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>if you don't care about
understanding the nature of
existence, the distinction doesn't
matter

Okay, I think I understand your position now. (Though I'm not sure if the lack of belief in objective truth is as common as you claim.) Sorry be so persistent but I have to ask: suppose you do care about the nature of existence; how do you tell if it's one or the other or which one is more likely?
The Rich-Enough don't actually vote to change things, they buy politicians and make deals behind the scenes.
Of course, the trouble with AirBnb is that it means all the people who think that "On Holiday" is secret dickhead code for "Be As Loud As You Like" do end up in regular apartment blocks. There may not be so many of them as in a hotel, but the actual residents have to deal with them all year.
Yes, I'm referring to the GPS on the iPhone. Of course it's ultimately a software limitation, but from the consumer/non-jailbroken point of view, it's baked into the product. No app can override it.
Of course, users can also simple adopt a modern browser, rather than updating their system. Additionally, if Microsoft doesn't support modern browsers for old operating systems this may deteriorate the Windows experience, which may lead to desktop/laptop conversions to Ubuntu.
The cartels can employ all the hackers and torture all the bloggers they want but it will still be very hard to find sellers on SilkRoad. You will need to break Tor, trace BitCoins, trace deliveries, or trick sellers. This takes national or even international resources (NSA, FBI, Interpol, etc.). And they will have to do this in the US and Europe not Mexico.
Try the Fibonacci sequence:

0.01, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.08, 0.13, 0.21

It generates a beautiful wave [1].

There's also this interesting property that you can use any part of the sequence, and it will be the same wave [2].

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/89fg14dvsi3wuox/Captura%20de%20tel...

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/yu05xs10tauumgu/Captura%20de%20tel...
XP has 6 months life left, after that I suspect most 'enterprise' web app developers will drop support for IE9, I know we certainly will be.
See also: personal blocklists for search, which STILL aren't available for Firefox.
Are you talking about the app going unnoticed on the phone? Or some other place where icons need to be distinguishable?

So on my iPhone I only keep the apps I use and I know where they are. I don't download random apps so nothing really goes unnoticed. The only problem would be if an icon looked very similar to another icon. Only then would I not appreciate the design of the icon. On the first page of my home screen I have Chrome,Calendar,Gmail, Flickr and Safari all with white backgrounds. I also have Safari To Go, Facebook,Tweetbot,Trello and Mail with varying types of blue backgrounds. The logo/branding on each is unique enough for them to all look significantly different.
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Nope. I do it all the time.

The start/stop backup has to be issued on the master. It doesn't look like the standby gets the backup label (at least on 9.0, may have changed since). So you'd have to be reading from the master's data directory.

Alternately, you could stop the secondary and pull from there. But that interrupts the replication, and then the secondary would have to catch up, which might be hard depending on your level of usage.

feel free to email or chat my un on freenode.
That sums up the difference much better than I did - thanks.
Things it got wrong: my parent status

It got my parental status wrong as well (at least I'm not aware of any kids!). However several of my twitter friends are parents and we've discussed their kids on severe occasions, I wonder if the algorithm is misinterpreting those connections and conversations.
> It is up to the society

What is this society that you refer to. Surely it can be the people of the nation, because only 30%-ish of the population votes, so the majority can't be said to be in agreement (I also never recall a nation wide vote on the legality of drugs). Are you referring to politicians' decisions? They are an even smaller part of the overall population and don't even represent the people that they are said to (Money in politics etc). Plus, even if 99% of the entire population were to decide that these drugs are dangerous, why is it then ok to violently stop the 1% from doing something that only harms themselves? If that is just, would it the be ok if 51% of people decided that all soda was dangerous and banned that too? What about cheese burgers, we, as a society, have to stop obesity right? What about cars, which kill more people than drugs ever will?

The idea of the morality of democracy is just another version of the might makes right argument.
Thanks! I'm actually sort of addicted to long-form journalism. Here's a list of some of my favorites: http://esd.io/worthreading/
“Beautiful. Unethical. Dangerous.”

— Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight
Basically, Hive is incredibly inefficient. Hive works by taking apart the HiveQL query and turning it into a series of Hadoop MR steps. A complex hive query may have many such steps, and for each one data must be read from HDFS, processed, and written back to HDFS. For most queries, the vast majority of your time will be spent just doing IO. Hadoop is also very, very slow to start up tasks (> 1 minute), so when you have a lot of them that can come to dominate your total run time.

Impala, Drill, etc. avoid all those unnecessary reads and writes by implementing the querying logic directly, rather than by compiling to Map Reduce.

Shark [0] is an interesting counterpoint. It takes essentially the same approach as Hive but on Spark instead of Hadoop, and achieves similar or better performance than the more "direct" implementations.

[0] http://shark.cs.berkeley.edu
Well hopefully zero, since Microsoft gives away free software to view Word docs (plus other apps for Excel and PPT): http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4

In practice, I'm sure lots of copies are sold for the reason you stated.
Google doesn't have monopoly power in the office or e-mail hosting markets, so nothing they do with their apps product can be an abuse of monopoly power. You don't have to play by different rules until you have that power, not while you're aspiring to it. They're not pushing #1 in the browser market either for that matter. Chrome is running on around 1 in 3 devices, and has been losing share to Internet Explorer the past few months.

http://www.w3counter.com/trends

http://gs.statcounter.com/
> because only 30%-ish of the population votes,

The choice to let other people choose for you is still a choice.
Whatever you do, never use the attorney recommended by your investors.
Theoretically, if you were paranoid, you could consume only thoroughly-cooked foods as a defense against poisoning. So a low-dose poison that survives cooking defeats that defense.
Purely cosmetic move. At that level, that "tech guy" is probably 3-5 levels above any real key decision makers and managers involved in the actual implementation. Blaming this on him is like blaming Sepp Blatter for Barcelona's under-13 team's shortcomings. Having worked on federal software projects not even half this large there's a lot of layers. A lot of buffers.

and btw, "head tech guy"? Really? Is the Washington Post a serious news organization?
You know that based on which press? Now imagine what the UK press would have said of the founding fathers had their plot failed.
The East Bay is very close. Anyone getting funded in Oakland/Emeryville?

My friends in Portland and New York seem to think things aren't quite as "crazy" out there.
No, no they are not.
Deserves may be the wrong term. Worker output is maximized at 8h*5 days/week. This is a lesson learned in the late XIX century that is so counter intuitive that it must be relearned by every management generation. So, yes, current knowledge points to workers "deserving" 8h work leaving the rest for life balance, where "deserve" means "needs" or "performs better at" or "maximizes output at".

In the factory floor, this has been quantitatively measured and is solid. In creative jobs, quantification is a lot harder, so proof isn't as solid. I can argue for longer hours in creative jobs. I can as easily argue for shorter than 40h weeks. In the absence of further solid proof, the best option is probably to stick with 40h weeks.

So, leaving aside the rant about evils in the world and other straw men, Nature does act that way.

There's a good summary of arguments and references here: http://legacy.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-less...
Thanks for your response. Your 1 in 4 figure seems plausible, but I'd be curious to see a source (perhaps it's in your mind map? I read that article of yours and immediately downloaded FreeMind; I'm looking forward to trying it out!). I agree that basic knowledge about drugs can go a long way in terms of harms reduction, like knowing why it's bad to take excessive prescription opioids that contain APAP.
As a lawyer I am always interested in sites that want to try to change the legal profession in some way. My thoughts: Do you vet the attorneys in some way, ie, require a bar license number to become a lawyer on the site? Usually on the consumer side these sites just turn into a race for the bottom price, with no real regard for the quality of the representation that will be given. Frankly that is a problem for all of these types of sites, it should be a concern for you in terms of attracting quality lawyers to the site, a quality lawyer with a quality practice will not necessarily want to get into a position of competing on lower and lower prices.
Maybe they could keep us safe instead?
> Also curious: why did his wife refuse to permit an autopsy?

Islam has fairly strict burial customs, and many Islamic clerics have outlawed autopsies. It isn't a universal belief, but likely figured into the equation...
Validating underdeveloped or untapped markets
I am working on a new startup and one of the issues I am struggling with is that the market I am targeting (online designs) is not well developed yet. I mean, I want to untap the potential of an industry that currently is dominated by players that charge hundreds of dollars per design (and that take weeks) making it accessible only to hundreds of thousands (not the tens of millions I think my product could reach).

Anyone has any idea on how to validate untapped or not very well developed markets? My gut feeling tells me there is a latent demand for this kind of product: designs (logos, patterns) that are cheap and can be created really fast by any user on mobile devices. My interviews with customers before product launch point into the right direction.

A good analogy to understand my point would be the iOS/Android ecosystems which ended up to be much larger than the potential smartphone market in 2007. Customers, at that time, didn't know how essential smartphones would be until they experienced an iPhone. The same happened to the iPad. Everybody was surprised except Jobs.

As I am not Steve Jobs and I can't predict the future, any feedback is appreciated. Basically I've been following the best practices and talking to customers but which kind of data would be enough to avoid a false positive?

Thanks much.
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Albeit we (2 people, a couple with children) are still small but growing on the SaaS side, I found that mixing freelancing and products works fairly well for us.

I think what made it work is 1) reduced expenses by relocating to a less expensive place and leaving frugally, 2) fine control over our cash-flow and balance between freelancing and product.

I recently shared this little calculator which helps do the math:

https://www.wisecashhq.com/goodies/bootstrapper-calculator

PS: it is still hard and requires a lot of focus and organization, but works and is sustainable long-term (we started working on this in 2011).

PPS: I have enough time to play with my kids and do a bit of yoga daily, to give a data point :-)
The problem with IE9 was released two years ago, it's last update was more than a year ago and I don't think it will get any more updates that are not security updates (I don't have time to look now but the updates it got were probably just security updates).
Do you mean you'll drop support for IE8? XP never supported IE9 as far as I know.
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What is open source and why do I feel so guilty?
AGPL would be perfect for such a product.
if both are equally secured there is no rubbing.

and yes i know corning glass decision is only because it does not scratch.

my main point thought is about extending a fragile glass like corning to the corners.
I can not recommend CloudFlare enough. They offer a LOT of services for FREE! I have never had any problems and they use 2 factor auth.
And it has a very short half-life compared to many other radioactive agents.
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With safety equipment I tend to prefer simpler designs. A lump of polystyrene in a shell is pretty good, and doesn't have loose wires or flat batteries to worry about. It's a lot cheaper too.

But the problem with traditional helmets is that they tend to be built to pass a safety standard. Some people want the helmet that is much better than that standard.

So it's nice to see someone experimenting with new techniques.
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Is there a mailing list I can sign up to for this?
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What if you land on a pointy surface ... gravel, sand or sharp stones? Sure it's good protection, but let's think this through first.

(I am convinced that regular bicycle helmets are crap, as there are no decent standards or crash tests being done with them. The least I would call an improvement is a downhill helmet, a motorcycle helmet would be preferred as speeds for severe crashes are quite similar.)
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It did end up bringing them even more press coverage
What you want is an additive synthesizer. Usually these contain a lot of fairly high level 'helpers' rather than control over every individual sine wave, because while 8 sine waves are fun to play with full sound sculpting requires more, and applying envelopes, LFOs and other modulation sources to 64 (or 128 or 356 or 512...) sine waves rapidly becomes tedious.

You could easily make one with (or download a premade one for) Reaktor or Synthmaker (now called Flowstone DSP) or Max/MSP. Kyma is another system for doing so, but very expensive as it's hardware based. Pd/Puredata is free, albeit ugly. Various plugins exist, from VSTi's to rack extensions for Propellerheads' Reason. If you're feeling brave/patient and you want to do it in a hardware instrument, then you can get hold of a Kawai K5000 for only a few hundred $. If you're code-inclined (ugh* ) then try Supercollider or Csound. A related but slightly orthogonal techniques is spectral manipulation using tools such as Metasynth (Mac, $$$) or Coagula (Win, free). Neither of these latter two have seen an update for a long, time, reflecting the general lack of popularity of this technique.

(All these Italicized words are well-known product names, BTW that should come at or near the top in any search engine)

Also, check out http://amaranthaudio.com/ for Cycle which is new and impressive, though a bit clunky last time I checked. I'm hardware based but this is the first instrument I've seen in a while that could draw me back to the PC. I'm sure there's a bunch of iPad apps too, but not having an iPad I only check that platform occasionally.

Additive synthesis is a lot of fun but because there are so many harmonics to play with it's very easy to go astray and end up making clangorous noises that are not particularly musical or natural sounding; of course this makes them an automatic go-to for sci-fi noises, but the problem is that everything sounds unnatural in much the same way, if you see what I mean - the brain says 'ah, that's a very unnatural arrangement of harmonics' and gives up for all but the simpllest cases, much as it decides that poorly-designed FM sounds are quite noisy or that distorted sounds certainly involve a lot of clipping. It's still interesting territory for any sound nerd to explore, but don't expect m/any of your friends/loved ones to share your enthusiasm for such esoteric timbres.

* writing code is a rather masochistic approach to producing sounds IME.
AIDS eh? How convenient...

Poisoning is not only more plausible, but also seems to be better supported by evidence now.
I'm very happy that at DHS CBP, I don't have to support IE<10 anymore as of a short while ago. It's announcements like these from major names in the industry that help us convince IT folks in the fed to drop support for the old and busted and upgrade to the new hotness...
This scares me more than reassures me. Given the US government's history of response to questions like these, I suspect this message will get through, minus the "without stifling innovation" part.
Of course.

Silicon Prairie is booming right now. Kansas City, Nebraska, Iowa, etc all have people both investing in companies and starting companies.

Invest Nebraska, for example, will give you $50,000 if you provide 50% from other sources (So you'd need to find $25,000 on your own before they'll give their $50K to your company. )
Now there’s a bug bounty program for the whole Internet
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I love this. Very reasonable position. The last 2 versions is very reasonable in my opinion. This is common on the mobile app side, developers only supporting the last couple of major OS versions.

And because this is Google they have the weight to make Microsoft think hard about their policies of abandoning their own customers.
I think (hope) most people are making those decisions based on actual analytics data and customer needs versus maintenance cost. I still get a fair bit of IE7 traffic, and there hasn't been a "good" reason to run that for quite a while.
It's sacrificing the expected latency of replication.

Incidentally, if you're on 9.3 and your HW can handle it, take a look at parallelizing the pg_dump. If you've got a relatively fast disk subsystem and many cores, you can get a speedup. I've found it tends to make the dumps O(biggest table) instead of O(sum of all tables).

(It's native on 9.3, I've hacked up some scripts that do it for 9.0, but they don't get a consistent snapshot, so I do it during scheduled downtime. OTOH, the dump/restore is ~6x faster OMM/OMD, so the downtime is that much shorter)
This is why HN should also display subdomains in submissions. This is a blog of a random guy, which redirects to another domain, but gets most of the attention because of heroku.com at the end. There are many apps being rejected by Apple each day because of violating their ToS, and I fail to see why this story would be more relevant than others.
Can it run MongoDB?
Not on the home screen of your phone, but before it is downloaded. That's when you need to differentiate yourself the most IMO. Also, that's why we are not using a dumbbell on the icon (like 99% of other fitness apps). Thanks for your input.
What is wrong with all the various standards? Are they just not rigorous enough? Or is there some other problem?

Here's a quick list of different information I found http://www.bhsi.org/index.htm#standards
Helmets do not do as much as you think. They are not really very good for the types of accidents that bicycles have. For example, see: http://www.bicycling.com/senseless/index.html
I bet they've more than thought about it. I bet they have data that shows them their customers care more about using Google Docs than they care about using IE9, and will switch browsers.
There's a bit of a mischaracterization of the way 2 dimensional Fourier transforms operate on images in this post. The 2D DFT (or DCT rather) doesn't deal with anything as complex as tracing shapes on a 2D plane like seen in the video. What it does is treat each 1 dimensional line of the image as a signal/waveform, with the pixel intensity as amplitude. Fourier-family transforms are separable, so the 2D (and ND) case is equivalent to the transform of each line followed by a transform along the resulting columns. So the actual representation that arises from this looks like so, with each image representing the corresponding cosine component: http://0x09.net/img/dct32.png (here grey is 0)

Visually most of the sinusoidal components here are zero or nearly so. However if we scale them logarithmically, we'll see that it's actually not so: http://0x09.net/img/dct32log.png

What transform coders like JPEG do is reduce the precision of these components, causing many of them to become zero. Which is good for the entropy coder, and mostly imperceptible to us. Of course JPEG operates on 8x8 blocks only * rather than a whole image like here.

It's hard to imagine this as an image, so here's a progressive sum starting from the second term, which essentially demonstrates an inverse DCT: http://0x09.net/img/idct32.png

mind that 0 is adjusted to grey in this rendering, and the brightness of the result is not an artifact of the transform.

It's easier to understand what goes on with these transforms if you can visualize things in terms of the basis functions. Which in the case of a 32x32 image like above would be http://0x09.net/img/basis.png (warning: eye strain).

All the examples above pertain to the DCT, partly because of JPEG and partly so I could avoid getting phase involved, but the principles apply equally to the other transforms in the family.

* although recent versions of libjpeg can use other sizes
This would be awesome if it had a detector of coughing patterns indicative of water entering lungs (quite distinctive if you think of it): it would be selling like hotcakes to parents of young children learning to swim or going to camp.
As someone with no experience with this, any resources you'd recommend on how to set this up?
Haha, I have this thread now. GJG! Good Job Google! <3
Yes, that was the only thing I was missing. I'm tempted to adapt this UI though, it's lovely design.
See my link above. Normal helmets do nothing to prevent concussions, which is one of the major outcomes of a bike crash.

Stop broken skulls, great. But concussions are still very possible, and current helmets do not do much for it.
Blender: http://www.blender.org/

Just because it seems like a cool project in need of more help. It really does depend on your interests, of course.
You r just shooting your own foot
There's a triangle wave preset already available. Right click on the page to select it.
It uses values: 0.75, 0, 0.083, 0, 0.03, 0, 0.015, 0
I also don't think a company as big as Google would make such an important decision without considering the consequences. This decision wasn't made on a whim, they've clearly given it some thought.
right tool for the job. Djangoś ORM is great for simple stuff. And it works with the admin interface (which is worth a lot). If You need something complex enough, use raw SQL.

The admin was too much to give up to swap the ORM to SQLAlchemy for me.
I'd love to be able to stop supporting IE 8, the gap between 8 and 9 is almost as big a jump as 6 to 7, but I don't see that happening until Windows 7 support is no longer offered. Windows 7 came with IE 8 preinstalled and no automatic updates from that to higher versions. People are still buying Windows 7 machines.

Dropping IE 9 support isn't even on the horizon for me.

N.B. The company I work for sells to US k-12 schools.
Emotional pain is critical for empathy. Unless you believe in the purely rational theory of human behavior, people have to feel what will be emotionally painful for others before acting in a way that minimizes emotional pain.

Physical pain is also important. It keeps you from doing stupid things that end up with you getting hurt.

Both mental and physical pain can be modulated/reduced somewhat through psychological training (one form of which would be meditation). I think making pain reduction any easier could cause more problems than it solves.
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