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Kudos to the WP for ongoing coverage of this case. There are important issues being litigated here that could affect everyone, and I'd argue they are worth discussing without regard to this particular defendant and the sheer stupidity of his actions.

However, I find WP's use of Poulson's activities as an example of "legitimate" automated HTML retrieval ("scraping") to be an odd one. It seems an awkward a comparison to convey what should be a simple point, in my opinion.

How about something much more common? Googlebot. Imagine if we forbade Google from using automation and from scraping content and placing it in the Google cache. No more web search.

Alas, because of the ad hoc nature of the Web (i.e., there is no unifiying organizational scheme for locating content across all websites as there would be in, say, locating content in a library of books), you cannot access Web content until you first discover it. In order to discover content, you generally have to search. In order to create an index and cache of content to search, someone has to scan/crawl/scrape websites. The later three are activities that are routinely automated. As such, they will violate many website Terms of Service and may get you banned simply for being "automated".

In fact, to use Google as an example (not picking on them per se, it's just that they are a well-known example), crawling Google will "get you banned" from using Google, temporarily.

The irony of this has always intrigued me: Google may crawl your servers, but under Google's policies, you may not crawl Google's servers.

If I create an index of your website, at your expense (by aggressively running automated queries against your http server, as Google does, for example), am I obligated to share it with you?

In any event, attempts to criminalize automation should raise red flags with anyone who is even slightly tech savvy.
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Not if I tricked the librarian into setting fire to the library.
Speculation from over a year ago: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/16/heres-a-thought-w...
Chuck Lorre, the producer for the show, is really ticked off at people who say that BBT has a laugh track, and has been very adamant that it does not.

Good for him. The television producer can split hairs about terms that have different industry and layman uses all he wants.

Either way, there is still studio audience laughter embedded in the show's audio. Dude should be well aware that home viewers can disagree with the recorded audience on whether or not punchlines are powerful enough for audible laughs, and that when they disagree often enough the audience laughter becomes very grating to the viewer.

And ultimately, that's what he is ticked off about. The way the laughs bother people is a indictment of the comedy in the show. When viewers agree with the recorded audience about what is funny, they don't notice the recorded laughs as much, so they don't complain as much.
That is absolutely correct. We started this before Docker existed. Also LXC is simple enough to do on your own that we haven't had a compelling reason to replace our tools with any others. Docker definitely has some cool features though!
OMG, did somebody make a comment about Obama?
Enjoy: http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area/2012
ah, I found it, after all these years:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21160131

as a bonus, here is the review on why asians should take less statins (hepatic enzyme clearance, probably a cyp450):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17261409
Are we sure that it was definitively war or merely the availability of resources that gave rise to civilizations? Water, rich soil, minerals (E.G. Iron, Copper, Gold etc...)

This sort of modeling is very tricky and, even though I don't want to put down the effort that went into this, I'm not sure if they controlled for other factors. We do know that people started war over these very resources, so it shouldn't be surprising that banding together (I.E. forming societies and by extension, civilizations) was a good way to prevent these from being taken by more powerful adversaries. The technology to defend, seize and improve these resources can also build civilizations so while war may be a factor that is common to it, calling it a cause is a bit of a rush to judgment IMO.
Your misunderstanding of the equal protection clause has no basis in reality. The government is absolutely allowed to treat different situations differently. There is no legally recognized interpretation of the constitution -- none -- that would require the government to give person A a treatment inappropriate for A just because it gave person B the same treatment which was appropriate for B.
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The article actually deals with this. "One recent study compared the earnings of students who just made the academic cutoff to attend the Florida State University System with those of students who fell just below the cutoff (and mostly did not attend college as a result). We might expect college not to be worth it for these students on the margins of qualifying, yet they reaped returns of 11%."

While this does not look at high school grades, SAT scores, etc., I think comparing just above the cutoff and just below the cutoff is a valid methodology to counter the effect. What do you think?
What really is the line between tricked and asked? Deceit?

Lets go with deceit.

So is asking for book ISBN '1; DROP TABLE books; --' deceitful? Perhaps, that's not an ISBN after all. Is asking for book ISBN [some valid ISBN that you pulled out of your ass, but happens to exist] deceitful? I don't think so. If you are just asking for randomly chosen ISBNs and getting responses, I don't think there is any trickery involved.

In one case you are counting on the system to correctly understand your (validly constructed) request, in the other case you are counting on the system to misinterpret your request in a dangerous fashion.
Currently the insurance company does, and since they were most likely selected by your employer whose objective was to hold down costs, what do you think that insurer's priorities are going to be? Plus, who's the customer in this situation? For whose business is the insurance company really working for?
Really? Not getting trashed is more productive? There's millions of people out there who drink a few glasses of wine on the weekends and don't have any productivity problems.
When you're Google, 10ms makes a difference. In my own personal experience, a decrease of 100ms in my response time results in a 20% increase of traffic.

Latency matters that much.
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I love the Basic HTML version even though it's ugly, but I don't think it's for everyone. (Having said that, it's definitely worth giving it a try)
If my kid is talented enough to create a silicone-gel replica of my fingerprint in order to buy in-game merch, she's earned it.
Do you work with Manwin at all?
It's like the line between "cosmetic" and "reconstructive". You would think it was a pretty clear line, and then discover it isn't.
> The healthcare industry needs a lot more transparency.

OK, yes. What it really needs is to be an open market both for care and insurance. Competition has amazing ways to both improve quality and affordability. This has been proven time and time again across a myriad of fields both within and well outside of medicine. Nothing beats open market competition. When providers and insurance companies truly have to compete for your business things change.

The ACA (Obamacare) is a disaster full of typical government-driven unintended consequences. We are just starting to see the tip of the iceberg. Funny that the very people who passed it will not have to live within this monstrous framework. And now the very unions who helped push it forward had an "oh-shit!" moment. They learned just how fucked it's going to be and want out.

I say, we are all on the same boat or shred the damn thing. If we are going to have socialized medicine the only equitable approach is that everyone, without exceptions, has to use it. All exceptions granted by POTUS need to be rescinded.
There is this issue: if you go to school to learn- you pay the school big bucks; if you go to a company and still need to learn a lot before you are worth anything; and there is little expectation of you staying with the company long enough to be worth anything... its why the military requires 4 year commitments before they pay for your training.
no doubt having your employment being tied to your insurance is a really, really bad idea, but may I remind that state of affairs is because of a government incentive put into place by FDR.
Expectations can be managed. My strategy is flee to the developing world and learn some languages, make some friends, get used to being out of my own culture and familiar with other ways of living. I could beat myself up about office hours and mortgages back home to collect the dream, but it's just not worth it. You only live once.
Interesting article, it disnt mention tha there's also a common anthropological hypothesis popularized by Claude Levi Straus that the basis of these wars was inception of the incest taboo:
http://m.vice.com/read/the-a-to-z-of-sexual-history-incest
That's not a consequence of being non-white so much as it is a consequence of your doctor being uninformed, which impacts people of all races.

I'm not saying it doesn't suck, I just take issue with your narrative of how race is the issue at hand, and how the medical system is bigoted towards minorities.
>>As we move into an era of personalized medicine, we'll be subsidizing better healthcare and better outcomes for some ethnic groups over others.

I think you miss the point of universal healthcare. It is not that one group has a higher utilisation of the healthcare system and therefore should pay more - the principle is that everyone is guaranteed the same provisions for healthcare, regardless of their risk factors.

Personalised medicine contributes nothing to the concept of universal healthcare; except for the noble aim of enabling better treatment of people through understanding individual responses. '
The idea that someone should be restricted in their level of healthcare utilisation under a universal system is absurd; As is the notion that someone should be forced to contribute extra (apart from the incremental addition of a high income earner through increased taxation) due to a perceived increase in risk.

>>The faulty assumption behind universal healthcare is that a one-size-fits-all prescription is good for everyone,

Again, I feel like you are trying to talk about personalised medicine inside of the concept of universal healthcare. Forget about personalised medicine. What the US needs first is access that won't bankrupt.
The fact is we don't know enough about personalised medicine to give people different treatments based on genetic characteristics. And we won't for years. Sure, you can look at 1 or 2 isolated instances at the moment (ACE-inhibitors and ARBs in Black people for instance) - but none of this matters when it comes to life-saving care, for which the treatment is going to be the same for everyone anyway, unless you happen to have some rare blood disorder in which case racial profiling and blood tests at the time of intervention will dictate management.

>> so in a way, it's a subsidy for rich white people.

How so? Because they live longer anyway? Because they are less likely to indulge in the risk factors that result in early mortality? Again, Universal healthcare doesnt discriminate. But since rich black/brown/yellow/white/green people pay a higher proportion of taxes anyway, shouldn't your argument here be that Universal healthcare is a tax on rich people?

Additionally, just because you are on a high dose of a Statin, in a high risk population, doesn't mean you are developing myopathy. CK levels should usually be checked after a month or 2 of Statin therapy in line with followup for new lipid levels, and in the absence of symptoms it can be fairly safely ruled that you aren't experiencing a complication of a statin drug. But you probably already know this.
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I'm so extraordinarily sick of "Computer Simulations <whatever>" being reported with any real credibility as though the Computer Simulation part means accuracy.

Sadly, the public can't tell the difference between "Computer Simulations Predict Aerodynamic Qualities of a Porche 911" and "Computer Simulations Show Where Noah's Ark Landed".

This article and simulation looks halfway between the two examples above... maybe closer to the Noah's Ark one.
You did not read the article all the way through, nor did the people who voted you up.

If you had, you would have encountered references to a variety of studies that attempt to control for going to college as opposed to other predictive factors using things like twin studies. They have found that the impact of college is less than simple analyses show, but the largest contribution to the difference between college graduates and non-graduates is college itself.
You're mistaken, almost all of them are seed-stage, minus one. You can issue stock whenever you want.

But I realize that your point is that you'd prefer due diligence and transparency on terms before using a site like WeFunder. The thing is, most investments at that stage don't have that much due diligence beyond market size, team, and traction. I think this is where you're misunderstanding.
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It's only somewhat different. We try to keep everything as similar as possible. We use chef to get new and old VMs up to date on our current setup, reusing recipes from prod to dev whenever possible. That being said, every dev is allowed to modify/change their vm in any way they seem fit. It is recommended to speak with us before doing any wild changes of configurations that might cause chef runs to start failing or make your VM not as good of a representation of production.

We also allow our developers to connect to a proxy to our production MySQL shards from their development environments in a read only mode. This allows them to leverage the large data sets that are quite hard to replicate in our development architecture. There is also a limited read/write mode that we are working on (with the proxy filtering dangerous queries). But all that is another blog post for another day.

We also do not use vagrant, opting for QEMU/KVM on physical hardware. The same tooling you saw in part 2 of my blog post also creates our development VMs as well.
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You're talking about the "skills" section. I don't need to work with jQuery directly to know John Smith wrote my company's jQuery code and he has that skill. If you want to write an in-depth review of John Smith's code from a technical standpoint, you can do that on LinkedIn, too. Most often, LinkedIn asks me if they know XYZ and either I know that they know it or I don't know--the value I get from that, it helps me to see where my connections are going with their careers. That's helpful to know for a variety of reasons, use your imagination. Sometimes they go into "skill" areas I never would have expected. Likewise, if someone hates Java (even if they know it well) they're not going to list it as a skill. Also, you can turn off any profile section you find annoying, it's in the options/settings. For example, I have the "people who viewed PJ also viewed these profiles" turned off.
This probably sounds arrogant, but I am pretty sure I'm a 10x programmer or at least 5x. I don't consider myself all that smart, though, I just seem to have a weird ability to get things done without much hassle. I feel like the 10x guys have a mentality where they're able to break things down without getting bogged down with the complexity of the whole thing. It's not that they're necessarily geniuses at understanding complexity - it's that they're able to break down complexity into simple parts.

Anyway, I kinda feel like just as there are 10x programmers, there are also -10x programmers. I'd say, even -100x. It's crazy how much time one person on the team can actually burn. One -10x person can suck up two 10x programmers' entire day with support and still create an absolute mess that has to be re-written. A piece of code that's solid will just run. A piece of junk can introduce bizarre, intermittent bugs that the team will be fixing for months.

I've noticed that -10x guys have a crazy knack for hiding their errors too. They'll figure out a way to get some botched code past unit tests and QA. Sometimes there appears to be an incredible amount of labor that went into circumventing every obstacle which was designed to prevent shooting themself in the foot!

Anyway, not sure the point of my post. But, I do believe that the 10x guys are out there and they can produce 10x without burning themselves out because they just have a way of looking at things that make them more simple.
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>is that everyone is guaranteed the same provisions for healthcare

You're missing my point. If those provisions are the same, that's exactly the problem. It's only worse if they aren't the same (because who chooses?)

CK levels warnings are only triggered when you are having a serious complication from the statin. When you have a lesser complication, like, "going to the gym sucks instead of making you feel good", and you aren't aware of what's happening, and it's making you fatter, and your quality of life is going down, then what?
In most systems, doctors.
A free service where NGOs can list the requirement for volunteer.
Will majorly focus towards college students and "new professionals".
It is comparable. In the way that blackface allowed African Americans to work in venues and productions that they were otherwise prohibited, BBT allows nerds to be the subject of a mainstream sitcom.

BBT is not at all empowering the way that "Weird Science," for example, was, and highly-mainstream TV executive Chuck Lorre is of exactly a more powerful class who has allowed nerds to enter into a world where they were previously excluded. That BBT is only slighly less-awful than how nerds were previously portrayed is not a badge of honor.

How often does the show demonstrate dignified interactions between its main characters and the outside world?
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Somehow I doubt Priceonomics is going to move the needle on anything one way or the other. I really doubt many people would forgo getting a degree based on any kind of statistical evidence. Going to college is often an emotional choice and not a logical choice.

Regardless, their conclusion seemed to me fairly tempered. They acknowledged learning through MOOCs, but talked about the positive externalities of physically being at college. They also said the price of college was far too high, so I'm not sure how your comment relates to the article.
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You could argue the same point regarding Apple's naming of their Macbook line prior to the discontinuing of the original Macbook moniker. Even now, the difference between the standard and the advanced Macbook line (purely on naming) are the words "Air" and "Pro".
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There's a huge difference between socialism and a minimum living standard
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OK, so somehow outside workers themselves are exerting pressure on companies who have not yet hired them? Certainly there are workers who would like to work in the US and would need a visa to do so, but to say that there is some connection between them and hiring companies as anything but as a potential pool of applicants seems highly unlikely. Companies are acting in their own interests, and they're the ones hiring lobbyists. The future-employees are basically faceless and powerless in that mechanism.
of course, the government SHOULDN'T give person A an inappropriate treatment just because it's what it would give to person B. Becuase that would be stupid. But what does it give person A? Perhaps it can offer person A nothing. Then, how is that fair and equal?

that's exactly why the only solution is the null solution.

Bottom line: we need to live in a society where people actually help each other and actually show compassion, not create rediculous byzantine bureaucracies that marginally help the rich and politically well-connected that are an empty simulacrum of compassion.
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Well said good sir! Your grasp of basic facts about the world is truly impeccable. Why, I myself just got back from Sweden where I had a layover on the flight from Mozambique. Or did I stop in Mozambique on my way back from Sweden? Now that I think about it, I can't be sure! I mean, honestly, who can tell them apart? Not me! Or you!
Justification being that earbuds don't get in the way as much as headphones.

There is literally no end to the inanity of bureaucracy.
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Fun game, will give it to my wife who sells paint for entertaining her customers :)
"This report doesn't include national security requests."

So the numbers are interesting and a good start but the good stuff is left out for the moment.
What a bunch of nonsense. If you look at aggregate numbers, people in socialist countries on the average are healthier and live longer. And the children of Canada, France, Britain, Norway, and so on do not go hungry. Amazing!

I don't even agree with a lot of western European style socialism, but it sucks that because of people like you we can't even have an honest, adult conversation about it. Thanks loads.
> There is no free. You pay a ton of money for healthcare in any system.

I'm confused. Is your argument that universal health care is more expensive than the current US system? Most studies have shown that to be false.[1]

I don't think anyone believes that universal health care is free.

[1] http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/21/4/88.long
In australia if you're in a hospital and you need surgery, you get it. Today if necessary.

Nothing needs 'approval'. Because everyone has the same insurer (The government), if you present to a hospital you are triaged according to your risk and treated appropriately. No 'approval' and no 'rejection'. It just happens.

And if you have osteoarthritis of your knees and want surgery in the private system (which can generally happen on demand instead of - because it is an emergent/elective condition - some time between now and 12 months from now) then you can go ahead and organise that.

If you would like to read a media release by the College of Surgeons have a look at [1] which not only describes emergency and elective but talks about about how surgery is managed in the hospital.

whoops, missed the link. [1] http://www.surgeons.org/media/307115/sbm_2011-05-24_separati...
You might want to base your opinion on more than one thing you read somewhere. I have a friend who was diagnosed with cancer in Canada and was in surgery with one of the top surgeons in the country in under a week. That plus a lengthly stay in the hospital and all of the drugs associated with cancer were 100% covered by our healthcare system. How is this poverty?
I also know about -0.3x and -1.5x developers (we are talking about developers here, aren't we? Well, if not, replace with any other professional you want).
I doubt they would dare. That would impact first responders as well.
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