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This may not replace AC, but I wonder if (in colder countries) it would help with dieting. Want to lose weight, just turn your thermostat down by a degree and use this device to help you adapt to it.
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I'm a grad student in the humanities so I have a vested interest but I would say that your comment may apply to some humanities but it is also the humanities that is where people are exploring the negatives of cultural domination and the value of diversity.

I'm in media studies and use cultural studies, gender studies, and anthropology (which likes to claim it is a "science" but I don't really consider it one). Those fields along with things like post-colonial studies are all about examining and tearing down the systems of cultural domination.

As someone who got my BA in English, I find it difficult to understand why some humanities departments are as large as they are at large research universities. Literacy and literature are very important but I don't know that we should be churning out very many people with phds in English.
Nobody else got the subtle sarcasm, but I did. No worries, man. But seriously, if it was the NSA, I like how quick everyone is to dismiss the notion!
I'll definitely check that out! I'm also thinking we may need to add support for a time-series database as Graphite does have its limitations.
My bad, a At the moment they have about 1.5% for a total of 30+M USD. Source:http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/25/fbi-say...
Sorry to say, but you're not really up to date here. Restrictions have been tightened and benefits cut in the last years:

> Arbeitslosengeld is an unemployment insurance money paying 60% (alone) to 66% (families) of former income for one or two years.

It's a maximum of 12 month unless your 50 or older. The minimum is at 6 month. The actual duration depends on how many month you were employed in the last 5 years. You need to have at least 12 month to be eligible at all. If you're on/off employments the times get summed up.

> Gruendungszuschuss

used to be a fine thing up until 2011 when it became voluntary from the government side. Before it used to be that any application that passed a very low bar would get accepted, now it depends.

It's actually your unemployment money plus a fixed amount for health insurance. The fixed amount gets paid for up to a year and can get extended.

You must be unemployed on the day that you apply. This is the reason I was unemployed for a single day - applied and founded the next day. If you're trying to convert a running side-job things get tricky. If your business fails and you're trying to get another Gründungszuschuss you'll not get it.

> Health, unemployment, and retirement insurance for self employed are voluntary.

Health insurance is mandatory nowadays. You can still choose which, but you must choose one.

> Last not least its possible to go to Hartz IV as a self employment.

You can try, but you'll probably fail. Hartz IV has a lot of obligations attached, such as having to go to job interviews when they send you an offer. That doesn't sit well with founding.

> Now the drawbacks. Health insurance for self employed assumes that you at least earn Euro2000

The first year they ask you for an estimate. It's true that you don't get your money back, so go for a low estimate. Don't lowball it though, there's a lot of freelance that get taken by surprise when they have to pay up at the end of the term. Rules for private health insurance might differ, I don't know about that. However, if you earn much less than 2000 Euro you're in trouble anyways, after taxes there's not much left of that. I always assume that ~ 40% of what I invoice is taxes.

> There is an infamous politician, called von der Leyen, who came up with the internet Stopp sign, and who is proposing forcing self employed into retirement insurance.

Actually, I hope that this push succeeds. There could be exemptions for the first (two?) years, but any self employed person that can't afford retirement savings is just kicking the can down the road.
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Sure, it might be optimal for the species; however, individuals are not going to adapt "for the good of the species" [1]. If your gas smelling genes have no disadvantages and they help you survive in situations where you might not otherwise, they might as well just spread to everyone and the "slightly different behavior" gets exhibited everywhere. In other words, it doesn't really matter if something is optimal for the survival of the species since no one is optimizing at that level.

As an aside, our capability for rationality means we have the ability to optimize for the survival of our species, but it doesn't seem like we do so.

[1] http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq....

Edit: I don't know how to quote so I removed it.
If you haven't read the book first, DO SO, it is worth it.
I agree, well expanded. The mechanism seems to be a lot safer in a liquid thorium reactor where the thorium drains away into a safety chamber in the event of a similar disaster.

I just wanted to point out the events the article portrays are incorrect and the writer could have conveyed this message without insinuating there was a meltdown due to the failure of the (wait he says fuel rods not control rods....) O well.
Reading this article made me impulsively buy the book again, except this time for Kindle (hard to pass up for $4). I think the last time I read it was as a young adult. Reading it now, it's still as gripping, but I wonder how much of our ageism - particularly in the tech industry - has to do with reading young-adult books not only in which the hero is very young, but that the ability to be "The One" is detected at an early age and in which anyone even in their teens is already past their prime (same goes for Star Wars)?

I say "tech industry" because many of us grew up loving sci-fi books more than the average kid. It's no fault of the authors, because of course to be appealing to young adults, the young adults have to be the saviors.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure he had his tongue firmly in his cheek. But point well made. Whenever this point comes up I think of a scene from 'the cube', is it a massive conspiracy or utter incompetence combined with some kind emergent process?
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> The same nation-state successfully operates the largest military organization in the world without accidentally detonating any nuclear bombs.

But this same large military organization did come "dramatically close", as "only one low-voltage switch" prevented what would have been an atomic explosion in North Carolina in 1961:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/20/usaf-atomic-bom...
Well since I just defended my dissertation on videogame players I would say they are already doing that. There is a small but growing body of work on videogames by humanities scholars. As far as the whole videogame "art" perspective, I would suggest looking up "ludology vs. narratology" for some of the literature on the "right" way to study videogames themselves.
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Yes this is true, I've been in that situation. Got an extra 20% increase.
You have not provided any proof that it actually performs as advertised.

Maybe it just says that for any and all inputs??
To me the question is, once the president learns of the incompetence of a subordinate, what action does he take? Does the president hold the subordinate accountable, and fire them? Or does the president just let them keep on bungling.

Rumsfeld eventually resigned, but Bush didn't push him out, meaning Bush owns Rumsfeld's failures. In my opinion, if Obama doesn't hold Sebelius and Clapper accountable, he owns their incompetence and misconduct.
So why was Symbolics first?
haha, Its hilarious, reminded me of this http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/350850_700b_v1.jp...
You mean like how that protects you at the airport?
Each variable is standardized to mean = 0, standard deviation =1. If you reject this as arbitrary, you are rejecting correlation analysis as a whole - this is exactly the same standardization done to two variables in bivariate correlation, extended to a multivariate data set.

PCA is a form of (or at least related to) correlation. With standardization the resulting transformation hihlights variables in the original data that are most highly correlated. Without standardization you're visualizing covariation. Unlike correlation, covariation is influenced by the magnitude of the variables.

By standardizing, you control for differences in the magnitude of the variables, and focus on their inherent variation instead.
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That's a snide dismissive. I encourage you to not be condescending to others for making statements against your preconceived notions. You may support ingesting fluoride for yourself, for whatever reason. I'd also encourage you to research it with a more skeptical and intellectual spirit, if only for the sake of your health.

How you treat others and yourself is up to you, of course. Beyond your personal choices, you'll then have a titanic task of providing basis for your support of fluoride as a medicine to the point where you justify medicating the rest of your community through its water supply.
Sad to see that "think.com" is so underused. Oracle would do well by me to donate it to one of the many educational initiatives for use today (think.com resolves to this http://www.thinkquest.org/en/)

Recently I went looking at the registration for love.com, but that was a relative newbie, being registered in 1998. How did it take so long for someone to snatch that up? (sadly, that too is being wasted by a corporation: AOL)
Related: http://www.inutile.ens.fr/estatis/password-security-checker/
I was expecting a Markov chain manipulating a huge array of aggregated Medium titles but as simple as the cotton candy titles of Medium are so is this script.
At the very least, I hope a successful submission is rewarded by a redirect to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awK0NrgHUbk
"Every single time I read something about what 'Satoshi Nakamoto' did in designing, implementing and securing Bitcoin, I grow more skeptical that one person, or even a small group of people, created Bitcoin. It is very difficult to believe that something this sophisticated was developed by anyone other than a well financed, possibly nation-state backed organisation."

Really, you think Bitcoin is that sophisticated? Can you even point to any clearly stated requirements, constraints, or security definition? The original Bitcoin paper did not even describe the system well enough for someone else to implement it; half the specification of the data formats was in the code itself. Nevermind the bad design; the original Bitcoin paper somehow failed to mention or even hint at (or even use the concepts from) the massive body of related work.

All the evidence points to Bitcoin being the work of an amateur, just one hobbyist who hacked together a system based on an idea he had. My guess is that it was a college student who was fascinated by cryptography and had read a few books. This is not necessarily bad -- the same is true of the Linux kernel, after all -- but to claim that Bitcoin is some kind of highly sophisticated system that must have been the work of a government team is just silly.
My clock DOES have a ten-minute snooze. I know previous clocks I've used had a 9-minute snooze, but currently when my alarm goes off at 6:00, I hit snooze a few seconds later, then a few seconds after the clock displays 6:10, it alarms again.
The grindr app is very popular in Barcelona and will let you chat with people nearby in seconds.
IBM, HP, Apple, Intel are right there. I didn't see Microsoft though.
yeah for speaker-independent ASR you typically need hundreds of speakers and thousands of hours of data.
It was an MIT AI Lab spinoff which helps explain why it was early. As to why it was earlier than, say, BBN though I have no idea.
How about a solar powered thermoelectric mesh woven into a short that cools my body off? Can I have a wired article if I build one, even when it doesn't work?
It's not dimensionally invalid if you remove the dimensions via normalization.
or used something like google reader or another RSS reader that used j/k to navigate items.
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The problem is that if you have a terrible customer holding the purse strings, no development methodology would save you. Maybe if CGI used an Agile process to develop this, they could've at least gotten a good start even though the requirements were horribly late and were changing all the way up to launch.

But we don't even know if they received enough requirements to start development before this year. We also don't know if the customer would've authorized them to start development before this year. Bad decisions and failings from the customer can doom projects like these very early in the process.

And even if CGI had used Agile and gotten as much done as they could, if you didn't get all of the requirements in time to implement them, you still probably couldn't launch. Politically HHS probably would not agree to launch without certain functionality completed. In a sane project if you're getting big requirements changes late in the game you'd either push them to another release or you'd push back the release date. Neither happened and predictably, disaster ensued.

Then there's the whole idiocy of allocating one week for full integration testing. Of course that test failed but again, no one sounded the alarm (at least not publicly).
I don't think the message is at all demeaning. It's a bit tongue in cheek/British sense of humour, definitely not a put down.
There is a reasonable, non-"culturist" answer to your question, which is that ASCII admits of a monospace typesetting in which each character is fully isolated in its own box and does not interact with any others across the box, nor are there any combining marks or any of the other vagueries of Unicode, and there's a very limited number of such characters. Possibly Hangul can claim that, I know Arabic and some other scripts can not. Other languages that can claim this include I believe all European languages (the accents are rare enough you can just represent them as characters of their own rather than combining marks) and Cyrillic. None of the ideographic languages can currently claim this, though I heard rumors that Japanese and Chinese are both experiencing some heavy pressure internally to go to an alphabetic subset of their language that actually would meet this criterion. (And not due to authoritative mandate, but rather the natural flow of language.)

It is a problem when you have languages with fundamentally different rules trying to share the screen, and that is also not a culturist observation; indeed one would think that denying this would be the culturist position.
Oh nice, tptacek defending Google again, no matter what.
Loans -- NO!

A common thing I see in most of Europe is that everyone assumes that loans can only be good. Few have seen how much they have destroyed people's lives as has been increasingly happening in the US. Add to that, most of Europe blacklists anyone who files for bankruptcy from ever starting a company again.

If anything, follow the example of UK's SEIS program, which requires fully at-risk investments (not loans or any kind of liquidation priority.)

Loans are a terrible idea, a huge step in the wrong direction.
Sigh. A 2005 parody of new-media bro idiocy, come to life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06AS8SiY3rw#t=54
I think as we age, we need to stop seeing ourselves as the Luke Skywalkers and more as the Ben Kenobis.
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at least we know that's it is the most interested, funded and staffed to do it.
And because Thorium cannot easily be made into weapons, the military will not fund development of the use of it as a fuel - nor will it expend the political will to make the construction of a thorium-reactor possible. And so we keep using Uranium. The political hindrances of using Thorium turn out to be much greater than the political hindrances of using Uranium.
I think it shows that contemporary shell programming never was exposed to as much malicious misuse as common web-apps. I mean "program ★foo★" is basically equivalent to "SELECT ★ FROM table WHERE foo = '$bar'" when provided with arbitrary, user-provided input. And you see a lot of this in typical shell-scripts. And for output messing up our terminal, no one ever uses "<? print($input) ?>" to put things in HTML pages without escaping it.

So, yes, if you are writing scripts that should be resilient to all malicious or accidentaly provided input, it's a lot of work, and you better have code for these common operations (input, output of user-provided filenames) in all applications that try to do useful things with filenames. And probably it means that you cannot use programs not providing a "--" parse-stopper or put the data on the end of a "ssh" command-line.

And there will always be an application confused by some random other seemingly innocuous character that the kernel "still" allows in filenames.

So the solution probably is not to limit the allowed characters, and also not to try to fix the useful and working parts of shells, but to augment them with the equivalents of html_escape() and mysql_prepare("...?...")/mysql_escape() where needed (to stay in the realm of SQL and web-apps).
> but I also recognize that the end goal of technological progress is to allow us to experience more culture by augmenting and facilitating our lives

For you, anyway. For me (a theoretical computer scientist/mathematician), more advanced technology is its own reward. I don't really care what the results are applied to.
Totally agree. It's a shame there isn't a rule in place whereby domains need to be used or handed back.
"The oldest and most common Super Hero Origin. The easiest way to turn an Ordinary High School Student into the only thing preventing The End of the World as We Know It"

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It amazes me how often the Mythical Man Month situation comes up in government IT. Sometimes people even KNOW that adding developers to a late project won't work but they have to be seen as 'taking action' so they do it anyway.
There's gotta be a way to create a site where you can catch up on stuff that is often resubmitted to reddit and HN (and even digg!). I don't know how one can do that without human moderators or expensive and difficult AI.

People who have never seen this list before find it interesting. People who have been on reddit and HN see it every other month. Some way to please both groups so everyone is happy would be nice.
For those who are interested, here's the story behind it - http://blog.cloudmagic.com/2013/10/30/the-cloudmagic-story/

Love to get your feedback.
This is of course an old joke from bash.[1]

[1]http://www.bash.org/?244321
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Remarkable book.

I remember coming across the book as a teenager, having vaguely heard of it as 'good', and then staying up until 5 AM reading it.

I can think of no more than a couple other books that had this effect on me.
>Without Sun, HP, Digital and Microsoft on board Linux is dead on arrival.

I think the main reason H.264 is so popular is because of the absolutely fantastic x264 encoder. If anybody delivers something radically better (Daala promises to do) it will gain traction. See Opus. I listen only to podcasts by very technical people, and Opus took them in a storm, even without the MPEG LA.
I believe there is a Microsoft April Fools video with this exact theme.
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I also don't know how the ending could be half as good as the book? Also I feel like I spoil the whole thing by saying the ending is good because when you read it with that knowledge you might get let down.

Strange the BEST ending totally ruined by having an expectation of a awesome ending.
Yes, of course. You are correct. Saves even more logic real estate. :-)
You were arguing that the humanities were a tool for cultural domination, though, that cultural domination was somehow among (or even the main) role of humanities studies.

My examples don't show that the humanities have any role in exacerbating the reality of some cultures dominating others, though. How does it help cultural domination if American, Christian students learn that none of Jesus' ideas were actually original to him?

Certainly, East/West is arbitrary, as is whether "North" is on top of the globe or on the bottom (an inverted globe is just as valid). You can study things like this in the humanities, whereas you'll never even think about them if you take a technical track. You even mention above that there are large branches of sociology and history dealing with this -- so are the humanities enforcing Orientalism, or actually combating it?

Final point, though it's more minor - about this:

> Before the acceptance of French into humanities, it was just a language evolving with its speakers. After that it was given the status of "official", with official grammar to maintain purity. But who decided which vernacular was pure and which wasn't? The powers that be. The privileged noble who had time for it. While it resulted in better economic opportunities for everyone (while requiring no effort from those who already spoke the pure form), it also quashed the cultural diversity.

See the Académie française (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise) -- French has not been a language evolving naturally with its speakers since the 1630s. There certainly are external forces pushing the French to adopt more loanwords like "email" and so on, but what's cause would you point to for that? Surely not French literature and language programs in other countries...? If anything, me studying Camus and Voltaire introduces more French speakers who use classical French, rather than adopting to a naturally-evolving language (in spite of the Académie française...).

Honestly, this is part of what I mean about learning to support a reasonable argument. It's not effective to construct examples to "support" a point you've already committed to. You'll do better taking a reasonably representative set of specific examples of a phenomenon, discarding your earlier assumptions, and look for the best explanation. That's your new starting point.
Apparently the feature is widespread:

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http://www.ssltools.com/cert_key_match

https://certificatesssl.com/ssl-tools/match-ssl-details.html

http://www.mobilefish.com/services/privatekey_match_certific...

http://sslchecker.com/matcher
Well this would be middle school
There are hardly any infos on how to install the signalmaster, and I'm a complete noob regarding node.js - is there a guide or something?
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I would say that your argument is one that can be fixed by a number of means:

1. Removing the local copy of the DB.

2. Removing the need to use MongoDB.

#1 will let you have your responsive clients while #2 will let your application scale. We've got 2.5TB in MongoDB and I can't wait to get away from it for our use case.
darkMail ~~ blackMail?
looks like a PR disaster to me :/
And why is it a pure ads page now? Is this the future for every site out there?