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Traditional capitalism is exchange against the background threat of violence by the government against people who break contracts or take property. People give up their basic freedoms, e.g. the freedom to say one thing and do another or to take whatever they have the physical ability to take.

The difference between capitalism and regulated economies is not freedom, because in both cases true freedom is constrained by a background set of rules enforced by the state. Rather, the difference is what rules exist and who makes them. In a purely capitalist society, we defer to the Lord God Mises and declare a a particular set of rules (private property, private contracts, etc) to be sacrosanct and worthy of government protection. In a democratic society, we get to vote on the rules.
What I don't understand is how they don't run out of talent?

If you assume students are at school for 10 years (always), teachers for 30 (some dropout), this puts the staff:student ratio to 1:36, or 6% of the top graduates (if as stated, top 10%) a year. This is pretty much the lower bound of staff:student in a stable population, it can only get worse with factors such as college drop-outs and top graduates choosing other career paths.

So either the demographics are rapidly changing , the numbers or fudged or the majority of top graduates in Finland choose teaching.
It's interesting to note that Jon Krakauer also wrote Three Cups of Deceit, when Three Cups of Tea was required summer reading for me in high school. Funny how opinions about people change--though in this case it's sad instead of angering.
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> It will only silently kill when it sense it's family in danger.

Or when oneself is in danger, in the case of Zimmerman.
No -- but the banks are overcompensated for their work on M&A. You could hire a strategic consulting firm -- McKinsey, Bain, BCG -- to do M&A due diligence for half of what the investments banks charge. They hire from the same pool of 25-year-old Ivy League graduates. I doubt they'd do a worse job than the banks.

IPOs? You shouldn't need an underwriter to do an IPO. That's the whole idea behind OpenIPO -- which is how Google itself went public. It's true that the investment banks have access to a larger pool of investors. But that's circular reasoning. If the investment banks didn't exist, then these capitalists would be investing in IPOs through a Dutch auction like OpenIPO.

Structured products? The investment banks earn a 50% profit margin on structured products. The people who buy structured products could double their returns by constructing their own structured products on the options and future markets. And if they're not sophisticated enough to do that without an investment bank, then they probably don't understand what they're buying!
How was Chris's life more meaningful than everyone else's?
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Tough situation, and you never mix money and family, but I would give him a piece. Not because he thinks he deserves it, but because it's a nice gesture and he's probably right that he will probably be investing into it. I don't envy the decision you have to make, but if your relationship with him before this was great, I would personally let him in.

good luck
I don't think a free market and capitalism are exactly the same thing. Mostly, I think there should be some kind of limitation on ownership (especially of large entities), since with ownership comes social responsibility. Maybe we should just put an end to the limitations on liability for people who own a company.
Nitpick, it's not netatalk, the .local is resolved by Avahi, the Linux/BSD zeroconf implementation.

Incidentally, zeroconf is why it is not advisable to use internal *.local domains.
I'd imagine so... It would take 3, maybe 4 times my current pay before I even though about attempting to self-host exchange.

Nice to hear you've had good experience. Perhaps I just got unlucky and my experience isn't indicative of the overall performance of the service (and maybe it'll go better for me next time).
Mostly I'm puzzled by the way he's emerged as a hero

I tend to agree with the sentiment although I appreciate the his quest.

As a side note, I can understand how someone gets into a sticky situation in the theme of adventure. A friend's little brother (in his 20s, lot so little) decided to hike the Appalachian Trail this summer. Unfortunately he found out about a month in that he was ill-prepared for the calories it takes to hike the sometimes over 20 miles-per-day and the physical toll as well. He had to quit much earlier than expected.
> I agree it may be a offensive environment but how is it selective or discriminatory though?

Its selectively hostile because of disparate impact due to occurring within a cultural context in which sensitivity to these issues is not even approximately evenly distributed by sex.

> Religion offends me—being around it makes me uncomfortable—but that doesn't give me the right to tell people to stop talking about.

Being human gives you the right to do that (just as the same thing gives other people the right to ignore you when you do, in most circumstances.)

This, of course, is completely orthogonal to the question on discrimination, as something being discrimination is not a pre-requisite for someone to have a right to tell people to stop doing it.
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You're saying that conferences should not place too much emphasis the party aspects, because that is not the purpose of a conference. Right?

Well I'm saying that I think that is too imposing.

It would be like me saying that bowling alleys should be careful not to place too much emphasis on drinking, because the purpose of a bowling alley is to compete with others at rolling a ball at things. Who am I to say that others shouldn't think that the purpose of bowling is to drink with friends while occasionally rolling a ball around? I shouldn't impose my idea of the purpose of bowling on other people.

I hope it is clear what I mean.
"Nobody actually in the business ever complained about a STEM shortage."

Yes, they have, to the point where legislation is being considered to award green cards specifically to recipients of MS or PhD degrees in STEM fields.

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/issues_STEM%20Jobs%20Act.h...

I completely agree with you that STEM should be a red herring. But it's hard to say that a focus on STEM is circumventing the issue when the notion of a shortage of STEM degrees is specifically built into the proposed legislation.
holy hell.. "How Chris McCandless Died" is such a bad title considering at the very end it says - "there is ample reason to believe that McCandless contracted lathyrism from eating those seeds". So he /may/ have died that way.

Jon Krakauer just really wants to believe that McCandless could have survived if he hadn't been a dumbass.
When the 5th amendment applies, it protects you even when the police have a warrant. Courts have not reached agreement about whether turning over a password is like turning over a key or scanning your thumbprint. See: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130425/08171522834/judge-...
Sorry for butting in but I've recently done this, the new Gmail compose "experience" was the final straw.

I'm happy - the only thing that is a bit weird is I'll sometimes get spam mails duplicated arriving at my outlook.com address. Never with "normal" mails only the obvious spam.

Does anyone know of an easy way to extract all my mails from Gmail? I'd like to dump them in the filesystem and then kill my Google account.
If he didn't eat the wild potato seeds, he would have survived the 18 days until help came. He would have survived on squirrels and porcupines. The wild potato seeds poisoned him. He died from complications of paralysis. No one should eat wild potato seeds, ever, just to be sure they don't become permanently paralyzed. Young men are the highest risk group. This is new information. No one knew this before. I don't know how to help you understand the article better. You got it very wrong.
I see, but at the same time the conditions can always be modified later on, can't they?

Also, our relationship is borderline enmeshed/co-dependent.
If he gets on board my company, he'll be able to control my decisions to a great extent.
> All things that move are mechanical.

How is that blurry?

> 'Organic' is a similarly blurry category

I thought "organic" was restricted to carbon chemistry. Seems pretty specific to me.

> The terms you're looking for are 'natural' and 'artificial,'

It may be that his choice of words conflicts with his meaning, or at least conflicts with your interpretation of his meaning, but doesn't make his original word choices less specific in their inherent meaning.

> 'mechanical' has increasingly taken on a connotation of artifice or man-make

Maybe I'm too far down the rabbit hole, but the Industrial Revolution hadn't even occured to me. There is plenty of mechanical action in the human body, and those have certainly been solids long before Latin came around.
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- Spanish (Mexican, Castellano, others?)
- Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese)
- Hindi

These would be logical next steps with some important commonalities: broad base of native speakers, high importance in the US market (maybe less so for Hindi), and very important dialect differences. Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi, and Russian could also force the issue of non-Romanized character sets.
"ADP and Pi are mechanically squeezed against each other in order to create the covalent bond."

I have a PhD in Biophysics. If I ever said "ADP and Pi were squeezed together", I'd have been laughed out of journal club. The fine details of the reaction coordinate are still being argued about.

I'll grant you there are no canonical gears as a mechanical engineer would recognize them. I wasn't talking about the motive coupling. But a number of the physical structures (proteins) that couple the anchoring to the moving body have gear like properties. These are used to orient and clock the moving body in its cycle.

OK, I'll up it a notch since you guys are being picky.
There are motor proteins which use ATP hydrolysis to do directed (non-random) motion. One of the plausible (IIRC it's passe now) mechanisms involved coupling the ATP hydrolysis free energy to a physical ratchet-like mechanism which, while didn't physically look like a gear when you looked at static crystal structures, seemed to behave like one using various subtle time-resolved mechanisms.
"...if you read no further than the headlines."

That's the definition of how the general public interacts with a piece of news.
This reasoning is suspect: repeatedly pushing oneself to work to exhaustion as a form of training for real work where you need to work longs seems unlikely to offer more than diminishing returns. How often do bankers need to work three straight day and nights? Are you positing a physiological process where the more "three nighters" one does the stronger you get?

It seems more likely that the treatment of interns is an expression of sublimated rage on the part of their supervisors. But I suppose they can laugh all the way to the bank.
Looks like it's still not possible to send from alias addresses with the provided SMTP server.

Outlook.com allows users to have up to 10 different alias email addresses, and the users can send emails using any of those alias addresses provided that they are sending from the desktop website of Outlook.com or the Windows 8 Mail app. However, users can only send from one of their alias addresses if users set up their Outlook.com account on any other mail client, whether using POP, IMAP, or EAS. That includes the official Outlook.com app for Android[1] and the desktop Outlook 2013 client[2], plus Thunderbird and other desktop mail clients[3].

I do hope that this issue gets addressed in the near future.

[1] http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/mail-sy...

[2] http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_...

[3] http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/mail-em...
Did you read my response? Connect your smartphone to a MiFi (which establishes a mobile data connection and shares it through a WiFi hotspot) if you're concerned about that.
Is that supposed to be a poor attempt at satire or something?
This. The previous comment is the reason why McCandless is such a polarizing figure. Those who prepare and go on a quest without suffering negative consequences are somehow derided for not being independent thinkers, somehow cheapened for not risking enough.

"Adventure is just bad planning." - Roald Amundsen
I have a good friend who is a mathematician, masters degree. She works for an insurance company doing statistics as an actuary.

This is just based her anecdotes, but from her stories it sounds like the world of professional mathematicians/staticians is suffering from a talent shortage that completely dwarfs what we experience in the technology sector. A good mathematician is rare gold in the finance/insurance worlds right now.
It's easy to imagine a couple of touching pieces in the ancestor of the issid that aided in synchronizing the jumping mechanics.

Over time, mutations in those touching pieces interlocked more firmly until they resembled what we think of as gears.

If this were the case, would you not expect to observe these evolutionary steps in other organisms today? As noted in the article:

...there are many jumping insects like the issus... [though] most other bugs synchronize the quick jolt of their leaping legs through friction...

If there are "many jumping" insects, how does it come to be that only a single specie (that we know of, granted) that has evolved this feature, and why have we not observed others undergoing the evolutionary process that could/would yield them in others?
So in terms of client-side startup it can become a pain, because if you're starting and stopping a jvm all the time you tend to feel it.

You encounter these problems if:

- People write unix-style tools on the JVM (imagine if ls was a Java program). Thankfully almost no one does this, but...

- When you use tooling for things that involve JVM languages, such as Clojure's lein or Scala's sbt. Starting lein / sbt is annoyingly slow. Using Scalaiform to format scala code takes a noticeable chunk of time because it's booting up a jvm each time. So noticeable that as much as I'd like to have it happen every time I save a file it makes SublimeText way too choppy.

This is less noticable on faster computers (my current work box is a i7 laptop with 12GB and an SSD) but on older computers it's still a real pain. Working with Clojure on a 2009MBP can be an exercise in frustration.
Looks like someone misunderstood the cooking directions for the bullfrog.
It's kind of like getting your timing belt replaced.
Our disk size shrank to 10% of stock mongodb size.

The migration is easy now that they've released a tool to replicate from a stock mongo to TokuMX. They also do have commercial support that we've paid for and their team has been incredibly helpful and responsive.
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You could always grant him a piece, say 5%, with incentives that can be granted over time while certain company KPI's are met (you both could co-write these), pushing up closer to 10% in the event of some sort of fund raising he would be a part of. This covers a lot of your risk, and sets the stage for a solid working relationship. You need to manage both in this instance, which makes the relationship more complex, but could end up with you having your cake and eating it too.
TrueCrypt would work too - it has block level encryption and Drobox syncs on block level too.
This article was posted to reddit, and incidentally the author is a redditor.

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1m9eke/scientists_d...

They're taking questions.
Still "password can't be longer than 16 characters".
I think you are doing the same faulty comparison you made with board games in another comment. The purpose of all those activities (party, board games, bowling) is to have fun. I'm saying that the very definition of a conference is that it has a different goal. Conferences can (and should, by all means possible) be as fun as possible, but with the goal of the conference taking slight precedence.

Since having a party-like atmosphere will make people come to the conference, by all means conferences should have them. But one should keep in mind that the party-like atmosphere does not obscure or negate the purpose of the conference in the first place.
Why are judgmental quotes like these "obligatory?" The whole thesis of the article is that regardless of the value judgments of what McCandless did, it was not in fact arrogance that killed him, nor was it possible to correct his ignorance until a scientific discovery was made two decades after his death.
No, the issus is obligated to pay royalties.
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"But if we move toward authentication systems based solely on physical tokens or biometrics — things we have or things we are, rather than things we remember"

If the argument is valid it seems that it could also be applied to public key encryption.
That still doesn't explain why, on average, those who sign up in the no-trial scenerio are more active than those who sign up after trying the product. Of both groups that sign up, the ones without a chance to try the product were more active (including all the activity during the trial)
I had fun once. It was awful.
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Sorry, I meant to come back and clarify: the ingredient part of what I listed could be discovered easily. Knowing how to balance all the levels of crispy, the sweet/bitter/fat of the chocolate, etc, at runtime is much harder. You can include those things in the cost function for the heuristic search, but they're harder to achieve that naive assembly of the ingredients.
Haha, because people who are good at obeying school are good at obeying you ;-)

Seriously though, is this really that surprising? Getting shit done includes bring able to finish what you start, I'd hire anyone with the portfolio proof of execution, and a degree can be evidence of this.
Well, "could have survived is [s]he hadn't been a dumbass" is a valid comment about an astonishing number of human deaths.
yeah, agreed. i'm sure it will work better in some cases, but it's really specific to each situation.
Your opinion about said versatility is not supported by real world usage.

For a list of sites/people that are able to turn a Prius into an 18 wheeler, see a previous comment I made:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5412337

WordPress initial purpose was for blogging, later it grew along with demand and real world usage to become a more robust, capable versatile CMS. The blogging architecture is still front and center however. While there are definitely limitations to what WP should responsibly be used for, some folks like to hash out poorly constructed ones.

Take the security updates aspect - it doesn't matter software you use - it will need updating. A vigilant attitude toward security should be the default for serious sites, regardless of the software used.

Same with cars, they can suffer all kinds of problems if not properly maintained. You can't force the car owner to take the car into the shop to perform said maintenance. That doesn't make the car fundamentally bad.

When people say something to the effect 'WP isn't secure', it's often made as a blanket statement to make it sound like WP is fundamentally weak. There have been very little serious problems with WordPress core itself. Security concerns and exploits are the reality of any software that is widely used, WP is no exception, but it's to be expected. If anyone likes to share any powerful software in use that has millions of users and manages to evolve constantly and stay perfectly robust against any imaginable attack - I'd like to hear some examples.

Back in the real world, what counts is building useful products that matter to its end-users.
I've also been finding myself increasingly dissatisfied with mainstream browser offerings. The basic problem: the browser is increasingly becoming a generalized applications platform (Chrome especially). The main benefit of this is in providing rapid application deployments and cloud hosting. The disadvantages are that the browser itself is heavier than lead. Why do I need 1-3 GB of browser to do what 100MB or so worth of mutt can accomplish?

Much (most) of my browser usage, though, is based on _content_. And browser tools for surfacing, curating, cataloging, managing, and tracking content are simply awful. In the past year I've discovered both Readability and Calibre. Both are vastly better oriented at the task of actually reading and managing content, though they've got their warts. Readability lacks a desktop app (it runs as a webpage), though the Android client is nice. Calibre lacks Web integration, but has much better content management features than even Readability.

Both are oriented more around reading-optimized formats (ePub and PDF for Calibre) than Web browsers are. And their footprints are vastly lower.

The first link below details more gripes and suggestions, briefly:

Readability features (applies also to ePubs):

It renders web pages viewable.

It manages my reading list.

The reading list is available across different browsers and devices

You do not need to have every tab loaded, rendered, in active memory and sucking CPU at the same time.

Give priority to the foreground tab.

Completely redesign bookmarks with thought given to workflow.

Improve responsiveness.

The existing Firefox "add page" modal dialog is fucking annoying as hell

Provide a duplicate entry search and reconcilliation.

Emphasize tags. They're present but poorly presented.

Emphasize bookmarks for navigation.

Improve annotation capabilities, including cross-referencing.

Provide a decentralized sharing mechanism.

Include a few lines of context from the page.

DESIGN THE BOOKMARKS LIST TO WORK AS WORKFLOWS.

Provide the ability to download the bookmarks source in offline-readable format.
Provide search / navigation / management of active tabs.

Provide search of content across all open tabs.

The essays:

Browsers: some modest proposals & feature requests
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/7DoF6HTG...

Mozilla readies the browser I wasn't looking for
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/LR7jubsX...

The content problem in brief
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/ff9HFxzC...

Just installed Readability on my phone
Must can haz for laptop.
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/fVK7aJuB...

Vaguely related:
Video-in-browser very nearly exactly sucks
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/jBfVhsdD...
true. that link at the bottom, though, is recent. we used to have zero demonstrations outside the video.
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Have we seen this fingerprint reader yet? IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads use a reader that's just a tiny strip, so you actually have to swipe your finger instead of just planting it on the reader. This at the very least defends against simple attacks.

But I mean, a fingerprint is a physical thing which can be cloned, just like a key. And you also leave prints everywhere you go. It's not a silver bullet in authentication. All else being equal, passwords are safer against a determined attack, if we can assume correct usage.
Wow, that old clip. I seem to recall that floating around the Internet even before the time of YouTube. Nice to finally see it in a decent resolution, though! ☺
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