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I'm from the old guard, used to be real thrilled with Usenet. Trolls are The Great Enemy, and 4chan is real big on trolling.
I'm embarrassed to say that I have a degree in math but don't really follow the given proof. Can anyone explain it?
Got ahold of someone via email; they fixed it.
I have more or less that exact problem. I get "8-9 hours" of sleep every night but I tend to wake up several times. I'm pretty much always tired no matter what I do before bed. I've tried tea, milk, no computer, reading, exercise, no dice. That's until the weekend though when I sleep bizarrely, sometimes skipping the first night of sleep entirely, sleeping a big chunk of the next days and radically correcting on Sunday night. It makes Mondays suck but at least I'm not tired all weekend like during a big chunk of the week.

I'll try your way, maybe it'll help. Thanks!
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"Then there were the things they could not control, such as the confiscation by police of the computer belonging to the dean of students at Alex’s school. The dean had requested the images in an effort to sort things out" --- haha...sure dean, sure. "sort things out"
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Skepticism isn't ignoring evidence; it's doubting that which has no evidence yet.

But if you want experimental results concerning evolution:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16382-artificial-molec...
I hope it takes off, but I really doubt it will. It's too complex, and the benefits are not so clear. I understand the long term benefits/goal, but it's hard to motivate content producers to adapt something new if they can't see quick returns.
Why would there be need for thread safety in ruby? There's a global interpreter lock so there's really only 1 thread running at any time -- every line of your ruby code should be atomic. The more threads you schedule, the more the interpreter has to cycle them in and out, so basically threads are somewhat useless in ruby. The devs had to spend time making Rails thread safe due to JRuby where there isn't a GIL.
The plus address issue is very very frustrating. The worst is when you try to unsubscribe from somewhere, and they don't URL-encode your email address in the unsubscribe URL. If you don't know the change the "+" to a "%2B", you're stuck.
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Where has all the conficker news gone? 
Last I remember they still didn't know who made it? Am I missing something or is there any updates.
Just wanted to know if anyone else is curious as I am on the same.
Willful negligence indeed. That's why it's a good idea to carry E&O insurance in most states--despite the costs.

Nah, the tax write-offs alone make those costs more than manageable.
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I'd pay for this.

Note, though, I'm not a student and I don't live on campus.

There might be more of a market for this service off campus than on. Figure out some way of charging for pick up, put up some sort of map or other way of showing your delivery/pick up area, and you might have a larger market than you think.
Will they get used though? You'd hope so.
I would say casual absolute control has been gone for decades.

And to follow up on your point, my parents heavily controlled content I was allowed to consume, and slowly introduced me to making my own choices as I showed sound judgment and responsibility to handle it.

This system worked out incredibly well, a system I want to emulate for my own children.
I know its a joke here, but if that attitude really prevails, there will be no way at all to deal with this in a rational way at the level where it will do the most good.

We've already got a serious problem with over-escalation here. All this will do is make the people most able to deal with the problem too afraid even to acknowledge it.

Don't look, don't think, just call the Miniluv.
Actually I'm in good shape for an office dweller. I'm 6'2", vary between 145 and 150lbs, have low cholesterol, low blood pressure and am generally on the cusp of skinny-muscular. I walk about 2 miles on the average weekday (commute by foot.) I don't explicitly exercise otherwise, but I routinely play football and paintball with friends and never become short of breath.

I do have a combination of both allergies (hayfever) and asthma (standard nerd from the 80s!) but I control both with occasional rescue style prescriptions instead of a daily pill regiment.

The sleep cycle itself feels alot more natural to me. My partner constantly mentions envy in the speed at which I fall asleep each night. That's why I think I've stuck with it. Gives me more awake time away from work (bonus) and feels right.
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It's a pity that they totally ruin their proof with an incorrect statement of the thing being proved. But start with a correct statement and it's a 5 minute job to prove this using basic arithmetic.

I'd type up the proof but typing math on the iPhone is impossible.
Just to note, this is from 2008.10.1 .
I love computer science so much that I refused to take classes in it as an undergrad.
I have waypub.com - wish I could think of a project for it.
Note also that it does not belong here.
you do that, I will be first one to subscribe!
Congratulations to Kyle for violating the spirit of the modern university by going up against faculty. ;)
This is great advice, and covers a great deal of what I look for when I am acting as angel.

Personally, I am looking for:

- A solid idea and initial implementation; you can't tell how good an idea will be until it is embodied. I don't want to even talk to two MBAs with a powerpoint deck. I'd much rather see a hacker and a codebase.

- A team I would consider actually working with or for. If they are hard to get along with now, it will be worse later (this is true in the opposite direction as well.)

- Business plans and TAM and all that crap? Forget it. I want product vision and an ability to roll with the punches. Business plans end up on the floor and TAM is just wishful thinking.

There's also a bunch of things I look for in the products, but I guess that's more investing philosophy.
This article is from October 2006. However, I've been living in NYC for a year and a half, and most of the article (and comments) still resonate almost three years later.
For those questions you can find some of the theory of it in an operating systems design book. As far a best practices you can find those in a few ways experience or working with someone smarter than you.
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As of now, the "Featured Articles" within the thick borders are dummy articles.

One of the site's sections is for small business/ startup news. If you have a startup, please list it in the comments. I'd like to write about it :)

Thanks,

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The worst case scenario
The submitted article is an excellent overview of the major issues.
IPhone dev to donate $10,000 to creator of cocos2d open source game engine
totally off-topic, but i just noticed this copy on ticketstumbler--"We couldn't get your location, but you can set your own location by logging in or creating any account!" should that be "...creating an account!"? or am i more tired than i thought...
I believe that Nobel's family is quite opposed to this-they believe that the prize's relationship to the Nobel prize is an attempt to elevate economics up to the level of physics or chemistry.
I've adopted a sort of honor-driven set of conditions with the people I've given them to - a "domain traders' code," if you will:

1) If you don't use the domain, I get first refusal to have it back.
2) If you do use the domain, and if I request, you'll give me a link on the site someplace. (More a speculative thing than anything..)
3) If you go on to sell the domain/site for big bucks, you'll remember me and get me something from my Amazon wishlist ;-)

It's all honor-bound and ridiculously hard to enforce, but I'm a big believer in honor, so who knows.. :)
Xanama would make a good software code name.. longhorn etc
I have jeejah.net, and would love to develop it into some kind of site for advanced mobile phone stuff. You'd have had to have read Neil Stephenson's Anathem to get the reference though.

Speaking of something that would be anathema to many here, if web sites are going to be 'properties', then why don't they have property taxes based on the last sale value? That might keep people from squatting - they'd be "forced" to either develop the site into something that generates revenue, or sell it. In theory at least... I don't really think it is a good idea, but it's something to consider.
I love that they can be successful if unemployment rises or falls.
I like how the rip deps file is a list of canonical URLs and tag/version numbers!

Question: How would I use rip to track the latest version of each dependency -- maybe one is a gem and so I want the latest gem on rubyforge, but another is a github repo + branch, and another is an obscure fork on gitorious. Is there a way that Rip can tell if there are newer versions of the libs available?
my guess is that trolls probably didn't really appear until AOL.

I'm old enough to remember that there were trolls on Usenet before AOL built its gateway to Usenet.

I'm pretty sure that verifying the earliest use of "troll" in the sense of this thread and comparing that with the date of AOL's gateway opening would confirm this.
The girl that was responsible for this game works with me actually. You guys can check out the flash version of the game here:
http://www.tophatmonocle.com/hopple
Heh, like pip, it relies on the previous package management tool (gems and easy_install) to install itself.

rip isn't just a mix of pip and virtualenv though, it's also got bits of functionality from virtualenvwrapper (manages multiple envs) and buildout (plugins) mixed in there.

There is no way to work with gems in a development format? e.g. straight from version control?

I like Buildout's approach of doing script generation better though, since it allows for multiple working sets of packages within the same environment. And you can manage stuff besides just language-specific packages, such as database installs, config files, etc, etc. Plus you can manage libraries from more than just one language - perfect for those franken-Python-Perl-Ruby projects.

Looks like a big improvement over the rails/gem_dependencies sillyness of embedding a package management tool into a web framework though!
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You clearly have no idea what timescales we are talking about. Think of it like compound interest. Say we start with a 1 dollar and the first year you get a penny back aka 1% compounded annually. Now how much money do you have in 1 million years? ~2 with 4,321 zeros.

Mankind has used evolution to turn wolves into decorative toy's in a few thousand years by selecting who lived and who died. Plenty of "Dog" DNA is new, but we have only recently started to understand the basic building blocks. The theory of evolution existed long before we could look and DNA, and yet DNA completely validated the theory at every level. It just works.

Yet you want more? WHY? What other idea works on every level? Saying "The invisible panda made the world last week" could be true but it gives us no new incite. Yet they theory of evolution is useful when talking about building software, biochemistry, fishing, farming, and buying stock in ways that seem completely unrelated.

PS: The math on evolution is complex and I suspect you are far to stupid to understand it. Yet, the fact you don't understand in no way relates to reality.
Your conception of science is twisted and narrow, your bomb example is a classic modus moron, and you would rather make a grand display of your ignorance than take a few minutes to Google up the sort of evidence for evolution that you claim doesn't exist.

Let us hope that you are troll sir, for otherwise we must conclude that you are an idiot.
superyay.com is possibly the most amazing domain I've ever seen. I can't even look at it without chuckling.
Does Daily Kos really care about its users' privacy?
exactly -- reminds me of "strong named assemblies" from .net :) (but implemented elegantly w/ a canonical URL and tag/branch/version string)

it's a missing piece that has needed a solution for a while, and rip looks like an awesome approach.
I'm currently using both on Linux and there isn't really any difference between them at all, except the icon.
I wonder if I'll be able to go on that update site and do it from my iPhone? Around that time, I will be at a bar, either celebrating my team winning Stanley Cup or drinking away my sorrows.. so no way to get to the actual computer.
launching the future sounds like the next pepsi campaign.
I bought alcoholicsunanimo.us awhile back as an idea for a service to prevent drinking problems. You know you have a drinking problem if you drink alone, so you can send a txt to alcoholicsunanimo.us and let everyone know you want to drink, and need someone to drink with, and voilà! drinking problem solved.
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It hardly matters. Ease of information transfer is here to stay, absent the demise of civilization, and there's nothing that can be done to legislate it in the long run. In the short run, there will be large, local disruptions, but I don't see a way to avoid that, and it seems reasonable that mocking authority figures will bring the long run sooner and thereby minimize such local disruptions.
Yeah, and we have plate tectonics which explains... oh, geez, I guess nothing, since we can't fit an entire tectonic plate into a lab in order to repeatedly test it.

Well at least we know that the planet's magnetic field is produced by aligned iron molecules in the core since... Well shit, I guess we can't fit a planetary core in the lab.

Ok, I've got one: we know that the sun is a nuclear furnace, fusing hydrogen into helium because... um...

Well, I guess you're right. We can't know anything by repeated inference.

I sure hope the sun comes up tomorrow.
Bullshit. Intuit has been successfully fighting Microsoft for a very, very long time, well before Mint, well before Google maps and before ViaWeb + what followed.

According to you, USSR collapsed and dinosaurs became extinct also because they didn't grok the potential of XmlHttpRequest. Not everything revolves around webapps.

Frankly, I have no idea how Intuit did it, they're probably the only desktop competitor Microsoft hadn't crush, and this article didn't really give me any plausible clues as to why.
Which reminds me of pg's essay "Lies We Tell Kids": http://paulgraham.com/lies.html .
It's not a minor thing if naked pictures of your daughter are permanently circulating around Internet porn sites.

I have no other comment to make about the underlying issue here, and I am specifically not making a stand. I'm just saying, it's not a minor issue.
I think southern WA (Vancouver WA, etc.) is the best place to do a startup right now. There's a large population of highly qualified tech people in Portland, OR, but nowhere near enough local employment. Commuting from Portland to Vancouver is feasible, or people could live in WA and also get the income tax benefits, while having Portland's cultural advantages. Southern WA is also very inexpensive relative to the Seattle area, and the local counties are pro business.
I think it's hilarious how your article sums up in two sentences exactly what I've been trying to say in 1,000+ words in these comments and succinctly summarizes why I still remain justly skeptical:

Moreover, efforts to create more life in the labs will eventually hit a philosophical wall, not a technical one. "If somebody makes something great in the lab, it's fantastic. But really the origin of life on Earth is an historical problem that we're never going to be able to witness and verify," he says.
I wish I could downmod this. Though I agree with you on the topic at hand, your attitude is horrific. Abysmal.

It's sad to see such insulting discourse come from those who claim to seek to educate others.
I had the same treatment: but it worked less well for me (mostly due to not being drip fed choices).

When I left home for university (first time on my own) I had a break down within 6 months, simply couldnt cope.

I'm not sure I agree (though I know I am heavily biased) anything beyond a casual control is workable. People will naturally test boundaries - and the stricter you make them the more "underground" the response is. Im a big fan of keeping it casual so that what goes on is easy to spot - and if it goes too far stepping in heavily has more impact :)

But then, each to their own! I dont have kids yet so this could change :P
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Minors are not capable of making sound decisions, which is why they should be treated differently (and usually are).
But, I disagree that this is the core issue. I believe that this is not a crime. At all. Not even a little bit. The idea that it is illegal for those under 18 to do anything sexual is wrong. It moves to preposterous when you start calling them sex offenders.
Why? Because it is a natural and normal part of growing up. The body secrets huge amounts of testosterone/estrogen during puberty. Humans are designed/programmed/whatever to start thinking about sex at this point.
Finally, because kids are actually people too. They do get to make decisions. Small ones at first, but bigger ones later. A 17-year-old that is going out with an 18-year-old should not have to break up with their significant other simply because of the magical 18th birthday.
Evolution by natural selection is a scientific theory that explains how complexity comes from simple beginnings.
I think it's simpler to go this route:

If S is the sum of f(i)10^(-(i+1)), then you could break up that sum into two other sums (using the fibonacci relationship), express them in terms of S, and solve.

I get S = (1/100)S + (1/10)S + .01
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A little context: this was the article that so moved the President that he insisted that Senators read it at a recent White House meeting on health care reform:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/us/politics/09health.html
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Is parrot friendly about mixing and matching libraries? If there's a library available in perl, how hard is it to use those libraries from another language in the same process? If not parrot, are there are other VMs that are friendly like this?

The reason I ask is that the most important thing about a language platform seems to be available libraries. But I wonder whether that's necessarily language bound - shouldn't it be more a VM issue?
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Apparently they define it as noticeable changes in phenotype. I would have guessed speciation.
What step gave you trouble? Other than the typo in the first equation (F_n should be F_(i-1)).
It makes a really nice system of governance if people break laws early in their life, and "government" can tag them and monitor them for the rest of their life... if you represent the government.

And "child porn" brings in a lot of emotional baggage. We all think of Mr 40 year old kiddie diddling with a 9 or 10 year old. That's just gross. So politicians made laws to handle that. Of course, the young boy looking at porn was completely ignored. However, the other fact that was ignored completely is simple biology. We all know about 'adolescents' and their 'hormones', yet the laws ignored any idea of following biology. Instead these politicians follow the most puritanical belief set they can find.

And tell me: What politician wants to give up that much power, or "Let Those Evil Men Have Sex With Your Young Child" ?

Yes, Im cynical, only because I've seen this 'game' in many other areas of government. Alcohol, seat belts, Smoking, university funding, Roads... you name it.
At least it isn't a real Nobel.
True enough: but that is not something the dean is equipped to cope with on his own. They are pictures of minors and no matter his intentions requesting them (where from?) off his own back sounds like a bad move!

Get in with the police force (in all liklihood they would welcome his connection to the pupils) and provide suppor through that medium; that seems a more logical approach (what he did sounds like a half cocked investigation of his own - which is a bad idea full stop anyway :D).

As it is he will almost certainly be let off with a caution (provided nothing else is found) - but siezing it is all but mandatory. If nothing else to ensure the images are correctly destroyed.
That's true, I do use virtualenvwrapper and was inspired by it as well. I'm adding it to the README now.
As a father with a daughter, I can imagine I would be very distraught. But, in this specific situation, if my daughter took pictures of herself, of her own volition and sent them out, it's really her decision. She might also get a tattoo or ride a motorcycle or even want to program in Java. My job is to educate her, get her ready to make big decisions and teach her that her decisions have real consequences.
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Your argument is more of a logical gambit than anything. I like it.

Another logical gambit is the observation that it's totally legal, in most states, to look at a naked 16 year old in person. Or to actually have intercourse with her.
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I'd rather use couchsurfing.org. Not only is it free, but the host verification seems better.

That being said, Airbnb.com is a MUCH slicker website, and most consumers are more comfortable with a professional-looking site and with services they've paid for.
Aside that viewpoint, "Child Porn" in many statutes include fully clothed youngsters doing what is 'not the norm for that age group'.

Pretty much any image of people under 18 can be considered Child Porn if that jury thinks so.
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Not a bad article, but it doesn't go far enough. Most macroeconomists use false assumptions and bad models to make terrible predictions. It's hard to accept that a field like this can be dominated by people making the most basic of errors, so many observers can't bring themselves to reject these methods wholesale.
great post!

I think the kid puts it best (and ironically in an extremely mature way) when he talks about how a split second decision screwed it all up. We talk about underage and minors because we are a lot older - but forget that to them that age divide is non-existant. At home with the guys, testosterone going, recieve a text from a girl that sounds a bit sexy - hey we've all done it. Difference is where it's "allowed" for us - for them it, apprently, isnt. Leaving the images on screen or w/e is, obviously, very thick but I struggle to see a serious crime. The boy's parents approach seemed the best of the lot......

Yes, nail whoever actually posted them publicly online (and perhaps lightly reprimand the guy for leaving his inbox open). That is the real crime - regardless of the age of the victim.

(ps sorry about spamming this topic: strong opinions here :D shout if it's too much)
This comment went a little over my head - if you don't mind, can you point me to something that explains what continuity and authority are in this context? I'm also curious to learn how people used to lose their SSH keys because of continuity. Thanks.