffices to allow meta-statements and "plain" statements to mix together; see Curry's Paradox [2]. And ways to work with metamathematical statements while avoiding this paradox where also worked out a long time back [3]. That the first paragraph of the OP mentions none of this seems ... surprising, to say the least.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_paradox
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry's_paradox
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_type_theory
Potential Risks of 3D Printing without Ventilation
Do you have an e-mail address for a "technical" team as the Contact Us pages make it difficult to actually find out things like that
Warning This Pirate3D campaign on Indiegogo is 'fake'
Let me add in Lexx, the sci-fi show, and their food printer thingy as well.
Sadly I don't. I've been looking for one, but only had 5 minutes. If you find one, please post here and tweet me @jbrooksuk I'll forward it on.
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That makes sense: experience increases performance, which is why we have intensive residencies; there is a reason why until recently residents were working 80+ hours a week. Perhaps we should ship all our resident-ready medical students off to third world countries where the needs are great so they can become proficient very quickly. Perhaps our system has become too soft.
As far as the concept of a game goes, it's uneven because ultimately, someone is going to have more money than everyone else.

From my experience, games that involve skill are the only ones worth playing.
I'm just curious to know the situation in countries like Russia and China, because many of my friends took their medical degree from those Countries. Is is just the education is cheaper or entire industry?
http://www.plainsite.org/environment

Now covering all of California.
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A couple years back I have heard an idea in a psychology class that this has to do with risk assessment. If women are less likely to take risks, they are less likely to "take their chances" in an afterlife.
If everyone had health insurance, and charity care that the hospitals currently eat the costs for now went away, then health insurance prices will drop.

That is the whole point of the mandate.
Microsofts SSL backdoor
Looks great; is it feasible to adapt this to another languages?
Ask HN: ToS and Legal Liability
When do you start considering a ToS for your MVP / projects? Do you use some online services or a real lawyer?

What about legal liability? Is it better to open a company to reduce it?
What happens if you launch an app/website under your fullname? Is it a bad idea?

Many questions but thanks in advance for your help. I am a bit confused about these topics.....

Cheers, Domenico
How was Google Reader not part of Google's business, but being a delivery service is?
> feel a deep amount of shame for my country (US)

Get over it. As an American living in Western Europe, there are plenty of things to be ashamed about everywhere. And there is a lot of good stuff in the US, too. Forget about this so quickly?

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

The important thing is to try and identify things that your country doesn't do so well, and try and import the good stuff from elsewhere. This is a long and slow process that requires lots of hard work. And it's also complicated, because sometimes the good things are mixed up with the bad things.
"For us, there was so much low hanging fruit in watching a bunch of people check out our marketing site. I suspect there's a good amount of diminishing returns there, but if you've never done it, the value you get out of it is tremendous."

I'd strongly suggest that you keep doing actual tests with customers until you actually see diminishing returns. I've regularly seen people think they've fixed all of the big problems - then see another N rounds of "low hanging fruit" appear ;-)

The insights and improvements you get from doing usability testing are very different from the ones that you get through optimisation via a/b testing. Each can inform the other.

Keep doing both until you find you get no value. I suspect that you'll find that you keep getting significantly useful results if you keep it up.
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This is just a concept.

However, the "burrito bot" exists:

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/burritobot-precision-torti...

And its inventor says that the results are kind of nasty. There's a lot more to food than just nutritive compounds.
There's virtually no difference between the two. It doesn't matter if you're using the strongest encryption in the world: the system is automated, meaning it has the encryption key in memory so it can validate passwords, the support agents can read them, etc. An attacker doesn't care if it's plain text or if they have to decrypt them with an encryption key that's easily accessible to them.

If, instead, they were using a computationally expensive one-way function, a "password hash function", then an attacker would be able to get the digests it has produced, and maybe intercept a few live passwords as users log in, but they would not be able to trivially dump all the clear-text passwords wholesale. (Given the right password hashing setup, it is far too expensive to do so.)

It makes a lot of sense to use one-way functions for passwords: you only need to verify that a password is the same as the original (i.e. producing the same output when passed to the hash function); you don't need to know/remember what it is. There's no good reason for using encryption or storing them in plain text--"easier customer support" certainly isn't one.

More information: http://throwingfire.com/storing-passwords-securely/
First of all, I am sure the 106K figure is a phony 'list price' figure and not reflective of how much is actually paid.

Second of all, you ignore the incredible sums of money taken from the 'poor middle class' and handed over to the health industrial complex.

For most of this country's history [the USA], there was no such thing as health insurance. The poor got charity care and the middle class were able to pay.

Why do you think cancer treatment has to be expensive?
How a Windows backdoor can subvert SSL
IVR May Still Be Relevant For Digital Entertainment
Very interesting transitions and cool palette, but isn't this a filesystem visualization tool ? I couldn't get any further information about the code itself (Firefox 22/ Win x64).
The point isn't to come up with a petition that the government is unable to think of a response to, the point is to show that censoring the internet is unpopular.
I know that reality shows that I'm not in the majority, but the majority often has terrible taste. That's why things like Twilight, The Transformer movies, and Justin Beiber are popular.
Are there any good set of videos to learn Haskell ? Or which book should I start with. I don't have much experience in Functional Programming.
The parent article mentions replicant. Replicant and edge, both are good ventures.
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It's not India-specific. This is definitely happening in Eastern European countries, too, and probably even some of the western ones (although a bit more) - just like with college tuitions.

There's something seriously wrong with both the healthcare system and the education system in US if the prices are 20x+ more than in any other country.
That's the opportunity. Eventually regulatory capture and corruption will become so great in the US that it really does become impossible to actually provide the care. Nothing will make it through the wall of parasites.

The opportunity is in helping Americans get real healthcare outside their borders. Take a glance Uber's way. You'll know you've got it right when there's serious talk about making it illegal to travel abroad to obtain medical care. For the safety of the people and the necessary good of the lowly American doctors, of course.
Dating for awkward and unattractive male nerds that is guaranteed to work. :)
I find it interesting that Americans have so little trust in their democratic government, yet have so much faith in authoritarian phenomenon of religion.
What you were flabbergasted by was the inefficiency of bureaucracy. But this is not a government problem per se: large companies can also become bureaucracies

Truer words have never been said! Try tendering or contracting at EMC...
When delegating constructors may stab you in the back
Could some Debian dev please step up and package Textadept. Thx!
What was it about? Why did you have no success?
You should read everything you read anywhere with skepticism. The big problem is that people vary their skepticism more according to how much they want to believe something than the credibility of the source.
Whilst I agree that I could indeed use GA for this, there is often merit in a simple, easy-to-use service that gives me that quick overview. I hate checking Google Analytics on my phone for example, but I'd probably pay a few bucks for a nice overview, and alerts etc. Keep going!
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