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I don't think that's unique to adult industry though...

I know plenty of people in programming business who are depressed. Read some stories about gaming company death marches.

Financial business is also notorious for numbness and meaninglessness it often engenders in its participants.

Let's not fail to mention the innumerable hundreds of thousands who are stuck in menial/warehouse/retail/tech support jobs that offer little to no mental nourishment. "Wage slave" is a common term for a reason.

I think pretty much any industry can numb and dehumanize people who are not careful to build and maintain their relationships and social structures. I would not expect to be best friends with all my coworkers, and I would feel my life to be severely one-sided if I only had friends among coworkers.
Great post. It's like maths, you have to check your answers. Validation sets are a way of doing that.

I've been getting into ML lately for my startup, it's a personal finance system that will learn your habits and use that to predict things in the future. It's been overwhelming attempting to move into this domain of software engineering (so much so that I am currently just hard coding certain important patterns and using basic statistical modelling instead) but it is absolutely fascinating!
For this particular example, the creators of the OS has thought of the function, and implemented it.

But what about a slightly different one? E.g.

I have two folders, each a bunch of files. Are there any files that are not in both folders?
Yup. The only part banned from sale or purchase of an AK is the receiver. If you can make one, then it's all good. You can even source all of the other parts except the receiver, if you wish.
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Located in Albuquerque, seeking a remote position with flexible hours (doing a welding certification for a year, looking to work full time or close to that but I can't do a typical 9-5). Available fulltime for December (on winter break), then 20 hours a week starting January.

- +5 years experience working as a PHP dev. I work in Javascript and Python as well. I excel at large sized backend projects, but happy to take care of the frontend as well.

- +8 years running Linux exclusively. Very comfortable around a command line. Happy to set up, secure, troubleshoot and maintain any server. Lots of CentOS production level experience. I've saved the day more than once diagnosing and fixing app performance issues that were a combination of server and code layer problems :)

- Fluent in English, Dutch and Spanish. Euro expat with permanent residency in the US.

- Not a drone, always happy to contribute ideas and to respectfully offer alternatives without being a buttmunch about it or losing sight of project leadership/track.

- Good communicator, I have a good knack for translating nerd speak into understandable English (or Spanish or Dutch). Not afraid of people either, you could actually put me in a room with customers or the marketing department without resulting in long awkward silences.

- Experience working in teams or solo, equally happy doing either one. I can be relied on to work without for months on end if needed without wasting too much time on supervision, but I'm never afraid to ask to feedback or info when needed.

Looking preferably for a small team or a single position. Looking for something long term, not the job hopper type.

Happy to provide code samples and/or do a test run together.
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I suspect "possible" here is not used in the absolute sense, but more just "it would be a total pain in the ass in C, whereas Lisp excels at it".

After all, anything is "possible" with hand-written assembly code, too, but realistically speaking, it's not practical.
I think you might have missed the point of the statement "programs that write programs", it goes far beyond a toy quine.

You can't do it in C unless you also implement a compiler or evaluator. And even then generating any sort of reasonably complex C code with C would be highly painful to say the least.

You can possibly nearly get there with C macros but I would argue it's not C writing C there, rather a text preprocessor.
> How do you have legalized prostitution without allowing for sexual coersion? Even regulated, people will still enter into the trade who are being coerced by circumstance: starving children, foreclosure, medical expenses...

These are effectively answered by the broader liberal project: no one should ever be starving, homeless, or denied medical attention. When you take away these subtler forms of coercion, you have a far easier time finding plausible the notion that the sex worker in front of you is doing it willingly.

On top of this, our puritanism is being slowly--glacially slowly, but still--eroded away. Once that is sufficiently weak, we can make the industry more transparent and accountable, making it possible to do sex work safely, legally, and because you want to, without risk of future stigma.

We're not going to fix it overnight, but the various projects are moving along and a surprising amount of them are already in motion: none of the things I've said are unknown to mainstream awareness, regardless of the average person's opinion on them, and the arc of history is positive from a global perspective.
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How do you feel about this?[1] I scoured the internet looking for something to the contrary, but couldn't find anything that positively attributed your quote to Aristotle, or even anything that suggests it predated Shaw's.

[1] http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100823190727AA...
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Interestingly enough, the HN ranking algorithm takes a bit of an opposite stance, punishing posts that generate too much discussion in proportion to upvotes. Both approaches are valid, depending on what your goals for the community are.

HN's system would rather quickly derank a post that is potentially inflammatory and keep good content on top rather than using comments as a heuristic for community involvement.
Not just law. That's what an education means - you are educated, if you have a broad general knowledge of just about everything. Plus some specilization in your field. Education these days seems to focus too narrowly on the specialization, without the general knowledge.
and in Europe as "the Ugly Red Book That's A Sensible Size"
Not exactly. The strong-form efficient market hypothesis, for instance, suggests that the value of something in a unregulated and truly public market would fully capture all information in existence about a company.

The market is therefore a reflection of ACTUAL value, not anticipated value. The actual value.

Again this is a hotly debated hypothesis, but what the value of a company on a public market actually means is most definitely up for debate.
I don't particularly recognise any of the registrars. Does anyone have any experience they'd like to share, to help us choose?

101Domain, Inc.
Ascio Technologies
DOMAINREGISTRY.DE
EBrandServices
eNom
EuroDNS
Interlink Co., Ltd.
Key-Systems
Mailcub SAS
MarkMonitor
Name.com
Openprovider
Super Registry Inc.
He's talking about macro in Lisp and C. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_(computer_science)
The macro in Lisp provides you with much more convenience (and power?) than print statement.
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This. The Mission is a giant game of musical chairs, and it's weird how anyone thinks the people who have only been there since the 1950s deserve to have it forever.
An argument for the proposition that this behavior was intended is that if the purpose of sign was to get the sign for order, then it was actually entirely unnecessary and they could have just done something like this:

order = log(max(abs(s), 1)) * ((s) / max(abs(s), 1))

I'd prefer the benefit of the doubt, especially given their previous responses.
Competition does force the provider to give you a better service. But most of the time it’s just that the provider decides to be awful. But that’s not always the case.

About four years ago I used to live in the Bronx, and the only thing in my area was Optimum, and the service was almost as good as now.

It's about the company caring for the customers.
The guidelines are wrong.
eNom is pretty well known
Thank you. I've skimmed the article a couple of times now, and for some reason, misread it into thinking that they were already paying for use.

I've been wondering what the todo was about, and this explains it, or at least partially helps understand the motivation.
That sounds like misplaced confidence, good sir. Your claims of inadequacy are likely inadequate. You're probably a genius.
There's a new class of site that's essentially a hosting platform--anyone can use the site to host a show out of their own home, use the streaming infrastructure, billing, tips system, private shows, pay-per-access pics/vids, etc.

Provided you can manage to stay anonymous, seems like a safe way to be a sex worker without violence/coercion.
Hi guys, I'm Josh Landy, one of the founders of Figure 1. As a practicing physician, I am (very) sensitive to the need for an unobstructed workflow. We are hoping to build a really strong product, and suggestions like these keep us on the right track. Thanks for bringing it up.
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If you're interested in learning a bit more about this topic and want to learn about the lifes of those immigrants, read:

1) http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/arbeiterstrich-in-muench...

2) http://www.tz.de/muenchen/stadt/aufstand-geschaeftsleute-geg...

3) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeiterstrich

4) http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.im-hauptbahnhofvi...

5) http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/tid-34337/armutszuwanderun...

These all deal with the situation in Munich, but it's the same in Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and other German cities.
The fact is that oil prices affect significantly your purchasing power across every product you buy. There is no reason why you should remove energy costs since there are a significant cost in most of what we buy. And the price of oil does not double every year, it's been rather stable most of the time.

Again, if moderate inflation is that good for the economy, why do they need to tweak the numbers? (rhetorical question, the answer is obvious).
Yes, I agree, sadly. That is what this country has come too. Democracy failing, and two parties have too much power and in essence it makes no difference because they are the same business party. The nominees are usually just pawns playing a role for personal gain. But it shows that things need to get changed. Best example is that in Georgia you need to fill out 12 pages of paper to vote. They do this to intimidate people who can not read from voting (usually the 'black' vote) where as in NJ they don't do this. Elections being a joke and a government agency trying to corrupt it is another thing all together.
'Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber' - Plato
I had not realised that. Thanks.
> For example, the Ptolemaic system could approximate the movement of the planets to any degree if you added enough "wheels within wheels" but since these were "the wrong wheels", the necessary wheels grew without bounds to achieve reasonable approximation over time.

That would be an example of over-constraining your model (i.e. imposing the arbitrary constraint of a stationary Earth).
I apologize for the miscommunication in my post. I am certainly not an advocate for the Iraq war or the line of thinking you're criticizing. I was hoping to propose a follow-up thought experiment to GP's in order to provoke discussion around the fact that the US is continually engaging in such inadequate behavior.
Yeah, yeah don't talk politics:

The 4th amendment was created during a time that had a recent memory of forced quartering of British soldiers. A rifle was seen as part of a citizen's duty and contribution to the national defense when the fledgling country consisted of a few states on the Eastern-most shore. That's a far different time given today's political climate and the electoral college, the scenario for a charismatic dictator is just about nil. Canada is not going to invade and USM won't suddenly disappear. Beyond a rifle in wilderness, a pistol is more of a liability in most practical instances. Someone regularly practiced and cautious may have a tiny marginal benefit in an extreme situation... But how often do those occur? Cities are safer than ever. Worse case the weapon could be used against the owner, or accidentally discharged due to mistake identity: both liabilities. If a person intentionally chooses to keep a weapon where legal, they better be at the range at least twice a month or it's pure irresponsibility.

(I'm both a member of the NRA and SAR.)
I disagree completely that they're potentially worthless experiences geared only for the 1 in N who embrace the subject. The content of the material is in many cases mostly irrelevant - it's the fundamentals behind that content that matters. Claiming that it 'doesn't matter' because you don't actively utilise it in your job later on misses the point entirely. For example:

Maths - teaches logic and critical analysis of problems. No one cares if you don't remember SOHCAHTOA or the like. If you can think about using knowns to resolve an unknown, you've got the main thrust of maths classes as they stand for non-Engineering, non-Science people.

Physical Ed - teaches healthy habits, ideally. No one cares if you remember the rules to field hockey or rugby or learn to run faster. The idea is that you learn/are exposed to healthy exercise habits and (ideally) healthy nutrition/etc. if it includes that too.

Music - teaches quite similar stuff to maths, in fact. No one cares if you can't re-draw the circle of fifths, however understanding the patterns in music and why they exist (e.g.: why you don't tie the 2nd and 3rd beats of the 4/4 time signature) gives you insight in to the mathematical underpinnings of music and lets you appreciate it more to boot. Not to mention playing music engages and assists the brain areas used at maths, problem solving, etc.

Art - You learn to understand and appreciate design better. You learn to appreciate culture. No one cares if you can't remember what primary colours to blend to produce a certain new colour, but understanding the role of shadows for contrast, or vertical lines in e.g.: paintings of architecture, help you appreciate the world around you.

Science - Again like maths, logical intuition and problem solving. e.g.: for physics, no one cares that you can't recite the equations of linear motion, but understanding why something goes up and then falls down, intuitively, is a good way to teach critical analysis of problems.

The second benefit of all of this is that you then also get exposed to this content, which means you get a general introduction to those fields. As you say, it helps bring the fruit to bear whereby people find out they enjoy/have talent in something, but additionally it means that because you sat through music in school you probably at least understand why some songs sound sad (minor scales) and others sound happy (major scales) so you can appreciate it more.

I absolutely agree with you that programming should be in there. Again, it's not about learning how to declare variables in python in particular, but rather about the logical underpinnings of code structure and understanding how that all works. The benefit isn't going to be that 100% of kids can read some javascript dump and work out why the webpage doesn't load properly. It'll be that when they're sitting down in excel and they're trying to assemble that data their boss wants in a particular way, they'll be more capable of logically stepping through each component step of the equations required and understanding exactly how it must be built up to produce the result they're after.
Yup. It's a red-herring, fear-driven issue compared to availability of actual weapons.
.DAD but no .MOM?
Thanks for the reply. I think that all makes sense and it sounds like you've gained some great perspective from the experience. Good luck on your next venture, and definitely stay idealistic.
Well, yeah. chongli's suggestion is a difference in kind, not degree, but I think his suggestion is a bit extreme. I don't think many people decide to not have kids just so that they can travel more. Plenty of people probably claim that, but I don't think many people who actually want kids would decide not to have kids just because of their retirement plans. There is probably a deeper fundamental lack of a desire for kids hidden in there somewhere.

Anyway, I think it is also worth considering how the price of having kids changes as you go up and down the income scale. Most parents will naturally be inclined to provide the best childhood for their kid that they can. For most people, this probably means making sure their kids have good nutrition, do well in school, etc. Parents with more money available to them might start considering additional expenses though, like private tutors, private schools, larger college funds, trust funds, etc. People with more money will probably spend more money on their kids, so that 50k extra (after taxes) income every year doesn't necessarily mean 50k more money for yourself. If your income increases, you'll probably spend more on your kids. (of course this won't make more income a wash, since certainly some of that extra income will be spent on yourself).
I am not mistaken. Clearly I never said he would be teaching all the time. He even said he was going to remain as professor on a part time basis.

Pulling someone to industry doesn't stop one from contributing back to the field. This is what they do, what people actually care about. In fact, if you are a big player in a field, you spend most of your time conducting your research and running a lab, not teaching classes. This is the norm and half of the famous professors I had barely ever come to lecture, only the TA would show up (some schools are strict on this though, like MIT). And I often tell people if you want real good solid education, especially for an undergraduate, don't attend big player's lecture. Your TA or your average not-so-well-known professor can be more helpful.
Man I was so excited when I saw this. I have a 4S and I feel like the responsiveness of the home button has been seriously degraded with iOS7. Alas, I already had all the settings they mention set the way they describe. I suppose it's just a hardware issue for me.
definitely, I'm at brian@rocketlistings.com, looking forward to hearing from you.
I apologize, my reply was aimed too low.
I'm glad you found that thread and got to the top with it, I hate trying to dive into ongoing conversations and try to change peoples' minds when the hivemind has already made its decision. This comes up every 6 months or so, always with some sensational title like this.

It feels a little weird quoting myself, but I also said:

> The thing is, the two most important pages are the front page (or a subreddit's own hot page) and the new page. The new page is sorted by date ignoring hotness, and if something has a negative score it's not going to show up on the front/hot page anyway. The two other main opportunities to get popular (rising and the organic box) don't really use hotness either.

> So when it comes down to it, what happens below 0 is pretty moot. Smoothness around the real life dates and scores on the site is more important than smoothness around 0, where we don't really have listings that will display it anyway.

In summary, there don't exist listings in which the discontinuities at 0 really matter
> Maybe this is the logical "next step" of human relationships

It might be a logical one, but it's not one we ought to aim for. There's a weak, but building movement going on trying to push us in a different direction. See stuff like Jeremy Rifkin's RSA talk or Enrique Peñalosa's TED talk. I'm sorry about the vagueness, but I'm having trouble coming up with a way to summarize it usefully. =/
Lots do. At least two reasons, I can thinks of,
1. If you are a regular to a sub, new will act like RSS feed. You know what to read and where to stop.
2. If you believe in reddit karma, better chance of your comments to be recognised. By the time it hits the front page, more or less it is a comment muddle.
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It's not directly related, but I always liked this little "koan":

A man is looking around at the ground under a street lamp. You ask him what he is looking for, and he says "I'm looking for my keys. I dropped them somewhere in that parking lot over there." "Then why are you looking inder this street lamp?" you ask. He answers: "Because this is the only place I can see!"
This is an impossible system to break when grant distributors completely require that you have recently published in a luxury journal in order to garner funding. The same problem happens with tenure track committees.

Most of the scientists I know are desperate for funding now, and so they have made an even bigger push to publish in a big name journal. It's an insane system, but I've never heard of a viable solution for it.
I'm not an IDE hater, I really enjoy IntelliJ, but there are capable plugins for Clojure out there. Emacs has autocompletion. I don't know what "1:1 Java interoperability" means but the only thing I know of in Java that really doesn't play nice with Clojure is annotations. (Not to suggest there aren't others)

Shrug, I've used Scala and Clojure both (more the latter than the former). Both are pretty cool and have a lot going for them. Both have downsides (though in full disclosure I think Clojure is much better at making up for its downsides)The real choice there is: Do you want static typing -- and all that implies -- or not?
No, spam doesn't have anything to do with it. And actually, older (high-scoring, anyway) links are more likely to have spam comments because the moderators aren't hanging around there anymore.
Then how do any links get non-zero scores?
Agreed. If Redis is an acceptable alternative to MongoDB you're using one of the two very incorrectly.
Wow, those quotes are awful. It looks like the article was rewritten since your comment, though.
It will cost Google $185k/yr to run each of these gTLDs. Given that, I think we may know what some of Google's next shuttered projects will be. I wouldn't register a .soy domain (even for free) if I valued long-term presence.

Not to discredit Google's attempts here prematurely, but they are known for shutting down non-profitable/low-trafficked services.
You may have missed this: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/you-can-now-finally-get-a-vanit...
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A website or service you can setup a monthly wallet with, which is distributed to X authors you read per month. That would be a cool service.
> I use CL in my day job and would find it highly painful if I did not have all the editing tools I use.

Just curious, what kind of things do you do with CL at work? I'm always interested in how people use less-common languages :)
I highly recommend buying a copy of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), downloading Racket http://racket-lang.org, and learning you some Scheme (err, Racket).

I took a class centered around SICP my first term in college, and it was an incredibly enlightening experience.
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The Coursera ML class has a week of lectures specifically regarding practical considerations. The prof discusses how to solve for underfitting/overfitting, and spends a lot of time on this idea of a cross-validation set. To whomever reads this, its a good course!
There are many countries which prompt for neither prayer nor patriotism. Ireland certainly does not and I don't think the UK does either (certain very religious schools of course may differ).