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> Does your fertile window calculation account for the fact that sperm can live for 5 days?

Yep. But a caveat is that sperm can ONLY live for 5 days during the fertile window when fertile cervical fluid is present.

> The main problem I have with the symptothermal method is that it means the woman only has sex when she least wants to, i.e. outside the fertile window.

Well, if a woman is on the pill, she is ALWAYS outside the fertile window i.e. has a depressed libido.
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It would appear polls don't change things either. Cameron and the Tories have been consistently polling badly. As for getting the government we deserve, this is a coalition, the public voted and no one won, we didn't ask for this government. Cameron has no mandate from the electorate, he is doing this because he is a bad person.

I'll tell you what really works. Riots. In my memory, the only time I can remember the UK Government bending to the will of the people was after the poll tax riots.

To help illustrate the futility of trying to engage with the UK government via peaceful means: At least 750,000 people marched on London to oppose the Iraq war and the government ignored every single one of them. And the protestors were right, dead right and not one single politician involved has ever acknowledged the failure to act on the overwhelming will of the people.

I personally have come to believe that There is no chance for democracy and no chance for diplomacy in this country. Our laws are drafted by the CEOs and stakeholders of private organisations who we do not vote for, and yet they have seemingly unfettered access to our MPs. When that scheming little turd of a man Lord Mandleson was against the Digital Economy Act, all it took was an invite to David Geffen's private villa and the man had a complete turn around on the issue. Come on for Christ sake, they can't even be bothered to hide their corruption anymore. Mere weeks ago a gaggle of MPs were caught taking money (or so they thought) to ask questions in the House of Commons. That is unquestionable illegal behaviour and to my knowledge not a single MP has been charged or even removed from the house.

I'm pulling my hair out wondering what the hell we're going to do about it. I write to MPs all the time with questions or to have hem clarify their thinking on certain issues and I hear nothing back. They do not care. However, when I wrote to the President of the EU, I had a response within a week. An unsatisfactory response but certainly not a boiler plate.

I think we've left it so long and done so little to keep our democracy healthy that we have a high price to pay if we want to fix it. But then there's an even higher price to pay if we don't, so fuck it, viva la revolucion!
Interesting how much of the commentary here is on the patent being silly, rather than the implications of the monetization technique that the patent describes. We are allowing people to pay a fee to have their expression privileged over others. We are monetizing the salience of information, a betrayal of the very spirit of the Internet (or, at the least, the techno-utopian ideal of the Internet).

So yeah, patents are silly. But perhaps what's in the patent is equally troubling.
A metric assload of popular articles without sources or citations make the front page every day. But the only one anyone complains about is one related to global warming. Because it's somehow worse? No. Because many people are incapable of examining that particular issue without emotion.
We had a HN thread some time ago about this issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4562211

I agree with your take on it; I blogged about it at the time that previous HN thread came up:

http://blog.peterdonis.com/rants/python-v-go-error-handling....
Good question.

And if I'm running a small startup in the US that gets sued by a troll, can I disband my corporation and set up shop under a foreign corporation outside the US (if that's feasible in my personal circumstances)?
As someone who uses the symptothermal method, I can attest that there are always other things one can do during the fertile window to satisfy the urges brought on by increasing hormone levels =)
No, you're not allowed to represent the corporation, which is a separate and legally distinct entity from yourself. Since the corporation is a legal person, but cannot represent itself (not being an natural person, it cannot operate pro se), it must be represented by an attorney. That, then, brings in regulations on who may act as attorney (which is not always synonymous with lawyer or barrister) in litigation in a given jurisdiction. If you wish to represent yourself, then you need to be personally party to the litigation, which is what the legal personhood of the corporation protects you from (to a degree).
I am a member of both the IEEE and ACM.

First, you have to be a member of both, as the literature is divided between them.

Second, library access isn't included in the membership. It's an extra.

Third, the IEEE in particular partition the hell out of their database and you often wind up paying anyhow ("oh sorry, that's not in the IEEE-CS library, now f-you-pay-me").
Even big corporates are adopting agile methodologies, and combined with an appropriate contract, they provide a game theoretic incentive for both parties to act how the other intended.

How the system is supposed to work: Contractor does a small increment of work, delivers it, and gets paid by client based on the time they put in.

Exceptions:

1. Contractor doesn't deliver anything, or the quality is so bad that bad faith is assumed. Response: Contractor gets paid for claimed work on increment (which is limited by how much the contractor is authorised to do). Contractor doesn't get any further work. The contractor doesn't want this since they lose the income from future iterations.

2. Contractor does work, but client refuses to pay. Response: Client doesn't do any more work for the contractor. Contractor's loss is limited because the iteration is short. The client doesn't want this because they lose the benefits of the contract on the next iteration.

3. Contractor does work, but it doesn't fully meet the quality / scope requirements of the client, but the client can see progress is being made. Client pays the contractor, and the contractor and client work together to ensure that the next iteration moves in the direction the client wants.
Ok. I'll grant you the patent is slightly less hilariously stupid then the title suggested.
Having worked as a consultant about 3 years ago in the NYC B&N.com office across from Chelsea Market I can attest to the following:

Most of the developers are at best mediocre. The IT managers are clueless. They reside in the same building as Google and are unable to attract NYC talent.

Every time I see the stock climb above 17 or 18 I have a strong urge to sell it short.
What javascripty thing are you using for "Just ask xyz" copy?
From what I've been led to believe, this is all a crusade by Claire Perry, and when polled, only circa 33% of respondents were in favour. Yet, Cameron is still going ahead? It's his weapon of mass destruction, his bid to gain publicity and look like he is trying to do something worthwhile for the voters. The reality of his fantasy safe internet is yet to be written. My money is on epic fail.
Yes, I'm well aware of that. That happened in 1985. So, one example from the last thirty years. One. To me, that says it is not, in fact, a big problem and we probably shouldn't lose much sleep over it, if any.
I don't honestly know how I could disagree with you more. Your definition of a 'bizarre' world equates to my version of an ideal world.

How dare people question media?

How dare people think for themselves instead of accepting what media tells them?

How dare they?

You have vilified everything that goes wrong with a democratic society.

Your mentality is the problem.
I'm not sure the same anti-bullying tactics that work in isolated ecosystems actually work at internet scale (or really, if they ever worked completely even in isolation).

In short though, really, I advocate the "thicker skin" advice. Even if the entire internet at large were able to quell the vast majority of criticisms towards Fish, that doesn't mean that they won't ever reoccur.

Also, despite what seems to be the opinion here, yes, it is a viable solution.
A little more complicated than that :).

So Here's a brief overview of what we're doing and why we're doing it this way.

Asterisk doesn't scale without a lot of cruft and it's not accessible. At the high end of the market there's only gigantic switches from companies like Cisco/Alcatel etc; and those are $$$. So we see a market space inbetween cheapo asterisk and high-end cisco.

The crux of what we're doing is a lot of work in AMQP (RabbitMQ) to disintermediate the underlying infrastructure from the services. The point is that we don't ultimately want to care what underlying components you run on your network, only that you have components that can be consumed. Think of it as TelecomSDN from a management perspective and a distributed switch from an infrastructure perspective.

The stack as we distribute it today is:

* Kamailio (Border Controller)

* RabbitMQ (AMQP messaging bus)

* FreeSWITCH (Open-source switch)

* BigCouch (Distributed database with Dynamo Quorum to help deal with Network Partitions)

That's the gist of it; all on CentOS and all open-source. We may close source some modules as we go forward, but right now just about everything is open. Using a few clicks in AWS you can run an infrastructure capable of competing against AT&T.

There's a lot of telecom infrastructure that exists which can route calls. There aren't a lot of telecom infrastructures that have built-in fault tolerance and linear scaling.

EDIT: I should note that we've developed custom modules for both Kamailio and FreeSWITCH for our use case. We had to write a multi-threading module for Erlang for FreeSWITCH, as an example.
Would have missed it if not for your comment. Saw the loading symbol, said "eh, nevermind" and then came back and saw this.
It’s not a scientific paper (nor does it claim to be).

You are expecting this to be something it is not. And not even trying to be.
As someone wiser than me once said, true wealth is how long you can maintain your preferred lifestyle without working.

I don't see it in that way because wealth is also about protection against risks. If a big economic crisis arises being wealthy gives you, in general, more weapons to defend you and your family.
This guy http://cosmos.layervault.com/typer-js.html
EXACTLY!!!

People who are not truly paying attention are under the impression this is all a mistaken over-reaction and we have had "some bad apples" that have more-or-less accidentally brought us into this situation.

Anyone who, in the past 40 years, has pointed out the concerted and deliberate efforts of the MIC to ring us here have been dismissed as "wild conspiracy theorists" -- now though, its just to difficult to keep people from the truth.

This is why the distractions have been larger and larger -- but they are coming to a head. The problem is that the MIC is so extraordinarily well funded and well positioned - that now they are looking for the excuse to use their totalitarian machine against all Humanity. They want the next war.

It plays into their next agenda: depopulation.
Is this funny or sad? I'm more confused after actually reading it.
> The only downside to J notation is some of the primitives use more than one character

You are missing the point. I could proclaim that from now on we are going to use the /$ character sequence to implement the integration function in a hypothetical language. I could similarly continue with that idea and create a bunch of transliterations and cover a wide range of functionality. And, yes, people would be able to learn it and learn to read it. One example of this is reading regular expressions.

However, having that that, you have not created a new tool for thought all you have created is the ability to --as I described it before because I despise it-- vomit a bunch of ASCII characters into a file and call it a program.

Notation is powerful. The association of symbols or icons with ideas is powerful. The play, stop, fast forward, fast rewind and other buttons on your remote are easy to recognize, read and use. You could purposely avoid using symbols and use words: "FFWD", "STOP", "PLAY", etc. However, using symbols (notation) is by far the most efficient and communicable tool.

Going back to the integral, well, the existing mathematical integral symbol conveys the entire concept very efficiently.

J, to some extent, comes from an era when it was downright painful to even attempt to print or display APL characters. You had to replace character ROMs in printers, graphics cards and terminals. You had to replace print heads on other machines. APL characters before expanded character sets and the ubiquity of GUI-based operating systems were painful to implement and communicate. J attempted to solve this by transliterating from the APL symbol set to an ASCII-based equivalent. When that happened one of the most powerful aspects of APL was thrown out the window.

That's why I call J an abomination. The functionality offered by J is probably an improvement of APL. However, walking away from attaching meaning to custom symbols was a huge step backwards. Perhaps Iverson thought the reason APL was not seeing wider adoption was the character set, gave in and sought to fix it by going to ASCII. In my not-so-humble opinion, that was a huge mistake. ASCII is gibberish. Symbols, much like a page full of mathematical equations, means creating and using a new language that become part of your mental process.
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... one would have hoped that this decision would have enabled them to at least get those features right which went into the language.

Nope.
I'll expect you to make the same comment on posts that claim to want to "change the world". This is an actual world changing event, not some marketing bullshit.
You are completely free to question the media and think for yourself. The linked article provides more than enough information to actually get you started.

No one ever claimed you have to accept what the article says.
The FSF requires copyright assignment because:

- Only the copyright holder can effectively enforce the license on a particular piece of software

- They are in a better position to enforce the GPL than most users

And yes, the reason for the existence of copyleft is specifically to disable the powers granted by copyright that can be used to attack the users' freedoms.
Yeah, this explains it well enough:

http://www.drnorthrup.com/womenshealth/healthcenter/topic_de...
Eh what? That's not right, that's not even wrong...

The style one can program in and the style it is implemented isn't connected the way you think it is.

And no, Scala "doesn't have" loop/react. Unlike Go, where people seemingly put random stuff into the language, it's just a bog-standard library.
nice, sounds like a start point :)

thanks.
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Thanks! I'm gonna' use this.

Also - what are you using for the moving status page below highlighting features? That's clever.

P.S. - did you also try A/B testing the copy, layout, etc.
"if they weren't knowingly poisoning us, why exactly would corporations be so very afraid of properly labeling foods?"

Because when you label something consumers assume it is bad for them. That's why we don't force companies to label things that aren't actually dangerous. See study from MIT on GMO labels:
http://courantblogs.com/capitol-watch/gmo-labels-send-a-mess...
That has exactly been my experience, too.

The people who think Go is great are the same who lack substantial experience with any remotely modern programming language.
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Hmm, the last I remember hearing about it was a notice about how the creators were sort of giving up on it, and the website I had stored apparently hasn't been updated since 2010.
Question: why doesn't prior art entirely rule these out?
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Good catch on myrddin. I had seen it before but neglected to write it down. I didn't really know pascal was in that space at all.
Https handshake is also clear text. There's was previous attempt to block certain types of SSL cert in the past.
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I actually think it is more fair for it to be up to the FDA to decide. The reason companies don't want labels is that people then assume the product is unsafe. Here is an MIT study finding exactly that for GMO labels: http://courantblogs.com/capitol-watch/gmo-labels-send-a-mess...
Here's one example from playing around on Project Euler:

def problem_1a():
return sum(set(range(3,1000,3) + range(5,1000,5)))

While verbose, this is the kind of structure you would see if this was written in APL. In fact, you could translate this almost directly into APL.
Politicians doesn't give a shit about your business, if you use porn-enabled SSH, you are a terroist suspect and a threat to childrens of the nation.
A few off the points is applicable at much lower QPS than 1 million, especially in a virtualized environment such as EC2.

For example, I've had some issues with CPU (on core 0) saturation for soft interrupts on EC2, related to processing network packets.
I want data and analysis of data to support your assertion that The Rolling Stone does not produce scientifically educated authors!
Lack of genetic diversity is also the reason the banana is in danger (again).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease
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Yes, they plan to go a different direction, but it doesn't mean they give up with BitC (as of now), it's probably going to be refactored. The author discusses it in the 2013 post.
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> The readership here appears to be in a state of believing what The Rolling Stone says in place of actual scientific research.

You're clearly concerned with citations, so I'll ask for one: where did anyone here say, even implicitly, that they valued a Rolling Stone article in place of actual scientific research?
Here are two things that I've done in the past that worked well for me.

1) Use AngelList (http://angel.co) to search for investors that have funded companies similar to yours (but, that don't compete with you) and filter that even further by NY. This will provide you a good list to work from.

2) Find these investors on LinkedIn and see if you have a second connection to any of them that can provide you an intro.

This has worked very well for me in the past. As well as that, go to as many startup meetups & events and network your ass off. Keep growing your network and use it for intros. Cold emails & cold calls don't really work unfortunately.

When contacting VCs, don't go for a pitch straightaway. Instead, ask to pick their brain about a few things and get advice from them. Play the vanity card and work your way in this manner.

It's always best to go through multiple avenues to get an intro rather than a cold email directly to the VC.
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I'd have to guess that they're limiting themselves to a specific platform (hardware & software). Probably selling an appliance would be best way for them, instead of dealing with sysadmins that don't understand how to properly configure the database on their machines.
I just fear this "it must stop breaking things after 1.0" attitude some people have.

That's exactly what the death of a promising language looks like.

Those people should just go elsewhere, there are enough worse-is-better languages to pick from without dragging down yet another one.
The little humans have recently developed "Useless People Pestering Imminent Totalitarian International Expansion Syndrome"

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so highly qualified individuals shouldn't be paid well?
A few years ago, I discovered that iPhones backups are a bunch of sqlite databases (the SMS and call records are, anyway). Once I realized that, I became curious and started digging through old backups just to see what was there.
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Baseless complaints about the source does not qualify as "question media". Your comment is mindless contrarianism, not the intelligent skepticism you think it is.

You're free to question media. Welcome, in fact. I would love nothing more. But you didn't do it, and to act as though you did when someone calls you out is dishonest.
I'd be happy to, if someone can hook me up with a scanner that can do the job at a reasonable speed. I'm in the Seattle area and can bring them where ever.

My set is far from complete but we can all put our sets together.
Regarding point 9, "IRQ affinity from the NIC".

If one would like to delve a bit deeper into this one can find some info regarding the techniques introduced for linux here:
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/Documentation/networking/scaling.t...
This actually sorta rhymes with the design goals of Java -- a broadly featuresome language, with lots of safety nets, that could be used relatively effectively by the median programmer.
Tumblr has "promoted posts", which do essentially this, but which were only introduced in 2012, after this patent was filed.
At this point I'm suffering "alarm fatigue," having been told all my life that $food_X is endangered and will soon vanish from the Earth. It never seems to happen as long as there's still a market for $food_X.

Life will find a way, and if it doesn't, science will.
We are in that phase where the current government has pretty much accepted that they are going to lose power. Like past governments before them, they are pushing through all the nasty stuff while they have the chance.

I agree with you about the Digital Economy Act. That was an eye opener for me. I no longer have an interest in politics. For minions like us, it's just wasted effort. Better to focus our time on things that we control and can change.
The idea doesn't need to be radically different, but it does need to be non-obvious.
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She comes back to it at the very end pf the series, with a likely explanation of why the special SGB features weren't used:

Now, imagine you’re a Game Boy developer. You want to add the bullet point “Super Game Boy compatible!" to your box, because it’ll help sell a few more copies. But not many people own one. If you want to do something really neat, it’ll add entire days to the project, require changing some art resources, and doing extra testing on a completely different system. Going that extra distance is going to cost a lot of money, and won’t help that much because most people don’t own an SGB to see it. What are you going to say?

Man, fuck the Super Game Boy!

Exactly.
It sounds like you're putting the cart before the horse. Why would the atmosphere be significantly warmer if condensed clouds are reflecting solar energy into space?

Furthermore, if there is a robust model suggesting that extra water vapor in warm air negates the effect of cloud albedo, wouldn't that hypothesis be supported by the tropospheric temperature record?
The problem I always have with the validation stuff is that it often leads me down a road where I'm doing something I don't want to do or unimaginitve. In other words, it often leads to the apocryphal quote of Ford "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

As I continue working with validation and such, I'm beginning to feel like the most successful are simply those who know when to slow down and validate and when to hit the gas and follow their vision. Too much of either leads to a crash.